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... x No Thanks Loading.. A Sales Strategy That Works!8/21/2014 by John Graham This content has not been rated yet. Trying to get fish into the boat before catching them sounds crazy; it wouldn't make sense to experienced fishermen. Even so, it's the most common error that salespeople make and accounts, more than anything else, for lost orders and prospects who never become customers. That's what happens when you try to get the order before you have a customer. What salespeople are doing makes perfect sense to them. Unfortunately, it doesn't compute so well with their prospects and customers. Salespeople focus so intently on making the sale that they don't think about what's going on in the customer's head and what are they often say tells the story. They like to ... about "wrestling the big one," even though "the big one" often gets away. Here's the point: Getting the fish in the boat is the wrong analogy to use in sales, even though it sounds macho and even a bit romantic. The sales task is totally different. The job is to create an environment so that customers decide to do business with you. This means that pushing for a meeting, getting a proposal out the door, or anything else that attempts to cut short the process more often than not ends in disaster a lost sale. For selling to work well today, the prospect must first say, "This is the person and company I want to do business with." Making sure this occurs is the salesperson's primary task. This is the ...

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