Quotes & Sayings About Selling Skills

This book is written for the professional writer who is making a living, but just barely. It is also for the aspiring writer who is looking for a niche. And for all the writers-in-between who would like to get paid well for writing. Entering the world of corporate communications is not selling out - it is an opportunity to sharpen your skills, practice your craft, and pay the rent, all at the same time! — Mary Moreno

In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell". — Honeya

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill — Theodore Levitt

Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally. — Chris Murray

Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart. — Archibald Marwizi

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense. — Maria Bartiromo

What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling. — Paul Zane Pilzer

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them? — Chris Murray

If customers don't trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won't trust you with their money at the end of it. — Chris Murray

Never put the future of the deal in the customer's hands. — Michelle Moore

Failing to set goals is like setting out on a road trip without a map. — Michelle Moore

If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards. — Michelle Moore

One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity ... — Honeya

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames. — Dave Morris

You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one has a gun to my head. Why can't this be my profession,one I have chosen for myself? I tell you prostitutes are professional in their skills and practise it like the vocation of true apostles- and why shouldn't they? What's so different from the accountant or the doctor selling his time? I ended up in this profession in the same way someone might end up being a lawyer because the couldn't get into engineering or dentistry,or because they couldn't get into medicine, or even a banker who grew up telling everyone they want to be a soccer player. They do those things because that was what was available for heir talents and their circumstances at that time. But do we pity them? No, because that's lif- — Panashe Chigumadzi

Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn't paint by numbers. You have to think for yourself. You have to invent yourself. You have an inferred fiduciary mandate to yourself, and that means, it's your responsibility to learn people skills, and language skills, in order to increase your chances of success. You also have to be at the right place, at the right time, with the right thing. Mostly and invariably, the real product you're going to be selling is ... .you. — Gene Simmons

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better. — Martin Limbeck

I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an entrepreneur; you have to develop those skills day in day out. All entrepreneurial experiences are related, whether you're selling worm poop to Wal-Mart or a grade tracking application to the public elementary school system. In the end, it's all very similar. — Tom Szaky

You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every
transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there — Chris Murray

Every single aspect of what we do at work comes down to people and managing people, selling to people, working with people or making them do what you want them to do. — Abhishek Ratna

Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales ... — Honeya

Forget the Golden Rule-Go Platinum. It simply states, Treat people like they'd like to be treated. — Michelle Moore

Our society is full of people with a mindset of mediocrity, so elevate your thinking to that of a superstar! — Michelle Moore

Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals. — Robert Kiyosaki

You need to position yourself to your referral sources and your current clients as providing exceptional value and experiences in everything you do — Timothy M. Houston

Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions. — Chris Murray

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is fired the next day because of complaints that a woman who is so obviously not sexually attractive selling alluring nightgowns makes customers uncomfortable. Daunted by her dismissal, she seeks consolation in the arms of the young manager and soon finds herself pregnant. Upon learning
of this news, he leaves her for a
nondisabled woman with a fuller
bustline and better homemaking skills in his inaccessible kitchen. — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

The world is filled with talented poor people. All too often, they're poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of, not because of what they know, but because of what they do not know. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger. Maybe McDonald's does not make the best hamburger, but they are the best at selling and delivering a basic average burger. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job — Chris Murray

I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics. — Stephen R. Bissette

Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on. — Chris Murray

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better ... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future. — Og Mandino

We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer. — Chris Murray

Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth. — Paul Zane Pilzer

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation. — Chris Murray

There is something about sales that is universal;
Out of ten at' least one says YES ... try it anywhere ... will work! — Honeya

The commitment gap is the massive distance between "yes" and "maybe — Chris Murray

Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve — Chris Murray

Sell (service or product) as if you are buying it, convince yourself first that, it is worth buying..
It is very simple; u 'cannot' convince someone till the time you're not convinced — Honeya

No matter what your products it doesn't hurt to know how to sell. Improving your selling skills is certainly beneficial — Timi Nadela

You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily ...
Only customers can teach u sales! — Honeya

Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs — Chris Murray

In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable. — Chris Murray

Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records. — Richard Branson

If you have enthusiasm, you should thank God for it. If you do not have it, you should get down on your knees and pray for it. — Michelle Moore

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The deal is in the details. — Michelle Moore

Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises — Chris Murray

Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don't be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your Yes! — Michelle Moore

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average return by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly. Psychologists have confirmed that most people genuinely believe they are superior to most others on most desirable traits - they are willing to bet small amounts of money on these beliefs in the laboratory. — Daniel Kahneman

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way. — Chris Murray

Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, that's when you sell yourself short. — Tony Curl

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar. — Derek Thompson