Everyone is in Sales !

I think most of you might have already made a picture of what this blog going to be. But for a second forgive me and erase that.

For all men out there: "Have you ever tried to impress a Girl?"

For all the women out there: "Have you ever attended a party dressed up very ugly?"

Well, that's the point. Right from day 1 of our lives, we are trying to impress someone or showcasing our talent.

Every day we think sales is not our job!

But if you go back and see your whole life, you would have tried to convince your Ms\teacher for that extra mark or for being the class representative, you would have acted good or done your homework to impress your parents to take you on day out, in fact, you might have certainly negotiated with shopkeeper and convinced to buy an article at the price you want.To be true, all that is what a salesperson does!
Know about what you are selling, Know what makes your customer take your product, negotiate with him on prices, and keep in touch to maintain a relationship.
In our profession, we stick around development testing, project management, product management and believe parents how to do sales and they will get the business.

Sales person are not cut from a different cloth, it's an inherent feature of every human being to be able to sell as is to breathe.

The fact is we do not want to accept that fact and want to move away from that pain.In our daily job, we are developers, testers, managers, analysts so on and so forth various roles and finally the "Sales People".Whomsoever you are every time you talk to someone you are selling yourself and selling goodwill of your company.

The reason you need to realise the fact is because, without realisation, even Lion acts as Cat, and with the realisation of what you are can make act as Lion even if you are a cat.

You might have heard about all the various jargon about different types of selling but for me, all narrow down to simple language,
If we Know who our customer is, we offer accordingly  i.e, customer centric selling. It's as equal as,  trying to impress a particular girl in the school. You prepare as per her likes.
Well, sometimes we go into a conference trying to sell all we have to whoever comes across, we call that marketing strategy and distributed sales approach(i think). Well, isn't it case with matrimony? You market your profile .....
The bottom line is

The sale is all about selling something, Everyone knows that. But very few know that you are also a salesperson by default.

Every day when you wake up be prepared to sell yourself.

• Don't wait under the thought that someone would come and tell the world this guy is a good guy and he has done some super work.You can do that all by yourself. you can go out and tell "I Have done this!"
  
• When you want to get into project go and sell yourself to the manager, why you can be part of it.
  
• When you are about to meet a customer, dress up the way as if, you are on an official date.
  
• All it takes, is to realise the skill you have and Sale is not a Rocket science.
  
• Write a blog on your work and sell your thoughts & good things you are doing.
  

That the reason it is said, "Everyone is in Sales!"

Note: No offence to sales people. I agree & appreciate your extra talent.