One way to check
out whom really successful Internet marketers are and who are just jungle
beasts that want your money, is to plug names of authors or speakers into the
search box of your favorite search engine. You can learn a lot about people if
you just look around the Internet. Don’t believe
everything you read. Check out the credentials of authors or speakers before
you pay for the information they are offering. Don’t take the bait! Oh, My! You can learn to SELL Anything! “Everyone lives by selling something.” - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Scottish novelist, poet. How true! We all sell something. We sell our time or
our knowledge or we sell a product or a service. Everybody is selling
something. Some of us do it better than others. There is, however, a catch
to selling. You have to have something of value to sell before you will have
any paying customers. Hype won’t cut it. There is no doubt that
effective selling techniques exist. There is no doubt that some of these
techniques can be taught. But....you can’t actually learn to sell ANYTHING. You
can sell something. You can sell merchandize or services that have value. But
you can’t sell just ANYTHING! Many marketers, those of
the brick and mortar world and those of the Internet marketing world, have
found out that selling is only the first part of a process. The second part is
that the customer who buys whatever is being sold has untold power. Today, if
the customer isn’t happy, they usually have a recourse. If you sell inferior
products, you will get a lot of returns and you will have your credibility
severely damaged. Selling isn’t all that hard
if you have a good product or a good service that will satisfy the customers
who purchase it. You have to keep it sold. You don’t want returns. Being a good salesman can
be learned. Selling an honest product or service will keep it sold. You really can’t sell just
ANYTHING! Oh, My!
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