If you have the courage to talk to customers about buying a quality product or service at a fair price, your fortune is made. Forget the advanced college degrees. You don’t need partners or venture capitalists. You don’t need start-up capital. You don’t need daddy’s contacts. You don’t need your own business. You already are your own business. You are already among the business elite. If you have the courage to knock on doors, offer a fair deal and follow through with service, your fortune is made. Now, save, invest and retire young.
If you can understand and accept the following little reality of marketing, you can be a successful commissioned salesperson. “Some will. Some won’t. So what? Next!”
As a commissioned salesperson, be unashamed to shout about your product or service. Every person is a potential customer or a lead to a potential customer. Businesscards are cheap. They are your calling cards. Hand out lots of them. Businesscards are an effective and inexpensive one-to-one marketing tool. Develop a brief elevator speech. The best salespeople can tell you convincingly in two minutes or less why you should buy their product or service. Develop an ever improving personal web presence.