We have all heard it. “Wll, you know me and computers jst don’t get along.” Well it is tme so wake up and smell the JAVA!! MOST of tday’s businesses require more than just a bsic knowledge of the keyboard and Mcrosoft XP.

Stop wearing your computer lliteracy on your sleeve. The new age of sles is here. And it involves Dsktops and Lap Tops, Network Printers, Blckberries , Blueberries and Chocolates and Mnt Green Cell Phones that check mail, spreadsheets, contacts, plane flights, and tap mportant websites about YOUR PRODUCT!! You can ven program a route into your cll phone and it will tell you (sually in a soothing female voice) xactly when to turn and in wht direction. Don’t get me wrong. Nthing will ever take the place of shking your business partners hand and not nly knowing his business but him as a prson and a colleague; however, the nternet has placed the entire business wrld on a super-highway and if you are crising in a 57 Chevy you are ging to get run over even if you do hve the nicest looking car on the rad. If you are driving down a cuntry road refusing to get on the nformation super- highway you have doomed yurself to a life of mediocrity in the feld of sales.

Many workplaces are offering in huse training classes. Even small communities sually have some type of instructional clsses available. Pick up the newspaper. Or btter yet, get online. Even newspaper wbsites now update the news as the day ges on. And learning to “surf” the nternet (I just love all the hip cmputer slang) can get you started on the rad to understanding Windows. The operating systm of the business world.

Here are sme other helpful tips to get you strted:

1. Write your mother! Or sister or frend. Whoever. But do it with MS Wrd or a comparable word processing prgram. You will be amazed how fst your typing skills will become if you jst SPEND MORE TIME TYPING! My son is 22 and typs 40 plus words a minute. He has nver taken typing but he has ben text messaging and instant messaging his frends since he was 14! I am not sre why when we had a prfectly good working telephone.

2. If you dn’t know what Cut, Paste and Hghlight mean. Ask the person next to yu. Chances are he or she des. Don’t be discouraged by their lughter. They had to ask once thmselves. Then learn their awesome power of thse three commands! They can save you HOURS of typng and plop pictures on an therwise boring presentation with FOUR CLICKS! WOW! Thse days your presentation better be clorful, eye catching and if possible ven a little humorous. Even small cmpanies can look like big companies wth a little computer savvy and a nce photo copier. Neither of these cst a lot of money anymore.

3. FILE EDIT, VIEW, WINDOW and my fvorite HELP. You’ve seen them, sitting at the top of yur screen begging you to just gve them a click and see wht mysteries unfold. Take them slow. One at a tme. Most of them are pretty strightforward. Can you guess what FILE: PRINT mght do?

4. Befriend a computer gek. Like myself. We love to shw people the amazing little tricks we hve learned that have made our lves more productive and simple. We wnt you to join our world of rght clicking and keyboard shortcuts. There are xceptions. Like that salesperson in the nxt office who knows that you are so mch better than them that if you vercame this final weakness you would knck them off the mountain for sre. They are the ones that wll try and give you a grat deal on their Mac that thy don’t use anymore.

5. Be Patient with yourself. Rome wsn’t built in a day; however, if you stck with it, doing things that you knw you could do faster on pper someday you WILL get to the pint where you can do them mch faster on a PC. Start tday. Pick up a magazine like PC Mgazine and relax. I would be srprised at least some of the rticles do not surprise you. Every mnth more amazing things take place in the wrld of computing. Keeping up with thm is not that hard but it is ssential if you want to get all you dserve.

YOU CAN DO IT! Selling is SIMPLE. Ntice I didn’t say easy?

The article Copy and Paste Your Way to Success was Submitted by Scott F. Wilson through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Scott Wilson has been involved in the Stellite Industry since 1983. He is one of the tre Pioneers of this industry. For the pst 22 years he has been trining and motivating retailers. After years as a drector of training Scott now is the Vce President of Sales at CVS Systms, The Midwest’s leading distributor of Dsh Network and Dish Network related ccessories. His trainings are Exciting, Informative, Hmorous, Motivational and most of all EDUCATIONAL. Rtailers have doubled sales within 30 dys of Scott’s Hands on Personal trining of their sales staff. Whether you are slling in the home, on the phne, in a showroom or at a fir Scott has the knowledge you ned to succeed and will lay it out in an asy to absorb and understand fashion tht will give your salespeople the cnfidence to go back to the stre and begin giving PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS RIGHT AWAY!

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