Quick Guide II: How to Spot, Mimic and Become a Top Salesperson
By Paul C Burr
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Over and above exemplary sales achievements how do ‘you’ (by ‘you’ I mean: you, me, us, we) spot a top salesperson when you meet one? If you want to sell as well as they do or be just like them, how would you go about it? If you were to ask the same questions and give the same answers as they do, would that be enough?
No, because you bring your own personality and mannerisms into the equation. ‘Acting as if’ helps pave the way but there’s something about how top salespeople come across to customers. It requires the wisdom and will to mimic how they sell as well as the sales process they follow (the ‘what they do differently’, see Quick Guide - How Top Salespeople Sell ). In fact, if you really do want to become and stay a top salesperson, it’s vital!
Paul C Burr
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Quick Guide II - Paul C Burr
Quick Guide II: How to Spot, Mimic and Become a Top Salesperson?
(for new or seasoned sales professionals, managers and CEOs)
Number 2 in a series of articles by
Paul C Burr PhD
http://paulcburr.com/
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2013 Paul C Burr
Contents
Top Selling Is about the How as well as the What • Summary Bullet Points • Effectiveness = Motivation x Confidence x Competence x Curiosity (or E=MC³) • From Selling Solutions to ‘Selling Directions’ • 7 Key Traits of a Top Salesperson • The Law of Business Attraction • Appendix 1: Sales Managers as Coaches • Appendix 2: Sales Competencies, At and Away from the Customer Interface • Appendix 3: Sales Manager as Coaches • Appendix 4: About me, Paul C Burr
Acknowledgements
Romilla Ready, Lead Author, Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies
Top Selling Is about the ‘How’ as well as the ‘What’
Over and above exemplary sales achievements how do ‘you’ (by ‘you’ I mean: you, me, us, we) spot a top salesperson when you meet one? If you want to sell as well as they do or be just like them, how would you go about it? If you were to ask the same questions and give the same answers as they do, would that be enough?
No, because you bring your own personality and mannerisms into the equation. ‘Acting as if’ helps pave the way but there’s something about how top salespeople come across to customers. It requires the wisdom and will to mimic how they sell as well as the sales process they follow (the ‘what they do differently’ - see Quick Guide: How Top Salespeople Sell ). In fact, if you really do want to become and stay a top salesperson, it’s vital!
To mimic the ‘how’, you’ll need to assimilate what goes on below the surface of top salespeople’s personae, their distinguishing traits and characteristics; the mannerisms with which they approach selling. Before we go into detail, let’s note the changes in context that salespeople deal with as they migrate from selling from middle managers (D-level) to senior managers (C-level) clients.
As they progress through their career, successful salespeople find themselves selling higher value solutions to higher level clients. Value and risk often go hand in hand; the higher the value of a sale, the bigger the risk involved.
At some level, risk is the emotional anxiety (fear) we attach to things not turning out the way we want. The more the risk, the higher the propensity for fear, uncertainty and doubt to emerge in the minds of stakeholders involved. The more risk involved in a proposition, the more trust we need to put in suppliers to compensate.
Trust is the gap between what we know and what we put faith in.
The customer’s generic questions about trust and value (see Quick Guide: How Top Salespeople Sell) remain the same. It’s what goes on below the surface of the selling-buying dialogue that can shift. Top salespeople stay attuned to those shifts, especially shifts in the customers’ passions and fears.
Focusing on fear, staying attuned comes from knowing what questions to