Sales Effectiveness Quotes

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.

~ Wayne Chirisa

Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.

~ Ashish Patela

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

What's on your billboard?

~ Monika Zands

Plan your work and work your plan” we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you’ll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.

~ Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren‘t going to respect or value you as a business partner.

~ Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

When you employ HUMOR, you create a friendly, relaxed buying atmosphere.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.

~ Honeya

Saying, “I don’t have time for CRM.” is like saying, “I don’t have time to look at my GPS app because I am too busy trying to figure out the best way to get from here to there.

~ Bobby Darnell

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

~ Ian Lamont

Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play ‘Julius Caesar’, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play ‘Marcus Brutus’. But then again, it all must have boiled down to saleability and marketing; Julius Caesar being the more famous and thus bankable name. Ironical it was, Aditya smiled. The same Shakespeare had once said-‘What’s in a name...

~ Anurag Shourie

The only way to have great customers is to be one.

~ Daniel C. Felsted

Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you, what they say and what they don't say.

~ Diane Helbig

Over the years since that time I seemed to fall back into sales as a mainstay of existence of some kind, and I have learned many valuable lessons along the way. It has not always been rainbows and sunshine, but I have tried to gain knowledge from every experience along the journey. There have been many, many great moments; far too many to recount in one sitting. It is the great moments that outweigh the others.

~ Michael Delaware

Life is all about selling. Being able to exchange knowledge and move people to co-operate.

~ Colin Myles

Once you have made the sale...you can stop selling.

~ Bobby Darnell

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Sales business is funny, despite the target stress running in the back of our mind, we still chose & approach the clients to avoid rejection, we learn to live with the stress but we can’t learn to live with the rejection, which is the part & parcel of the sales process. To survive, we must act like a non-swimmer in the water, how the fear of drowning makes them hold on to anything in sight? In order to survive keep an open approach, don’t just wait for the rope of your perceptions to get pulled out.

~ Shahenshahhk

Are you failing in sales? Are you not able to meet your targets on a regular basis? Do you easily get tired of trying? Do you want to be better than your team members? Don't worry! Try our magic potion: Add some drops of Focus (follow successful team members), some drops of listening (listen properly to customers), some drops of learning (be open to suggestions) & some drops of confidence, now mix it with a never-give-up approach, & finally garnish it with a pinch of confidence. Remember this potion works only if taken with a dose of belief.

~ Shahenshahhk

Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in ‪‎sales‬. It's how you explain your failures.

~ Timi Nadela

TeleCaller's (cold calling) job is similar to sniper's, wait patiently for the Right Party Connect/Target and make no mistake.

~ Honeya

Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.

~ Michael Delaware

However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.

~ Michael Delaware

Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not just the similar competing business to yours. Nor is it the competing franchises of your home office.No, in order to really be effective in the market place as a surviving business, you must go beyond that philosophy. You must be willing to expand your viewpoint to fully understand who the competition truly is. Your true competition is simply this: Anywhere that your customer would spend his or her dollars as opposed to spending them at your company or place of business.

~ Michael Delaware

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

~ Stan Slap

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

~ Stan Slap

You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies, they trust people.

~ Stan Slap

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

~ Stan Slap

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

~ Stan Slap

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

~ Stan Slap

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

~ Stan Slap

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

~ Stan Slap

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

~ Stan Slap

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

~ Stan Slap

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

~ Stan Slap

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

~ Stan Slap

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

~ Stan Slap

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

~ Stan Slap

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

~ Stan Slap