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Assumptions can kill a sale. In my sales training workshops, I frequently discuss the importance of not making assumptions about a person before, during, or after the sales process. Participants frequently nod and tell me that they NEVER make assumptions. One person (Doug Maquire, www.MaquireMarketing.com) sent me this story of a situation that occurred in a department store he worked in many years ago.

“I was the ‘young kid’ who had signed on to take the 9 month Management Training course for a department store chain. Sales people were generally assigned specific areas to cover within the store but being a ‘management trainee’ I had to learn all departments.”

One day, a rough looking middle aged fellow entered the store. He was dressed in well-worn workpants, work boots, and a soiled red and black plaid shirt just like you’d expect a lumberjack to wear. No one approached him (I guess he didn’t look like a good sales prospect) and he didn’t move from the front entrance; he just stood there surveying the store from left to right. I walked up to him and asked if I could help. He said, “I need a pair of wool socks. No nylon, no cotton, just wool socks.” We went to the Menswear Department and both watched as the sales person assigned to that department walked away from us so he wouldn’t have to waste his time going through the full selection of hosiery just to find a single pair of wool socks.”

I then started asking questions about style, colour, size, price range, etc., to help narrow down exactly what the customer needed. “It don’t matter.” he replied, “Just wool socks. I work back in the bush and we only come to town every three weeks. Nylon makes my feet sweat. Cotton’s okay but it don’t last long. I need socks I can wear at work everyday and that’s wool.”

So, I checked the content label of every style and colour of sock that we had in stock and eventually found a pair of 100% wool socks. “Good”, he said, and we walked up the checkout counter to ring in the $3.95 pair of wool socks. The man left and I got a bit of ribbing from the sales person in the Menswear Department about my ‘big sale of the day’ and how ‘not to spend my commission all in one place!’”

Three weeks later the customer returned. He then walked over to me and said, “I need more wool socks like that last pair”. This time he decided that he’d take 6 pair. We took the socks up to the checkout counter and rang in the six pair of $3.95 socks. The customer paid cash, said thanks, and walked away with his purchase. This time I didn’t get quite as much ribbing from the sales person in the Menswear Department.

Exactly three weeks later the customer came back. He walked through the front door and made a beeline for me. “I need more of them wool socks”, he said. “The boys at camp want to know where I got them and want some too. How many have you got?” I checked the display area, the stockroom, and our new stock shipment and told him I had 58 pair. He paid cash and bought them all.

I never found out exactly how many people he worked with, but every three weeks he’d show up at the store and ask what I had in the way of tee-shirts, long johns, plaid wool shirts, work boots, gloves, caps, toques, coveralls, work jackets, etc., and each time he arrived, he’d walk right up to me for service and we’d both go to the proper department and select what he needed for himself and for the guys he worked with. He always paid cash and always thanked me for my help.”

If Doug had made the mistake of following his coworker’s footsteps and made the same assumptions about the customer, he would have lost thousands of dollars in sales.

It is easy to make assumptions about our customers and prospects. A person’s appearance, age, gender, nationality, or role within the company, often influences us. I have made this mistake when speaking to companies in the past. Upon learning that they only had a few salespeople, I made the assumptions they would not be willing to pay my standard fee. I later learned that this assumption was completely inaccurate and that they were fully prepared to invest in their teams’ development.
As a consumer, I have often noticed that most sales people will approach well-dressed customers before they talk to people who are attired in jeans or casual clothing. Avoid this fatal mistake and go into every sales interaction with an open and clear mind. This will definitely have a positive impact on your sales.

Copyright 2004 Kelley Robertson, all rights reserved.

Kelley Robertson, President of the Robertson Training Group, works with businesses to help them increase their sales and motivate their employees. He is also the author of “Stop, Ask & Listen - Proven sales techniques to turn browsers into buyers.” Visit his website at http://www.RobertsonTrainingGroup.com and receive a FREE copy of “100 Ways to Increase Your Sales” by subscribing to his 59-Second Tip, a free weekly e-zine.

When I ask salespeople to define what a gatekeeper is, I generally hear: “Someone who keeps out people who will waste the boss’s time.”

But gates are two-sided - they open as well as close: a gatekeeper’s job is actually to make sure the boss gets to spend his/her time efficiently.

I’ve probably gotten approximately $500,000 in business as a result of the word or deed of gatekeepers.

How have I done this? By remembering a few simple rules:

1. whoever answers the phone is my client;

2. in order for a gatekeeper to open OR close the gate, she has to decide which category to put me in - in, or out.

3. it’s the job of the gatekeeper to make sure her boss gets to speak with people who can help him/her do a better job.

My own secretary has a very unique habit of putting messages on the bottom of my In Basket when they are from folks she doesn’t like - and she keeps moving these back to the bottom as I go through the pile. But I’ve come to trust her judgment (once I got over the initial discovery of her deception. Of course, I look there daily now, and just don’t tell her.)

“WHY are these HERE?” I asked the first time I noticed a rather large grouping of pink message slips at the bottom of the pile. “I was WAITING FOR THIS CALL.”

“He was rude to me, and I didn’t trust him.”

I address my follow up calls with her feedback in mind; she has saved me time, money, and effort through her gut responses. And she’s never been wrong.

Here are two stories of how I got business from gatekeepers. Note that I was using Buying Facilitation with each of them, and taught them how to decide to choose me.

TWO CASE STUDIES

Case Study #1

I got the name of the Vice-President Southwest Region of DEC (Remember DEC? It’s been subsumed by Compaq/HP.) Dave Heil was allegedly a dynamic, innovative thinker, and was located in Albuquerque, NM when I lived in Taos. His secretary Judy answered the phone.

Judy: Dave Heil’s office.

SDM: Hi. My name is Sharon Drew Morgen, and this is a sales call. I know you’re busy so I’m wondering if this is a good time to speak.

Judy: it’s never a good time. Thanks for asking. How can I help you?

SDM: I’m wondering how you folks are adding new sales methods to any current sales training you’re doing.

Judy: Can you get here next Wednesday at 8:10? Dave is on vacation til Wednesday, and his first meeting is scheduled for 8:30. He always gets in at 8:00, and I bet he’d like to spend 20 minutes with you before he starts his day. SDM: You’re having him meet with me the day he comes back from vacation??

Judy: Yes. I speak with a lot of people trying to get through to Dave; you’re the first one who respected me, and who trusted my involvement. I also know that Dave is always on the lookout for innovative material, and if your opening question was a representation of what you’re doing, and I suspect it is, Dave will be interested in meeting with you. Can you come?

Of course I went. At precisely 8:10, Dave walked in with a dark tan. “Well, you must be a very smart person that I need to meet. Not many people get through Judy. So, who are you and why do I need you?”

I got the job; Dave Heil is still my friend and colleague 13 years - and several job moves - later.

Case Study #2

I was given the name of a small manufacturing company (company has since been subsumed by a much larger company) and told that they were seeking new sales training. I called in and spoke with the receptionist, Susan.

Susan: Hello. This is Company X. Who would you like to be connected with? SDM: I’m not sure, but maybe you can help me. Are you sure this is a good time?

Susan: I’ve got the time. What do you need?

SDM: My name is Sharon Drew Morgen, and this is actually a sales call. I’ve developed an innovative and ethical sales methodology, and am not sure if your company either seeks innovation, or has a desire to bring in new material. Can you tell me how your company chooses to bring in new sales material?

Susan: If you send me a packet with your stuff in it, and call me back in a week, I’ll make sure it gets to the proper person.

I sent her a packet on Wednesday. On Friday, Susan called me back.

Susan: I put your material on the desk of our sales director. Two hours later he was fired, and he cleaned out his office. He either threw your stuff away or took it with him. Can you please send me another packet and I’ll get it to the new person?

I sent her the packet immediately. The following Tuesday I got a call.

Joe: Hello, Sharon Drew. You don’t know me, but the receptionist gave me a packet of information, and I promised her that not only would I call you, but I’d report back to her on what we decided. Since this is my first day, you must be a very important person. Who are you?

I began doing work with this company about 2 months later.

WORKING WITH, NOT THROUGH

For some reason you have been taught to view the person answering the telephone as a deterrent to getting where you want to get. But this person is your guide. And, since she decides whether you ‘get through’ or not, she’s in control of the conversation. No matter how smart you are or how good your product is, no matter how much your prospect needs you or how much money you can make or save them, if the gatekeeper doesn’t put you through, you’re toast.

Whole books and programs have been devoted to ‘getting through’ the gatekeeper. But this person is a human being, with a job. And she is happy to help you. I’ve heard of sales people using an authoritative voice to show her they’re important (um, they’re in control, remember? Doesn’t matter how important you are to you - she’s the one who determines if you’re important or not); or sounding familiar and suave, as if they are friends with the boss already (and, you don’t think she knows who the boss knows?); or using the name of a reference as if it were the boss’s best friend (the boss rarely knows the reference well, or the reference would have already called the boss on your behalf and the secretary would be awaiting your call).

These are all ploys to ‘get through’. Why not teach the gatekeeper how to choose to help you? Here are a few stories of what gatekeepers have done to help me over the years [Note: all of the following responses have been to my calling on a cold call, with no reference and no prior contact]:

1. go into the men’s room (literally) to get their boss to hurry up so he would speak with me and not keep me waiting;

2. tell me when the prospect would be available, with a clear calendar;

3. give me a specific time and date, and put my incoming call on the calendar so when I’d call in the boss would be awaiting my call (and, when the boss’s calendar shifted even called me back to give me another time commitment);

4. told me the correct person to speak with so I wouldn’t waste my time on the person I thought I needed (”Oh, you don’t want to talk to HIM. He’ll turn it over to her anyway, so you might as well start with her.”);

5. told me to hang up and call back during morning hours when the guy would be, um, more able to have a cogent conversation rather than after his lunch break (This guy must have been REALLY productive in the mornings!);

6. given me lists of names to call in addition to the name I had, with an offer to get more names if I weren’t successful with the ones I had.

ATTITUDE

A supervisor I was coaching from a large software company called to ask for one of the Project Managers. He used a very snooty, condescending voice.

Gatekeeper: Hi. How can I help?

Seller: Give me Stephanie please.

Gatekeeper: Stephanie is on holiday for two weeks. I’ll take your name and have her call you back.

I asked this man to call the number again and this time I took the call. I believed there was something more than a vacation happening here.

Gatekeeper: Hi. How can I help?

SDM: Hi there. My name is Sharon Drew Morgen and I’m with XYZ company and…..

Gatekeeper: you’re from XYZ company? Do you have any idea how long we’ve been trying to reach you? We’ve put in over a dozen calls to have you fix a problem here, and no one has called us back. I’m the Systems Analyst; let me get the Project Manager.

Stephanie: Hello. This is Stephanie. I hear you’re finally calling me back, but it’s too late. We’ve taken you off of our preferred supplier’s list.

We fixed the problem (groveling works!), but my client realized that his attitude was quite annoying to the person on the other end no matter who answered the phone. He had assumed - hearing a woman’s voice - that the person who answered was the ‘gatekeeper’ and he had to show her who was boss. The Systems Analyst wasn’t going to be treated that way by anyone. How many other times had prospects been ‘on vacation’ or at a ‘meeting’ because the gatekeeper was being verbally abused by a seller’s attitude?
If you act as if everyone who answers the call is your client - and everyone is your client! - you’ll have an easier time getting to speak with the right person sooner.

Sharon Drew Morgen is the author of NYTimes Best seller Selling with Integrity. She speaks, teaches and consults globally around her new sales model, Buying Facilitation.

She can be reached at:

512-457-0246
Morgen Facilitations, Inc.
Austin, TX

http://www.newsalesparadigm.com

http://www.sharondrewmorgen.com

Many people today simply prefer the convenience of paying by credit card. If you want their business, you must be able to accept their credit-card payments.

In part one of this series we will discuss why you should accept credit cards, and the basics of getting merchant status. Part two will deal with objections you might get, which credit cards to accept, and the check paying option.

Obtaining merchant status, which allows you to accept credit-card payments, might seem like an unnecessary hassle, especially for those in business where the majority of their customers pay by cash or check. But by not accepting credit-card payments, you lose sales. This is especially true if yours is a mail order business, or consulting business. Just look at the majority of business today, all of them accept credit cards, and becoming more and more popular all the time are debit cards.

As many businesses have found, up to 70 percent of people never mail the check, so accepting credit cards is crucial. When the customer places an order, he’s excited and eager to buy. Faced with the prospect of sending a check, waiting for it to clear and then awaiting shipment, his interest is likely to wane. In the meantime, you lose sales.

The Basics of Merchant Status

In order to accept credit cards, you need to work with a bank that will transfer the money into your account within a day or two of the sale, and then collect the money from the customer. In return, you pay the bank a commission of 1.5 percent to 5 percent for each credit-card transaction; a set, per-transaction fee; and a setup fee. You will also have to pay monthly support or equipment-rental fees for a point-of-sale terminalthe machine used to swipe the carddepending on the contract.

The fee is based on two things, the average amount per transaction and the total volume for the year.

When you apply for merchant status, the banks evaluate your business based on its sales track record, the type of business it is, your credit record, the business’s credit record and your overall financial picture.

Apply for merchant status when you get your start-up financing. This accomplishes several things. First, it shows that you’ve thought ahead. And you will probably have customers that you wouldn’t have otherwise. In fact, some people don’t pay with anything but credit cards.

Second, you show you’re taking steps to minimize the time and expense involved in recovering bad debts. If someone writes a bad check, for instance, it will cost you time and money to recover the loss. If you swipe a customer’s credit card through a point-of-sale terminal, you can be sure you’ll get paid. The machine contacts the issuing bank to authorize the transaction and runs the account numbers through a variety of fraud-protection procedures.

In part two of this series we will deal with objections you might get, which credit cards to accept, and the check paying option.

Copyright 2004 DeFiore Enterprises

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Do you hate Japanese Beetles? Give them away. Always remember
to give away your beetles. Never place a beetle trap on your own
property unless all residents of your area are attempting to
control beetles. The reason is that you will most likly attract
more beetles to your landscape than you destroy. If you are trap
minded the best idea is to give them away.

Yes, It is better to give than to receive. This old motto is
even good for Japanese beetles. Japanese Beetles can be
controlled with traps that lore the beetle with food and sex
attractants. These are generally a bag trap that one hangs 4-5
feet off the ground. It is never a good idea to place them near
your plants that they will eat. So I simply suggest give them to
your neighbor at Christmas!!! If you want, hang the trap on open
space area trees near your property. Thus the beetles will be
dirtected away from your property.

What we do on the farm is we hang the trap on branches of a tree
that overhangs our pond and open up the bottom. The little
critters fall into the pound and our fish clean them up. What a
way to recycle and not have to empty the traps.

Some of the effected popular flowers and trees favored by the
beetles are:

annual asters astilbe canna cosmos daylilly delphinium hollyhoch
iris marigold peony roses zinnia Linden trees purple plums

When you sign up on our web site to our mailing list, you will
receive more of our unusual gardening and landscape tips along
with many free tree and plant offerings from our surpluses that
we have. Go to our web site at http://www.seedlingsrus.com

This is a copy of my most recent email newsletter. This was an
overwhelming success.
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January 2006

The Early Bird Gets the Worm—Don’t Delay Free Tree Day Jan.
28th is a Free Higan Weeping Cherry Tree Day

Greetings! January 28, 2006 is free Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Day…..All members of our email club can receive a free Higan
Weeping Cherry when you bring your pickup to our 5275 West Swamp
Rd. Fountainville Pa. location. These trees are 10-12′ tall and
in 24″ baskets. These trees must be picked up on the 28th,
before 5pm. sorry, no rain checks. There is a limit of one per
family and you must have been a member on or before January 27,
2006 of our email club.

Sincerely,

Bill Hirst Free Tree Day Jan. 28th, 2006 is Free Tree Day

5275 W. Swamp Rd. Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923

January 28, 2006 8:00AM-5:00PM Reasons to Come to this Event We
are selling 150 acres of our nursery and we must liquidate many
trees and plants. Some of of plants are in quantities that would
supply us for many years of sales. But we can’t move that number
of trees. Thus they will be either sold at a discount,
destroyed, or given away. I like the last option. Thus if you
bring your pickup to the farm today, Saturday the 28th, we will
give away 1 free Higan Weeping cherry to each email newsletter
subscriber to Highland Hill Farm that picks up the tree by 5PM.
Sorry you must be have be signed up by Jan. 27th, to qualify.
There are no rain checks. These trees are in 24 and 28 inch
baskets and are app. 10-14′ tall. We will help load them in your
pickup.

We have a total of 75 trees ready to give away while the supply
lasts. All other trees and plants are 20% off today.

Driving Directions to the Farm Highland Hill Farm 5275 W. Swamp
Rd. Rt. 313 Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923 myhirst@yahoo.com
http://www.seedlingsrus.com We will have other free tree
offerings each month. So keep in touch.
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Within 15 minutes of this email being sent people started to
arrive to make selections. We would have had no customers on
this day. Yet we sold enough other stock to make this offering
possible. We gave away 52 trees and this was even covered by the
press showing up and giving us exposure in local papers.