Sales: Part I: Sales, How Revolting! Part I: Sales, How Revolting!

Part I: Sales, How Revolting! Part I: Sales, How Revolting!

Written by Wild Bill Montgomery

From repparttar

time I was old enough to grasp repparttar 127421

concept of sales I knew I wanted to be involved. My dad was in sales, I wanted to be in sales. At repparttar 127422

tender age of 17, I was still under repparttar 127423

false impression that sales and marketing were repparttar 127424

same thing. Eventually I went to school for a specialized degree in business/marketing, while working part-time selling home fire safety systems and found out a very distressing fact. I'm not a salesman. I enjoyed observing them in action but when it came right down to it, I found repparttar 127425

act repulsive and still do today. I gave up on my dream of being another J. Paul Getty and discovered an even bigger love; "Computers". Big Mainframes, Cobol, Pascal, they were my true desire now. I was still fascinated by Sales and Marketing, but believed it was only a pipe dream, because I just didn't have what it takes to be a salesman. You see, even with a formal education, in repparttar 127426

back of my mind I still believed sales and marketing were one and repparttar 127427

same thing.

Eventually, I started doing programming on repparttar 127428 side, but still had an extreme phobia about sales and selling people on my services. Then in 1991 I picked up a book on vacation called "Marketing Your Services". I rediscovered repparttar 127429 fact that marketing and sales are not repparttar 127430 same and I don't need to be a high-pressure salesman to market my talents. I found something called "relationship sales". Sales is sales, right? You have to convince repparttar 127431 customer to buy what you have to sale. Wrong!

You know repparttar 127432 high-pressure sale is hard on everyone involved. The "burnout" statistics are so high that only 5% of high-pressure sales people stay with it for life. But it's not only hard on repparttar 127433 salesperson, it's hard on repparttar 127434 customer too. Have you ever sat through a home vacuum cleaner demonstration? Most of these people are hardcore pros. They have to be to last even a year. I know, my father was one for most of my childhood, and he was good, I'll give him that. But, eventually even he burned out, and went into construction.

For repparttar 127435 potential victim, and I say that with all sincerity, it's just like being lined up for repparttar 127436 firing squad. You know it's coming and feel completely helpless to stop it. This is how I pictured marketing until I read repparttar 127437 book. It's not like I didn't study repparttar 127438 difference in school. I can't remember whether I just didn't believe it or I just didn't get it. No matter, it was what it was and I wanted no part of it anymore.

In 1997, I discovered repparttar 127439 Internet. Some small part of me was still crying out for repparttar 127440 dream. The "J. Paul Getty" dream. I saw an opportunity and I wanted to get in on it. With time constraints, two jobs and a family who demands my attention, I very slowly got into HTML, Perl and eventually Flash and SQL. But what good is it going to do me. I already had a great job that I wouldn't leave for another. So I decided I would set up a website and sell what I have learned. So I wrote attention getting headlines and hard selling copy. I figured Internet sales was a lot easier, because there was no face-to-face pressure. I could sell my services on my web page. Too bad it's not that easy. People are inquisitive, curious and skeptical. I found myself getting emails about this and that, getting telephone calls asking me why they should pick me. The problem was I couldn't back up my hardcore sales pitch in a more personal manner. I just couldn't figure it out, even with reading all about it. How can this be happening again? What is repparttar 127441 answer? I went back and read that book that I had read years before, just one more time to refresh my memory. It clicked, "Relationship Sales".

TREAT NEWBIES WITH THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE

Written by Joe Robson

One of repparttar

biggest untapped markets on repparttar 127420

Web is

PC and Internet Newbie market.

Yet most businesses people either ignore them, look down their noses at them, or 'suffer' their stupid questions and even stupider attempts to understand technology.

What a HUGE mistake!

Think back to when you got your first computer....

What were your experiences for repparttar 127422 first few weeks or even months?...

FRUSTRATION! Screaming Fits? Tantrums?

Of course not. You're an adult. You didn't do childish things like that, did you?

Know something? I'm an experienced Internet Marketer and I STILL do. Why doesn't a Help file help? Why don't Tutorials teach? Why are manuals filled with gibberish? And millions of new PC owners are suffering repparttar 127423 same thoughts at this very moment. Yet sadly ...

------ "No-one Seems To Gives a Damn"

When Newbies seek help, all they meet is Techie-Speak. When they refer to help Files they are left floundering. And if they read a PC for Idiots book they FEEL like an idiot!

Newbie's are simply inexperience people. Not Idiots, not Dummies, not Retards!

The day you get married, you become a Newbie Spouse. Not a Dummy. Your first day behind repparttar 127424 wheel of a car makes you a Newbie driver. Not an Idiot. Hey, we're ALL Newbies at sometime, so why don't repparttar 127425 experienced guys treat Newbies with respect, instead of patronizing them and trying to impress them with their recently acquired Jargon and Technical prowess?

A pat on repparttar 127426 head is NOT repparttar 127427 way to gain a Newbie's respect, OR HER BUSINESS!

And her first experiences on repparttar 127428 Internet are not much better. Browsers, HTML, Search Engines, Java, Go-To, "Trust me and buy this", Credit card fraud ..."Who me -Download? Whoa there, where did it go?" ....

"Will someone please HELP ME?"

A revolutionary new Website called The Newbie Club at http://www.newbieclub.com/home/newbieschool is changing all that. It offers bundles of Newbie-Speak Tutorials that contain not a byte of Jargon. And repparttar 127429 first 2 in a series of innovative Newbie books are presented in a way that is totally unique on repparttar 127430 Web. And there's even more to come.

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