Today on The Sales Evangelist, Donald is joined by Junior Germain – intern extraordinaire at The Sales Evangelist. When he’s not hitting the books at BYU-Idaho, you can find Junior assisting the TSE team in all things social media, PR, and marketing. Today’s episode is a quick Q&A, where Junior asks Donald his questions about one topic: what do I need to do to succeed in sales?
Question 1: How do I overcome mental fatigue as a salesperson?
- When people tell you no, view it as a part of the sales game. (Meaning they aren’t rejecting the person; they’re rejecting the role.)
- That person might be in the middle of cooking dinner, watching a great Netflix show, or preparing for work. If you try to make a sale (especially when inconvenient for the prospect), you’ll inevitably get rejected.
Question 2: How do you overcome the fact that you’re interrupting their daily schedule?
- You’re providing a helpful service or product – something of worth to your prospects. Your job is to help them realize that.
- You don’t want to convince people that you have a product they need; you want people to convince themselves.
- At the end of the day, a sales job isn’t about getting people to like you; it’s to deliver a message to solve a problem. And it’s a tough gig.
Question 3: What can I do to turn a no into a yes?
- Ask questions. Learn about their hesitations to help guide the conversation to a sale.
- Sometimes people won’t understand the offer, so the salesperson has to help them understand.
- Give them a menu option. List out a few common reasons someone might not be interested in your product, and use that to address their specific concerns.
- The key takeaway: understand your product or service. If you’re selling pest control products, you want to know what bugs are likely to be a problem, where they’ll be, and how they’ll present themselves in a house or yard. And since you probably didn’t learn pest control in school, it’s your job to fill the gaps in your knowledge.
You can connect with Junior on LinkedIn and keep an eye on The Sales Evangelist’s social media as well to see Junior’s work.
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