A Business which Requires No Selling?

"I want to find a business opportunity which requires no
selling." How many times have you heard that? How many times
have you said that?

I hope you answered the second question with "Never."

Let me be truthful with you here. There are only five types
of businesses on this planet:

· Raw Materials Acquisition
· Manufacturing
· Distribution
· Services
· Sales

No matter the business type you pursue, if you are the owner
of the business, then you must participate in sales. That is,
unless you begin your business with tons of money and you can
afford to hire sales people to work on your behalf.

Sure, there are millions of jobs on the planet that do not
require any type of selling. But you must remember that every
job you have ever had that did not require any form of selling
DID require someone else in the company to do so. No business
can survive without someone in the company selling the products
or services offered by the company.

The jobs that you think would be great to possess that require
no selling are in fact support jobs --- supporting those who do
the actual selling.

If your goal is truly to start your own business and you do not
want to do any selling, you have four options available to you:

· Cancel your plans to start your own business.
· Plan to take on a partner who will do your selling for you.
· Make sure you have enough start-up capital to hire a
salesperson to do your selling for you.
· Decide to overcome your fears of selling.

WEIGHING THE OPTIONS

For most of us who have harbored dreams of starting our own
businesses, the first three items above cannot be looked upon
as real options to our quandary.

For us, the only option is to OVERCOME our fear of selling.

FIVE STEPS TO OVERCOMING YOUR FEAR OF SELLING

1. DECIDE to learn how to sell.

Some people argue that sales people are born. That is not true.
Sales people have all learned their trade --- it is just that
some had learned their trade early in life as a child trying
to get their way with their parents. If at first you fail, you
must try different techniques until you finally get what you
came for. The next time your toddler is testing your patience,
remember that he/she may be trying to learn how to be a better
sales person --- to master the art of persuasion.

2. Do not be afraid to try.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt so eloquently told the American people
at his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, "the only thing we
have to fear is fear itself."

FDR was referring to the economic chaos faced by America during
the Great Depression, which was underway as President Roosevelt
came into office. Roosevelt had the American economy on his
mind as he uttered these famous words, urging Americans not
to let the economy continue to be paralyzed by the public's
fear of the economic future of their country.

3. Acquire knowledge.

While it is helpful to acquire knowledge concerning the art
of persuasion, the knowledge that will be best acquired is
knowledge of your product, service, competition and marketplace.

With knowledge comes confidence.

4. The fourth step to selling is to acquire the confidence that
will be yours when you are comfortable in the knowledge you have
acquired.

5. The fifth and final step in learning the selling process is
to be like the toddler who is trying to learn how to persuade
his parents to his wants.

You must spend time practicing your technique and trying to
devise methods to improve upon your success rate. Try, try
and try again. Once you realize that most professional sales
people --- who live and breathe sales everyday --- do not
close every sale, then you are free to fail yourself. It is
only through failure that you learn the lessons you need to
improve your sales and closing skills.

FINDING YOUR STRENGTH

To find the business opportunity that is right for you, it is
important to take the first step now --- to make the decision
to learn how to sell --- and to understand that the rest will
come to you later.

You should find strength in the knowledge that the art of
persuasion is so easy that even a child can learn how to do it.
Start your education today. It may be the only thing standing
between you and business success.