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Friday, November 27, 2009

Selling and negotiating

In the world of business, selling and negotiating with your clients or customer is not easy. Your intelligence cannot always help you. Sometimes what help a lot are your charm and your wittiness. Use your intelligence, charm and wit and empower it using the power of persuasion.

I believe that everyone who enters the world of business wants to be successful. I am going to share with you here the power of persuasion for your sales breakthrough.

When you decided to go to a business, you already knew what kind of business you are going to have and you already knew what products you are going to sell. Of course because it is like going to battle that you don't know how to use your gun. It is not enough that you looked just like an expert but you must also be an expert of your product because your customer also might know how to read people who are true and those who are just acting.

Be an expert of your product. Search more and gain more knowledge about the product you are selling. This is the first step to your persuasion sales breakthrough.

Many people say that practice makes perfect. Well that's true and you can apply it here in your sales and marketing. It is because you need to practice your selling pitch. It is not enough that you are just going to make a written draft of your statement and then memorize it. Memorizing and practicing is very much different. Memorizing cannot make perfect, you want to know why? There are a lot of factors that can erase what you memorized especially when unexpected circumstances happen.

The next step is to develop your self confidence.

Every negotiation that you are going to make you will not immediately know what kind of clients or customers you have and of course knowing your customer is your first move. Sometimes you will encounter a very annoying customers or clients. When that happens, without self confidence your knees might be shaking in front of that person. You need to be cool, relax, and smooth. Develop your self confidence in such a way that you can easily handle different kinds of people.

Just allow the power of persuasion to boost up your confidence and sooner or later, you are already taking them to tour way of thinking.

When persuading people, it is much easier to negotiate with them if you are telling them the whole truth about your product. The reason for these is that when your product fails and does not do what you told them, everything will comes back to you. Not only that, they might discourage your other potential customers not to buy from you.

The last thing that I am going to tell you is that never forget to maintain eye contact. When you talked to some one, your eyes never lie and so your customers and clients are always looking to your eyes. They might misinterpret you if your eyes are wondering around while talking to them.

This sales breakthrough might be very simple but never under estimate the power of persuasion because this simple technique can be more powerful to increase your sales.

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