{"id":10542,"date":"2019-08-03T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experts.ng\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2020-05-06T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:28:08","slug":"sales-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/sales-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales 101 &#8211; Sales Tips For Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Selling Is A Two-way Traffic<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In sales, you can only tell people 2 things <\/em><em>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>What they already know<\/em><\/li><li><em>What they already know they want to know ?<\/em><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>As soon as you start telling people stuff they haven&#8217;t got an interest in you are done, there\u2019s no closing that deal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Clarity Is The Key To Selling Professional Products Or Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/attract-customers-to-your-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">Without paying customers<\/a>, the natural progression of any business would be to wound up and become another statistical item on company failure. In most cases, however, the problem is not a lack of customers that are willing to pay, but rather a business that has yet to <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1983\/11\/make-the-sales-task-clear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">effectively describe<\/a> what it sells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Selling Is An Art &#8211; It Takes Processes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/how-to-close-a-sales-deal-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Selling is an art<\/a>, and unless you master the processes involved in creating that art, you&#8217;d either fail to produce any art &#8211; never make a sale, take a very long time to figure out to sell, or never be able to pull off a major sale &#8211; A masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Suggested Reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.ng\/blog\/growth-through-customer-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How To Improve sales Through Excellent Customer Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Selling Is A Two-way Traffic In sales, you can only tell people 2 things ? What they already know What they already know they want to know ? As soon as you start telling people stuff they haven&#8217;t got an interest in you are done, there\u2019s no closing that deal. 2. Clarity Is The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_3899566575_3899566575":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1822],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tips","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experts.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}