Tell Customers You Appreciate Their Business

With many salespeople the sale is finished the moment the deal is closed. Nothing could be further from the truth. That’s when the sale really begins. A salesperson-customer relationship should be a long term marriage. Repeat business is what adds up to success. This is as true of selling furniture or insurance or real estate […]

Repeat Business and Referrals

Winning lifetime ever lasting relationships isn’t based on a single mammoth act. You build ever-lasting relationships by never letting up on the servicing of your customers. On the other hand, anyone who fails to provide good service will never realize the building process that comes with establishing a solid base of customers and the fine […]

Second Mile Rules for Success

You should always do more than you’re asked to do if you want to sell yourself successfully. Put forth a little extra effort. Go out of your way to help someone. If anyone asks you to go one mile, go with him or her two miles. On top of that, do it even if you […]

Building a Solid Base of Customers

Good customers are a lot like an oasis. Once you find them, they’re precious. They should be like water in the desert to you, a matter of life and death. You’ve worked hard to find them and make them yours. You never want to lose touch with them, stay out of contact with them, or […]

Do More Than What is Expected

The willingness to walk two miles with a customer instead of the one that was required is what helped to bring my customers back again and again. No wonder my repeat business was 65 percent. It’s what made me number one. Doing more then what is expected is what gets and keeps a sale. That’s […]

Going All or Nothing

There was a time in my career when I needed money so badly that I desperately had to make the commissions on every sale. In the beginning, I lived paycheck to paycheck, and the food put on my table each week, the house payments, and the car payments depended directly on my sales production. It […]

The Spending That More Than Pays its Way

Gifts, terrariums, you’re thinking, that’s for high rollers. Not true. They are for everybody. Just stop and think of what happens when you hear that a customer is sick and you send a get-well card. What salesman does that? So here comes this card to the guy in the hospital. He’s got nothing to do […]

Extending Yourself to Help Others

Selling yourself again and again becomes far easier when others see how willing you are to go out of your way for them—asked or unasked. If you want to sell yourself successfully put forth a little extra effort. Go out of your way to help someone. The more you reach out by extending yourself, the […]

Make a Lemon into a Peach

When a customer drives into the service department with a genuine lemon, it can take me and my people a lot of time and energy making phone calls and finding the places to exert pressure to make that car right. I take care of customers who have problems. I don’t make a customer pay more […]

Thank You!

When is the last time a salesperson told you how much he or she appreciated your business? Or for that matter, even bothered to say “Thank You”? It’s a sad commentary, but most salespeople don’t make any effort whatsoever to express their gratitude. It’s as if they think they’ve got a monopoly on their customers. […]