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    Sales Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
    Sales Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
    Sales Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
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    Sales Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

    By Brian Tracy

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    The performance difference between the top salespeople in the world and the rest is smaller than you may think. Learn where you can elevate your game today and reach unprecedented new heights.

    Did you know that the 80/20 rule applies to the world of sales too? Eighty percent of all sales are made by only twenty percent of salespeople. How are they raking in so much money though, and how can others join them?

    Sales trainer extraordinaire Brian Tracy has spent years studying the world’s best salespeople and their methods to discover that the difference between the top 20 and the bottom 80 boils down to only a handful of critical areas in which the top professionals perform better than their peers. In this compact and convenient guide, Tracy shares 21 tried-and-true techniques that can help any salesperson gain that winning edge.

    In Sales Success, you will learn how to:

    • Set and achieve clear goals
    • Develop a sense of urgency and make every minute count
    • Know your products inside and out
    • Analyze your competition
    • Find and quickly qualify prospects
    • Understand the three keys to persuasion
    • Overcome the six major objections, and much more!

    Packed with proven strategies and priceless insights, Sales Success will get you planted firmly on the path to success, making more money than you thought possible and greater career satisfaction than you ever believed you would find.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 7, 2015
    ISBN9780814449202
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    Brian Tracy

    Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. He is the top selling author of over forty-five books that have been translated into dozens of languages. Brian is happily married and has four children. He is active in community and national affairs, and is the President of three companies headquartered in Solana Beach, California.

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      Sales Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library) - Brian Tracy

      Introduction

      I HAVE BEEN in sales since I was 10 years old, when I began selling Rosamel beauty soap to earn my way to YMCA camp that summer. Ever since then, I have been studying, reading books, and trying to learn more about selling because I wanted to be successful at it, just as you do.

      Early in my career, I began asking, Why is it that some salespeople are more successful than others?

      Why is it that some salespeople earn more money, faster and easier, and make more sales? Why do they enjoy greater success, acquire better material benefits, such as cars, homes, and beautiful clothes, and achieve greater satisfaction from their careers while the great majority of salespeople underachieve and underperform?

      The First Principle

      Then I discovered the famous 80/20 rule known as the Pareto principle. This rule says that 80 percent of the sales are made by 20 percent of the salespeople. This means 20 percent of the sales are therefore made by 80 percent of the salespeople. When I learned this principle, I made a decision: I was going to do whatever I had to do to get into the top 20 percent. And I did.

      Some years ago, a major insurance company with thousands of agents decided to test out the validity of the 80/20 rule in terms of its income and sales. The company subsequently ran all of its agents’ sales and income data through a computer and found that this rule held true. Twenty percent of the agents were generating 80 percent of the business. Company managers then asked what this meant in terms of annual income. They found that the top 20 percent of the agents were earning, on average, sixteen times what the bottom 80 percent were earning. Did this means that the top 20 percent were sixteen times better, smarter, or more competent than those in the bottom 80 percent?

      The answer is obvious: No one is sixteen times better or smarter than someone else. Some people are just a little better in certain ways, consistently, over time.

      The Top 20 Percent of the Top 20 Percent

      They also looked at the top 4 percent of their agents (the top 20 percent of the top 20 percent) and compared their earnings to agents in the bottom 80 percent of sales and income. It turned out that the top 4 percent of agents were earning, on average, thirty-two times that of those in the bottom 80 percent. Taking this one step further, they compared the top 0.8 percent of agents (the top 20 percent of the top 4 percent) and found that this elite group was making, on average, more than fifty times the income of the people in the bottom 80 percent.

      In every city or large office there was one person, by himself, who was earning as much as (or more than) fifty full-time adults selling the same products to the same people at the same prices, under the same competitive conditions and out of the same office. When the average salesperson, especially in all-commission fields, is earning $30,000 to $40,000 per year, the top 10 percent in those fields earn more than $800,000 per year, and some of them earn in the millions.

      Make a Decision

      Because of this incredible disparity in sales and income, the aim of every salesperson in every field should be to join the top 20 percent in that industry. The top 20 percent always sell well and make an exceptional living, no matter what the current market conditions. They are always employed and always in demand, and they enjoy their work the most.

      Why is it that there are such enormous disparities in sales performance? In Sales Success, I will share with you some of the answers that have been discovered.

      Develop the Winning Edge

      One of the most important discoveries in human performance in the twentieth century was that the top performers in every field, including the field of sales, are only a little bit better that their peers in certain critical areas.

      This small difference in performance is called the winning edge. The top people in each field have developed the winning edges in those fields, and, as a result, they achieve extraordinary performance and extraordinary results.

      My favorite analogy is that of a horse race. In a horse race, the horse that comes in first, by a nose, wins ten times the prize money of the horse that comes in second, by a nose. Is the horse that comes in first by a nose ten times better or faster than the horse that comes in second? Is the horse that wins 10 percent faster than the horse that loses? And the answer is no. The horse that wins is only a nose faster. In a photo finish, this can be as little as three inches.

      The salesperson that closes the sale for his or her company gets 100 percent of the business and 100 percent of the commission. Is the salesperson who gets the sale twice as good as the salesperson who did not make the sale? In every case, the differences between the highest performers and the lowest performers are very small, marginal edges in skill and ability.

      The person who earns $250,000 a year in sales is not ten times smarter or better, or working ten times harder than the person who earns $25,000 per year, selling the same product.

      Intelligence Is Not the Key

      In a study in New York some years ago, researchers selected 1,000 adults at random and measured their IQs. They found that the difference between the person with the highest IQ and the person with the lowest IQ was two and a half times. But the person earning the most in this group—which was not necessarily the person with the highest IQ—was earning more than 100 times more than the lowest earner in this sample group. The conclusion is simple: It is not raw talent or ability that accounts for great success. Everyone has natural sales talents and abilities. Your success is determined solely by what you do with those natural talents and abilities.

      The Magic Touch

      Top salespeople have been analyzed extensively to find out how they think and behave. What emerges from these studies is the finding that the highest-paid salespeople have an easy ability to enter into friendly relationships with a great number of diverse prospects and customers. They establish rapport early and build high levels of trust in the course of the sales process. In fact, personality factors probably account for 80 percent or more of sales success.

      Interpersonal effectiveness is based, more than any other factor, on the self-image and self-esteem of the salesperson. There seems to be a direct relationship between self-esteem and sales success. Salespeople who like and respect themselves tend to like and respect their customers. In turn, their customers tend to like and respect them, and are willing to follow their product or service recommendations.

      The Winning Feeling

      Psychologists use a term performance-based self-esteem to explain this relationship between self-esteem and personal performance. The conclusion is simple: The more you like yourself, the better you do your work; the better you do your work, the more you like yourself. Each feeds off the other. The better you get, the better you get. The more successful you are, the more you feel like a winner. The more you enjoy this winning feeling, the

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