To this edition of the Ron White Ezine! This week, I've put the entire emphasis of the ezine on Sales and Selling! Why? Well, for those who know me personally, you know I am SO passionate about selling! It's an exciting, rewarding field to be in (and it can also be a tough one too)! So, I'll give you my Ten Commandments of Selling, the guest article is by one of the Masters of sales, Brian Tracy and I'm SO excited about this week's special product!!

Now, I have to brag just a little here, because I pulled off the deal of the century (no, I'm not going to give it all away here in the welcome; you'll have to read a little to get there)! :-)

This product is one of my ALL-TIME, FAVORITE programs and if you're looking to practice the memory skills you've learned in my Memory in a Month CDs (that is a shameless plug if you weren't paying attention), then THIS is THE program to try it on. There is SO much valuable information jam-packed into this CD program AND it's by one of my favorite authors/speakers. AND to sweeten the deal for those of you new to my ezine or you just haven't purchased my Memory in a Month 6 CD program, I've made a VERY special offer for the two products.

Have I peaked your curiosity yet, if so get to reading! Great stuff waiting for you below!

Go for More this Week!
Ron White

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In This Issue.....

1. The Ten Commandments of Selling by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy
4. It's like spending two days at the "best 'live' seminar he's ever given" at less than one-fifth the price!
5. Customer Feedback
6. More Information

1. The Ten Commandments of Selling by Ron White

'Oh...I am not selling!'

That was the reply I received from a speaker when she was diving into her sales pitch in her talk. Moments prior I had blurted out, 'There you go! Awesome!' Everyone in the room laughed because they knew I am known for my ability to sell from the platform and I was overcome with pride when I saw her delivering an effective close. As a matter of fact, I was so overwhelmed with pride I audibly congratulated her in a room full of people in the middle of her close.

Yet, her reply disappointed me and most likely the audience. It disappointed me because she is one of the many who view selling as a second class occupation and didn't want to admit that selling is what she was doing. It disappointed the audience I am sure – because it was a lie. She was closing!

At this same event, I had been asked to speak on selling and I developed The Ten Commandments of Selling for this talk. The first and foremost commandment is – Sell with Pride and Enthusiasm!

The Ten Commandments of Selling are as follows:

1. Sell with Pride and Enthusiasm
It will be obvious if you embrace and enjoy selling. If you do, your sales will sky rocket. Yet, if you view selling as a second class profession, do not be surprised when your checks reflect that you are the employ of a second class profession. However, that is your decision.

2. Show Them How to Purchase
As a speaker, I will hold up an enrollment form in front of the group and walk them through the enrollment process. Whether you are selling toasters or seminar tickets. You must get to a point where you walk them through the purchasing process and explicitly show the prospect where to sign and take the next step.

3. Display your Product with Care
Hold your product as if you are holding a new born baby. If selling a home, open the door with care and if you see dust on the counter wipe it off gently as if to say, 'This home is valuable and I want to take care of it even though it isn't mine.' I will peel the shrink wrap off the CD album as I am talking to the group and hold it to my chest. If I don't value the product in front of the group – What are the odds they will value it enough to invest in it?

4. Don't Close… Assume
The assumptive close is perhaps the most powerful closing technique because you are implying that your product is so good no one could pass it up. If you must seek permission to be comfortable yourself with the assumptive close, say something like, 'Why don't you give it a try?' or 'Just sign right here and we will get you going.' I prefer the latter because it is more assumptive, however both work.

5. Sellin' Ain't Telling!
The salesperson who is a master closer will be so because they have mastered the art of asking questions. Have a piece of paper handy and ask questions of your prospect. Make sure the questions are intelligent, cause them to visualize themselves owning the product and promote a positive response or emotion. If your questions do all of these things you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the sales person who attempts to beat their prospect into submission by peppering him with facts. Make sure that the prospect is intelligently engaged in the sales process and your closing ration will sky rocket!

6. Tell a Story
If possible about your product of someone who used it and had tremendous. Make sure the story is one hundred percent true and a testimonial letter from a satisfied customer would even be better.

7. Realize Buying is an Emotional Decision
You will need to supply your prospect with logical reasons to purchase, so when they leave they do not have buyers remorse. With that said, the actual purchasing process is an emotional one. Words that inspire emotion are ones that have the prospect seeing themselves utilizing the product and enjoying it. You might say, 'Imagine the peace of mind that you are going to have when you have this insurance policy.' 'Can you see yourself driving this car around town waving to your friends?' 'Think about the confidence that you are going to have after you learn the skills in this book!' All of these statements are ones that require the prospect to visualize themselves in the future benefiting and enjoying the product. This will stimulate their emotions and dramatically you improve your chances of closing the sale. It is important to understand that you are not manipulating when you do this. Instead, if your product is good you are enabling them to see how good it is and how good it will make them feel. If they purchase and your product does indeed do this, you have not manipulated you have inspired happiness in their life. That is worthwhile.

8. NEVER Wing It
There is no glory in winging it. I know some salesmen who believe that if they can walk into a sales presentation and wing it, it proves that they are great sales professionals. No it doesn't. It proves that they failed to do their research and are ineffective time managers. The glory is not in winging it. The glory is in understanding the sales process and nailing it every time to catapult your success and bank account.

9. Give Them an Incentive to Act Now with a Godfather Offer
Raise your hand right now if you are a procrastinator? If your hand isn't up right now, I am guessing it is because you are going to raise it later – right? When your prospect walks away from you – the odds of you closing the sale have just dramatically decreased. If you have done your research and homework then you have prepared an offer that they can not afford to walk away from. While your profit margin may be lower per unit, you will without a doubt sell more units and the final profit should be your focus. Give them a reason to act today or they likely never will.

10. Ask for Referrals
After you have closed the sale, this person is your best source of new business. If you have sold them professionally and provided them with a great deal –simply say, 'You have made a great decision. You are going to love this product. Do you know anyone who might benefit from it as well?' At this point give them ideas – Do you know anyone who is a realtor? Insurance agent? Has kids? Owns a home? Is a sales manager? Ask questions that inspire the kind of answers that you want. You have to plant the ideas in their head.

My field of speaking is filled with men and women who view it as below their dignity to sell. They feel the role of a speaker to be a professor and to sink to the level of salesman is a second class position. Perhaps the reason I wholeheartedly disagree with this is that I don't believe there is such thing as a second class position. I believe The Queen of England is of no higher class of a person than my father who is a police officer or my mother who cleaned houses for a living for most of her adult life. I fail to see one human with a brain, spinal cord and heart of higher class than someone with the same equipment. Sales is not a second class profession. There is no such thing. So sell with pride and enthusiasm!

-- Ron White  

Ron White has spent over a decade training business professionals and students how to improve their memory, grades and income. He has appeared on FOX television, broken a Guinness Record by memorizing a 28-digit number in 75 seconds, been a guest on over 35 radio programs in the United States and Canada, and his articles have appeared in print across the country. Ron's live workshops sell out every time at $349 per person. For more information about Ron's best-selling, Memory in a Month program as part of a special offer -- this week only -- scroll down to #4 below, or go to http://sp6.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.

2. Quotes of The Week

SALES/SELLING

"Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills." -- Jim Rohn

"First help your prospect to identify their joy. Only then have you earned the right in their mind to help them identify their pain, which you can then help them fix with your product, service, or opportunity." -- Bob Burg

"Ask questions to gain, and maintain control of the conversation. You can't direct anyone toward a purchase that's good for them until you get them to tell you what they want." -- Tom Hopkins

"Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same." -- Brian Tracy

"Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is NO if you don't ask." -- Patricia Fripp

"Here's the rock, paper, scissors game of selling:
Relationship is more powerful than price.
Relationship is more powerful than delivery.
Relationship is more powerful than quality.
Relationship is more powerful than service." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service." -- Earl Nightingale




3. Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy (excerpted from the Success Mastery Academy)

Here are seven Self-Motivator reminders for you to review on a regular basis.

#1 - Get Serious. Make a decision to go all the way to the top. Up to now you've thought about it. Up to now, it's passed your mind. Many of you made the decision, and you've made up your mind to go all the way to the top, and your lives have taken off. It's the most extraordinary thing. Your life is one, like in the shadow going up the dark side of the hill until the moment you decide that "By gum, I'm gong to be the best at what I do. I'm going to be in the top 10 percent." And suddenly you rose into the sunshine, and your life is forever after different - wonderful. Get serious. Don't fool around anymore.

#2 - Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success. What's your limiting step? What's the one skill area that's holding you back? What's the skill? What's the quality? What's the action? Ask other people. Find out what you need to become good at. Sometimes it may be only one skill. If you became really, really good on the telephone, you could maybe double your prospecting effectiveness and double your sales. If you became very, very good at getting the order at the end from qualified prospects, you could double your sales. If you became very, very good at managing your time to really, really manage your time well, you may be able to double your face time and double your income. Find out what's holding you back. What is the critical limiting step that's determining your success today?

#3 - Get Around the Right People. Who are the right people? The right people are the people in this room. Get around winners. Get around positive people. Get around people with goals and plans, people who are going somewhere with their lives and have high aspirations. Get around eagles. As Zig says, "You can't scratch with the turkeys if you want to fly with the eagles." And get away from negative people. Get away from toxic people that complain and whine and moan all the time. Who needs them? Life is too short.

#4 - Take Excellent Care of Your Health. Take excellent care of your physical health. That means good diet, good exercise. Everybody knows they should eat better foods, get regular exercise and especially lots of rest. That's very important. If you're going to work hard 5 days a week, go to bed early 5 days a week. Get a good night's sleep. Be fully rested, and tonight get really rested. You don't have to watch the Letterman Show...

#5 - Positive Visualization. See yourself as the very best in your field. Remember, all improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. Visualize yourself, see yourself as the best continually. You are the best. Isn't that right? So therefore, see yourself as the best.

#6 - Positive Self-Talk. Talk to yourself positively all the time. Control your inner dialogue. And what do you say to yourself? Say, "I'm the best." Say it. Say I'm the best. I like myself. I can do it. I love my work. Yes, that's how you talk to yourself. And the more you say it to yourself...someone may say, "Well, what if you say those things to yourself and you don't believe them. Isn't that lying to yourself?" No, that's not lying to yourself. It's telling the truth in advance. Because it doesn't matter where you're coming from - all that matters is where you're going. Talk to yourself the way you want to be, not the way you just happen to be at this moment. Remember, you may have gotten where you are today largely by accident. But where you're going in the future is purely by design.

#7 - Positive Action. Get going. Move fast. Develop a sense of urgency. A sense of urgency is the one thing that you can develop that will separate you from everyone else in your field. Develop a bias for action. When you get a good idea, do it now. Only 2% of people in our society have a bias for action. And if you're already in the top 10%, you can move yourself in the top 2% by resolving that whenever you have an idea or something, do it now. And the faster you move, the better you get. And the better you get, the more you like yourself. And the more you like yourself, the higher your self-esteem is. And the higher your self-esteem is, the greater your self-discipline. And the more you persist, then you ultimately become unstoppable.

Remember, You're the best!
Brian Tracy


A Word From Brian Tracy:

"I really consider The Success Mastery Academy one of my all-time, best programs. Kyle Wilson and I sat down and said if we could condense everything that we've learned on leadership, communication, setting goals, selling, negotiation, financial independence, etc. -- all the different subjects that people needed to know to be really successful -- what would they be? So we worked together. I spent many, many months writing this program and created a workbook that went with it. It covers time, money, relationships, leadership, family, every type of communications, self esteem, personal growth, secrets of self made millionaires, setting goals -- 16 subjects in all. We put it all together into a two-day live event and then I gave it to thousands of people all over the country and it just literally blew people away. And then we took the four best recordings, from our two day seminars, 16 hours each, and spent 6 months combining the very best sessions from each of these four seminars, into a seminar that is virtually a personal treat on personal success and achievement. I truly consider the SMA a masterpiece!" -- Brian Tracy

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 4. It's like spending two days at the "best 'live' seminar he's ever given" at less than one-fifth the price!

I was able to pull off a one-time, incredible deal to offer my readers this incredible product for just "pennies on the dollar"! This is a "must have" for every personal development and office library. In fact, it covers so many subjects it's almost a personal development library in itself. This product normally retails for $395 BUT I was able to negotiate a HUGE discount so I could offer it to you for only... Are you ready for this? I can't believe the price is SO low... Man, I wish ezines had sound 'cause I'd have a drum roll sounding right now! Oh, but wait, I almost forgot, I need to tell you about the program BEFORE I tell you the price... So here goes!

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Brian has spent more than 20,000 hours researching and reading on the subject of personal and business success. He has traveled or worked in more than 80 countries on six continents and speaks four languages. During his career he has served more than 1,500 companies as a consultant in executive development, sales, marketing, creativity and personal achievement.


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Module 6: Positioning, Perception and Self-Image in Selling
Module 7: Persuasion, Negotiation, and Influence Skills
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Module 9: The Magic of Self-Direction
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Module 11: How to Set and Achieve Goals
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Module 13: Achieving Financial Independence
Module 14: Twenty-One Traits of Self-Made Millionaires
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Here's what a few of his peers say about his ability:

"Brian Tracy is the master of self-management skills development. He gives us an encyclopedia of inner wealth that is more knowledge-based, action-oriented and relevant to today's global achiever than any other source you can tap." Denis Waitley, author of The Psychology of Winning

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"Brian Tracy can be your key to success and happiness if you will only follow his powerful principles." Og Mandino, author of The Greatest Salesman in the World


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5. Customer Feedback

Here are some of the testimonials and comments we received from our Ezine subscribers. We love receiving comments and feedback from our readers - so keep it coming, and don't worry I won't let it go to my head too much!


Nothing will stop me as from today, l will improve my personal geography as nobody's business! This article is encouraging, I'm not the same anymore after reading it. Thank you and stay blessed.
-- Beauty Mulenga

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-- Rebeka Karrant

Wanted to say I have really enjoyed and put into practice your Memory in A Month program. It's been a great tool for me and my business and I look forward to using it more and more in my daily life. The only suggestion I have for you is to up the price. You should be able to sell this program for at least three times what you are charging. I am not even kidding.
-- Ben Blackmon


Thank you Ezine readers, for the sincere and kind words of encouragement and appreciation you sent us! -- RW
 

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