It is Very Important to learn the skill of selling Today
This is an article that about how important of selling skill is to keep you survive in today’s society. If you want to make more money and have a more successful life, then you can’t miss this article. But wait a minute, the selling skill that I’m talking about is different……
I read the book rich dad poor dad in year 1998. At that time, I was 15 years old and I was in the process of making decision whether I should go to college or university for further study. In the book, Robert Kiyosaki always emphasize that the selling skill is very important and he had spend 1 year of time being salesman in Xerox to learn this skill. This is a very important living skill that everybody should learn.
From time to time, I will hear from my mentor that everything in life is sales. Yes, selling is not only applied in business but in our life. For example, you sell yourself to the boss when you go for a job interview. If you go for a date, you sell yourself to that person. If you are a teacher, you get paid because you are selling knowledge to the students. So everyone is using the selling skill in daily basic without really knowing about it.
What is Selling Skill?
When people come to words of “sell”, they will directly imagine a salesman trying to sell a product to people. Yes, in most cases, selling is a very important activity for a salesman or business. This is why there is a “sales” in the words of salesman and “sales and marketing” in the world of business.
However, in fact, selling skill is more than that.
For me, selling is a way of communication. It is about how you pass your ideas, express yourself, or pass the message to others properly. Of course, for some people, they use this skill to make money by passing the right messages to their customers about their products and make their customers pay for it. This is why it is very important in business world. But this doesn’t mean that this skill is not important for you if you are not a business owner or salesman.
Selling Skill, why it is so important?
Ok, let me discuss this how important selling skill is in 2 categories – business and real life.
Selling skill is very important in the business world. If you want to start a business, you must sell your business plan to banker so that they can give you the business loan. Then you must sell your products or services to customers so that they spend money on your business. Here selling is simply a skill that let you pass your ideas and vision properly to others and make them help you in business.
Selling is an activity that will bring money to your business. This is why a smart business owner will hire more salesmen than officers. This is because salesmen are someone who brings money to business.
There is another statement that I always hear is “There are no successful or rich people who don’t know how to sell”. I was told that if I want to be success, financial free, retire rich or have a profitable business, then I must learn how to master this skill. Today, I can tell you from my own experience that, if you want to make more money, you must learn this skill!
Selling skill is also important in our daily life. Just like what I said just now, selling means communication. From my experience, a person who good in selling or communication has more advantage than those do not. If you look at those leaders in a company, most of them are good in communication. At least they must learn how to sell their potential to others in order to get this position. This means that if you want to success in the corporate ladder , then learn how to sell and communicate is a must for you.
Let me give you another example. Don’t you agree that those people who good in communication have more friends? Because of this, he/she has more chances to get a lover! This is what I found from my experience. It is a human instinct that we love to stay with someone who is good in communication.
How to learn this skill?
After reading the book, rich dad poor dad, I know that it is very important for me to learn this skill for my life. So I decided to spend most of my time to learn this.
However the first question is how to learn this?
The Answer is very simple : STOP THINKING AND TAKE ACTION!
Selling skill or communication skill is same with other kind of skill. You need both practical and theoretical information to master it. You need theory to know how to sell and take action to gain practical experience on this. Eventually you will find your own way to sell to the top!
So in starting, I bought a few books to read. Then I join my mentor’s company and help him in his business. According to him, I have no choice but have to take action and learn it. The more people I meet, the more people I deal, the more I talk and present, the better my communication skill is. The good news is this skill can be learnt and not a kind of innateness. In addition, it is nothing about how smart you are. It is about EQ (Emotional Quotient) and not IQ (Intelligent Quotient).
After 5 years of working, today, I found that my communication skill is improved! Not only I can sense this but my family, friends also can feel this. This is what I gain from hard works and I can tell you loudly that you can learn this if you want to.
I’m not saying that you must learn this skill like me, go out and work as a salesman. Instead what I suggest is you can follow the 5 steps below to learn this:
- Buy some books and read
- Just find a friend and sell what you learn and know.
- Try your best to negotiate the best price every time you buy something
- Be active and sociable – always be the first one who talk in a group!
- Volunteer yourself to participate in any function especially presentation for your company
Conclusion: No More What If
“I want to do this but I am scared to take the first step.”
Did you have any similar sentence come to your mind before? Think back to your first date, your first stage performance or your first interview. Can you remember how nervous and uncertain you can feel? Those feeling often come with a new activity or something new. Everyone will feel this just because it is new.
But once you take the first step and action, then everything will become easier for you. Just break the barrier and you will get used with it. The best cure for fear is action!
PS: Now you understand why people choose steady instead of improvement.