If a school dropout like me can make it, so can you
Oh no! Here comes another one! When is this ever going to end? The answer is this will never end.
Life loves to throw us waves and waves of challenges. Sometimes they come one at a time, sometimes they come in five at a time. Better still, there are times they come in multiple directions, wanting to drown you. Once you overcome one, it will come another one. The fun part of it is they keep getting bigger and bigger.
Closing the sale is perhaps the most important aspect in business. When there’s a sale, there’s revenue for your business. Many will says that the operation, human resource, product development is important. Yes, they are. But without sales, all the above can’t function. Or put it this way, without sales there’s no need for all the above.
So as a business owner, sales is a skill you must learn. Sales skill is so important especially to a business owner. As the owner, you don’t only sell to your customers, you sell to everybody. Don’t you have to sell to your staff, your team, suppliers? And of course your customers as well!
When I first started doing sales, frankly speaking, I sucks. I thought as long as I’m passionate about the products, I should be doing well. (That’s what all the sales books say right?) But really I was lousy in sales.
Achieving success in life can be a rough journey to some. Walking this journey alone can be humongous task as well. The thing is anyone can achieve the success that they desire. As long as they are persistent, success is around the corner. But this post is not about persistent. Then what is this post about?
NOW! A simple word with deep meaning. In school I learned that NOW means doing it right away. “Do your homework NOW,” shouted my mum. NOW at that time means serious business, urgency, anxiety etc. Even the Hollywood movie goes, “Drop your gun NOW!”