Sales Promoter

This is where you demonstrate your understanding of the entire structure of selling. Focus on your view of selling as a professional service directed at showing the customer how your product or service meets their needs and improves their lives.

Prepare a concise sales interview answer that highlights your knowledge of how to communicate and build rapport with a client, ask the right questions, identify and understanding the client's values, motives and needs, offer the appropriate solutions, handle objections and close the sale. Include adapting to different personality types and using persuasive communication skills.

Yes, it is absolutely right.

You should have a pleasant personality in order to impress your customer. Make sure that you talk to them with a smile on your face. It will create a friendly atmosphere between you and your client. Your one smile can make them feel comfortable.

Having patience is another important aspect of a sales job. You meet customers with different attitude each day. Attend to their queries patiently. Do not express any sort of dissatisfaction. Always remember, having patience will give good results at the end.

Customers buy a product not only because of the product features that it possess but also for the benefits they gain. The more you explain to the customers about the benefits, the more you can sell a product.

You should be a solution provider. Tell them about your creativity skills or the techniques to convince a customer in your style. Explain how you would give the details about a product.

For example, if you buy a chocolate box, wherein the chocolates are stored in a bowl, convince the customer about having a bowl free. You should think out of the box.

Such questions test your knowledge on current affairs. So, keep yourself updated about the current happenings. Read newspapers daily to increase your knowledge. Read news articles related to business, stock markets and international market.

To explain the effect of the stock market over the retail market, you need to know the status of the stock market. So be thorough with the current affairs section.

When asked about your biggest strength, explain about a skill that will help the company grow, e.g. being able to interact easily. This strength of yours would help the company get a lot of customers.

Always remember, no one is perfect. But you can always try to work on your weaknesses. Before satisfying anyone else, you should feel satisfied with your work yourself. You should know your weaknesses and the areas where you lag behind. And, thus, work on them.

As a team leader, you have to look after the performance of every employee. You should help your subordinates in working hard and improve as well. You may get to handle a weak candidate, who might face a lot of hurdles in his work. Make sure that you clear his queries and assist him. Try to give him enough exposure. Make him interact with different employees. S/he should familiarize herself or himself with the handling of customers. Train him/her well and give him/her the confidence to do the work well.

You should have good persuasion skills to convince people to buy a product. Your communication skills should be excellent. You should be confident enough to rate yourself on a scale of 10 about your convincing skills.

0 to 4 = poor skills, require improvements

5 to 8 = average, needs a bit improvement

9 to 10 = outstanding

Tell the interviewer what made you apply for this job. It can be your interest in any area of sales. Provide proof that you are not simply attending the interview for the sake of getting a job. Make the interviewer feel that you are really interested in this job. For example, say that you like to interact with different kinds of people, and thus, you feel your communication skills will be helpful for this organization.

Planning to achieve the objectives of two diverse fields, sales and marketing, is very important. You have to plan a strategy which includes branding, segmentation, positioning, etc. It contains 4 Ps (place, price, promotion and product).

Because I am positive minded about thus jib.

Tell the interviewer about the qualities that you possess and which help you build a strong bond with the customers. The company would be interested to know the techniques or styles that you would apply to maintain good relations with your customers.

Maintaining relations with the new and the existing customers is not an easy task. You should never forget your old customers. They are the strength of your organization. Keeping good relations with your old customers would strengthen the organization.

My greatest weakness is the tendency of losing patient when failure takes place...I am currently learning how to be patient and have persistent.

You should make yourself comfortable when you work under a team leader. He/She is one who provides directions or instructions to a group of individuals in order to achieve certain goals.

You will gain many benefits and knowledge while you work under a team leader. He/She will help you to rectify your mistakes. He will constantly guide you to achieve your goal by giving feedback every time. It will also help you know the role and responsibilities of a team leader. In future, you may become one.

Being enthusiastic. Being positive. Confidence. And a clear brief talker.

I see myself as a grown independent business individual.

This question is asked to know about your shortcomings. It is a very common question. You should also mention the ways by which you can deal with these shortcomings. This will also help the interviewer understand the areas where you require training and will also show your level of acceptance.

Accept the fact that no one is perfect in this world. It is not necessary that you will achieve success always. Every person meets failure at one point in their life. Some people might have pointed out your shortage of success a number of times. Success and failure are parts of our career and life. So do not underestimate yourself in case you meet a failure.

Both salary and job designation are important in our career. Every organization follows a down to top posts level. For example, salesperson to sales manager, etc. With the change in job posts, your salary will also vary accordingly.

Money is not the ultimate goal of a job. You should be happy with your work in order to give a good output. Your salary will be based on your job designation and performance. Hence, you should give more concentration to your post.