Sales Leadership with Jim Pancero
Sales Leadership with Jim Pancero
Can Zig Ziglar help your team “Keep pumping” and not give up?
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Are your people giving up too early? How many voicemails will your reps leave before they abandon a sales lead? Zig Ziglar was famous for his motivational talk explaining how an old farm pump and selling have so much in common.
The idea of the farm pump was the analogy that the pump was just like selling. He talked about how you have to pump and pump and pump with nothing coming out, but you can't give up.
He also pointed out that once you start having water come out of the pump you still need to keep pumping. His message was that most salespeople start pumping/prospecting, but they stop prospecting as soon as they start selling stuff.
Even though Zig is no longer with us, his famous farm pump story is still available on YouTube. Just do a search on “Zig Ziglar Farm Pump.”
Today’s video shares Zig’s farm pump message could be a great story to share with your team on how to give up and to keep pumping…so you can sell even more!
Do you think motivational sales trainer Zig Ziggler could help pump up your team? Hi, I'm Jim Pancero, helping you and your team be more effective in selling today. And he's no longer with us, but in the past, Zigg Ziggler was considered one of the best, most motivational sales trainers that existed. And he had this great presentation he did around the country where he traveled with an old farm pump. And the whole idea of the farm pump was the analogy that that's what selling was like. He talked about how you have to pump and pump and pump and nothing comes out, but you can't give up. He then also pointed out that once you start having water come out of the pump, now that you've experienced the pump's been primed and water starts to flow, most salespeople start pumping. When they start selling some stuff, they stop prospecting and then the water stops. The whole idea of his message, his motivational, inspirational message was you got to keep pumping. It's an old message, but it's still available on video on YouTube. Just look up Zigg Ziggler Farm Pump and you'll find it. And it's a great message to share with your team about that we have to keep pumping and never give up so we could sell even more.