selling tactics

Here are some common selling tactics that a salesman employs. I am going to use the example of selling health products here but feel free to edit it for your own use.

1. Asking the obvious + catering to your wants/needs
"Do u want to be healthy?"
"Do u want to be beautiful?"
"Do u want to be slim?"
"Look no further, buy our XYZ product and you are guranteed ... ..."

2. Using of kinship
"After I started using XYZ, I immediately bought it for my family to use it ... ..."

3. Using the rich and famous
"U know, Miss XXX also using it, see now she is ... ..."

4. Eliminating the price factor
"Paying $XXX is just a small price to pay for the benefits that you will get from using the product. The benefits you will reap will be worth much more than just $XXX ... ..."

5. Spreading the good word
"Honestly, I only earn $XX commission if u buy this product which to me is not really worth so much effort to spend all this time persuading u. But I believe that its a good product that's why I want to share it with u ... ..."

6. I am sincere
"I don't need to spend so much time talking to u and making u dislike me right? This product is really that good that I am willing to risk this and ... ..."

I've got the honour of meeting someone who can actually use all this tactics to promote a single product (not health product). I'm certainly more than impressed.

There's an even more elaborate set up to entice customers.

sports

I'm going to type a long non-coherent entry today. Blame it on my laziness to type thoughout the week. Had been wanting to type a new entry since last wed but dragged all the way until today that there are too many things that I can write about. So I'll try to cut it short.

Watched 2 matches last wednesday. The first was the A div finals between HCI and NY. Wasn't very impressed with the standard although the NY captain stood out from the rest. She reminds me of the time I had in sec sch with XD in the team. Towards the end she seems to have been exhausted or suffering from cramps and couldn't jump nor move at an optimum level. Not that the rest of the girls were performing towards the end as well. Fatigue have to build in. I seriously don't understand which a** up there in VAS decided that sch finals (and semis) should be played in a best of 5 sets. Personally I do not think it's very exciting to watch a bunch of very tired girls play and no school player will be in a really good physical and mental state to play 5 sets when they've been playing best of 3 sets all the way in the competition. Oh yah, although I set out to watch the game as a hc old boy, somehow the system in me (however slow) started to auto run and process the players abilities, their tactical plays and the coaches decisions. I tried to shut down the system but couldn't stop it completely. (Know why I don't derive the same pleasure as I used to watching volleyball games now?) As ever, after watching a bunch of players playing as if their lifes depended on it, some stray thoughts about going back to maybe to play 1 final competition came in... My brain will control my heart.

The 2nd game I saw in the day was the champions league final. Totally different feel to watching the volleyball game. My only concern was who started and who was on the bench. But being not really that familiar with the 2 teams, as compared to Liverpool, it doesn't really matter. A goalkeeper red carded, an early goal disallowed, a set piece goal, a come back from 1 goal down to 2-1 up, a suspected off side goal, it still makes good ingredient for a final. At the end of the game, my brains only told me 1 thing. Go to sleep.

After watching the finals on wed and having the stray thoughts about going back to play creeping in, I went for a run on thur evening. Although I wasn't the one who initiated it but I had been thinking of going for a run/jog since I finished exams. So there I was running with cw to the woodlands stadium, which the idiot, being an ex AI soccer captain, ran faster than what I will call "relaxed pace" or "long distance pace". So I arrived at the stadium wondering how far back I deterioted since my NS days. After some rest, we went for another 4 rounds on the track. This time I managed to keep pace with him (Ok obviously he slowed down), which he was sort of surprised. After that we walked all the way back home. Before coming home, I decided to do a few pull ups (literally), some pushups and situps as well. So what did I gain from the session? A few days of aching legs and abs which hurts when I laugh or sneeze.

Today started my ncap theory level 1 course. I'm the only volleyball coach. Not that it matters really, but there are coaches involved in "sports" like yoga? And 1 teacher said she is not even sure. Great. The highlight of the day, the lecturer was showing us potential injuries and pictures of the various nerve systems and muscle groups in different areas. Conclusion: Thats why I am a coach and not a player.

jobs... come find me...

Seriously I don't know I need a job or not. I think should earn some money this holidays. But the coaching allowance should be quite enough, even though I'm not really going to take a lot of sessions. But 2 months plus I do nothing except for the occasional coaching? Also don't make sense right? But I still got some things I can do. Like help to tidy up my house? Get some exercise? (Its been ages since I had a run...) Start trying some programming for next sem's module? Or just read up some books? Yah so many things to do right?
Tentatively by now I only my coaching more or less fixed. The days I mean. 5 days during the june holidays. That means I still got a lot of free days. I still got another coaching course coming up on 22 May, which will last until mid june. Every mon wed fri night. But that means by mid june I'm practically very free again.
Thinking of teaching relief teaching. Already submitted my application online. Now only have to call up the schools. But I'm abit lazy to do that. Most likely I'll just apply with the school I coaching, since I have to go down next week to extend my contract and it makes sense since I have to do down to the school for coaching. I don't really mind travelling abit if i can get it?
Of course I wouldn't mind any other temporary jobs that I can slot into my not-so-packed schedule. Went to work as registration crew at semicon last week. Was quite fun. At first only know gw and micheal who was my platoon mates in NS. But got to know 2 sisters who were working with us at the same counters. So basically spent the 3 days working and talking. Though pay is not really alot but its still quite worth it since its much fun and got to made 2 new friends. I won't mind taking up the next such job offer...
Jobs... come find me...

exam over

Actually my last paper was 28 Aug. But been too lazy to logon to type an entry. During the term I'll be practically always online as there's always the nus email to check and alot of things to download on the ivle, so I'll usually spend more time online and hence the higher frequency of me updating my blog.

So why the sudden enthusiam to update? I had to do some stuff for my coaching, so been spending the last hour or so typing. Since I'm already at it, might as well carry on right?

Some updates on what I've been doing...

28 Apr: End of last paper, went for dinner with WL at the coffee shop near clementi MRT. Tried the so called famous Australian fish n chips. The serving is small, the service is bad, the fish seems half cooked. Thats the worst fish n chips I ate all my soon to be 22 years.

30 Apr: Went out for KTV with CW n SQ. Spent a bomb. Since its public holiday eve, there's no discount whatsoever. My advice... dont ever go out on public holiday eve.

3 May: Most hectic day. Went to pay for my ncap theory course ($168.80 flew away just like that). Then met wl for lunch and movie. Watched the art of seduction. For the sake of those who do not know what the movie is, it is just a korean romance comedy rated PG. Saw a lot of friends/ aquaintances, saw tat and his gf at the entrance to cine, saw a hc clsmate during lunch, saw 2 chs clsmates when leaving cine, went back to G2000 and saw 2 former colleagues and saw a NS platoon mate at another shop also. Wow... But thats not the hectic part. The hectic part starts when I reached home after walking 20 plus min from Wdl Mrt. After bathing, I realised my father's leg was feeling very painful and almost could not walk/stand. So I ran down to check if my family doc is around, came back to fetch my father to see the doc, went down again to buy dinner for my father after sending him home. My whole night was spent running up and down. Great.

5 May: Received my "activation" at around 1800 plus that day. Activated to play overnight mahjong at sz's house. Luckily the reporting time was 2300 so I still had some time to prepare to leave my house and travel. Won about 8 dollars that night/ morning.

6 May: Its the election day. Went to vote at 11 plus with cw. The flow was quite smooth and there are practically no time wasted in queueing. Although I supposed the ballot box shld be placed on the way out instead of making us u-turn after filling in the form. Spend the night watching the elections result until 2 plus after our dear u know who finish his press confrence.

7 May: Went to church in the morning. Came back, slept and went for work briefing before meeting up with some platoon mates for dinner.

8 May: Played pool with cw. Lost 7-5. Well... I decided to let him boost some morale before his paper tommorrow.

9-11 May: Working at suntec convention centre doing some registration work.