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Selling Techniques 101

Selling Techniques 101

Selling techniques can be improved on almost anyone.

A successful selling technique is based upon three factors: winning attitudes, essential sales skills and the “people skills” upon which the sales skills are built.

One primary factor which makes up successful selling technique is having the right, winning attitudes, primary among them being the willingness to learn something new. These winning attitudes can be learned and adopted by nearly anyone who has the will to succeed. And the other key factor which makes up successful selling technique is an awareness and mastery of the exact skills which go into “the five indispensable steps of a sale”.

The final component which goes into the development of successful selling techniques is the three basic “People skills” which underlie and support the winning attitudes and actual skills of selling. To some degree, we each already have a level of these people skills, and given some good guidance, each of these people skills can be sharpened notably.

Among the winning attitudes required for development of a successful selling technique, the single most important is: persistence. This one is so important that it alone, in the absence of practically all other selling skill, can, on its own, often bring success. Have you ever wondered why an obnoxious though persistent salesman could possibly sustain the amount of success he apparently enjoys, while a smoother, apparently more skilled salesman enjoys less success? The answer is: Persistence. And there are ways to increase the persistence of nearly anyone.

Of the three essential “People skills” necessary as a basis upon which to construct effective selling technique, none is more essential than the ability to communicate well. Communication itself is actually made up of individual component parts which can be named, taught and mastered. Often the most neglected of which is the all-important component of Acknowledgment.

In the book of sales techniques, HOW TO SELL – Clear and Simple, you will be presented in a very easy-to-understand manner: which are the most winning attitudes and how to adopt them; what the five steps of a successful sale are and how to effectively apply them; and what the most important people skills are, and how to increase your own mastery of them. There is no single, better source of information, than this book, on how to improve your selling technique.

(c) 2006, Harry Frisch, STI Publishing. All Rights Reserved.





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(Visit Harry's Website) Harry Frisch is the author of the popular new sales training book, available at www.HowToSellClearAndSimple.com Mr. Frisch has won numerous awards, selling a remarkably wide range of products and services to all levels of business and industry, as well as retail to the public. (Partial list includes: ReMax real estate, Saturn automobiles, audio-video equipment, specialty clothing, Honda automobiles, self-improvement courses, big ticket in-home sales, fine art by phone sales, door-to-door book sales... just to name a few.) In addition to being a Master Salesman, he is an accomplished writer and humorist, an inspiring educator, an in-demand business consultant, and an expert in the field of human behavior. Mr. Frisch earned his B.A. from Boston University and did his graduate work at the University of Michigan and Hunter College, and has additionally been affiliated with City College of New York (CCNY) and New York University, (NYU). Mr. Frisch is also the author of HOW TO BE A SUPER SALESMAN…and Still Respect Yourself in the Morning, and the powerful HOW TO SELL -- Clear and Simple Course. To receive his newsletter of sales tips, write Newsletter@STIPublishing.com

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