Sales skills aren’t just for sales professionals! Knowing the art of the sale is useful to people in all roles and industries. Want to know how to use sales skill to unlock new professional rewards? Superstar Sales Consultant Lynn Whitbeck tells you in this episode!
Watch this episode to learn how sales skills can boost any career
Lynn is the Queen of Sales. Business Owners and entrepreneurs hire her to ignite winning sales, because most are chasing down leads, lack client retention, conversion, and profit. Lynn is the Founder and CEO of Petite2Queen, and host of Claim Your Career Crown on Pelucha TV and the Get More Clients show streaming on Amazon Fire, Roku, Apple TV. She loves visiting National Parks, cooking, and playing Pokémon Go.
Sales Skills? You mean Power Skills
Lynn begins the conversation by explaining that sales skills are “power skills” that are necessary for climbing the corporate ladder. Sales professionals know how to think like their clients during negotiations. If you’re able to think like, for example, your higher-ups, you’ll be more able to negotiate raises, promotions, and benefits!
Using skills in different contexts can be tricky at first. If you learned sales skills as sales skills, it can be difficult to find the best ways to apply them to other situations. Lynn acknowledges this and encourages you to keep trying. With enough practice, you’ll be able to use your negotiation, communication, and follow-up skills in all sorts of work scenerios.
A common obstacle that Lynn sees to people learning sales skills is an aversion to sales. Some see sales as sleazy and manipulative, or they’ve had bad experiences with people trying to sell them bad products. Lynn emphasizes that a good sales professional has worthy intent and genuinely wants to help people. By reframing your view of sales, you will be more willing and able to learn sales skills.
If you want to pick up some sales skills to access professional rewards, Lynn has some great recommendations to get you started. Sales books, blogs, podcasts, and her very own sales TV show are great places to take the first step.
The conversation ends with Lynn explaining that learning and applying sales skills can also help you personally. By using your negotiation, communication, and follow-up skills at work, you will be more successful and, therefore, less stressed. This means you will be more present when you spend time with your friends, family, and hobbies. Sales skills can unlock personal rewards, too!
Listen to this episode to discover how to unlock professional rewards
To learn more, check out the Get More Clients TV show and our sales blog! You can also follow Petite2Queen on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. And don’t forget to connect with Lynn on LinkedIn!
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