A potential customer is disrespectful during sales call. What will you do?

I would advise to go with answer number2 as by nature the client does not know you, which means it is not personal, and the good salesman should be able to absorb then switch the client's behaviour with his own good attitude.

I will go for option2. A sales person should always be positive. On a sales call, there is no room for arguments. He should avoid his disrespectivenes with a smile. A smile can do a lot in your sales call.

If you go into dialogue he will feel that you are challenging him. That makes him keep going and you will never win this dialogue, especially if you have a respectful behavior. It will for sure affect your chances to reach your sales objectives.

If you ignore his behavior, he will see it as ignoring him personally. That will make him feel more abused and insulted. He will focus on that rather than you sales call.

My advise is:

- not to take such issues personally.

- look at your sales objectives the major issue and his behavior as a minor issue

- Try to understand the reason behind his behavior. Usually such behavior comes from feeling confused, afraid, ignored, intimidated or undervalued. This need allot of explanation, but you can look for it on the internet. I usually make some respectful reactions to tell him "you treat me bad, but I treat you good, who is better?" Of course I don't say that, but that is the message from my reactions.

A sales person has to be well behaved in nature. He cannot afford to be an impulsive character. If the potential customer is disrespectful then it should not bother him or take it personal. He has to fully concentrate on his goal. The external matters in life should not disturb you inner peace. Just ignore the situation and carry on with the sales objective. 

FOCUS ON BOTH,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, REAL SALES MAN MUST HAVE ABILITY TO CONVERT INNITIAL ::: NO ::: OF CUSTOMER INTO ::: YES ::::

Understand the customer needs and then proceed with the dialogue on sales

I will Focus on both.

Focus on both, a good sales agent can read between the lines of a potential customer.

Option3. Focus on both!

Nothing personal, no need to be impulsive, it is somehow crisis management or a challenge to be dealt with considering possibilities..

Focus on both is only option for us. But if he is  behaving disrespectful, it can be because of his previous experience. So first  we should ask him about his thinking and any previous bad experience, many of these costumers explains everything and their reason of misbehaving. we should apologize for that and make him feel like we are also in same shoes. After this we should promote him product and assure him that he will get all the things in right way. It can take one or two calls more but conversion is sure.    

ignore the behavior of my client focus on my objective with respect until i convince the client to my product,,,