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A friend of mine is the best salesman I know. He attributes his success to griwing up as a Jehovah's Witness, with mandatory door to door proselytizing every we
by wanderingstan 12y ago
A friend of mine is the best salesman I know. He attributes his success to griwing up as a Jehovah's Witness, with mandatory door to door proselytizing every weekend. Rejection doesn't phase him in the slightest.
- hueving 12y agoYeah, the biggest part to becoming a salesman is being able to absorb the constant rejection and not have it impact your next attempt.
- joshfraser 12y agoThat's the same reason why there are so many sales organizations in Salt Lake City. Nothing trains you to get over rejection like trying to sell religion door to door.
- epaladin 12y agoI've been intrigued as to why Mormons have such an seemingly disproportionate "success" rate, and ended up doing a bit of research on the matter. It really seems like it comes down to facing failure repeatedly. And most of them get the experience when they're around college age as well. I've been trying to figure out how we could build something secular into normal primary education that would achieve the same result.
- guelo 12y agoIt's already done at many schools for fundraisers. Things like having the kids sell chocolates or magazine subscriptions. Also girl scouts with their cookies.
- researcher88 12y agoPeople buy that stuff just to help out kids though. Going door to door selling a 'magical candy bar' that can radically change someone's life for eternity would be much harder. I guess part of that is also conviction in what you are selling.
- epaladin 12y agoMuch of the time it's the parents doing the pushing, and the kids in tow for the "do it for the children" factor. The kids probably don't really know what's going on, and don't have to take direct responsibility for any of it.