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Persuasion Techniques Blog

Hi, welcome to my Blog.

If you sell for a living, and I could argue we all need to sell people on our ideas, this Blog will help you keep up with the latest persuasion techniques to help you influence more people, more profoundly and more easily.

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Mar 10, 2010, Sales Closing with Fluidity

I would like to learn how to close with more fluidity! Answer Hi James, interesting way you put your question. So, your current close is not fluid

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Mar 10, 2010, Sales Motivation Without Carrots & Sticks

I would like to find out if there is a way could be via psychological to motivate telesales or telemarketing people. Answer Hi Thiaga, the ONLY way to

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Mar 10, 2010, ISP Retention Representative

1) Your service doesn't work for me. 2) I had a trial period and i just don't like it. 3) I am going with another company. 4) Your service is not fast

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Mar 6, 2010, Insecure Selling

When you know the product you are selling but, you are insecure with your self or your job when asking for the money. How can you turn around negative

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Mar 1, 2010, Training People to Sell

would like to know how to train my people to become better sales persons Answer Hi Yvonne, basically your people have to have the right attitude and

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Mar 1, 2010, Cross selling ?

Which customer is easy to influence - a young executive (or) an old well established businessman? (I sell banking products) Answer The fact is it's the

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Feb 28, 2010, Selling Techniques I used

explain the selling technique you used to apply with your client Answer Hi Tymour, Not sure if this is totally relevant and also my selling techniques

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Feb 24, 2010, Retaining my Customers

I am a retention representative for a call center. I am really having difficulty in overcoming some of my customers objections. I seem to get stuck after

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Feb 23, 2010, Getting My Foot in the Door

I am looking to start with a company that does electronic payment processing. I have appointments and meetings I will attend, but I also have the opportunity

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Feb 23, 2010, Sales Communication

How to understand different types of customers and win them. Answer Hi Chris, the way to understand people is to PAY ATTENTION. When you ask a question

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Feb 23, 2010, Sales with Poor Company Image

How to increase sales against a poor company image in the market. Answer Tough question Tip. Is the poor image a fair one ? Or did it come about from

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Feb 18, 2010, Selling into the Healthcare Market

I would like to penetrate the healthcare market with a more positive approach, in terms of customer needs in Larger sales Answer Hi Terence, I can't

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Feb 18, 2010, Building Rapport with the Customer

i would like to know the skills needs to be acquired to build rapport with customers and not just techniques because they will eventually be recognized

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Feb 15, 2010, Selling Cars

closing a sale, presentation, and sell cars Answer OK. I could tell you my thoughts. It's about helping the customer, being curious, knowing your product,

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Feb 15, 2010, Skills for the Seller

i want to be good seller help me Answer Hi Mahmoud, the desire you have to be good at it will be a big help for you. Because, like any other skill you

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Feb 13, 2010, Overcome Objections

How do I overcome sales objections ? Answer The best way to overcome objections is not to create them. During your sales interaction build enough value

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Feb 13, 2010, SPIN Selling Spas

Hi there i just started a new career selling luxurious spas that have both leisure and water therapy in mind. I wanted to know some examples of applying

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Feb 12, 2010, I Want to Be a Good Seller

how can i be a good seller ? Answer You've taken the first step by WANTING to be. Next step is to focus on helping your prospects. To me it has always

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Feb 12, 2010, Professional Selling

I would like to know about professional selling. How it is done. And different techniques in selling a professional skill. Answer Hi Simeneh, not EXACTLY

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Feb 12, 2010, How to Persuade

i would like to persuade and gain trust. Answer Hi Shikhar, you need to get the in the right order first. That is to say the first thing to do is to

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Feb 12, 2010, Traits of a Good Telesales Person

What would you say are the 5 most important aspects to be a good tele-sales person? Answer Hi Stacey, I do not proclaim to be an expert in this particular

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Feb 2, 2010, Selling Real Estate

How to persuade someone to buy real estate product like bungalow or plot etc. Answer Hi shekhariyer, in many ways it's like a lot of other sales processes.

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Feb 2, 2010, Sales Follow-up

If I could find or develop an easy to implement and consistently be able to accomplish follow-up system, my sales would grow at least 30% ...or more.

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Feb 2, 2010, Value, Sales and Buying

I would like to know how to tie-in value elicitation with buying strategy in the sales process. Answer Hi Robert, not many words but a big question.

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Feb 2, 2010, Call Preparation

Two items: 1) How to convince Sales Professionals of the importance of preparation for each Sales Conversation had with a Lead, Prospect and/or Opportunity

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Feb 1, 2010, SPIN Selling No Good for ME

I couldn't get into SPIN Selling at all. I sell in the retail industry and how am I supposed to do background work on my prospects before they come into

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Jan 30, 2010, The Art of Marketing

market my services more proffersionally and successfully Answer Hi Marvin, marketing is not my specialty. For marketing your professional services I

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Jan 29, 2010, Selling in New Car Dealership

I've just started at a dealership selling new and used cars, at the moment it's just a closed book, even though my boss promised to send me for training.

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Jan 28, 2010, Services and Benefits

How can our services benefit you Answer Hi Shanawaz, not sure what your question is ? If you are asking for a way to work out the benefits of what

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Jan 28, 2010, Selling Techniques

I will like to improve my sales techniques to better present myself as a sales person Answer Hi Alfred, candid advice, first try and be a person.

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Jan 26, 2010, Open Ended Questions

HOW TO START GOOD OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS Answer The following answer may not be what you expected. The tendency to ask closed questions is, I

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Jan 26, 2010, I need to talk to my spouse

I need to talk to my spouse, undecided Answer Hi Vanessa, Often, I have to talk to my spouse is a stall. What they are trying to do is to get some

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Jan 24, 2010, Rapport Building

Rapport Building Answer Hi Floyd, Rapport Building is indeed one of the most critical aspects of selling. Many sales trainers suggest that you talk

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Jan 23, 2010, SALES DURING A RECESSION

Hi How can i improve sales during recession time. Answer Hi Sudhir, the first trick to improving sales during a recession is to believe you can

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Jan 23, 2010, Convince Unwilling Buyer

Learning how to convince unwilling buyer to buy. Answer Interesting, depends on what you mean by unwilling ? I am totally against selling anybody

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Jan 23, 2010, I've been a bit inactive lately

Hi,I have not posted many new web pages or produced an eZine in the last 2 months. The shoulder surgery had more impact on my ability to type than I thought it would.

I started posting the odd blog entry as it was OK to type it left handed but then my ISP / web host connection had a melt down keeping me totally off line from the 15th January till yesterday.

Hopefully, I'll be able to start supplying you more sales info again soon.

Greg


Jan 15, 2010, Motivating Telesales People

Keen to find out more about how to motivate telesales people. Answer Hi Maureen, not sure if I'm the best person to answer this question ? There are

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Jan 15, 2010, Improve Sales

how to improve sales and develop market Answer Hi Tanveer, how to improve sales will depend on where you are at in terms of your development as a

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Jan 15, 2010, Get in front of more prospects

I would like to know how to get in front of more prospects Hi Edward, getting in front of more prospects can be about being organised so you see more

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Jan 14, 2010, Effective Persauasive Selling

what is effective persauasive selling? Answer Hi Humera, I guess I could say it's effective when they buy but I should also say it's not

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Jan 14, 2010, Sales Closing Techniques

closing techniques Answer Hi Akram, I'm not big on closing techniques. I think it's more about establishing trust in the beginning and building a

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Jan 10, 2010, Customer Service Officer - Loans

How do I approach a customer for selling loans of a bank ? How to influence the customers to take a loan from me? How to be an unique seller with

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Jan 9, 2010, Selling when your company is not liked

How do I deal with my company's negative associations? (not a well liked company) Answer This can be done but it takes a lot of courage and

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Jan 5, 2010, Sales Prospecting

prospecting,identifying clients Answer Hi Sarita, I have to say up-front that much of my prospecting was easy in my sales career. I mostly sold

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Jan 4, 2010, Make More Sales

how to make sales verbally and through written proposals Answer There are many comments I could make in relation to your question. But let me just

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Dec 25, 2009, Close Sales Better

Close sales better Answer If you want to close sales better focus on helping your prospects and building better relationships. Both of these are

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Dec 18, 2009, NLP in Selling

Elicit Meta strategies Answer Hi Daniel, not many people who read this would know what meta strategies are ? Sounds like you have done some training

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Dec 17, 2009, Sales Communication

How to communicated with my costumers better close more sales Answer YOU are absolutely correct. If you communicate with your customers better you

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Dec 16, 2009, Sales Account Manager

How to sell my self Sales Achievement All types of sales reports Answer Wow, three question in one. Sell yourself ? Build rapport with them and

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