Sales Tip – Don’t Just Fry the Big Fish, Fry Small Fish Too!

A lot of times, sales people focus on one thing, that of frying big fish and forget to focus on the rest. Gladly, I’ve never been a salesman of any kind but as a person outside the salesman box, I can see why those salesmen who only focus on frying big fish never get ahead nor ever become anything better.

I know a ton of these types of salesmen, I deal with them on a daily basis. As soon as I tell them I make money online with blogs, they think I am small fish and start treating me like a kid. Perhaps they are right, my company isn’t probably the most biggest of fish out there but heck, that’s not the right way to treat your customer. (and I am still working for myself while these salesmen are obviously not in control of their life and wonder why)

No matter how small or big your customer’s business is, customer is always right and if you don’t get that, you will lose a LOT of customers.

For example, I KNOW a lot of big fishes I can refer to if sales people start treating me right. A lot of times, these wrong salesmen never even get to that point nor get my business. I actually BLOG about how bad their sales tactics are afterwards, that’s my way of treating people like that. Well, I am trying to stop though, no need to fill my mind with the “real” small fishes in life. In fact, today it happened, that’s why I am blogging but I decided to keep the ignorant salesmen anonymous. I rather focus on my golf game.

Anyways, whether you are a car salesman or work for Fortune 500 company, just realize you never know when that small fish business works with thousands of other small fishes or even big fishes. The point is, you want to create a “buzz” for your company by providing equally “satisfactory” service to every one of your customers.

My advice for business and life when dealing with people, “don’t discriminate based on size of business” just like you wouldn’t discriminate if someone was black, white, or asian. There’s nothing to it.