Selling takes place everywhere, not just in stores or on the telephone. By far, the area of fastest growth in selling is 'virtual' selling or internet selling. Make no mistake about it, if you want to sell anything on the internet you will need to possess virtually all the same skills that are needed to sell successfully in a regular brick and mortar outlet.
In fact, I suggest that in some cases, selling online successfully requires master salespeople. Consumers shop online for two main reasons. They are searching for a product or service that is not readily available in their local marketplace or they are so fed up with dealing with 'average' or 'poor' salespeople that they choose to bypass them altogether.
Complete well rounded sales training will give the online marketer the edge and tools to avoid many of the mistakes that plague undertrained salespeople in the physical marketplace.
If you master selling in a regular business, you can develop multiple streams of income easily and inexpensively by selling online in addition to your regular job. What you offer may be completely different from how you earn your living day to day.
It might be information or a product that you create or have access to. It might relate to something that is of special interest to you or something that you are passionate about. You might even simply sell as an affiliate without your own product at all. The possibilities are endless, but one thing is certain virtual selling can be set up to pay you 24/7 because the internet never sleeps.
Selling as a career can unlock so many doors and so much potential for you if you simply choose to explore it, get yourself properly trained, prepared and take necessary action to make things happen. Yes, you can succeed!
This is the final article in an 8 part series. I invite you to check out the others to discover if a career in selling might serve you or someone you know.
Friday, January 19, 2007
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