The Law Of Attraction And The Art Of Sales: Part 2

Although the following is focused on sales, there are many other scenarios in which these rules can be employed

There is enough for everyone.

Most people who worked in sales will agree that it is normally a “hunting” profession. That is, there’s a limited number of prospects and it is the sales persons job to get out there to hunt down and capture the limited number of sales in market. Determination and persistence are the key attributes sort in sales people. All the processes that exist are usually based on making as many calls as possible, of which a percentage will be genuine potential customers from which an even smaller percentage again will actually become sales.

This capturing of sales is exactly what occurs in the retail environment in which I work. As a limited number of customers enter the store the competition is keen. There is certain amount of polite jostling for position to gain the best advantage.

Where it becomes contentious is when a person sells to someone who another sales person claims as their rightful customer. This often happens when a sales person is having their days off and a customer comes in to purchase and is served by another sales person, who then claims the sale as their own. This practice has the ugly name of “snipping” and is the cause of most disputes within the store and has produced some ugly incidents.

When I first started I was quite consumed by this, diligently checking whether prospective customers had been sold to whilst I was on leave. But I soon found this very negative and that the more I focused on it, the more prevalent it seemed and the more turmoil it created (hello Law of Attraction!) It also seems a bit karmic. I try to be fair and honest when serving customers of colleagues as the temptation to take a client remains, but every time I haven’t been every-time honest it has backfired in my face.

So in all of this, the most important thing to remember is “there is enough for everyone”. Staying positive and open will allow customers to come to you. Focusing on the scarcity of customers, through the Law of Attraction, will bring a scarcity of customers.

So you can see that using the law of Attraction to create sales is the antithesis of normal sales practice. “There is enough for everybody” is a creative stance, which will attract customers. “Customers are scarce and must be hunted down” is negative stance and will attract the state that you do not want. Scarcity of customers.

My feelings on this is that the underlying theme of Law of Attraction is there enough for everyone. Your inner being only knows prosperity and so competition comes from the position of lack. That is, I have to compete for limited resources.

Acknowledging there is enough for everybody reflects the inner beings position of unlimited prosperity and abundance.

I experienced a similar thing recently when a new guy started at the store I work at (I'm in sales). He used to to come up every-time he'd made and sale and rub it in my face. There was a constant score tallying and chest beating about how good he was and I became very distracted and focussed on him constantly doing better than me.

I found a way of handling this was to affirm that there is enough for everybody and focus on the results I wanted. I would also internally cheer for this other guy when he made a sale. After all there is enough for everybody and his results were good for the store. So instead of focusing on my lack of sales as compared to my colleague I cheered for both of us and this allowed me to focus on the result I wanted.

Hope this helps.

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