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Here's a checklist of just some of the things that sales people may well need to know. If you're a sales person it will help jog your mind. If you're a buyer, maybe you'll be kind and provide some of the information.

About the person to whom you are selling

  • What they think they want.
  • What they actually need.
  • Whether they have bought from you before.
  • What they think about your products and you company.
  • What they think about competing products and organizations.
  • What budget they have for buying.
  • What power they really have within their organization (and what they think they have).
  • How urgently they need/want a solution.
  • Aspects of their personality that may help or hinder the sale.
  • Whether they understand the risks of not buying.

About the organization to whom you are selling

  • What the organization does and how it succeeds (or fails).
  • A brief history of the organization, including any stories about its founders.
  • The financial situation of the organization, including its current stock market performance.
  • Any recent public news about the organization.
  • The costs and benefits to the organization as a whole around your product.
  • Who else needs to be consulted before the 'buy' decision will be made.
  • Who will oppose the purchase, and why.
  • What other internal politics may get in the way.

About your offering

  • What benefits it can offer customers.
  • Whether it can resolve identified customer problems.
  • How to demonstrate it and the benefits it offers that are sought.
  • What limitations it has that may hinder sales (and how to get around these).
  • What the common objections to buying it are (and how to overcome these).

About you

  • How customers see you (in particular how they trust you -- or not).
  • How much you genuinely care about customers.
  • How likely you are to meet sales targets this period and the effect of making/not making this sale.
  • How desperate (or not) you are to sell.
  • How much you believe in what you are selling.
  • How much you believe in yourself and your ability to sell.

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What Makes a Sales Person Great?

 

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Disciplines

* Argument
* Brand management
* Change Management
* Coaching
* Communication
* Counseling
* Game Design
* Human Resources
* Job-finding
* Leadership
* Marketing
* Politics
* Propaganda
* Rhetoric
* Negotiation
* Psychoanalysis
* Sales
* Sociology
* Storytelling
* Teaching
* Warfare
* Workplace design

Techniques

* Assertiveness
* Body language
* Change techniques
* Closing techniques
* Conversation
* Confidence tricks
* Conversion
* Creative techniques
* General techniques
* Happiness
* Hypnotism
* Interrogation
* Language
* Listening
* Negotiation tactics
* Objection handling
* Propaganda
* Problem-solving
* Public speaking
* Questioning
* Using repetition
* Resisting persuasion
* Self-development
* Sequential requests
* Storytelling
* Stress Management
* Tipping
* Using humor
* Willpower

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Explanations

* Behaviors
* Beliefs
* Brain stuff
* Conditioning
* Coping Mechanisms
* Critical Theory
* Culture
* Decisions
* Emotions
* Evolution
* Gender
* Games
* Groups
* Habit
* Identity
* Learning
* Meaning
* Memory
* Motivation
* Models
* Needs
* Personality
* Power
* Preferences
* Research
* Relationships
* SIFT Model
* Social Research
* Stress
* Trust
* Values

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