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THE FIVE
ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF SALES AND SELLING The third cornerstone skill of sales and selling is communication. The skills that make up communication are most commonly associated with sales. Communication is the heart and soul of selling because it is the method and style you use to transmit and receive information from customers and prospects. The fundamental communication methods are talking, and listening, rapport building, questioning, understanding, persuading, presenting, clarifying, getting commitment, and relationship building. There are fundamentally two styles of sales communicaton. The first is the leading or manipulative style which uses language and techniques to lead people where you want them to go and arrive at conclusions that are favorable to you. The second is the cooperative or consultative style, which asks questions to find out if there is a genuine need or desire for your products. Generally speaking, leading communication styles are used by salespeople involved in single-sale consumer purchases. For the most part, business-to-business salespeople use the cooperative style of communication because it works better and is more suitable for long term relationships. Regardless of communication style, never forget that in the field of sales, the thing that distinguishes you from customer service or any other function which involves customer interaction, is asking for and getting commitment. If you don't ask for and get commitment, you're not in sales. Sorry, but you're not. Subscribe to the e-mail version of the SalesLinks Bulletin. Browse the archives of the SalesLinks Bulletin.
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Before every sales call, plan your primary objective in making the call
and determine where and how you will ask for commitment. After the call, rate
yourself on how successful you were in executing. Understand that they have an
obligation to give you back commitment or "no thanks" for the information
and time that you are giving them. "Go for the no" so you can find out
exactly where you stand. Don't waste your time or theirs.
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