Very well said! 
My apologies. I just figured there was a certain level of influencing and negotiating when it comes to being a parent. I am not a father myself so I spoke about something I don’t know anything about and most likely never will
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This….
Also,
Detachment from making a sale. Look for problems instead of being a product pusher.
Ability to ask the right questions at the right time.
Tonality improvement. I’m going to go deeper here. When to have a curious tone, playful tone, concerned, assertive, and challenging tone. J/k that wasn’t deep. Anyway, tonality modulation, this would be helpful.
Ways to appear as a trusted authority instead of a sales person. (Have no desire to being grouped with sales people due to stigma we already have)
Prehandling objections before they show up.
Ability to ask prospects questions that have prospects persuade themselves kinda like subs. We draw our own conclusion of what a sub can do.
The most important thing, limit destroyer towards making sales. Believing one can make millions of dollars in commissions a year, if one’s a rep and millions of dollars in sales a year if one’s an owners. Not sure if that makes sense.
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Confidence and enthusiasm in cold outreach. (I tend to do well talking about my service once people have shown interest, but the thought of interrupting someone’s day to talk about my service is akin to severe fear of heights.)
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A deep-rooted conviction that if I know my service would drastically improve their life, I would be a cruel SOB if I let them walk away without very legitimate reasons. Conversely, if my service won’t improve their life, a deep conviction to refuse to take their money.
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A deep-rooted conviction that they need me far more than I need them. They’re more desperate for my service than I am for their money. Thus, I’m doing them a favor in even talking to them.
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I’ve been thinking about this all week.
i came here surprised that there wasn’t alot of emphasis from sales people on outreach and prospecting… the mundane tasks in my opinion are the most important part of sales. Outreach, follow up, referrals, etc
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Hmm the 2nd one might cause recon for people who don’t believe that deeply in what they’re selling lol. For the 3rd, have you ever felt you needed a salesman/saleswoman more than they needed you? 
Me for my part, eg my coaching class I bought. I knew I needed it more than the guy on the phone selling it.
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Yeah I’ll second that. Especially when you are selling anything transformational, coaching, consulting, even subliminals for that matter. If you build a large enough gap on the call that should be the dynamic created.
Think about Saint and Fire. Let’s be honest we all lean on them and need more from them then they do of us lol.
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Ah, true. Edit: oh wait, nvm for the 2nd objective he said “A deep-rooted conviction that (IF) I know my service would drastically improve their life …” for sure. I also think one of the objectives though should be to be persuasive and and sell people on anything regardless of whether you deeply believe in it or not.
I’m not so sure on this one.
Ethics and free will are strong in here. And I like it. Imagine some unscrupulous sleazy salesman got his hands on Truesell. He could literally sell fridges to inuit.
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Absolutely agree. Actually find the tought of True Sell with free will scripting quite intriguing.
I hope all of these suggestions wont end up ruining this sub or turning this into a dense sub.
To me a sales is problem solving. You listen to your clients pain points and you deliver them a product/service which will fix their issue.
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Lol I know, I guess ultimately it would be bad for the salesman anyway via self-esteem and other psychological problems…
Thinking about it, people who sold me on things weren’t overly pushy, they were optimistic/good vibes, got me excited for the product, let me take my time, and if I “had to think about it” they maintained their positive attitude and were equally as personable/friendly/accommodating when I came back to them. They make it all about YOU, the focus is on YOU, accommodating YOU; they are good listeners, understand your problem(s) completely, and will convey to you how/why what they’re selling would benefit you, in a straight-forward non-needy but focused way. Also scripting for the ability to modify your sales style in a way that is most persuasive to whichever personality you come into contact with, if that makes sense. These are my ideas. I haven’t run OG True Sell yet though, as a sidenote.
Edit: damn there’s some good answers in this thread 
Edit 2: there’s different sales styles when I think about it. One that comes to mind is everything I mentioned before: charm, good listener, optimistic, good/high energy. Another is more of a “hey I’m just trying to help, I wouldn’t steer you wrong” style, which may be more grounded, authoritative, and maybe a bit more serious, but still empathetic/compassionate. And yeah I think it depends on the situation and what you’re selling (and maybe just your personality?).
eight years ago，I made a appointment with a skin care consultant/sale…at first，everything was going smooth and corny…having different tests and introduction about medical treatments…then I said my problem“I feel like my skin is overly oiling，it is nasty” without missing a beat，that saleswoman said “that is a mental illness”…I bursted out laughing…not that I found it funny but incredible obsurd…she followed up with “I am just like that，really straight forward” then she repeated the comment two times in a row“that is a mental illness” I got up and left immediately.what is the moral of the story ？
1:know what you say in the sale also know what not to say.something will just make people think you are incredible inadequate ，unprofessional and uneducated …that is the last thing you want
2: when you made a mistake ，being able to calibrate it correct it on the spot is really important.double it down will make you look really bad and lack of the common sense ，empath and social intelligence…again these are not good for the sale.
3:be a decent person…sometimes，you just could not close the deal…due to all types of reason，at those moments，just be graceful.make it classy…at least ，you could leave a good impression…next time，that impression might lead to a referral…
some extra rant：I think the best closers never close，instead，others come to them and close them…how does it happen ？by building a reputation…crafting an image…associating certain concepts with the products/person….this process itself is a mass seduction…the closer paints the canvas…spreads the stories…the rest just lay out on a silver plate and hand it to them…so I will say an extra focus on marketing and branding skill will be really helpful…also being able to set aside the ego and learn from all sources will be great an advantage over those cant……
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I agree 100%.
It’s impossible to have a really high close rate consistently with shit marketing. Marketing and sales is like foreplay and sex. If the foreplay doesn’t turn your partner on, forget about orgasm.
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Okay @answergroup I went deep into the tank for this one.
The first thing that a world class sales person needs to be able to do is build trust, so that every single thing the salesperson says, the prospect believes.
There’s obviously an ethical balance there, but, most sales people actually can’t even convince people that THE TRUTH is true. The reputation of a sales person is that they’re not trustworthy, so they need to build trust & authority quickly.
Status in sales comes not in the Alpha Male status way, but from projecting confidence, competence, and knowledge
The ability to ultimately shift someone’s level of thinking and eliminate their limiting beliefs about themselves might be the unique driver here. So many people choose not to buy not because they don’t like the product, but because even if it’s the best product in the world, they don’t know if it can get them results because they don’t trust their own skill.
This is true in all coaching and agency work. Client self doubt is often more detrimental than doubt in the product - and a subliminal about making people extremely confident in pursuing goals they’ve already self selected that they wish they could accomplish sounds like a globally beneficial title. Perhaps that’s the unique edge, and the true sell sub becomes the sub that inspires others to help them identify and achieve their most lofty goals - putting the sales person in the middle as just a helpful partner in getting there.
If it’s a product like Solar then this is less important and the “believing the sales person when he’s telling the truth” scripting is more important. But even then, perhaps the “help you accomplish the lofty goals you previously thought were impossible” scripting could prove powerful.
For tech sales, CRMs and stuff, the prospect’s goal is to achieve success in their business, and many entrepreneurs at an early stage are afraid of taking on costs because they don’t know if they’ll achieve exponential growth.
Understanding exactly what the prospect wants, explaining it in a way that perfectly matches their goals, building trust and portraying personal-and-industry-specific confidence is huge, helping them believe in themselves more than they do and showing how your product fits in the middle.
And being crisp, direct, effective in communication is huge as well. Each word used is a word wasted - have the most impact with the least amount of speech to keep the focus on the prospect, not the product or salesperson. Communicating in a way that never creates confusion.
And outside of communication, sales requires a huge amount of discipline, positive outlook no matter what, calm despite rejection, having really clear long term goals to excite you and move you forward with passion, and on a daily basis the sales person needs to have IMPECCABLE energy through positive health and habits… showing up to a sales conversation anything less than your best is a fast way to kill a deal haha
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Sharing this here, because this is my biggest feedback/recommendation in for true sell. Whatever the heck is in HOM, please, can we find a way to make it into true sell. I literally feel like anytime I run HOM, the level of effort and output I need to achieve the same results is reduced at least in half.
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