Sales Promoter

A fixed salary does not vary from month to month, whereas, a salary based on incentives may vary as it depends on the performance of an employee.

Salary based on incentives is the best in the sales industry rather than a fixed one. It motivates the employees to achieve their goals. The technique of convincing and persuading a customer varies from one sales person to another. So, the salary is paid according to the performance of an employee.

At some point, you need to assess your own work and decide whether it is good or not. There are certain ways through which you can evaluate your performance and per day outcome.

Attitude is an important aspect. Apart from doing your job in time, leaving office, spending time talking to your friends instead of working can have a negative impact on your work.

Keep the copies of your work in order to assess your own performance.

Try to get feedback from others about your work. It will help you judge yourself and improve, if required.

If you are a fresher, you should prefer to do outside sales as a team. It will make you understand how the process is carried forward. You have to be careful while dealing with the customers. Once you gain some experience, you can start doing it alone.

Yes, it is true that the word "target" is important for an employee from the sales or marketing department. Sales is all about meeting new targets each day. The more products you sell, the more benefits you gain.

In departments like sales and marketing, the salaries are mostly based on incentives. Thus, it is important for you to achieve your targets in time.

No. Before this I had experiences as a promoter for selling hampers.

These are a few traits that candidates need to have to succeed in sales profession -

☛ They have to be highly confident. A sales person should maintain a high confidence level and convince the customers.

☛ They should have the ability to persuade a customer to buy a product.

☛ They should have an effective communication skill and should be passionate about their profession.

☛ They should set goals and should be focused in order to achieve their targets.

☛ A sales person should be well disciplined. They meet people from different walks of life. They should be polite and should try to avoid conflict with the customers.

Every job requires people who have a special skills in that particular area. Having certain skills and qualities in your field will help you improve your performance.

Skills and qualities that make you perfect for this job are as follows :

☛ good communication skills

☛ art of convincing or persuading people

☛ having a high confidence level

☛ being straightforward

☛ maintaining a positive attitude

☛ possessing leadership qualities

☛ having a good patience level

☛ remaining loyal towards the team members and customers

☛ being passionate

To handle the team issues, you need,

☛ effective leadership

☛ good communication

☛ less workload to reduce stress

☛ inclusion of team benefits

☛ to not lose clients

☛ to create a good image of the organization

It is not necessary that you will always have experienced candidates under you. There might be situations wherein you may have to handle inexperienced ones. Make them feel comfortable to work under you. Do not be harsh to them. It might be their first job, so treat them with special care. Provide proper training to them. They should not hesitate to get their doubts cleared. Give them chances to show their skill.

☛ How would you describe the experience of working as Sales-Service Promoter?

☛ Give examples of steps taken to make each team member feel important.

☛ Give me an example when you felt you were able to motivate a group.

☛ Do you work well under pressure?

☛ How do you decide what gets top priority when scheduling your time?

☛ Have you ever challenged, shaken old work methods.

☛ What major challenges and problems did you face?

☛ What is your greatest fear?

☛ How did you go about making Sales-Service Promoter assignments?

☛ How do you handle problems with customers?

☛ Do you prefer to work independently or on a team?

☛ Explain a time that you took initiative as Sales-Service Promoter.

☛ Why did you leave your last job.

☛ Why did you choose your major?

☛ What have you been doing since your last Sales-Service Promoter job?

☛ Your greatest weakness in school or at work?

☛ What has been your biggest professional disappointment?

☛ How much preparation on files for trial do you do?

☛ Tell about a time that you had to adapt to a difficult situation.

☛ What was the most important task you ever had?

☛ What major challenges and problems did you face?

☛ Have you been a manager of a marketing team in your previous jobs? Tell us about your experience.

☛ Have you ever led a team on conducting survey analysis and launching new products?

☛ How did you correlate your team's efforts and information? How did this information relate directly to your forecasted objectives?

☛ Do you consider yourself a leader? Do you have the drive to lead a marketing team? Can you give examples?

☛ What were your marketing goals and objectives?

☛ What type of product marketing experiments have you been part of or performed? How did you implement the results?

☛ Do you work well under pressure?

☛ Why did you apply for this Sales-Service Promoter position?

☛ How do you handle problems with customers?

☛ What have you learned from your mistakes?

☛ Do you have the qualities and skills necessary to succeed in your Sales-Service Promoter career?

☛ Who else have you applied to/got interviews with?

☛ How do you keep each member of the team involved and motivated?

The interviewer is looking for work-related strengths. You don't need to memorize an answer, but do think about what you're going to say. The interviewer wants to see why you think you are the best person for the job.