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Home Based Business Aptitude Quiz - Sales Skills


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Home Based Business Success Aptitude Test - What sales skills are needed for home business success?

Many will deny or neglect this important aspect of home business success.  Our quiz measures four basic areas of skill needed for success in a home based business:  technical areas, personality, leadership, and sales skills.  Yes, sales skills.  We are in sales in our home based businesses.  Those who deny it are simply playing games with words.  It is far more than “sharing.”

 Sales skills include:

*Getting Information:  The ability to listen to people, and great questions, and discover what they are looking for.  A crucial part of sales that is often neglected in the pushy stereotypical sales approaching.

*Giving Information:  Not just data, but the way in which things are presented that create curiosity and desire.

*Getting a Commitment:  In other words, closing the sale.  The new professional needs how to close, but not in the
traditional way.

*Handling Rejection:  Many, if not most, will not want what you have to offer.  Those with naturally thicker skin will fair better in the growing of a home based business.

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