How come so many young people are held far from the world of sales? Why the business is often seen only as a last resort only to retreat to in case of desperation?
think it depends exclusively on the risks and difficulties inherent to the work of the seller is pure illusion. The real reasons are to be found in the "disasters" that each of us as a seller, imorenditore, sales manager, trainer, etc. etc. created with their actions or omissions in this field.
And to understand it enough to observe the different categories of vendors in which to present risk of coming across, and can be nicely lence in this way:
1. Street sellers: namely those taken literally from the road for the series' stop breathing. " For years it was strongly argued that anyone with a bit of soft skills could be a good seller, only to gross errors in the evaluation of the imaginary relationship skills. With the result to have around ... and yet many commercial incopetenti nasty!
2. Sellers telepathy those who took themselves too seriously all the studies on quantum Law of Attraction, to the point where the illusion that to make enough new customers to concentrate all our thoughts at this goal for many potential buyers to see materialize in front of their door. Except then complain that "there are too many crises around, so I do not sell."
3. Sellers Violinists: it is the sellers hucksters who go around giving customers more reason to find so many positive things to appreciate because it creates so much feeling and harmony. Definitely the most annoying category for its artificiality.
4. Sellers Furbidi: This is the theory of those professionals "know how to sell an idea is better than having an idea", promptly turned the stupid theory "even if such and such an idea, as long as I learn all the techniques of advanced sale to make a bundle of money. " So wander from a poor customer to another and from one to another broken promise. Why FURBIDI? Because too often mistakes are so absurd that it makes you think "you can not, I think we do." And other times they presume to be smarter than the other transforms them into being really ridiculous.
5. Fast sellers: They are a direct evolution of the previous category in that broken promise after broken promise, customer after customer mad mad sooner or later furbidi sellers are forced to run away fast. And too often, they flee from one area to another, after accumulating too many failures (obviously in most cases hidden behind excuses like "I do not support the suppliers") are forced to start over daccapo in altri settori. E l'accumulo di esperienze in molteplici settori diventa per loro motivo di vanto e di orgoglio "ho la vendita nel DNA, ho venduto di tutto". Peccato che se fosse vero...almeno in uno degli innumerevoli settori in cui hanno spaziato avrebbero dovuto sfondare! e invece....sono ancora lì a ricercare l'occasione giusta. E nei casi più "divertenti", qualcuno di loro arriva addirittura a pensare "ho venduto così tante cose nella mia vita...che ora posso anche diventare un formatore ed insegnare la vendita agli altri".
Queste sono solo ALCUNI degli aspetti che trasformano la professione più bella e importante per la nostra economia in una attività troppo spesso evitata e bistrattata. E ci vorrà tanta pazienza and much hard work to re-enable it!