What are you good at selling?

[MrScorpio]

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	The Sizzle
	1 (50%)
	The Steak
	0 (0%)
	Something that only a vegan would love
	1 (50%)
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[lostnfound]

1. The grill. Nt

[2naSalit]

2. Bad salesperson...

and ick on the beef.

[Orrex]

3. I'll sell my integrity and self-respect.

Make me an offer!

[Akoto]

4. My mom would say...

I'm good at selling BS.

Always in a loving, motherly way, of course.

[hunter]

5. Nothing. I'm a hunter-gatherer.

I'd always ask the customer "Why do you need that?" and give them plenty of reasons not to buy it.

In my personal life I boycott most everything. I haven't bought a steak in decades. I bought a new car once when I was young and cocky, but I'll never do that again. I now drive an $800 car with a salvage title, and both my cell phone and desktop computer were diverted from the e-waste bins.

I think money was a terrible invention and look forward to a time when universal basic incomes, automation, and various sorts of social progress make money obsolete, Star Trek The Next Generation style.

Sure, the officers of the Enterprise play poker, apparently for some kind of money, but winning or loosing has little impact on their lives except as a measure of their success as poker players. And it's an unfortunate truth that Data would clobber them all if he chose to, yet he wouldn't care at all about winning or losing himself except as a dispassionate study of human behavior.

[True Dough]

6. I worked at a car dealership for a little less than 6 weeks

Sold 5.5 cars (one deal was shared with a co-worker because I started the wheels in motion, so to speak, with the client while my co-worker closed the deal on my day off).

But I quit the job because 1) the manager was a jerk 2) I was honest and management was drilling us to spew B.S. lines 3) there was insane pressure on all employees to trade in their existing vehicles and buy a model from the dealership 4) the pay was pathetic

Anyway, I had several customers tell me on test drives that it was refreshing to have someone so honest as a salesperson. I didn't speak in derogatory terms about our vehicles, but I would acknowledge that some aspects of other models were superior. I would say, "Yeah, if you value X factor over our Y factor, then that's certainly a consideration for you to think about. Buying a new vehicle is a major decision."

A couple of those customers actually contacted me after choosing not to purchase with us -- one by phone and one who came in again in person -- and they explained their decision to go with another dealership but said the next time they buy a vehicle they hoped it would be through me or someone with my approach. That felt good, but it wasn't enough to override the negatives of the job.

[Solly Mack]

7. The idea of steak. The idea of the sizzle.

Laugh, but I'm being incredibly honest right this second.

[crazycatlady]

8. Pussyhats

[jmowreader]

9. I'm good at selling steak, terrible at selling sizzle

"Sizzle" is also called "selling dreams."

As a former Home Depot employee, I had plenty of chances to sell both.

A new roof is a "steak" purchase - you know what it is, you've seen your house with one of them on it, no imagination is required. I can sell roofing material all day long.

A fence, when you don't have one now, is halfway between sizzle and steak - you don't really know WHAT the fence is going to look like but you know the neighbors just installed a Moat Full of Alligators security system and you want to keep your kids away from it...and a fence will allow you to do just that.

New decks are a sizzle product. The hard part of selling decks is people don't realize how much material is actually in one and how much work will go into it. Customer approaches..."I'd like a deck that's 16' x 32'." They give me all the numbers they need to make the deck work - height and so on. 'Yes sir, the price of that deck will be $3000.' "Shouldn't that be more like $640? I priced the deck boards, they are $10 apiece and I need 64 of them, so the price should be $640." 'Well, that's true, but...' (show the guy the deck plan, and how there are concrete piers to hold up the deck, a framing system, handrails...) "Oh, I don't want to do all that work." This is where the Astute Home Depot Associate can make a sale: take the customer to the garden center and show him or her the patio pavers. You rent a sod cutter and remove the grass from the place you want the deck. Get a yard of sand from a gravel company and put it where the grass was. Scootch it around until the sand's level. Lay patio pavers on the sand, then dump more sand on top of them and sweep it in. You probably already have a staircase coming out of that door, so you don't need another. And make sure to get a nice grill so you can have a cookout that night to celebrate. It'll take about a day if you've got some help. THIS you can sell the hell out of.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. TruCoat!

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