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| Buy | 46% | 97 votes | Total: 209 votes | |
| Sell | 54% | 112 votes |
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by Ron Busby
This is a question that every salesman must deal with at some point in their sales career. Unfortunately the answer to this simply evades the masses. In order to effectively gro...read more
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A topic something like whether an egg comes from a hen or a chick comes from an egg, but it is quite interesting and thought-provoking. Selling is conveying something for value ...read more
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I suppose the same could be said of the average consumer. This couldn't be more true than in the real estate marke...read more
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How would you describe selling? As far as I am concerned selling is the art of influencing people's decisions in favour of your product or service. Nothing more, nothing less. ...read more
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Without doubt, consumers the world over only buy the items they want to buy. There are hundreds and thousands of sales 'professionals' ranging from unmotivated, ill-trained, un...read more
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by Xavier Grey
Clever advertising, attractive packaging, implied quality and value, and a perceived need for an item are all effective sales tools, and the same can be said for a sales profess...read more
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by Joseph Malek
The job of a salesperson is to bring the product to the customer and/or demonstrate or explain the purpose and the use of the item in question. From that point forward the custo...read more
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Customers when wanting to buy a product largely focus on their own thoughts and need or wants to buy regardless of the salesmans tactics. Commonly the salesman may make a con...read more
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by Ned Millis
After forty-odd years in the business of "selling" I've come to the conclusion that "There's no such thing as a salesman." Until recently I have always thought of salesmen as...read more
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Do sales people sell? Of course they do or they would not be making a living at it! And the same holds true for the customer, they buy. This is like asking the question; "Which ...read more
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by Carol Gioia
Selling is a talent and a skill. The world is populated with people who profess to be salesmen. In actuality they are employed as "order takers." They wait on customers and c...read more
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True salesmen sell, but that description may be somewhat befuddled in the lexicon of the average person. Selling has been characterized as something which should be avoided by ...read more
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by Baldytaz
We are always selling. This is meant as no affront to the average consumer, which is at least 90% of the buying community, but they have zero idea what is going on. A salespe...read more
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by Sagebomb
No product can ever sell its self. Even if a product is picked off a shelf in a supermarket and taken to a checkout operator it has been though a sales process. Not where the cu...read more
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by Dave Astley
As an experienced sales professional I have absolutely no doubts that salesmen sell products and services far more often than customers buy them. Although there are a variety of...read more
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