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So You Want To Be A Salesperson?

 So you've decided to become a salesperson? Well, I'm going to tell you right now this business isn't just for anybody. This business requires a certain personality with a lot of resilience and ability to pick yourself back up on the daily. The business of sales is a beautiful and wonderful rocky roller coaster. One day you're up and the next day you're down, but when you're down how can you make your way back up?


Let's face it, this day in age working is getting more difficult, the competition is heavy, the world is running out of things like gas and real estate? The world is weird, so what's going to set you aside from the competition and take you to where you want to be in your sales career in this weird and distracting world. I can tell you right now that you're never going to be able to help everybody. That to me is the single most biggest mistake salespeople make, is thinking they are going to be able to sell their product to every single person. That is the reason salespeople don't last in their industry and they get so confused and overwhelmed that they just stop altogether. Your business will not be enjoyable if you do not have a niche. If you do not have a focus in one corner of the world to help and serve. 


To help and to serve are the key words here by the way. We are not out here chasing money, that will come. We are here first and foremost to help and to serve our clients. And that ladies and gents is what is going to set you aside from others.. your passion and intention. You MUST have passion for your product. If you are a salesperson just here to make money that will get you nowhere. If you took your job just to have a job that will get you nowhere. Life is about purpose. Moving with purpose and intention is what will take you places in your career and life no matter what you are doing. 


You must love your product so much that you want your clients to appreciate and enjoy this product as much as you do. You have to truly believe in what you do and find some way to love it. If not, then change careers. Harsh, maybe.. but what's the point in doing what you are doing if you don't like it and don't have passion for it in some way. You know that saying that dogs and can smell fear? Yeah well humans can smell passion and whether or not you believe in your product or if you're just trying to sell them something.


Now, there are those really good actors out there that can sell their product and not have passion for it but trust me they won't make it far and we've seen in time and time again karma will get them every time. Live a wholesome life. Care about what you do and the people you are serving. Have some integrity and get out there and kill it! But first, find a way to create a healthy and loving relationship with your product and your work somehow. That is a large part of my sales coaching program is to create a good relationship with yourself, increasing your confidence and performance and to then carrying that over to your work and your clients. I promise, this will make all the difference in your life. 


People don't buy WHAT you do they buy WHY you do it...


Good luck,

Lauren Plante

Lauplantecoaching.com

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