Quotes About Sales

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy's thoughts to his father's glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one pair of gloves, and for two pairs, and three and four and five. But there was no counter for zero. No counters existed for all the sales that his father did not close.

You must sell benefits, not products.

If you are going to open a retail store you would want to consider Christmas. Most retailers make the majority of their entire year's income between

If you have a customer who is able to make the purchase, they trust you, and you have shown them the benefits of the purchase, they will close themselves; you do not need some arm-twisting technique.

If you can make the customer feel the way you do about your product, then your customer will buy your product.

Unlike brand-building activities, most sales promotions are easily copied. In fact, competitors must retaliate or suffer unacceptable losses.

The marketing effort (and the effort to create and maintain equity) was diffused and uncoordinated, and lacked a budget commitment. The solution, creating a brand management team responsible for the marketing program and its coordination with sales and manufacturing, was a key event in the history of branding.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Ninety percent of wine produced in the United States is sold to retailers and consumers through distributors

This means that thousands of wine firms must compete to sell their products through a relatively small number of highly concentrated distributors.

Whether people like it or not, the fact remains that unless you continually increase sales you must either lose money or cut down quality.

I think this ship's brand new, said Ford. How can you tell? asked Arthur. Have you got some exotic device for measuring the age of metal? No, I just found this sales brochure lying on floor

Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing.

O que importa para você é o ensino e o lado ético. Sua visão está certa. Mas, se quiser fazer sucesso com qualquer coisa, sabe, terá que ser boa empresária também. Ideias são como qualquer outra coisa: precisam ser vendidas.

Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction.

Ironically, most people submit proposals far too early and far too often. They are actually at the conclusion of the sales process, just prior to a project's launch. When a proposal is accepted, you should be able to begin work immediately.

On a more localized basis, you can and should relentlessly pursue need within your clients and with your prospects.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.

Life's a pitch, then you buy.

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

She eventually got strung out herself, was arrested, took a narcotics number, a never-never number she called it, and had been in and out of prison ever since, on sales and trafficking charges.