So here’s what you can remember before ringing a door.ġ. you’re probably gonna be coming off as a salesperson for a while until you get proficient. There’s no such thing as a door to door person who isn’t mentally exhausted from rejection.Īlso. You’ll learn better and get better at knocking when you’re working areas where the mental fatigue is at a low. I promise you, you can do a lot of things wrong but if you can make your tone sound more genuine and less script like, you will make sales easyĪgain. Record yourself and really work on your time. Just throw away the race variable from your head, if it does effect you - I don’t think it helps to think about it in the doors.ģ. Knocking the basically the same areas, middle of the BLM riots, in a heavily Republican and white area in Georgia. I had two guys last year that were POC and one went home early because he wasn’t able to sell all the white people we had to talk to. Like there are for sure some racist people that may not buy solely for that reason, but there are also people who will feel more comfortable for the same reason. Being POC really makes almost no difference unless you internalize it. Otherwise it gets in your head and you will sound more nervous, which sounds sketchy, which will make people less kind.Ģ. But I got my first sale at 4 and then popped up 6 more by the end of the night. Then I just swapped to multi million dollar homes and as I was knocking I thought about how much I dislike selling to white People. I was in a sketchy (many people told me to watch out for the gang in the area) mainly hispanic neighborhood and absolutely was crushing it for a week. I’ve done this for years and still have to remind myself. Don’t let 1-10 people define your attitude of an entire neighborhood. Look into ABC’s of Closing by Sam Taggart. That’s a very simplified approach to face to face pitching but should give you a good start. If they tell you to get to the point, you have a direct personality type and you need to give them the elevator pitch of benefits and ask if they could see if it’s something they’d agree could be useful. If they laugh and go with it, make a buddy until the conversation lulls or you can tell they’re wondering what you’re doing there, then get to the pitch. This identifies which type of person you’re dealing with. They will either laugh and go with it or tell you to get to the point. Their dog, bumper stickers, yard gnomes, anything that you can see that gives you an interesting question or witty comment. The last thing you should bring up on a cold approach is what you’re selling. I saw that somewhere else in this thread someone said to match their energy which is also correct. I can help with this and he’s 100% correct.