Simple Selling Skills
By Ted Schulte
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Simple Selling Skills is an affordable, easy-to-read, educational ebook that will introduce you to a commonsense approach to the art of selling that focuses on the customer. Selling is not something you do “to” someone, selling is something you do “with” someone; it is about the interactions between people. If you are good with people, then you can excel in your sales career. This ebook will introduce you to a selling process that is universal to all selling situations. You will learn all of the simple selling skills needed to master the art of selling and improve the way you interact with people, as well as many tips and tricks that will help you launch your sales career to new heights.
Join the many sales professionals who have already downloaded this affordable and valuable ebook and are on their way to improving their sales performance by mastering the simple selling skills.
Ted Schulte
Ted Schulte has been involved with the implantable medical device industry for over 30 years. As an engineer and inventor, he holds several U.S. patents and has designed prosthetic heart valves and transvenous lead wires for implantable defibrillators. His designs have been implanted in over a million patients around the world. Most of his career has been in a sales role selling pacemakers in his favorite city of Austin, TX. Ted has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada as a motivational speaker and sales coach. He is an expert in the art of selling. Ted enjoys music and he is passionate about playing the piano and the guitar.
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Simple Selling Skills - Ted Schulte
SIMPLE SELLING SKILLS
A Commonsense Approach to the Art of Selling
That Focuses on the Customer
Ted Schulte
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Smashwords Edition
Copyright ©2013 by Ted Schulte
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Published by Ted Schulte at Smashwords
Edited by Madelynn E. Schulte
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my friend, Tim Goldman, the man that has been my business mentor for my entire professional life. Tim is from a small town in Arkansas and when you meet him, he exudes more Southern charm than all the beauty queens from Mississippi to Georgia and back again (double-counting the pretty ones.) He would always sit me down and say, Teddy, selling is all about people. If you know people, then you know how to sell.
I consider him to be the best salesman the world has ever known, and I have taken his wisdom to heart throughout my career in selling.
Tim kept it simple, and so will I. Selling is all about people...it can’t get any simpler than that.
Table of Contents
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
Selling is all about people
You’re either Glad
or you’re Mad
Trust is about your inside and your outside
People change based on their emotions
Content follows connection
Pursue a dialogue not a debate
The customer and the user
Welcome to SIMPLE SELLING SKILLS
STEP 1 DIAGNOSIS – WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
Start with a diagnosis of the problem
The importance of an intervention
Symptoms reveal problems
Put everything on the table
What do customers really want?
Listen to the customer
SIMPLE questions to reveal Problems, Wants, Needs, and Concerns
STEP 2 PROGNOSIS – WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES IF THE PROBLEM IS LEFT UNTREATED?
After the diagnosis comes the prognosis
What are the consequences if a solution is not pursued?
Monetize the pain with real numbers
When is the purchasing decision made?
SIMPLE questions to reveal the consequences of untreated problems
STEP 3 PRESCRIPTION – WHAT ARE THE SOLUTIONS AVAILABLE TO TREAT THE PROBLEM?
Match the prescription to the diagnosis
Value is created when a solution meets a problem
Match solutions to problems
Don’t differentiate your products – differentiate your solutions
Don’t brand the product – brand the solution
Proof sources are important
FINAL THOUGHTS
Ask for the business
The work starts when they sign the contract
Customers learn from you and you learn from them
Sales is supposed to be fun!
Fundamental Concepts
Sales is all about people
Selling is all about people. That sentence has only five words, but those words represent the fundamental concept of this entire book. It is a very simple concept, but this is a very simple book. The statement, Selling is all about people,
means that the activities that encompass the busy work of selling or being a salesperson are centered on people. This concept is so fundamental that, with few exceptions, people who don’t like other people are usually very poor at sales. And, people who like other people do extremely well at sales. In this book I will help you understand people and help you to better understand you. The more you know about people the better you will do in sales.
Keep this point in mind, sales isn’t something you do to
someone, sales is something you do with
someone. In this book I will help you see that when you focus on building a trusting relationship with your customers, you create a safe environment that will allow them to trust you and open up to you. When that safe environment