Selling is not just pushing your products to your customers. In a sales job, you can also act as a consultant, mentor, advisor and a friend. And all of these require you to build a relationship based on trust with your customer. (This applies to both B2B & B2C selling). So, when there is complete trust between you and your customer, it will be the customer who will be talking and you who will be listening…well, most of the time. And, if you can do so effectively, by just asking a few probing questions in between, you are the next success story for your organisation!
Now, this works particularly well for women who are in this profession. Let me tell you from my own experience that Indian customers do not trust a "fast" woman for any kind of long term business association. Yes, he / she may get excited while talking to one of those talkative, extremely extrovert and pushy women in job, but they don't feel comfortable in doing serious business with them which involves long term commitments. And if you are looking at the South Indian market, in particular, for your business growth, then better keep this in mind!

One more advice to the ladies: Please pick your dress based on whom you are going to meet – for example, it is a good idea to wear your suit if you are meeting people at IBM, but wear a nice cotton sari in pastel colour for your meeting with the people at SBI. I am not saying that you can't exchange the dress code for these two kinds of companies's trust, but it helps you to get identified with specific corporate culture and gives you leverage in dealing with their employees.