Quotes about sales

Brew it local make it global take it to the very far.

We’re all somebody’s prospect we’re all somebody’s customer.

Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.

You learn more sales techniques from rejections than you can ever learn from approvals - provided you analyze the reason for the rejections most of the time it’s not the cost involved but your failure to understand the need & create the utility.

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter that you've sought them out.

You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling you're solving problems.

There is something about sales that is universalOut of ten at' least one says YES... try it anywhere... will work!

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Quality products and personalized attention secures retail customers.

I call these lessons ‘learned on the fly’ because the knowledge gained from the experiences connected with them were very much akin to the spirit of the centerfielder in baseball running backward at full speed, looking towards the heavens, trying to not lose sight of the ball or fail to notice the sensation of gravel from the warning track under his cleats as he knowingly approaches the blindside impact of an outfield wall. His focused intention guides him into trying to make the catch that will

Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.

People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.

Considered your brand a life experience.

A brand should take into account the customer’s total shopping experience—every contact point is important and should be in accord with the customer expectations.

The world’s most powerful business tool is also the most misunderstood. The e-factors are all about feelings not figures and feelings rule all buying decisions!

Does your marketing promote the difference between good and bad or better and best?

The civilizations barter in coldness; they peddles it, reinforces it, market it, entices with it, reward it, and then flees from it when it's unchecked force is too much to marvel at. Soon absolute zero will be on sale, and people will warm up to that notion as well.

An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace

Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.

There is no faster way to garner the lasting respect of employees, partners, and consumers than to become the embodiment of an ideal.

What we're now starting to see, as online retailers begin to capitalize on their extraordinary economic efficiences, is the shape of a massive mountain of choice emerging where before there was just a peak.... By necessity, the conomics of traditional, hit-driven retail limit choice. When you dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market. This is not just a quantiative change, but a qualitative one, too. Bringin

In fact, as these companies offered more and more (simply because they could), they found that demand actually followed supply. The act of vastly increasing choice seemed to unlock demand for that choice. Whether it was latent demand for niche goods that was already there or a creation of new demand, we don't yet know. But what we do know is that the companies for which we have the most complete data - netflix, Amazon, Rhapsody - sales of products not offered by their bricks-and-mortar competito

What Vann-Adibe had discobered was that the aggregate market for niche music was huge, and effectively unbounded. He called this the '98 Percent Rule.' As he later put it to me, "In a wordl of almost zero packaging costs and instant access to almost all ocntent in this format, consumers exhibit consistent behavior: They look at almost everything. I believe that this requires major changes by the content producers - I'm just not sure what changes!"... Everywhere I went the story was the same: Hit

There's a value in that space - rent, overhead, staffing costs, etc. - that has to be paid back by a certain number of inventory turns per month. In other words, the onesies and twosies waste space. However, when that space doesn't cost anything, suddenly you can look at those infrequent sellers again, and they begin to have value. This was the insight that led to Amazon, Netflix, and all the other companies I was talking to.

The three main observactions - (1) the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize; (2) it's now within reach economically; (3) all those niches, when aggregated, can make up a significant market - seemed indisputable, especially baked up with heretofore unseen data.

What people intuitively grasped was the new efficiences in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing were changing the definition of what was commercially viable across the board. The best way to describe these forces is that they are turning unprofitable customers, products, and markets into profitable ones. Although this phenomenon is most obvious in entertainment and media, it's an easy leap to eBay to see it at work more broadly, from cars to crafts. Seen broadly, it's clear that the story

... the emerging digital entertainment economy is going to be radically different from today's mass market. If the twentieth-century entertainment industry was about hits, the twenty-first will be equally about niches. For too long we've been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common-denominator far, subjected to brain-dead summer blockbusters and manufactured pop. Why? Economics. Many of our assumptions about popular taste are actually artifacts of poor supply-and-demand matching - a market respon

The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.

People buy for their reasons, not yours.

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe

If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care.

You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.

you truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, everytransaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

When you employ HUMOR, you create a friendly, relaxed buying atmosphere.

When u practice something with conscious mind n then continue practicing the same even with sub-conscious mind, You Master it..

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

We can find food and beverage companies most face the challenges in sales management due competition and nature of their product. Sales force is get tool for these companies at different level of sales.

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.

If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about myproduct or service we’ll have a meaningful conversation about itand how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don’t feelanything. Nothing at all

Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.

Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.

Over the years since that time I seemed to fall back into sales as a mainstay of existence of some kind, and I have learned many valuable lessons along the way. It has not always been rainbows and sunshine, but I have tried to gain knowledge from every experience along the journey. There have been many, many great moments; far too many to recount in one sitting. It is the great moments that outweigh the others.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Buying & selling is not a process, but a story, the base of this story is “need”. Need arising out of necessity or a feeling to own / experience that product / service. The customer narrates the base (need) of the story, but how well the story develops is left to the storytelling (sales pitch) skills of salesperson, sometimes the storytelling leaves such an impression that the customer has no choice but to be a part of that story.

Relations be it personal or with customers are very sensitive in nature, If you only remember people in time of your need, they will surely not return the favor, instead their favor will benefit someone who often keeps in touch without any visible benefits. The relationship will last longer if we start earning it & not take it for granted.

Life is all about selling. Being able to exchange knowledge and move people to co-operate.

When people stop buying from us, do not blame the market conditions straightaway, we must first analyze a change in the buying behavior due to market conditions, maybe the luxury / exposure is not part of their wish list, maybe they only “buy” strictly out of need, and what they need is fulfillment of their need in a cost-effective way.

The sales vehicle runs not on any fuel, but mostly on goodwill, the goodwill is not good because it achieves something on its own, it is good because it helps the carrier with a reputation of being the best in whatever they do.

When we talk about smart selling, it’s not exclusive, anyone can be better at smart selling, if only we come out of self-illusion zone created due to a successful month-end scorecard, we fail the minute we start paying more attention to successful sales campaigns while ignoring the unsuccessful ones. Sometimes things do fall into our nets, but smart selling is all about paying equal attention to things which escaped the net.

Habits are nothing but a form of performing work with some satisfaction... We allow them to persist by being content with the outcome they provide. It's fine in some cases, but it becomes a disaster when it gets involved with our sales approach. We continue following the same approach despite not getting favorable results, eventually we accept the outcome so much that realization of becoming habitual losers becomes another habit.

Once you have made the sale...you can stop selling.

Your world is created by your words.

Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.

How cold or warm are your calls can be best judged by the call duration and the number of questions you ended-up answering, and if the clients aren’t responding to follow-up calls, one of the reasons could be that they didn’t like “what & how it was said”, rejections teach if we start looking at the basic part of human behavior - we don’t talk to people if the talk doesn’t interest us.

We start under-estimating our capabilities, when we start repeating the failure reasons given by others to justify their lack of effort. “Market is very slow” is one common reason. The market never stops moving it only changes its pace from time to time, & we fail because of our inability to read the pace of the market.

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

You business exist because your customers allow you to exist. Never forget it.

Selling without targeting is like sailing without a compass. Think before you invest more time in pursuing the lead.

If you have zero sales or no clients to meet today, it means your efforts yesterday, the day before, the week before or the month before that were not effective; what you are going to get today will always be due to the preparatory work done in the past.

Sales business is funny, despite the target stress running in the back of our mind, we still chose & approach the clients to avoid rejection, we learn to live with the stress but we can’t learn to live with the rejection, which is the part & parcel of the sales process. To survive, we must act like a non-swimmer in the water, how the fear of drowning makes them hold on to anything in sight? In order to survive keep an open approach, don’t just wait for the rope of your perceptions to get pulled

Are you failing in sales? Are you not able to meet your targets on a regular basis? Do you easily get tired of trying? Do you want to be better than your team members? Don't worry! Try our magic potion: Add some drops of Focus (follow successful team members), some drops of listening (listen properly to customers), some drops of learning (be open to suggestions) & some drops of confidence, now mix it with a never-give-up approach, & finally garnish it with a pinch of confidence. Remember this po

For a batsman or a bowler, the job never ends at just batting & bowling, it continues with switching the positions in time of need, the stand out players never limit themselves to their primary role but change their style of play as per the happenings in the game. Anyone can hold a bat or ball in their hand, only thing matters is how well you use these things to make your team win. Similarly, as a Salesperson - your job is not only to think as a salesperson, but also as a client, and sometimes a

Selling is Serving: Serving people Asking questions Listening actively Engaging the client Supporting their decision

He could sell snow to an Eskimo. --Overheard in a Real Estate Office

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

You can’t afford not to manage your brand.

Be unforgettable. The more memorable you make yourself to clients, the easier the sales process will be.

Prospects get called everyday by salespeople. They can tell if you are a sincere or impatient sales person who doesn't really care about their problems.

Listen first, then sell.

Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in ‪‎sales‬. It's how you explain your failures.

In hypercompetitive world, the only way to make an impression on your customer is to break through the noise

Beware of the man who's extraordinary claims end in a sales pitch.

No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

If I did sales - my technique would be to hand-seal each deal with gourmet omelets, by Jarod Kintz's secret invisible recipe that I stole.

You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. As a professional salesperson, you can't satisfy those needs unless you know what they are and appreciate the person who has them

A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.

Sales success is not about convincing people to buy a product or service they don't want. It's about engaging with people who are interested and then helping them make the right decision. That's the key to repeat business and referrals.

If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.

What sets the best suppliers apart is not the quality of their products, but the value of their insight.

You don’t learn through sales calls, it’s not customer validation.

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.Pg.406