Sales and Salesmen
Sales and Salesmen
Week 5
Jerome Wood
DeVry University
October 4, 2014
Sales and Salesmen
In this weekly research paper, describe your most memorable experience with a salesperson that was positive and made you feel comfortable. Then in the next section, describe an experience with a salesperson that was unpleasant and made you feel uncomfortable. In comparing the two experiences, answer the following questions. In reflecting on the positive experience, what one thing about the experience made you feel good about it? Why? In reflecting on the unpleasant experience, what one thing about the experience made you feel uncomfortable about it? Why? Consider what you do for work on a day-to-day basis. Given what you do, do you consider yourself to be some form or fashion of a salesperson? Why? Why not?
It is generally believed that a job in sales demands one to e outgoing, talkative and at times as required pushy. People also believe that situation generally gets to be quite awkward if one is not outgoing enough. Moreover, people also think that success in selling mainly depends on your ability to talk and make people believe what you say. In other words selling is believed to be a career which demands one to be clever and manipulative. The one who can cleverly use his words to persuade the customer can sell and one who cannot won’t be able to. People think the job demands them to be rather open and most of the success depends on their ability to talk. To people who are hesitant or shy by nature it may seem like a daunting task. Sometimes it is the image of a sales man which makes people hesitates from having a career in selling. Building rapport is quite essential when it comes to selling and many of us find it difficult to build rapport with absolute strangers. The truth of selling whereas is that one mostly comes across customers who are absolute strangers. These all things together make people shy from having a career in selling.
Week 5
Jerome Wood
DeVry University
October 4, 2014
Sales and Salesmen
In this weekly research paper, describe your most memorable experience with a salesperson that was positive and made you feel comfortable. Then in the next section, describe an experience with a salesperson that was unpleasant and made you feel uncomfortable. In comparing the two experiences, answer the following questions. In reflecting on the positive experience, what one thing about the experience made you feel good about it? Why? In reflecting on the unpleasant experience, what one thing about the experience made you feel uncomfortable about it? Why? Consider what you do for work on a day-to-day basis. Given what you do, do you consider yourself to be some form or fashion of a salesperson? Why? Why not?
It is generally believed that a job in sales demands one to e outgoing, talkative and at times as required pushy. People also believe that situation generally gets to be quite awkward if one is not outgoing enough. Moreover, people also think that success in selling mainly depends on your ability to talk and make people believe what you say. In other words selling is believed to be a career which demands one to be clever and manipulative. The one who can cleverly use his words to persuade the customer can sell and one who cannot won’t be able to. People think the job demands them to be rather open and most of the success depends on their ability to talk. To people who are hesitant or shy by nature it may seem like a daunting task. Sometimes it is the image of a sales man which makes people hesitates from having a career in selling. Building rapport is quite essential when it comes to selling and many of us find it difficult to build rapport with absolute strangers. The truth of selling whereas is that one mostly comes across customers who are absolute strangers. These all things together make people shy from having a career in selling.