Some of the qualities of good sales persons are as follows:
1. Ability to estimate customer’s needs and desires: Should determine what the customer wants and the best way to sell.
2. Ambition : He likes to do a good job and is interested in getting ahead with your company.
3. Appearance: Appearance means a lot today and successful salesman is neat and organized. He presents himself well in person. Also he keeps his desk, books and manuals neat and ready for use.
4. Business Sense: He understands that you are in business to make a profit and quickly learns the ins-and out of your organization.
5. Courtesy : He reveals a sincere desire to help customers and treats them as guests even when he visits their places of business.
6. Creativeness : Imagination vision and ability to create ideas make your man dynamic.
7. Curiosity: He wants to learn all he can about his job, his products and his customers.
8. Enthusiasm: There is nothing that can drain away a prospect’s buying interest more than a half-dead salesman. Dullness should be left at home. A salesmen must be radiate enthusiasm during and after the sales call.
9. Figure Sense: He should have the mathematically ability to figure and fill up order from correctly and to make the necessary reports.
10. Flexibility: A good salesman is able to adapt himself to a variety of customers. Each contact may require adapting the sales talk, speech habits and even appearance.
11. Friendliness: A salesman should be able to make people like him and must like to meet people.
12. Handwriting: He must write legibly so that his paper work can readily be understood by his office people and his customers.
13. Health: Good health generates energy and energy is needed to sell. Poor health prevents many salesmen from fulfilling their potentials.
14. Integrity: A salesman must be trusted to do his job well. He cannot help but be successful when his