Holiday selling
Friday, May 29, 2009 0:02Sales Hunter posted a fitting article about selling before and after holiday. He claims that you should stay later and start earlier to find new customers. Sure, working longer hours produces results, but it’s like telling to a kid that study harder, which is not teaching but just telling.
The difficulty is to really understand that if you are a person who likes to take a long weekend you just can’t see the possibility that there are other people out there waiting to buy something. You are not going to get inside their skin by just making one exception to finish bit later on some odd afternoon or evening. Those workaholics are at it constantly night after night. How would a softie long weekender be able to build rapport in that unlikely situation? No way. Your soft selling style fits better for similar laidback chillers who take work as something that wastes your life and interrupts your free time. Unfortunately that also produces average income. Ok, time to go home…
Melody says:
May 29th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Jehovah witnesses came to my door today and it made me think of you..
Just figured I’d say that lol..
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Jake Stone says:
May 29th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Comments can’t get much more flattering than this… I… I… I don’t know what to write!
cattlejokes says:
May 31st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
holiday is holiday…! not for work even for selling something…
Jake Stone says:
May 31st, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Ah, clearly you would suck at sales. Someone’s holiday is always someone else’s workday. All the telephone sales people know that holidays are the time to strike. People are either busy or lonely. The first type you reel in by giving the fast way out - order and be rid off me. The second type you sympathize to a sale, which takes bit more time but produces orders like no other. Too bad Christmas is only once a year.