Crisis Buster Tip #15: Want More Sales? Keep Smiling

Patrick Valtin, International business coach, reveals a discovery about top sales professionals and how to use this to increase sales in any economy…especially the tough ones.

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.” ~Winston Churchill

Look around you. Many people are upset, angry, worried or terrified about the future. They don’t know what will happen to them. It’s war out there. Economic war! They actually need your help. Give them a smile! Offer them to feel good about something – anything.

A smile costs nothing but has more value than all the gold in the world. Smile to people around, even if you don’t know them. Smile on the phone. Smile to yourself. Make a happy face and look at it in front of a mirror – you will find out that the person in front of you is quite nice and deserves your smile!

The Greeks gave us the most beautiful word: enthusiasm, from Theo – God within! I found that the most obvious common denominator amongst top sales professionals was exactly that: enthusiasm and an amazing joy of living!

Italians used to consider laughter as the best psychotherapy. There are indeed many benefits to having a good laugh:

• Laughter may reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease. Researchers at the University ofr
Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore have found that laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels by causing the inner lining to expand, increasing blood flow.

• Laughing just 15 minutes a day can help you lose weight. No joke. Scientists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., have discovered that a daily dose of chuckling can burn up to five pounds of fat over a year. Ten to 15 minutes of laughter could increase energy expenditures by 10 to 40 calories per day.
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• There is now scientific proof that laughter is contagious. Researchers at University College London found that hearing laughter and other positive sounds triggers a response in the area of the brain that is activated when we smile.

• A good laugh stimulates your organs, soothes tension and tummy aches, improves your immune system, relieves pain and increases personal satisfaction, according to a Mayo Clinic advisory on stress.

• Laughter and its effects on the human body is a hot field of study called gelotology. Humor therapy, clown therapy and laughter are being used by doctors and hospital staff. Source: McClatchy-Tribune News Services

Even CTCA (Cancer Treatment Centers of America) recognizes laughter therapy as a very effective natural medicine. Source: CancerCenter.com, article Laughter Therapy