How to be Good in Sales

I’m easy.
I mean if you tell me you will not buy from me, I’m cool with it. I will not pester you or badger you. You will hear the end of it right there and then. Promise.
But (sigh), these are not the traits of a master sales (wo)man, traits that, Robert Kiyosaki assures me, will make me very rich.

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Increasing Your Financial Intelligence Series: Rules of Warren Buffett

But some important lessons were learned. One, do not go into business that you do not understand (selling). Two, do not leave the selling to other people and think you can just sit there, oceans away, and make lots and lots of money. Sometimes it works, most of the time it does not. Three, do your due diligence. Find out about the business, does it sell, can you get the goods for less (I did not really haggle that time), how long before you make the first installment, can you get a discount for bulk, are there existing flyers to help you promote the business, how many months before you get the ROI (return on investment), what is the possibility that it would fail and is it surmountable. Four, have a marketing plan – launch, joining trade fairs, email marketing, providing incentives or discounts, testimonials, product review – that would span months, or years.

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On Showing Up and Not Letting Life Pass You By

These writers different ways of pushing themselves but whatever they think may be the outcome of their efforts, they show up. And it is as if the showing up in itself sets into motion the things and events that happen in their life, that putting their feet out into their chosen path urged them to complete what it is they set out to do.

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Streets Paved with Gold

Is a social climber a social climber because of how he/she entered into his/her “new state”, i.e., through marriage, winning in the lottery… or is it his/her behavior, low, servile, groveling that makes her unacceptable? Is the rank of the rich so impenetrable (read: should not be penetrated) that it is only reserved for the rich? How then does one practice Dan Kennedy’s advise that we should hobnob with the rich, observe them, listen to them, mirror them because they know “the secret”? How can we reconcile this with what society imposes upon us – that we should not be social climbers, that we should not attempt to be rich?