S.M.I.L.E. To Make Exceptional Sales, Steve Rigby

Put People First To Be First In Sales 

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Sales Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast

  • Experience is a great teacher, but the tuition sure is high

  • “Trust, not technology, is the issue of the decade, ” Tom Peters

  • 14 years of referrals

  • Become a better person is the challenge. Teaching sales is easy.

  • “M” – It’s up to “me” and turn it upside down and it’s “we”

  • “S” – keep it Simple for yourself and for your customers

    • What they have now is what is lacking so find out more about that

    • If you give people too many choices it hurts sales

  • 70% of the sale is made my the human relationship/feel as referenced in “Customers Are People…The Human Touch” by John McKean

  • “E” – enjoy everyone you meet and everything you do

  • Put people first and your product last

  • Call people you know and ask for referrals to bypass cold calling

  • People buy you

  • Time kills deals

  • “Are you okay?”

  • Knowledge-Skills-Desire = Habit

  • Which is most important?

  • Desire/Attitude is the front wheel of the tricycle

  • The person seated on the tricycle is most important.

  • Do you care about your customers?

  • Do you have the character?

  • Do you have the values and attitude?

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