Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Rethinking Rejection: Sales Philosophy

Most of us have been taught and trained to do what we call, 'go for yes.' What if you started to 'go for no?'
Go for No! is about intentionally increasing your failure rate... in other words to hear NO more often.

What? Is that the stupidest advice ever?? 
Hang on.

Here's an example:  When a typical seller has a list of ten (qualified) people that they would like to share their product or service with they will put that list through their 'go for yes' filter.

They will analyze the list and make a few decisions: first, they will decide that 6 of those people will probably say, 'no.' So, they won't contact them. (Why bother? Just to get a 'no?') Then, they spot the three people on the list that most likely will say 'maybe' or 'not yet'. And then they will spot the one person that they are confident is a 'yes.'

They will contact the one 'yes' and get the 'yes.' And if they are really feeling good, they'll try for the maybe people. At least one or two. And now they'll start looking for their next perfect, easy, 'yes.'

When you 'go for no' you don't prejudge, analyze or filter: in other words you don't say 'no' for other people, you let them say 'no' to what you have to offer. And that's when the magic happens.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Good post. I think it will help slumping sales reps.

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