{"id":5741,"date":"2010-07-19T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2010-07-19T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:35:02","slug":"hate-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/hate-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hate Selling? Even Just A Little&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth said to me, &#8220;I hate selling. I don&#8217;t know what to say and how to say it and I don&#8217;t want people to think of me as a salesperson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you a secret. Thirty years ago I said the same thing to myself. In fact many, if not most people who aren&#8217;t in sales feel the same. What is it about selling that most people don&#8217;t like?<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself what you associate with sales people? Do the words pushy and tricky come to mind?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I admit I used to have a similar view. Mention the word sales and the stereotypical used car dealer used to pop into my head too. I had an image of someone who hounded you until you left the lot or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/selling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5742\" title=\"selling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/selling.jpg\" alt=\"selling\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>bought. Someone who you couldn&#8217;t necessarily trust and would happily sell you a car where the engine would fall out minutes from leaving the lot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure such people actually exist &#8211; and I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I said it out loud or not, I was convinced I couldn&#8217;t, wouldn&#8217;t and didn&#8217;t want to be involved in selling.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>If it does and you want to become a master of selling &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsstore.com\/howtosell.html\">use this link &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nNow imagine for a minute that you didn&#8217;t have to be pushy, to be tricky or deceitful to sell. Imagine that you could be honest, direct, and enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/category\/sales\/page\/7\/\">selling<\/a>. That&#8217;s a big leap to take so let me show you how.<\/p>\n<p>First let me ask you a couple of questions.<\/p>\n<p>Do you like helping people? Do you enjoy seeing people go away happy with the solution to their problems?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered YES to any of these questions then you&#8217;re born to sell because selling isn&#8217;t about forcing people to buy. It&#8217;s about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;helping your prospects get what they want.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that what you want to do?<\/p>\n<p>Is this hard to do &#8211; to sell by helping people<br \/>\nget what they want?<\/p>\n<p>No &#8211; it&#8217;s amazingly easy &#8211; once you know how.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you worked in a restaurant. You&#8217;ve got a customer at your table. What would you do? Do you launch into a pitch about what they should order. Of course not, you&#8217;d mention the specials, ask them a few questions and take their order. While selling services or products can be more complicated everyone is hungry for something and selling is just about satisfying their hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Your prospects not only want to solve a problem, they want your help in identifying the best way to do it. When you do &#8211; they won&#8217;t see you as pushy or sneaky, they&#8217;ll think highly of you for helping them get what they want.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I discovered that the secret to selling isn&#8217;t in trying to trick or push prospects into buying but in doing the opposite. The secret to selling is in focusing on what your clients want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ready to discover the secrets to become a master of selling even if you never thought you could sell your way out of a paper bag?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfsstore.com\/howtosell.html\">Use this link &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Charlie<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7c1cb512-fdea-4a50-bd8f-ebb420f78a39\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth said to me, &#8220;I hate selling. I don&#8217;t know what to say and how to say it and I don&#8217;t want people to think of me as a salesperson.&#8221; Let me tell you a secret. Thirty years ago I said the same thing to myself. 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