Sales Motivators

This week, I thought it might be fun to share some of the sales motivators I’ve used over the years. I hope you enjoy them and find some inspiration from reading them.

 

• Eighty percent of success in life is showing up. -Woody Allen
• Fail your way to success…
  • Deal with rejection: You’re not judged by the number of times you fail, but by the number of times you succeed. However, the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you can fail and keep on trying!
• SW, SW, SW. Next!
  • Some people get hung up on rejection, while others are fueled by it. Some Will, Some Won’t, So What? Now move on!
• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes, the big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all of those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. -Norman Lear
• Babe Ruth hit 714 Home Runs. He also struck out 1,330 times.
• What Is Hustle?
  • Hustle is doing something that everyone is absolutely certain can’t be done
  • Hustle is getting the order because you got their first, or stayed with it after everyone else gave up
  • Hustle is shoe leather and elbow grease and sweat and missing lunch
  • Hustle is getting prospects to say “yes” after they’ve said “no” twenty times
  • Hustle is doing more unto a customer than the other guy is doing unto him
  • Hustle is believing in yourself and the business you’re in
  • Hustle is the sheer joy of winning
  • Hustle is being the sorest loser in town
  • Hustle is hating to take a vacation because you might miss a piece of the action
  • Hustle is heaven if you’re a hustler
  • Hustle is hell if you’re not
• Listen More and Sell More
  • As a salesperson, you probably spend as much as half your time listening. But scientific tests show that most people listen at an efficiency level of only about 25%. Here are five guidelines for effective listening that should help you get more out of what your customer is saying:
    1. Find areas of interest, even in dry subjects. Listen to every subject for useful information.
    2. Listen for ideas, not just facts.
    3. Hold your fire. Don’t judge what a person has said until you completely understand it.
    4. Fight distractions. Concentrate. Learn to tolerate a speaker’s bad habits.
    5. Listen to difficult, heavy material as an exercise for your mind.
• Don’t Quit

Is that what you want to do?

Quit?

Anybody can do that.

Takes no talent.

Takes no guts.

It’s exactly what your adversaries hope you will do.

Get your facts straight.

Know what you’re talking about.

And keep going.

In the 1948 Presidential election, the nation’s leading political reporters all predicted that Harry Truman would lose.

He won.

Winston Churchill said, “Never give in. Never. Never.”

Sir Winston stuck his chin out and wouldn’t quit.

Try sticking out your chin.

Don’t give up.

Ever.

• NOTICE: If you ever want to sell your product to our company, be sure your product is accompanied by a plan, which will so help our business that we will be more anxious to buy than you are to sell. -D.W.Beverage, Jr. and Associates

 

Just some of the thoughts that inspired me when I started out in radio sales.

Thoughts that I also shared as I moved up to sales manager, station manager, general manager and market manager.

Thoughts I would share with my students in my broadcast sales classes too.

Got a quote or story that has inspired you?

Please share it in the comments section.

Thank You for helping me to pay-it-forward to the next generation.