Sales Fundamentals

Unlock the essentials of sales! Learn the four key components that drive effective selling and how to connect with your audience.

A dynamic sales funnel graphic illustrating effective communication and audience engagement strategies.

Hi! This is Sasha Kosenko and this is a series of articles about selling through a personal blog, and today we'll go through the fundamentals.

What is a sale? It's not pushing products, not forcing, and not just chasing profits or deception. Yes, some resort to unethical sales methods with manipulation and deception, but we choose a different path.

4 Components of Sales

A sale is an exchange of value that you have for a customer's money who wants to receive that value. It's a mutually beneficial process in which we offer our target audience a solution to their problem or satisfaction of their need for a certain amount.

In this series of articles, we'll divide sales into four parts:

  • Product
  • Target Audience
  • Advertising Message
  • Sales Channel

Or, more simply, answers to the questions: what are we selling, who are we selling to, and how are we selling? Let's look at an example.