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In Sales Conversations The Fine Line Between Inspiration and Intimidation

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Most salespeople truly believe in their sales solutions especially entrepreneurs and single office/home office small business owners. They want their sales conversations to be full of inspiration and yet sometimes just the opposite happens.

We have all heard about pushy salespeople.  These are the folks who make their sales pitches within a few moments after shaking your hand.  I am not talking about those salespeople.

What I am talking about is the salespeople who so firmly believe in their solutions, their sales conversations are full of passion that comes from the heart. Sure they want to close the sale, to earn the business, but first and foremost they want their prospects to share their passion to have that “V8 moment” so to speak.

Salespeople full of inspiration realize it takes more than one contact.  They will make numerous efforts to reach out to their sales leads or prospects and to share their “inspirational” sales solutions.

For some sales prospects, eventually they lose the feeling of inspiration and it is replaced with intimidation.  They don’t want to hurt the feelings of the salesperson, but the constant focus on the sales solution turns them off.  The mistake made by the inspiring salesperson is one also shared by those other pushy salespeople – failure to listen and observe.

Recently I observed an inspired SOHO entrepreneur who was attempting to sell his solution to another individual.  The “sales lead” was polite. His body language told me he was being polite.  However, he had been turned off by the sales conversation quite earlier. Yet the salesperson failed to pick up these non-verbal clues and continued with what he thought to be an inspirational sales solution.

The passion that inspires salespeople to have those sales conversations can easily intimidate especially if the salesperson is not actively listening and observing the non-verbal behavior of the sales prospect.  Top sales performers understand how easily it is to cross the fine line between inspiration and intimidation.

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