Did You Have Professional Offline Sales Training Before Coming Online?

[captkirk]

Hi Fellow MCP Members and Guests?

 

Tommie Kirkland (Captkirk) here...

 

Did You Have Professional Offline Sales Training Before Coming Online?

 

 

[Guest mrclean0325]

I have a few years of "face-to-face", "door-to-door", and "belly-to-belly" sales experience. Your reach online is greatly extended.

 

And the next answer is No, this has not been much help online. In offline sales, you look for "tells" - voice inflection, body language, and many other indications you can observe to guide you to a sale. To root out the main objection and overcome it.

 

It is a bit different online. There is a whole new skill set involved. Some things do cross over; but, the approach and mechanics are a bit different.

 

It still all boils down to getting your foot in the door and being able to stay long enough to accomplish your goal. It still has to do with your "numbers" - how many "NO"s you have to get to see the "YES". Without knowing, you are doomed to failure. Without taking action, you are doomed to failure. You can't get a "NO" without knocking on some doors and communicating with people. Without getting "NO" you will NEVER get a "YES". Testing and experimenting will get you experience with what works.

[Steve Jones]

I have experience in some of the requirements for Online Marketing but until you actually do it, you really don't understand what's involved. It's a whole new world when you go online and try to make money!   

[davepilgrim]

Yes, a sales background, but more customer service orientated.

 

So my approach online is similar - just make sure my products/services are exposed to as many people as possible and try to be as helpful and available as I can be to anyone with problems or enquiries.

[Darren Olander]

No, I was still in high school when I first came across online marketing. But just doing it and learning from experience is sufficient

[captkirk]

I have professional sales training which gave me an unfair advantage when it came to FREE advertising.

 

Every no that I hear bring me closer to a yes... I try to get as many no's as I can so that I could get to the yes...

 

The biggest lesson I learned, I learned from Amway about leveraging my time and efforts thru the help of others which was the biggest help in growing large downlines online.

[captkirk]

I have a few years of "face-to-face", "door-to-door", and "belly-to-belly" sales experience. Your reach online is greatly extended.

 

I have had my share of "face-to-face", "door-to-door", and "belly-to-belly" sales experience.

 

Any my reach online has greatly been extended...

 

I like that I can click a button and reach thousands...

[captkirk]

Yes, a sales background, but more customer service orientated.

 

So my approach online is similar - just make sure my products/services are exposed to as many people as possible and try to be as helpful and available as I can be to anyone with problems or enquiries.

 

Yep, the key to my success online is exposing the products and services that I promote to as many people as possible.

[captkirk]

Did You Have Professional Offline Sales Training Before Coming Online?

[weblord]

yes i guess so i started with being a salesman of cctv we were trained on how to do it. if you had their training you can sell anything. even ice to penguins.

[captkirk]

Were selling CCTV online or offline...

 

How did y'all prospect to get potential customers...

[weblord]

cctv sales for me was offline work, like year 1990

it's based in Makati City, Philippines, it's a business sector of the Philippines so we just go telemarketing then prospecting then visiting their office for actual sales presentation, then installation. i also design using coreldraw the diagram that was  copied from handwritten  drawings.

[captkirk]

I sold the following offline:

 

- Amway

- Encyclopedia Britannica

- Insurance

- Cars

- Security Systems

- Dale Carnegie

- And Etc...

[weblord]

i sold the following offline:

- house and lot

- cars

- vacation houses

- cctv

- domains/webhosting

- wife/husband

- insurance

- encyclopedias

- coupons

- books

- etc.

[captkirk]

I see that we have sold some of the same products...

 

Do you think that give us ahead start online?

[weblord]

well as they say, money is on sales not inside the office.

yes i guess so.

if you are able to sell one item, you can sell anything.

[captkirk]

For me, I got out of the selling business...

 

Now (mostly), I just give things away for free...

[weblord]

during the heydays of plimus and shareware... i forgot their full name, i was giving away shareware so eventually when their time rans out they will upgrade or buy the software that's the time i make money

[captkirk]

I have been more successful giving away free advertising by far...

[weblord]

yes i also have free classified ads site which if you post 1 ad, that ad will get posted to 1,100 classified ads site too with just one click

1 click of submit button for the ad, then a popup will open up be sure to allow popup then it will ask you to click again this time posting the same ad to 1,100+ classified ads site too.

 

it's great list building tool for me. i gave free advertisement medium, i gain business leads.

[captkirk]

I'm also a member of ReferralFrenzy and submit a lot of my ads from their with one click.

[weblord]

do free members earn there too?

[captkirk]

Free and Paid members can not promote RF.

 

Only Plus Paid member can promote the site and earn a commissions. 

[weblord]

oh too bad. my motto is free forever lol

[captkirk]

I can promote it, but I don't... I use it daily to post ads to the many Viral Mailers sites that I use.

 

You would have to be a member of each site to post ads to them...