I had put very little thought into selling strategies and skills when I first started my business. I felt that since we had enough confidence in our products, we didn’t need any selling skills, our confidence and product would sell itself.
Selling skills seemed immaterial, as we are quite sure that we have the best custom computers on the market, for the lowest prices. This might sound like a sales pitch, but it really is true. I had some great people working for me, and we had some great connections to get us the parts that we needed.
Nonetheless, no matter what we did, sales would not pick up. We were making enough to stay in business, but just barely. A few of our best people were tempted to move on to other jobs, and I knew that it was the beginning of a long downhill slide unless I did something to change things. That is why decided to bring in a professional selling skills consultant.
Although my employees were initially against sales skills training, they agreed to try it on a trial basis. They thought of themselves as technical professionals, not salesmen, and did not want anything to do with what they saw as a manipulative, backwards profession.
Nevertheless, the trainer did his job. It took awhile because my employees tend to be a bit awkward employees, but in the long run, they were given the tool and how to produce a good sales call and close the sale.
I did not want to hire sales representatives like most companies do. I have a different philosophy. You see, our companies are for high-end computer users ? people who know the product very well. Selling skills is not enough.
What I salesman need above all its technical knowledge. Selling skills has to come second, but it is required. By giving our computer builders and designers the selling skills they needed, we were able to allow them to deal with the customers in a professional yet friendly manner.
Acquiring these selling skills cannot be underestimated. We were just a business that no one had even heard of and now people are calling us.
Every sale was crucial for us because if we were short for one month, we would probably be forced to close. Now that we have the selling skills that we need, however, we are truly prospering.
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