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Author: Peter Collins
Company: Profit Maker Sales
Region: Sydney, Australia
Website: profitmakersales.com
Memorable Quote 1: If you think you are right, or you think you are wrong, you are right
Author Comment / Biography:
In a sales career spanning more than 50 years, Peter Collins has focused on helping and bringing out the best in others - whether it involves training or mentoring salespeople, managers, business consulting to SME’s. Since the 1970’s Peter has built a reputation as a Nationally and Internationally Published author, and has 65 books to his credit, but he is mainly known for one book based on the Audio Tape series of the same name, Over 50 Ways of Closing the Sale. In his personal life, Peter has been sought after as an encourager and motivator that has given of his time and talents freely despite his busy schedule. Subsequently, he has assisted churches, pastors, community and charity groups, as well as individuals through his teaching, training, development and on-going mentoring. Peter can be contacted through his website – profitmakersales.com
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21. Two Ears and One Mouth Selling
December 08, 2015
Selling as an interesting occupation and seems to attract many people from all walks of life from their late twenties to their fifties that a looking for something out of life that have not been able to achieve previously. And far too many are encouraged to take up selling because they are good tal...
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22. The Awesome Power of Focus
December 08, 2015
The Awesome Power of Focus
More than one hundred years ago, the famous American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison often said in his public speeches that the first prerequisite of success was the ability to concentrate on a single problem. And that’s exactly what he did. In fact everything he wo...
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23. The Two Factors that Cannot be Separated
December 08, 2015
No matter what business you're in, there are two factors that can never be used individually, nor can they be separated. They are “accountability” and “responsibility,” neither can be separated, because you can't have responsibility without accountability, nor can you have accountability without re...
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24. Professionals Put Themselves in their Prospects Shoes
December 08, 2015
Professional salespeople are aware that their canvassing does not start with an introductory phone call. In so many cases, that introductory phone call may be the last point of contact in a research overview that could have 2, 3, 4, 5 or more steps.
They do this groundwork because they ...
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25. The Things you NEED TO DO when Creating Sales Proposals
December 08, 2015
I have been in Sales, Sales Management, Sales Training Seminars, Mentoring, Business Consulting and Key-Note Speaking in one form or another, for more than 50 years now. During that time I have either learned, analysed, dissected or written many hundreds of sales proposals, perhaps maybe in the th...
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26. Telling is Not Selling
December 08, 2015
What’s that old saying that we’ve grown up on as salespeople and heard so often it’s next to nauseating? Yes that’s the one, “Telling is not selling,” and it’s not only true, it is engrained into the mind of every professional salesperson I know. And the supersellers I am in contact with almost we...
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27. The Desire to Win
December 08, 2015
One of the most admirable traits in a human is the desire to win. However, this should never become such an issue that it overrides everything else to the point, where the individual becomes so fanatical about winning that all else gets shut out. We see this trait in one off combat situations s...
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28. Selling is an Awesome Responsibility
December 08, 2015
To the man who has carved out a career in one of the professions be it in Law or Accounting, or in Medicine or Dental Surgery, or the Arts or Sciences, selling appears to be a contradiction assuming enormous proportions. A contradiction based on experi¬ence. Each sales professional needs to learn ...
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29. Test Closing or Trial Closing
December 08, 2015
Test Closing or Trial Closing does not ask for a decision, but simply asks for an opinion. It’s the knowing how to use a Trial Close or Test Close and how to differentiate the difference between the two that’s important here. Why, because it’s the knowing how and when to use the Trial Close or Tes...
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30. REFERRALS - A Better than a 50/50 Chance to Appoint Them
December 07, 2015
When it comes to referrals, unlike other areas of sales marketing where prospects can be encouraged, persuaded and enticed to contact prospects, your referrals aren’t likely to be seeking you out daily to give you their names and phone numbers as qualified prospects.
So how do you get thos...
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