SO YOU GOT YOUR FIRST SALES JOB?

Well well

you got your first sales job?? Congrats and you are warmly welcome to the greatest career on the world. You are getting into the journey with a very big list of many most influential,richest and ambitious people in the business who started out in sales.

Even though it has been two years ago for me...since i joined this profession, I can tell you I see new salespeople getting into this profession most of the time. Smart and bright people who can make a great performance at it, but they fail and ends with COMPLAINS that they are not SALESMEN

I see it time as time goes the world of professional selling has lost many talented people because we as sales coachers whole didn’t take time to show the new people around and give the guided tour or take the new people through the practical orientation.

I WANT TO DO THAT NOW

 If you just got your first sales job, I want to take you by the Step by step and give you some things to remembers and if you’ll write these six down and keep them into practice, you will have a long and successful and winning career. The only thing I ask is one day take time like me to help as i did to you.

Sales is the greatest profession in the world. 

RELAX

The first thing you need to do is To relax. You got the job already. 

Take time every morning as you embrace on your new Job to remind yourself to relax. You can not learn all the skills on the on day,success is a series of actions toward your goal. its not going to happen overnight,Relax, it takes time to build your skills and experience them.

LEARN

 (BE A STUDENT NOT A TEACHER)

Be a student of the profession. I doubt seriously if an electrician starts out their first day and just grabs any wire without knowing where it’s coming from its dangerous to them.

The same hold true for sales. It is a professions treat it as such.

AVOID NEGATIVE PEOPLE

You are about to meet some of the most negative people in your life and you need to be prepared for it. 

There will be some people who you will meet are more than eager to tell you all the reasons you can’t be successful and why their business is bad and any other negative thought you care to listen to.

These people will suck the success right out of you. You’ll find they think they know everything, don’t need anyone’s help and for some reason alway get the worst prospects.

You’ll know them when you see them or the first time they open their mouth. 

Do you want to listen to them or me? Your call. If you want to avoid them, just politely decline to be a guest at their pity party and complaint sessions.

DO MORE THAN WHAT YOU ARE ASKED 

Perhaps the best advice I ever got was to volunteer for the things others didn’t want to do. Do you want to stand out from the crowd and show your Leader that you’re a future leader? Take on the jobs nobody else wants and do more than you are asked to do. As Zig Ziglar so famously said, “Do more than you are paid to do and eventually you’ll be paid more for what you do

Don’t wait for an assignments if you see something needs fixing or something needs to be attended to, do it. I’ve trained and managed many salespeople and I can tell you I would much rather have one who I have to reign in than one I have to kick start every day.

BE PROFESSIONAL 

Okay. You’re in the same job as I Was ,the same job as hundreds of thousands of others who treat this as a career and not a job. Understand you can do a lot of harm to our profession by treating customers and prospects in a less than professional manner.

You don’t only make yourself and your company look bad, you make the entire world of professional selling look bad. 

Don’t. If you don’t want to be here, leave. 

There’s no need to poison the well for those of us who do. I always compare sales to other professions because we are professionals and I can assure you no dentist ever decided to leave his or her job by inflicting unnecessary pain on a lot of patients.

ASK FOR HELP

Finally, ask for help. There’s no shame in not knowing the answer to something or not understanding how to do a certain task. If you don’t know today, that’s okay. But, if you don’t know a month from now it’s your own fault.

Never be afraid to ask a manager or other professional salespeople for help, guidance or training. Truly successful individuals love to help others be successful. But, just as I stated earlier play it forward. One day you need to help someone else just getting into the world of sales.

There you have it. tips or reminders to help you be a professional salesperson. Enjoy it this is the greatest career in the worlds if you treat it as a career and not a job.

Now, go out there and fall in love with SALES