{"id":10719,"date":"2024-02-23T04:28:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=10719"},"modified":"2024-02-23T04:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:28:47","slug":"what-makes-up-a-good-salesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/what-makes-up-a-good-salesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Up a Good Salesperson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many characteristics that a good salesman should have. The article I read lists 12 habits that a successful salesman obtains. Although I thought they were all relevant, here are my top 5 that I thought were most important:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>know what you&#8217;re selling- A good salesman understands the product or service that the company is providing. When you know what you&#8217;re selling, you look more reliable. It also allows for customers to know all the information they need.<\/li>\n<li>be honest and stay positive- from having experience in sales, I know how easy it is to want to deceive your customers in order to make a sale. But at the end of the day, it&#8217;s best to always be truthful in what you&#8217;re saying so that you can build trust. Being positive can also be difficult in sales for many reasons, but its also best to realize that the sale didn&#8217;t work out and quickly move onto the next deal<\/li>\n<li>look for customers everywhere- You can find customers even outside of work hours. It&#8217;s all about connecting with people and finding their needs, even if that&#8217;s during work hours or not. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean going out and aggressively trying to find people all the time, it should be a natural thing. Salesmen should always have good people skills and be able to relate to them. Don&#8217;t force it if the customer doesn&#8217;t seem interested!<\/li>\n<li>Follow up with customers- it&#8217;s smart to check in with buyers and ask for their feedback on the product\/service. They&#8217;ll appreciate it way more, plus it seems more personal!<\/li>\n<li>understand your buyers- every buyer is going to be different. There isn&#8217;t a &#8220;one size fits all&#8221; approach to sales because everyone reacts\/interacts in different ways. It&#8217;s best to feel them out before going into the conversation blindly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many characteristics that a good salesman should have. The article I read lists 12 habits that a successful salesman obtains. Although I thought they were all relevant, here are my top 5 that I thought were most important: know what you&#8217;re selling- A good salesman understands the product or service that the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}