Born To Sell
Anybody else just think they were born to sell/market things? I was thinking about this the other day after I tried to “sell” something to my girlfriend. I’m constantly trying to pitch products/services that I support to family and friends without even thinking about it.
When my girlfriend was starting to pick colleges to go to, I went to University at Buffalo at the time. I was constantly expressing why UB was the best choice for her, and that it was cheap, a great education, close, and overall the best value for a local college by far.
Another friend was looking into getting a new car. I explained why the Mazda3 (the car I had) was the perfect choice for what he wanted. It was cheap, got great gas mileage, handled really well, and looked like a car that was more expensive than it really was.
Just a couple days ago (this is what made me think to blog about it), my girlfriend was telling me how she was going to open up a checking account. I pitched her why she should join at the same bank I was at, because at her level it didn’t matter where she got a checking account, it was right next to the gym we go to so she’d always be right by it, and it had easy online banking that I could show her.
Any of you subconsciously try and “affiliate market” products and services to people you know? I actually laughed when I thought about it more. I’d be pitching out the few great bullet points about the service, and explaining why my solution was the best one. I guess when you do that without even thinking about it, you know you’re born to market.
This post is soooo gay.
Absolutely. When it comes to ‘recommending’ things or giving advice, I’m pretty damn vocal. And the more you get into marketing the more you see through the lies and bullshit of other people selling goods and services.
Yup, I do this all the time. Made a killing lately too. I recently bought a Chev Trailblazer from a local dealer. Then, after all the papers were signed, the salesman comes to me and says “I’m going to give you a pile of business cards, and for every buyer you refer to me, that actually buys something, you get 200$ cash”
Yeah, with the deals and good service this salesman has, I have made a quick 3000$
What do you know, offline affiliate marketing. :-)
Its because your a survivor, entrepreneur, so in other words its in your blood some people are like that naturally it just passes on from time for example what did your parents do for a living maybe you genetically picked it up from your parents or someone else thats generally how it works.
Great point. I’m like this in a lot of ways.
Many of us do it subsconsciously, but this also depends on whether you’re listening, or just spouting unsolicited advice like the conversation is a blogpost, y’know? It’s cool to pitch stuff you like if people want your opinion, but I know personally I’ve done that sometimes without being asked (and been on the receiving end too) and it’s just annoying.
Born to sell? You aren’t selling anything, all your doing is giving advices/suggestions as to what product or service to use.
Pretty useless post :-/
uggg.. wtf? lol. whatever. next post!
It kinda scares me how similar we are paul. I myself think that I was born to sell. What I do often is I get good deals on buy.com or even tigerdirect and I start buying them. Once I receive them I start promoting the products to my co-workers or even sell it on ebay. that’s a really good way to make good money. invest, buy products that are for sale, sell them for a higher price. you will be surprise to see the outcome.
Someone said the post was gay. LMAO
Seriously, I find myself promoting things to my friends all the time. If there was only a way to get them to buy them from me, that would be golden.
Unfortunately this doesn’t mean you’re born to sell. While most people are outgoing, extroverted, and happen to be very business oriented or talks a lot (and often others consider them to be possibly the business men type aka might be very good at being sales men etc…), they’re usually only great at selling to people they know. Try hitting a real retail sales floor that is base on pure commissions such as Nordstrom for example, and you’ll quickly sales is a totally different ballpark and you might not perform as well as you do in every day normal life.
That aside and obviously a little off point from your topic, your opinions are bias even though you try to market them to your friends. I sometimes do so but ultimately to only get my thoughts out there if they ask for it, not try to convince them that I made the best choice and they should do the same.
Yaaaaaaaaawwwwnnn… I think you’ve finally jumped the shark and got “shoe moneyed”…save any integrity you have left and shut this blog down….seriously I dunno how many times you can re-hash the same common sense “tips”…..ok you got lucky, owned facebook made $20-$40k in a week and pumped most of it back to PPC..one thing the newbs fail to realize is the LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS and if you ain’t got the bank to create these LARGE NUMBERS you ain’t got shit…
Many of you fail to realize…that this is a personal blog. I can talk about whatever I want in it. Don’t like it? Unsubscribe.
GO GET EM TIGER!
Ok Chowmoney Jr.
were you trying to “sell” her to have sex with you? just mess’n ;)
Sorry buddy, that’s not what selling is all about. I hardly call putting something on ebay a “selling” skill. It’s another kind of skill, just not selling. Ever have to do cold calls? THAT is selling…
I think everybody wants a post like you did several weeks ago, you had very good posts at that time. And what about a video post? That has been a while..
I’m born to sell Garmin GPS devices. I own 3 (running, in-car and geocaching) and talk them up whenever I can. The first time I ran with my Forerunner, I came inside, loaded the data into my computer, and bought Garmin stock before I even showered (that was a good move on my part).
Then I was in Vegas for a meeting and adding a Garmin to the car was $10 for the day, so I figured why not. Before I left Vegas I went online and ordered one, so it was on its way while I flew home.
I’ve lent them out to friends & relatives, who have ended up buying one themselves.
Well, enough about Garmin. Short answer: yes.
no thats a shit job
Not as good as a TomTom
and these are open comments – they aren’t going to be 100% saying you rock.
hahahahahahahaha so gay lol!
sweet…..im unsubscribing right about nows hahahahahahahaha sweet go go! lol
paul did you? what did she say? did she buy? hahahahaha lol
im loving all the commenters here cos everyone things the post is crazy…im just laughing my ass crazy here and they are reallly getting at you paul! Dont mind what they say cos everyone got their own opinion and not everybody would say well done even when you write a great post dude!
The real money is not in telling people they need a car because it gets good gas mileage or is practical… but rather that they’ll feel better when they drive passed people glancing at their new car–hair blowing in the wind feeling like a million bucks =)
I think you can be born to sell just as you can be born with other great talents. However, much practice and hard work is necessary to perfect your talent. Success is always there for those who work for it. Talent alone is simply not enough.