Before you can sell your ideas, products or services, you have to sell yourself. The question therefore, is ‘ How you can sell yourself best ?’
If people like you, your personality, behaviour and attitude, they can do all things for you. The advantage is tremendous. They will accept your ideas, buy your products and followyour lead. However, if they don’t like you they will immediately go out of your way and avoid you.
What is it that makes people like you ? Or, what are the features which you lack that makes a poor show of you ? These are tough questions. Different people would give different answers. No doubt, the common link in all the answers is that most people will say a pleasant personality is the key.
A pleasant personality does not mean your outer appearance only but how you present yourself before them. A good salesman presenting himself before the customer nicely sells much more goods than others in the lot.
In selling yourself, you should be able to show others that you are a pleasant person. In order to boost pleasantness in the person following guidelines can help:
* Never boost about yourself or nor achievements. Focus on the other people and their achievements. Let the people with whom you are interacting be on the spot light. Since most people love to talk about themselves and admire you and listen what you say.
* Everyone has a good point in him. Try to find out as soon as you can and start commenting on it. People welcome sincere compliments.
* Be considerate to everyone, no matter who they are. If you treat them well who don’t seem to count much, you will be called a very kind person.
* Learn to smile profusely. A smile radiates happiness. They are all contagious. The more you smile , the more everyone else smiles too.
* Avoid giving your personal opinion on sensitive issues. Better not to comment on them at all unless you pick up the point of view of the others. It can save you from arguments and you’ll find it easy to convince others on your point-of-view.
These guidelines can help you a long way towards successfully selling yourself.But that is not the whole thing about it. Having a pleasant personality capable to win a good opinion among the contacts is essential to perform better in day to day life, business and office.
Unless you are fully equipped and conscious about all the intricacies of personal development and behaviour you can be put far behind others.