Showing posts with label negotiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negotiation. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Focus and then Re-Focus

Emotions play a big part in your abilities to persuade. Having the right attitude works to your favor.

People want to deal with confident, strong, purposeful individuals that they can trust.

If you're not confident, whether it is in the transaction, your personal situation, or the agreement, it does show and it will work against you and your intentions.

So focus on the transaction at hand, the skills that created this opportunity, and what you are trying to accomplish with the change requested. Remind yourself of these basics before each communication and during engagements to retain your confident, strong, purposeful emotional position.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Serenity Prayer and Sales

Give me the strength to change what I can, accept what I cannot change, and know the difference...

This is key to sales success.

"There are many people that need your products and services that will never buy your products and services." - Jeffrey Hansler

If you can't separate these people out, you'll end up wasting a great deal of time.