There are two types of salespeople: good salespeople and bad salespeople.<\/p>\n
The bad salespeople rely on outdated 1960s sales training, spewing canned scripts that repulse and annoy prospects, sending them running for the door.<\/p>\n
My wife and I were fed one of these lines recently when shopping for a mini-van. <\/p>\n
We were in an exploratory stage, and had no reason on Earth to hurry: our old mini-van was running fine, and would do so for many months. But it was getting old and unreliable, so we were planning to upgrade.<\/p>\n
When the salesperson saw that we were going to walk out of the dealership without buying, he ran after us and repeated, like a robot, a line I knew he was given in Sales Training 101: ?What would it take to put you in this car today??<\/p>\n
Our skin crawled and we ran, he in hot pursuit. Did he ask where we were in our buying cycle ? just looking or in dire need ? and tailor his approach accordingly.<\/p>\n
His question was clearly 100% motivated by his self-interest ? his desire to get a sales commission ? and not what might be best for us? So his personality immediately became repellant instead of attractive to us, and we responded accordingly?<\/p>\n
What experiences have YOU had ? what things have salespeople said or done to you ? that similarly turned you off and lost them the sale? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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