When Doing A Sales Job With Advertising & Marketing, Is It Difficult To Persuade People To Buy Your Products?
Uncategorized November 24th, 2009I’ve tried a few small marketing & sales jobs that never turned out well. I’m not that good @ convincing people to buy products. I guess my uncontrollable anxiety disorder & nervousness turn people away. I don’t understand how people become successful salespeople. How well do you take rejection? I don’t take it well @ all. I tried telemarketing once, & I didn’t know telemarketing was a scam. Every sales job I tried to work for turned out to be scam jobs, & I didn’t find out until AFTER the employer fired me. I didn’t know that the magazine subscriptions job was a gimmick.
& I tried selling Avon, & many people were yelling @ me & calling me stupid, saying that you buy more than what you sell when working for Avon. & before I knew it, I didn’t realize Avon was yanking my bank account left & right.
November 24th, 2009 at 5:25 am
the object of a sales job isn’t to persuade people to buy your product. It’s to let them know that your product and business can be beneficial to them either long or short term or even both! Sales is meant to make people aware of your company or product and rejection plays a big part of it, as some of the best products out there were once rejected at first (prime example is bill gates and microsoft! no body thought windows would even compete with apple and IBM). If you can’t take rejection or worry about rejection at all at all then Sales is definitely the wrong job for you!
For example if i’m a car salesman at a chevy dealership and you come in wanting to see if maybe we carry any toyotas, now there’s no way I’ll be able “persuade” you to buy a chevy, especially if all you want is a toyota. I can however show you some chevy cars and tell you what they have to offer as opposed to toyotas! That’s how you sell your product. you further promote it and make it known to your potential client that this product is something they need in their life!
All i can do is tell you to relax, be honest and be yourself! you have obviously had bad experiences with these types of gigs and i’ll tell you not all of them are like that, but you do however MUST be able to take rejection! you’ll receive alot of ‘nos” before you’ll get that yes. every no is a step closer to a “yes” if you work it right. You also need to know your product in and out. Do some homework to gain the upper hand, and the more you know your product, the more credible you become, and the more credible you become, the easier it’ll be for you to negotiate sales of your product! I hope i was able to help you out by giving you the basic formula of sales. It’s a bit more complex then this but if you get deep in to it as a career, it’s something you have to understand with experience! good luck!
November 24th, 2009 at 5:25 am
I am not good at selling either. thank goodness I don’t have to do that; i would be awful at it.