Salesmanship Quotes
Salesmanship Quote of the day
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.
The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.
What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.
The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.
I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.
Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.
In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.
Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.
Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.
She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.
A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.
The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.
He could sell snow to an Eskimo. --Overheard in a Real Estate Office
The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.
If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.
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
We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER
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?
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.
We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.
We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.
I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.
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.
Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.
Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.
If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?
We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.
Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.
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.
If you don’t earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won’t trust you with their money at the end.
In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience.
22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.
