Sales Motivation - Trust your Instincts
December 24th, 2006
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Motivating yourself is one of the keys to Sales Success.
Sales motivation is a primary factor in a sales rep’s success. The people who excel in sales, have strong sales motivation and internal direction. By being internally motivated go make sales, your sales will increase. To increase your sales, you must rely on your instinctual knowledge and know when you are doing the right thing.
Contrast this to a person who was motivated by external influences. This person gets her sales motivation by the strokes she receives from others. In other words, she gets her sales motivation from her external surrounding environment. She needs a personal sales cheerleader, instead of relying on her own intestinal fortitude.
Why do people with internal sales motivation tend ‘rock n roll’ in the sales profession?
Because sales is a very emotional game. Sales reps are constantly pulled this way, and that way, by competing demands for their time and focus. When you are internally directed, you have the confidence to trust your instinct, your gut, your intuition. This sort of sales motivation guides a sales rep to persevere and become a top performer.
In contrast, the person who uses external direction to get his sales motivation, finds himself frequently confused. Should I do what my sales manager says? Should I do the same thing as what the top sales representative across the country is doing is his sales territory? Should I do what I heard Tony Robbins tell me do on that late night infomercial?
Questions like this just cause emotional turmoil for the externally directed person.
If you are motivated to make more sales… learn to trust your gut and to develop an internal sense of sales motivation. We at SalesMotivation.net intend on helping you Make it Happen!
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