Business cannot survive without sales, and sales if possibly the most frustrating and rewarding career there is. Good sales guys make good money, great sales guys make as much as the owners, quite often, more. The 80/20 rule applies here though, and finding the 20 is a difficult row to hoe.
Great sales people are built, not born, and they use every moment not selling to educate themselves, improve themselves, network, chatter and deal with the lonely world of selling.
Selling is a lonely world too.
When I was a kid, I wrestled. I could have played football, I could have played baseball, but I gravitated to sports that it was me against him. Sure, there was a team score in the end, but for 6 minutes it was my skills against his. I liked it that way. Selling is sort of the same thing.
A salesperson is only as strong as their skill set, knowledge base and their ability to understand it's not about them, it's about a customers need at this moment in time.
If you want to improve all of those things and then some, hit this website:
http://www.salespractice.com/forums/
You will find a WORLD of successful people, newbies, wannabes and upcoming stars there. There is nothing about selling you can't find there. It is the strongest community of people in a CUT THROAT industry willing to reach out to their competitors, pull them off the floor and hug them for the greatness of the fight.
If you sell, need marketing support, ideas, or have an interest in the mind game of selling and personal achievement, go here now. Do not pass go, Do not collect $100, just go there now. Tell them Tommy sent ya'
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