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You are here: Home / Sales Quotes To Sell More / Passion for Selling

Passion for Selling

December 12, 2014 By maurasf

 

Passion for sales
Do you have a passion for sales?

The Selling Quote

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
        –William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

For Salespeople

How do you know you will fail at selling? You listen to Yeats.  Sales, just like education, is all about igniting passion.  Think about your product or service that you sell. Do you love it?  I sold industrial lubricants. I loved working on my car and was fascinated by hydraulics, gears, bearings and lubrication.

Loving your product is the first requirement to sell successfully.  If you don’t like what you sell, you will find it very difficult and maybe impossible to deal with the inevitable rejection and disappointment that is a part of selling.

What do you do if you don’t like what you sell? Maybe you need to reexamine why you’re doing what you’re doing.  Or, perhaps you’re not seeing all the wonderful things your products and services do for your customers. You get to take credit for those positives because you sold the products and services that produced those results.

If you can’t see the positives, you might want to think about another career.  It’s tough to hear, but it’s necessary.  I hope you do love your products.  This should confirm you’re doing what you should be doing.  That’s being a successful salesman!

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Would you take auto mechanics classes when you buy a car? Maura did because she wanted to be able to work on her car. She takes that same approach to selling. She can show you how to get below the surface of selling to learn why and how different strategies work. She will show you which skills to implement that will shorten your sales cycle and increase your sales. She was Mobil Oil's first female Lubrication Engineer in the United States and one of Chevron's top 5 salespeople in the country. She knows what works for sales.

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