A “Willy Loman” mentality is slowly growing out there, even as the era of the door-to-door salesman is really about to kick off in a big way.
The mobile phone, and the immediacy with which that piece of hardware allows products and ideas to come to consumers, is the new house door.
Attention spans wane and doors close much, much quicker in the mobile world now, than they did in the physical world of the actual door closing in the Fuller Brush Salesman’s face.
We understand that the dynamism of having to be interesting in seven seconds or less seems daunting, but the same dynamism that depresses, can also allow the savvy, the entertaining and the persistent to scale at or below cost.
That last part is important to remember for those who are daunted, just like it was important to remember when selling vacuums door-to-door.
Persistence in the face of 4.5 billion doors closing in seven seconds or less can be either a deterrent to trying in the first place.
Or, it can be the lifeblood of the salesman that Willy Loman could have been.
-Peace With You All-
Jesan Sorrells, MA
Principal Conflict Engagement Consultant
Human Services Consulting and Training (HSCT)
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