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The Jumeirah Group has announced the appointments of several new sales team members in the city of Dubai.

The Dubai-based company specialises in operating luxury properties for travellers seeking luxurious Dubai holidays as well as hotels and resorts in major cities all over the world including London, New York, Shanghai, the Maldives and Frankfurt.

It has been revealed that Daniel Weihrauch will be joining the hotel group as the new Director of Cluster Sales in Dubai. Weihrauch has worked within the luxury holidays sector for years and previously held roles at Kempinski Hotels and Resorts in Germany and Jumeirah hotels in Dubai and New York. His most recent role was at IHG, where he worked as the Director of Sales and Marketing at InterContinental Phoenicia Beirut in Lebanon.

The Austrian national, Katja Graf, has been promoted to Director of Sales Leisure in Dubai and has 10 years of experience in the hospitality industry in Europe and the Middle East. She previously worked for the InterContinental Hotels Group in Vienna and Dubai and she was the Business Development Manager for Atlantis, The Palm Dubai.

Olinda Morais is the new Director of Sales, Groups & Events Conversion, Dubai and she has worked for Hilton in France, Brazil and Venezuela, as well as the Madinat Jumeirah The Arabian Resort.

Jan Kaspar Rienermann has worked for the Jumeirah Group since 2005 and is the new Director of Sales, Groups & Events, Dubai. The German national was the Cluster Associate Director of Sales for Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts in 2009.

Jad Doumet is now the Director of Sales, GCC & Government, Dubai and he has plenty of experience working for Dubai hotels after his time at the Armani Hotel, Dubai as the Director of Sales; Crowne Plaza Dubai as the Director of Sales in 2009; and InterContinental Dubai Festival City as the Senior Account Manager.

Jumeirah boasts a portfolio of upscale hotels, resorts and high end properties for luxury holidays in Dubai and cities across the world.

Some of the groups most famous hotels in Dubai include the Burj Al Arab with its iconic ship sail structure, fleet of Rolls Royce vehicles and 24-hour butler service; Jumeirah Emirates Towers with 400 rooms and suites, 15 bars and restaurants and private beach access; and Madinat Jumeirah the Arabian Resort with two boutique hotels and Courtyard summer houses, 44 restaurants and bars, and two kilometres of pristine private sandy beach.

So you have decided to go into sales, first you need to make yourself a very important question: do I really want to do this for a living? On the answer to this question depends your future as a salesman. Know the eight key factors that will help you discover if sales really is for you.

1. Determine why you want to be a salesman. If you were in a conversation with someone and you were asked: ‘Why do you want to go into sales?’ what would you answer? A lot of people answer that money is their motivation, and quite frankly that’s not the best answer. If this is your case, be careful! If all you want is money and you’re not doing something you really like, it’ll be twice as difficult for you to get the economic rewards you want. Remember: money is only a consequence, a byproduct. If you set yourself to do something you really like, something you fell passionate about, then everything you see, read, listen to, study and do you will do it with joy, hence you’ll be very good at it and money will find its way to you.

2. Can you easily reject other professions? Don’t be distracted and focus. What would happen if in this very moment you were faced with an alternative to perform a professional activity other than sales? Would you take it? If your answer is ‘no’ then you have taken the best choice. Commit yourself to what you like to do. Don’t waste your time in other activities you’re not really interested in.

3. Know your strengths and exploit them. It’s always better to develop a person’s strengths than trying to complement his or her weaknesses. Try to identify your strengths and devote yourself to develop, grow and perfect them. If selling is your vocation, this is the most effective way to become a notable sales professional with excellent economic results.

4. Dedicate yourself to what you really like. Where there’s joy there’s success. Consider how satisfied you are with the professional activity your performing now and evaluate if this is really what you wish for. If it’s not then it might be worth it to change the path. Many times we can have what we want right under our noses, but we go out some other place looking for it. Ask yourself: what I do right now, is it really what I dream of doing?

5. Learn the secrets of great salesmen. There are four characteristics that define the best:
* Passion for selling. This is the inner strength generated by a person when he or she is motivated and commitment to his or her activity. Passion and conviction go hand in hand.
* Persistence. You must be able to achieve what you want and avoid giving up at first sight of hardship or failure.
* Ambition. A salesman who is not ambitious is not a winner. You must have the profound desire to discover, keep and broaden prospects and clients.
* Preparedness. A salesman who does not know how to sell and doesn’t know his or her product will definitely not be successful. He or she might have passion, might be persistent and ambitious but if the client asks for a comparison with a competing product and the salesman doesn’t have enough information or doesn’t possess the skills to do it then the previous traits will be of no use.

6. Recognize in yourself a successful salesman. Successful salesmen are successful because:
* They have clear, honest and ethical ambitions.
* They know the best techniques and have the necessary skills.
* They take interest in the success of all three: the client’s, the company’s and his own.
* They don’t have to be salesmen, they want to be salesmen!
The causes salesmen fail can be found in the following five:
* They are not doing what they want to do.
* They feel obligated or forced to be in sales.
* They lack interest in the well-being of his or her prospects or clients.
* They are not prepared and are not honest to themselves.
* Because they have to be and don’t want to be.

7. Are you willing to have a 24×7 workweek? If you’re willing to be ‘in touch’ with your clients 24 hours a day 7 days a week then you’re on the right path. If you’re not then you might be better off doing something else, not sales. Dare to seize every opportunity you get to contact new prospects but don’t just forget about the ones you already have. New prospects can help generate new sales, but if you are careful and build relationships with your current prospects and clients they are sure to generate sales after sales month after month.

8. The power of professional and economic rewards. Remember that when you love what you do, success, fame and fortune become natural consequences, not the objective. If this is not your case, look for you passion, your vocation and pursue self fulfillment in that field or activity, If you do then life will be more fun, more prosperous and with less visits to the doctor.

When you’re looking to promote and sell services or products, sales training in San Diego can go a long way in providing you a stable, reliant platform to do so. It’s self-explanatory that your interest in learning is the most important aspect of the training process, but the professionalism of the trainer counts for a lot too. If you give it your best interest and the trainer does that as well, you’ll be provided with important and powerful tools which can help a lot in allowing you to easily sell and pitch ideas, products and services.

Make Good Decisions on the Spot

Sales trainers will do the best they can to provide you with comprehensive advice and help in turning you into a professional salesman. Good services like this will teach you how to read people, how to convince them they need your particular products and how to avoid rejection in more ways than one. Language is an important aspect in each salesman’s profession; without it, you’re pretty much useless. But there’s a difference between regular sales pitches and those who increase the odds of landing the sale considerably. Sentence structure, messages and key words need to be learned in order to get the prospective client’s attention right from the start and not allow too much time for doubt. This also makes it a lot easier to improvise your message on the spot, increasing your sales pitch flexibility considerably.

Learning Techniques that Work

In most cases, sales training in San Diego will be based on teaching you techniques which really work and have been also proven to do so. These are used by other sales people in town, and they can vouch for their success, granted you convince them to share their secrets with you. Even though it may seem like generic advice at first, there are more in-depth aspects, like NLP (neuro-linguistic-programming) that once learned, can offer a significant advantage over your competitors. And it can also make your message sink in better into your perspective client’s mind.

Keeping it Local

Another overlooked aspect is that you really need someone from San Diego to teach you in order for you to promote your business there. Each city has a different mentality in terms of how they do their business, and knowing that mentality and the habits associated with it can go a long way in increasing your odds of landing a sale.

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Many door to door salespeople are working in the dark and using guesses instead of facts. To succeed in door to door sales, you need to keep track of your results and gradually improve. No one is great at the beginning and you will definitely sell more door to door if you know your numbers.

Those who do not keep track will become discouraged and quit. Because door to door selling is repetitive, often we lose track by the end of the day of how many people we have spoken with. If this happens, we are basing our door to door sales success on guesses and guesses can be very wrong. A few weeks ago, I worked with a depressed recruit in door to door sales who said he called on 45 homes and did not get one sale. When I checked with his field manager, we found that he had knocked on 45 doors but only 10 people answered his knock. There is a big difference in talking with 45 people and not getting a sale and in talking to 10 people and not getting a sale. So be very careful that you are working with real data.

I suggest you keep track in writing of the key numbers for success. Write the results after every call as you go to the next door. The first and most basic number to keep track of is how many doors did you knock on. A typical number might be 20 per hour worked. Be sure to write down your results. This is an indicator of how much effort you put in on any day.

The next number to calculate is how many doors were answered. This number tells you if you were working at the best time of day, if you were dressed properly etc. A typical answer might be 25% of the doors knocked.

The next important number is how many people did you have a sales conversation with. That is how many people let you begin your presentation and opening. This number tells you how effective you opening is. Try small changes in wording and approach and keep track of whether your changes increased your success rate or decreased it. A typical result might be 10% of the people you spoke to.

An important number to know is your closing rate. How many people do you get a sales from that allowed you to do your presentation. This numbers will tell you if you need to work on closing techniques. A typical closing rate is 33% of the people you do a presentation for.

The final thing I suggest you keep track of is objections. Write down every objection you cannot overcome. Keep track of how often each objection comes up and then work on ways to overcome that objection and see if your closes go up or down. You should know the final objection from all the people who do not buy. Keep track and see which ones come up most often. Those are the ones you need to work with.

By faithfully keeping track, you will gradually increase your numbers and become very successful at door to door sales.