Do you often find yourself dealing with rejection in the sales world? Do you feel disheartened anytime someone says ‘no’ to your product or service? No entrepreneur can live without facing rejection, but what if you could become rejection proof in your sales? Here are some tips and tricks to develop a rejection-proof mindset and go forward towards achieving your sales goals!

1. Strengthen Your Resilience

Find Ways to Feel Positive

Feeling good on the inside and finding inner strength is often the key to resilience. To further strengthen your personal resilience, focus on positive thinking and activities. Make yourself the priority and look for ways to lift your spirits. Looking inwards, find things in life you can be grateful for, practice self-care and personal development, and actively look for inspiration to maintain motivation. Externally, reach out for support from friends and family, surround yourself with positive people and take charge of your environment.

Harness Your Personal Strengths

Identifying and leveraging your unique strengths is a great way to strengthen resilience. Reflect on things you’re naturally good at, areas you already excel, skills you have cultivated over the years and more. Once that’s done, make use of these assets in your personal plan for resilience. Create a personal vision, use your strength and skills to meet your objectives, and come up with a plan to persistently make progress towards them. Also, don’t feel afraid to switch things up and make the necessary tweaks as situations change in life.

2. Adopt a Growth Mindset

Develop Goals and Objectives

Developing clearly defined goals and objectives can help you . Make each goal specific, measurable, achievable, and relevant. Set goals that stretch you out of your comfort zone in order to maximize your potential. Prioritize your goals by listing them in order of importance and regularly review your progress.

Persevere and Ask for Feedback

Having a growth mindset means understanding that setbacks are part of the journey. Don’t give up on difficult tasks, persist and you may be surprised by your achievements. Ask for feedback on your work from mentors, coaches, and peers. Knowing how you can improve will help you find solutions and draw your focus towards a growth mindset.

3. Bounce Back, Better and Faster

In times of crisis and uncertainty, resilience and adaptability can be the key ingredients for overcoming challenges. But how can we go about getting better and faster in bouncing back? Here are some methods to consider:

• Revisit goals and plans. Ask yourself – are these goals still relevant? If not, what else can you strive for in the future?
• Consolidate what works and discard what doesn’t. Evaluate successes and failures and adjust your strategies accordingly.
• Look at the bigger picture. What are unexpected chances that may have materialized along the way, and what completely new opportunities have emerged?
• Shift into ‘action mode’. Once you assess the situation, now it’s time to take those ideas and make them a reality. Don’t have it all figured out? That’s ok – fake it till you make it!

An important aspect in this process is collaboration and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders. The ability to foster relationships with these stakeholders is necessary for adapting and responding to ever-changing environments. Learning to communicate effectively and working through platform dynamics together, can strengthen relationships and create a shared space to build meaningful solutions.

4. Gain Refined Prospecting Skills

Prospecting is all about finding the right target customer for a brand in order to successfully promote its products or services. In order to reach the right audience, refining prospecting skills is essential.

Firstly, as a marketer, determine the type of customer who would be most likely to make a purchase. Knowing the customer’s location, job title, age, gender and interests is key. To refine the search even further, use additional tools such as customer sentiment analysis and psychographic profiling.

• Create a buyer persona for each type of customer you wish to target and tailor all messages accordingly.
• Stay up-to-date on any changes in customer behavior and preferences, and adjust prospecting techniques accordingly.
• Gain a better understanding of what makes your target audience tick – their pain points, desired outcomes – to truly capture their attention.

Changing the way you think about rejection can make a huge difference in your success rate as a salesperson. By adopting the attitude of ‘failure is not an option’, you’re setting yourself up for success. With the tips included in this article, you now have the necessary tools to become rejection proof. Goodbye and good luck!