Mindful Selling

Far too often many sales people are so focused on getting the deal or communicating their message that they don’t hear the comment that sold the deal. Then they talk ourselves out of it.

Typically what has happened is even though they put on their consultative selling skills and asked questions and “listened”, they allowed their thinking to get high jacked. They heard something and
while the buyer was talking they allowed their thinking to chase down a thread of thought. Perhaps they heard the buyer start talking about the challenges she is …

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Can you sell from your cell?


The other day I called a software company to discuss an upgrade to their service offering that I purchase. They passed me though two lead “qualifiers (b”ad move guys) and then told me “a sales
person will call you back”.

Brooke called me back from her mobile phone in an area that had a poor signal. Literally every other sentence was dropped. I finally told her to call me from a land-line. What did she do? She moved
to a new location …

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