Buying Decision Quotes

Buying Decision Quote of the day

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER