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Besides, selling is legal and widely practiced in every corner of the globe. There are few rules that affect your performance or your ability to sell. Selling is a lifestyle, one that can bring you immense pleasure. And it’s something you can do wherever you are, however you’re feeling, and no matter how old you become. It’s an ageless occupation that doesn’t rely on physical performance and won’t adversely affect your blood pressure due to over-exertion. Stress is only induced in sales when you UNDER-perform, not when you do it too much. They say that too much of a good thing is bad. But whoever heard of making too many sales? No, it’s a calling, a vocation, a livelihood that becomes part of who you are and what you do and how you do it.

And you get to do it with people of the same sex. In fact, you can sell to anyone regardless of race, sex or marital status! You don’t have to worry about what your friends or folks will say when they see you with your clients. You don’t have to sneak around for fear of their disapproval of your client’s appearance or personal preference about anything. You don’t have to check for a wedding band or make sure that the person you’re chatting with is, in fact, a real woman or man. It matters not. You’re a salesperson and you have no qualms when it comes to creed, gender or color. It also doesn’t matter what line of work the customer is in.

Selling is such a widely accepted form of doing business that it’s acceptable for you to even offer your product to a nun. That’s right. You can just swagger right on up to her and show her your product without offending her or causing her to run away. Even the clergy aren’t forbidden from spending time with you. Your priest won’t get into trouble for having a meeting with you after church. A little sales rendezvous. It’s a fact! Priests aren’t sworn to give up selling!

Another great aspect of selling (regardless of whether it’s to a man or a woman) is that you don’t even have to spend time getting to know the client personally. You’re not obliged to wine and dine your customer in a bid to get to know them better. There’s really no need to hear about their past history, where they grew up, where they went to school, what they do for a living, or what their medical history is. You don’t have to ask those questions.

It is perfectly acceptable to sell something to a complete stranger. You can safely walk up to someone previously unknown to you and simply say,

“Hi! I have something really special that I’d like to show you.”

In a different context this could earn you a slap in the face. But in the context of selling, you’re pretty safe, unless you can see that the potential customer has absolutely no interest in buying whatsoever.

What’s more, you’re able to proclaim your love for selling freely. You can shout it from the mountain tops and not fear any retribution. You can proclaim your passion and ability to sell successfully to both men and women, black and white, young and old, and not fear getting dragged out into the street and publicly flogged.

Managing large numbers of sales or co-coordinating a group of salespeople makes you neither a pimp nor a prostitute. Sitting around the family dinner table discussing the antics of your various clients will also not be met with uncomfortable silences or disapproving glares. In fact, in this culturally rich and diverse world that we live in, it is expected that you would have an array of clients from many different backgrounds, and you might even serve them on a regular basis. You cannot be branded as being bi-sexual for selling to both men and women and you can’t even boast about it. It’s pretty much the accepted norm that you’ll flaunt your product to whoever comes your way, regardless of gender or who they are or what they do. You bat for both teams and that is perfectly okay, by everyone’s standards!

About the Author:

Alen Majer is an internationally sought-after speaker and consultant. He is passionate about motivating sales professionals to achieve their goals even faster than they would without his guidance. Alen is the author of three other sales titles, including “Trigger Events – How to Find your Next Customer”. Discover more about Alen on his Blog at www.alenmajer.com

About the Book:

In Selling is Better than Sex, Alen Majer takes you through the essentials of successful selling with a humorous twist; illustrating that business can be fun and should be fun. It will help you realize that selling is more than just a 9 to 5 job. This book will provide you with more than 200 reasons why selling is even better than sex, and what you can do about it in order to improve your career and your life. This is not just another sales book – this is a revelation!