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ClearWater Plumbers
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No Soliciting!
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No Soliciting!
Hide the Sausage Rolls! How Jeff Deals With Nagging Sales Reps
I’m disguising his name, but he was an outside salesperson for a plumbing supply house. He
I’m almost embarrassed to tell y’all this …
So there is a story circulating that I chucked a box of pigs in a blanket — sausage rolls, kolaches, whatever you call ‘em — at a salesman bright and early one morning maybe a year ago. Let me tell you why and how I came to dislike solicitors who cannot read signs or who like to talk their way around the definition of “soliciting.” In the beginning, I was in the office more working on bids, serving customers, advertising, making material lists, and talking to inside staff; an outside salesperson would drop in maybe once every couple months. Looking back now, it must’ve felt good for my ego because I never thought I was such the businessman that salesmen would want to stop by. Wow, I was big time! Then there was Kenny ... he changed my perception of cold-call door-knocking.
dropped in one day out of the blue, so I thought, “Wow, I have a salesperson from a big-time supply house stopping in to check on me and see if I need anything.” I chatted pleasantries with Kenny, told him I did not need anything, thanked him for his time, and we talked for five minutes. He came back the next week. We chatted for 10 minutes, but I did not need anything. Then, the following week, he stayed 20 minutes. The fourth week, he sat and chatted for 30 minutes. The following week, he sat and chatted for 30 minutes again. I don’t know how fast you catch on, but if you’re starting to catch on, you’re faster than I was ... he was distracting me. I’m a really
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