Success means different things to different people. But let’s look at sales professionals. What would you say are the top 10 characteristics of successful sales professionals?

To a salesperson, it could be a major client acquisition, qualifying for an incentive, making a predetermined annual income or commission, being recognized at the annual sales conference as salesperson or team player of the year, or simply meeting quota and maintaining a job.

Each of us has different desires. The key is to determine what your desires are in sales and make it a goal to accomplish them. Success is the realization of a worthy goal or desire.

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Trust is something one earns and is certainly required in order to make a sale. Without trust, there is no rapport or connectivity and your sales cycle takes longer than it should, and usually without results. To regain velocity in your selling cycle, you need to first gain trust. Gaining trust is the first objective in the Velocity Selling Cycle.

How do you secure trust in your sales approach today?

Do you talk about yourself; your products and services; and your company?
Do you look around for something of interest to the prospect, such as a golf trophy on the office shelf? Do you offer a firm handshake?

If you use any of these traditional sales techniques, you should stop immediately. In today’s new economy of buyers, you will not secure trust or respect in the field of professional sales by using out dated techniques.

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Sales motivation in today’s economy is more important than ever before. As the economy slows down, so do sales. Unfortunately, most sales people slow down too. Sales people, like the masses, become a product of the environment.

Nonetheless, what do most organizations do when the economy heads south? They cut costs, typically in the wrong areas such as training, sales conferences, coaching and sale personnel. Sales motivation does not exist. They create an environment of uncertainty as well as contributing to and supporting the downfall of the economy.

Somewhere along the way the corporate world must understand that the economic world revolves around sales. There won’t be any transactions without sales and consequently, there is no revenue without transactions. Without revenue, organizations cannot survive, and no one would have a job. Sales is the heart of most jobs in an organization.

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You can have a fantastic attitude, but a positive attitude alone is not enough to guarantee long term success. You need goals and an action plan to get where you want to go.

The ‘B’ stands for behaviour in the ABC, 123 Sales Results System. Behaviour is the manner in which you conduct yourself. It is the way you behave, the way you act, function or react. The 1, 2, 3’s are the goals and behaviours from a personal, organisational, and market targeting level. Without goals there is no reason to act, no motivation to take daily actions or go the extra mile.

1. Appropriate behaviour drives opportunities. Opportunities come from setting goals. What do you want out of life or out of your business? Who could determine this for you and who can make it happen? What are the daily behaviours that you must apply to live the life of your dreams?

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