What Great Salespeople Know

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‘Now is the time to think: service before sales.’

‘When you think yes! you will see the possibilities, not the impossibilities.’

Your belief and your belief system are the roof of your sales success, or the bane of your failure.’

‘You’ll know your voice when you hear it. It will speak to you before you ever say a word.’

You cannot deny the power of laughter as a universal bond from human to human and from human to sales order form.’

‘Lowest price always means lowest profit. Value trumps price.’

Your customer wants to do business with a somebody not a nobody.’

‘Your value-based information, your exceptional service, and your quality of product and person determine your brand, your name, and your fate.’

‘When you let your positive words and actions speak for themselves, your reputation will rise in the process.’

‘When you combine your belief, your attitude, your preparation, your value, and your assertiveness, the outcome is predictable: more sales.’

Assertive presentations start with questions, offer unchallengeable proof in the middle, and end with a customer commitment that you have earned.’

‘The more you put value in terms of how they win, how they profit, and how they produce, the more it will be perceived as true value, or real value. And in the end, the value that you receive back will be the order. That’s value.’

Source

Jeffrey Gitomer (2013). Jeffrey Gitomer’s 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling: Proven Actions You Must Take to Make Easier, Faster, Bigger Sales… Now and Forever

10 Rare Lessons For Entrepreneurs

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‘Nothing extraordinary is ever achieved through ordinary means.’- Tren Griffin

‘A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’- Steve Blank

A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.’-Steve Blank

If you don’t have the right product and you don’t time it right, you are going to fail.’– Bill Campbell

The question is not ‘Can this product be built?’ Instead, the questions are ‘Should this product be built?’ and ‘Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services.”’- Eric Ries

‘Every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do- is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less efforts.’- Eric Ries

‘New customers come from the actions of past customers.’- Eric Ries

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it is okay if it doesn’t sound big at first.’- Sam Altman

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don’t have a sufficient good product.’- Sam Altman

You will know if you like venture capital well before you know if you are any good at it.’- Sam Anderson

‘In anything worth doing, it takes a team to win.’- John Doerr

Source

Tren Griffin (2017). A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs