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Successful Strategies for Agriculture Sales | Integrity in Service

Learn essential steps in the selling process for agriculture products. Discover product presentation ideas and guidelines for project summary sheet creation. Maximize sales with sincerity and integrity.

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Successful Strategies for Agriculture Sales | Integrity in Service

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  1. Utilizing Successful Agriculture Sales Strategies Unit 3, Lesson 6 “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity --Donald A. Adams

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSqXKp-00hM

  3. Steps in the Selling Process • The Pre-Approach/Pre-Call Preparation • Select your agriculture product • Learn about your product • Learn about your competition • Prepare to meet your customer • Prepare your project summary sheet

  4. Steps in the Selling Process • The Approach • Standard approach • Direct approach • Friendly greeting approach • Merchandise approach • Service approach • Informal approach

  5. Steps in the Selling Process • Identify customer needs and wants • Product Demonstration • Handling Customer’s complaints • Kinds of objections • Ways to handle objections • Excuses • Closing the sale • Suggestion Selling

  6. Ideas for Ag. Sales Product Presentations TANGIBLE (can be seen, felt, touched, or smelled) • Ag. Mechanics • Animals • Crops, seeds, nuts • Ag. Products and Processing • Forestry • Natural Resources and Rural Recreation • Ornamental horticulture ***Suggested for this project ***Be creative and think of products that others will not.

  7. Ideas for Ag. Sales Product Presentations INTANGIBLE: It is the content which has value, not the item that carries it. For example, the paper has no value itself…it is the implied value of what is written on the paper. • Crop insurance policies • Product loans • Weather reports • Written reports ***These are not suggested for this project, as they are hard to demonstrate.

  8. Guidelines for the Project Summary Sheet • One page, single sided, typed, double spaced • Participant’s name • Statement of situation, circumstances, location, etc. • Representation (company, chapter) • Product to be sold • Features of the product • Product structure Provide enough information to allow the judge to understand their role and interact with you during your presentation.

  9. Guidelines for the Project Summary Sheet, Continued • Warranty • Service availability • Demonstration of product function • Competitors and other pertinent information • Price • Closing statement or method

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