Quotes About Sales

Point of sale is where you reach 100% of your audience 100% of the time.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

When trust goes down, speed goes down and costs go up. Distrust slows everything. Sales decelerate, customers grow cold, and team members get discouraged or drop out entirely. Distrust has hard costs. If you're distrusted, people will actively refuse to do business with you, your pipeline of revenue freezes, and in extreme cases you shut down.

An effective sales person first seeks to understand the needs, the concerns, the situation of the customer. The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

una intención de comprar y nada son la misma cosa. Prevenda, prevenda, prevenda y asegure esa firma.

Demonstrate ROI. In this approach, you gather and analyze data to prove that a usability change you've made resulted in cost savings or additional revenue ("Changing the label on this button increased sales by 0.25%"). There's an excellent book about it: Cost-justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age, edited by Randolph Bias and Deborah Mayhew.

When you work in the glove department at Neiman's, you are selling things that nobody buys anymore.

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If you come up with an interesting new contraption, you don't need to persuade a government commission of its value. You just need to get someone to buy it.

As CNN recently reported: "A decade of research in the business world proves happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent, as well as a myriad of health and quality-of-life improvements.

happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37 percent, productivity by 31 percent, and accuracy on tasks by 19 percent

Big-box health clubs oversell memberships by 400 percent

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. This is what it means to "act politically." This is spin. It's the specialty of unscrupulous marketers, salesmen, advertisers, pickup artists, slogan-possessed utopians and psychopaths

You do not want to try to resolve their pain at this point. In fact, if anything, you want to amplify that pain.

People don't buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don't ever forget that.

95 percent of the time, the common objections are merely ploys on the part of the prospect, who would rather bow out of the sale gracefully than have to look the salesperson in the eye and confront them about their lack of certainty concerning the Three Tens.

Vender es todo en la vida. De hecho, si no vendes, fracasarás.

A 9, on the other hand, is almost always doable. In fact, with only a few exceptions, you can always get a prospect to a 9 on the certainty scale, which is more than sufficient to close 99 percent of the prospects you'll speak to. And as far as the remaining 1 percent go, you can actually close those prospects too, although I'll circle back to them in a few minutes when we

Now, for that annoying 5 percent of prospects who reject your hypothesis—that it's actually a lack of trust that's holding them back, not some bogus objection—you're going to come at them with everything you've got.

saying something along the lines of: "So, Bill, why don't we do this …" or "So, all I'm asking for is this …" and then transitioning directly into your close, which will end with you asking for the order a second time.

Here are a few quick examples of language patterns that work very well with this type of step-down approach: "If you give me 1 percent of your trust, I'll earn the other 99 percent." "Frankly, on such a small sale like this, after I split my commission with the firm and the government, I can't put puppy chow in my dog's bowl." "I'm obviously not getting rich here, but, again, this will serve as a benchmark for future business.