Find a Pattern That Works

Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 10:54am by William Quisenberry in Innovation

Things are always changing in today’s society, people, places, issues, prices, businesses and products just to name a few.

However there are always certain key aspects that remain constant, like a businesses services, buyers and sellers and of course trading. And believe it or not you may be able to discover success by finding your constant in an ever-changing world.

It is important for us as entrepreneurs to figure out our niche, our strongpoint, our creative advantage and to continue to exploit that characteristic to our benefit.

I’m not talking about wearing a lucky pair of underwear or socks, or rubbing your lucky rabbit foot in your pocket one hundred times before entering a meeting. I mean real life practical systems that usually seem to work on your behalf.

You may discover that marketing a certain brand to a unique group of people works well for you or you may even find a particular opening to a sales pitch that is killer and always seems to get your presentation off to a very aggressive start.

Whatever the strong point is that you possess it is important for you to quickly recognize the key, effectively implement it into a strategy and execute a pattern to your benefit.

For instance I use to know a guy who worked in high level sales, marketing very expensive investment products and services to wealthy individuals.

Well when a prospect began to balk he had a certain closing loop where he would reverse the position of the negotiation back onto the buyer’s court and it worked more than 90% of the time for him, if he was speaking to a qualified prospect.

Well this particular individual noticed this very strong closing technique that was actually quite unique and he would consistently use it when an objection began to arise.

He quickly became the highest producing sales agent in his organization and one year he made close to a half million dollars in commissions.

Oh yea I forgot to mention that the guy was only 23 years old at the time and now at the young age of 26 he has been promoted to Vice-President of Operations with his corporation; pretty impressive huh!

Sure this person had strong salesmanship skills, but even more importantly he developed a system that worked for him, he mastered it and continued to use it until he ultimately became extremely successful.

You need to find your powerful area, develop it into your own little secret weapon and mold it into success. The sooner that you discover and perfect it, the sooner your business can grow and benefit from it. Begin searching for your strong asset today!

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