SELL WITH COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE....!!!

Hello Friends,

Well,..' You can not sell anything if you do not have courage to sell '...

Lets Analyse :

I was talking the other day with one of my friend ( not Jay this time ) about what you can and can't teach in selling.

We were talking about a couple of other entrepreneurs that we know, both of whom are better at doing their business,than at marketing or selling of the products of their businesses.

Now one of the most common things we hear about sales ability is that you are either born with it or you aren't.

Personally I think anything can be taught to, and learned by, anyone else.

But not everyone believes as I do.

Many people believe in the lie of "the natural".

I call it a lie, because when we focus on how "natural"someone else is, we short change our own incredibly powerful ability to transform our own selves into what ever we wish to be.

( My friend SAL gave a good example as he does mostly :- Imagine you are a rash driver and you dont want to learn how to drive it slowly, people got fed up teaching you to drive slowly, but you never learned because it was your personality to not listen to anyone and not to follow good advice --- but what happens is in an accident - god forbid - you almost lost your dear ones...at that point because of the horrific event that took place you forced and compelled your personality to change and started to learn that following one's good advice often helps... )

{ So, the action and circumstances forces us to change ourselves }..,thanks Sal..

Anyway, I think that sales ability is relatively easy to learn.

But that's not what is holding back the two entrepreneurs that my friend and I were talking about.

What's holding them back is fear.

Lack of courage.

Courage is much more difficult to teach than sales ability.

Learning something new is one thing. Willingness to learn it though is another.

Napolean quotes : Life is the process of learning and the process of learning new things isn't really that hard,once you get started.

Now if you are afraid to get started, then of course you will never learn.

And you stay stuck "doing" the business, making products for it, prettying it up, but never getting enough customers. You need to go through the various ebbs and tides in the business if you ever want to flourish....

Also, I was reading this in 'The Metro Newspaper' yesterday that 90% of all businesses fail within the first 5 years of startup.

It is very true that you can not gauge the depth of ocean until you go in....and you can not see heaven until you die.... You need to be more courageous and take the decision quickly with lot of confidence...

Courage is one of the most valuable traits you can have and develop as a salesman and a businessman.

Courage is the ability to act, in spite of fear. It's being able to do things, when the fear would freeze a weaker man.

And courage is a trait that can be developed.

Developing courage is like building a muscle. You got to exercise it, work it out, stretch it and stress it. And as long as you don't over do it, your muscle will get stronger.

This means taking risks, big enough ones to stretch yourself, but reasonable enough ones that you can succeed at them.

So, one thing worth remembering is that Courage, Confidence and Persistence, properly applied will help you to sell any product or any service to anyone and everyone in any god-damn industry...

Trust me guys....

SID.....