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In this podcast episode, the guest speaker talks about sales, money, and living in LA.
The speaker shares a personal anecdote about successfully selling a product from a one-car garage and impressing a potential client at a pitch meeting by arriving with a variety of products to showcase in a limited amount of time.
The speaker shares their experience of selling fax machines door to door for seven years and how it taught them valuable lessons about sales.
A sudden spike in orders for cycle shoes is credited to an agent from London, though it is unclear why he was so successful in selling the product.
The two broad ways of selling are either goods or services, while goods are tangible objects that can be sold, services are intangible and involve a provider performing an action for a customer in exchange for payment.
The speaker expected only a few sales after a month but was surprised when 500 products sold quickly.
The speaker discusses various factors to consider when making sales decisions for enterprise-level clients such as the need for customized features, integrations with existing systems (such as Salesforce), and special pricing structures.
A man recalls a memory of a saleswoman getting worked up when pitching a booklet for knives and offers advice to not get too invested in sales pitches.
The speaker talks about selling expensive products and how they learned to do so, including considering return policies and how the products would age.
The speaker shares his experience of selling door-to-door for four years, where he learned the greatest lesson of overcoming rejection. He believes that selling involves facing rejection multiple times, and the only way to succeed is by learning from it and moving forward.
