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What is the Fastest Way to Overcome Sales Reticence?

By Daniel Batten

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Have you or your team ever had "sales reticence?" The best way to overcome this is through remembering what selling really is.

Let me explain.

It intrigues me how many people feel apologetic about selling something they truly believe in. I find this fascinating. If you believe in what you do, and you believe that it would be of value to others, and if you are motivated by serving other people – then it is a dis-service not to be as great at selling as you can.

I have a fundamental belief that selling = conviction + service. That's it. That's all.

Think about a situation where someone benefited from your services recently. You got some money from the transaction which you probably don’t have in your wallet any more. They got a benefit which they still enjoy to this day. So as Zig Ziglar would ask "who benefited more from the transaction – them or you?"

Feeling shy about asking someone to look at the benefits of what we offer is not “polite”; it is ego (fear of rejection) standing in the way of service.

If you have total conviction in what you do, and you are motivated by serving others then selling comes automatically. If you do not have total conviction in what you do, then find the reason to have conviction, or find something you can have conviction in. Otherwise, what you do will feel like a struggle and your results will be more sporadic.

True selling is the authentic expression of conviction + service.

Last week I was having lunch with Aki. Aki is a larger-than life 6 foot 3 German and a great all-round guy who also had the decency to agree when I asked him to join the board of a then-little company called Biomatters some time ago.

Unexpectedly, our conversation took a side-alley and veered towards the topic of “Authenticity”. He told me that when he started off in the Pharma industry they were all given sales-rep training. At his first post-training meeting, he not only failed to position the product, but the “methods” he was asked to use grated. He asked top sales people at the company “Hey does this sales training work?” They all said “No – be yourself but also have total conviction in what you’re selling…” The second meeting he went in and literally just made a connection, talked about the weather and started by saying “This is just the 2nd time I’ve done this, so I might stuff up, but lets just have a chat.” At the end he said “By the way, they want me to leave this with you”. “What’s that?” said the Dr. “Its a suppository – it’s supposed to be quite good.”

“Leave it with me” replied the Dr. How did Aki’s career work out? Not too bad – he got a little job as the EU President of Bristol Myers Squibb managing a multi-billion dollar budget.

Once again his story illustrates that selling happens naturally when we combine conviction and service to our fellow human-being. Authenticity trumps “technique” every time.

Selling = conviction + service

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