Being a salesman is not easy. That’s it. If you think you just have to get out there to approach anyone, Man I gotta prove you WRONG! Did you know that it takes ages to close one deal if you do not know how to do it right? What more when you have to beat a competitor that has won for the past 3 years consecutively. Now is it good to be an underdog??? Gotta think bout that…

Earlier today, some of us that were participating in YESCOM had to sell our air plants to people around Bugis Village. There were many areas we could go to like National Library, Bugis Village itself, Bugis MRT, and many others… However, it was very tough to even say about 2 sentences because we couldn’t really grab their attention with our current sentence of approach… As for me, it was my mistake to start with ” Hi sir, do you got any spare time? “… OMG… That sentence could mean a heck lot of meanings and only those that are straight would interprete it correctly… And yeah, guess what, obviously I did not make any sales just now…

Seriously, it was a darn good experience for that short period of time. I could not count how many rejections I got within half an hour… It was horrifying… Furthermore, I cannot imagine why most of us here in Singapore would not even bother to know more about the product… Most of them are either busy or busy… Nothing else… It was demoralizing at first, but come to think of it, GREAT people came more or less by this path… If you manage to endure and just ignore the pain, it will soon pay off without you even noticing…

We even banged into an uncle, who I regretted deeply approaching… When we asked him and told him about Mother’s Day and our gift, he told us he was unemployed and needed help as much as we do… By the way he walked before we approached him, we all knew he was sincere… Shows that it’s good to be young now, we should spend all of our time to the best that we can, and not:

1) complain over a good thing

2) procrastinate

3) push things to be done to people around us

Therefore, I can only leave a message to all of my group members in YESCOM, this is just a test that may not necessarily mean that it will be this way in the days to come… This is an opportunity to look at what things could be done better and we can certainly improve…

WELL ITS MOTHER’S DAY AND WELL, I JUST WANTED TO WISH ALL THE MUMS A VERY HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY. FOR ALL OF YOU MOTHERS WHO ARE VISITING OUR BLOG, THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BEST MOTHERS YOU CAN BE. THIS ESPECIALLY GOES OUT TO MY MOM. THOUGH SOMETIMES MOMS CAN BE MEAN AND FIERCE I KNOW THAT THEY DO IT OUT OF LOVE AND CARE. SO HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL OF YOU…………

AS TO THE YESCOM COMPETITION… WE COULD REALLY APPRECIATE SOME HELP AND SUPPORT FROM ALL YOU GUYS IN SELLING OUR COUPONS AND PRODUCTS. IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT THE HDB HUB, PLEASE DROP BY AND VISIT OUR BOOTHS:)AS FOR THE YESCOM TEAM, HAVE FUN SELLING THOSE COUPONS…I KNOW ITS HARD DURING THE EXAM PERIOD BUT AT LEAST TRY:) BY THE WAY, GOOD LUCK FOR ALL YOUR EXAMS!!!!

Dear friends,

We here at MoneyTree Ambassador Club know that Mother’s day is just round the corner… It is dangerously close that I’m already thinking of what to buy for my Mum. A Ferrari? Nah… I don’t need to give that to show my love for my mum right?

Ever thought of giving your mum a small gift? Something like a plant? Fear no more cos’ we have what you guys need : AIR PLANTS

AIR PLANT ON BIG STONE

(Kindly provide Quantity & Names on ordering, pls limit to 8~10 characters)

AIR PLANT ON FANCY SNAIL SHELL

AIR PLANT ON GONG-GONG SHELL

(Kindly provide Quantity & Names on ordering, pls limit to 8~10 characters)

Do you want them hanged?

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AIR PLANT ON FANCY SNAIL SHELL (HANG)

AIR PLANT ON SMALL SNAIL SHELLS (HANG)

Wanna get some? It is on a special price of SG$6.00 only for Mother’s Day!

Collection Points : Kovan Mrt Station / Bugis Mrt Station

” By buying this, you are also supporting us in our YESCOM competition! “

Hey guys…this is my launch post to commence full support for this site….alrite!

Sure u guys are thinking of creative ways to sell off those coupons for the YESCOM competition…

Well here are some useful tips..

Sales Lessons:

#1 ESTABLISH VALUE BEFORE YOU GIVE THE PRICE

When selling, you must ensure your customer understands all he can benefit from your product before u tell him the price.

“Hey friend, there’s a cool funfair going on in July, you can get to buy lots of interesting and cheap, quality stuff. And you can only do that with some coupons” “Hmmm….you can buy about $20 worth of coupons, it’ll really help “….just a brief one you can form urs.

#2 ESTABLISH VALUE BEFORE YOU ASK FOR THE ORDER

#3 YOUR BEST PROSPECTS ARE THE THOUGHEST TO GET AND THEY OFTEN SHOW NO INTEREST!

Perseverance is the key here, the less likely a person is to buy, the more you should push.

Good Things don’t come cheap

#4 GIVE YOUR PROSPECTS OWNERSHIP OF THE PRODUCT!

When talking to your prospects, you need to talk to them as if they already bought your product, let them feel and understand what it’ll be like to use your product..

#5 ASK HOW THEY FEEL, NOT WHAT THEY THINK

People buy more out of emotions that they buy out of logic. You need to give your prospect some thing emotional about your product, something that can appeal to their emotions when they buy your product…”When you buy this coupon you are actually supporting a group of young children, aspiring to be entrepreneurs and you are making a difference in their life”

#6 SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GIVE YOUR PROSPECTS TIME TO ABSORB/THINK/BREATHE

If you think you have put your message across quite effectively, you can give your prospect some time to consider his options or think about what you told him. Pushing too much might turn some people off…You can them into agreeing, and if you keep talking, you can end up talking them out of buying.

#7 DON’T LET THE ‘WHY’ AFFECT THE ‘HOW’

It simply means don’t allow the ‘why we should by’ act as a stumbling block for the ‘how we could buy’. You should always find reasons to counter your prospects excuses of why they cannot buy your product.

So here’s just a few that might help…..All the best as your sell your coupons!

We have talked about this before… We have to appoint a president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, or any other posts to people, so we could actually plan something out in a more systematic way…For example, hold that outing in June, hold that awaited visit to Hong Kong to hopefully do something useful with the Hong Kong-ers there, or conduct our own courses, and instead of grooming people to be financial savvy kids, which we could leave to MoneyTree to do, we could groom people to be leaders… Real ones… Know of the show The Apprentice? Yeah… Gonna be darn good!

These people up here could be a boy or girl, 9 year old or 99 year old… As long as you have the drive to lead, passion to carry this club further, you deserve to be here… Alfred it may be you! Or maybe Grace! What? Do I hear Karthik? These posts are up for grabs… Send us an email at Aclub@MoneyTree.sg and tell us why you should be in that position!

We’re gonna send some emails out hopefully, to every single MoneyTree-ers, to:

1) Join this club

2) See if they’re interested in these posts

Remember dudes… Treat this club as a company because we can earn something from this if we work together and do some action!