Thursday, July 10, 2008

No one can help you to make a smooth transition to natural selling better than than Michael Oliver , author of "How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or Losing Your Friends!"

Here's an exerpt:

Fear is perhaps THE greatest factor that holds many distributors back from taking a path different from the one with which they are familiar. The paralysis it can cause prevents them from having the freedom and abundance that is their universal right.

The fear trap is a real one; it comes from a focus on self, based on past conditioning, thoughts and experiences that are manifested in the present.

Here are seven ways of re-thinking that can help you escape that trap...
1) Instead of thinking of selling as an exercise in persuasion, think of selling as a problem solving exercise
2) Instead of focusing on the sale, focus on discovering IF there is a sale to be made in the first place
3) Instead of talking about your solutions, allow them to talk about their problems
4) Instead of guessing what people are thinking, saying and meaning, ask them what they are thinking, saying and meaning!
5) Instead of making the purpose of your business to make money, think first about your purpose as finding and helping people who have the types of problems your solutions are designed to solve. The money (your objective) will follow
6) Instead of attempting to persuade someone to listen to you and buy your products, first, learn how to listen to them, and what to listen for. Then they will then listen to you
7) Instead of persuading or telling people to change their present situation, learn how and what questions to ask that will help them automatically influence themselves to change
8) Instead of immediately talking about your solutions when you do hear a problem, ask them first how committed they are to solving their problem if the right solution came along.

Each one of these is a powerful distinction. Focus on one each day for a week, and I promise you'll be transitioning to natural selling and lose your fear in the process!

To your prosperity!
-Kathy

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