Door To Door Sales - Training
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K95TDH

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33 posts

217 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Good morning Ph!

I'm currently in Australia where door to door sales is still very much active! My role is to train and develop the team every single day! Problem is it's becoming very stale!

A bit of background info, I have to capture the imagination of 20 young kids from 18 - 25 every day for 45 minutes. Our sales pitch hasn't and won't change it is very scripted which is good as it works, however it's becoming dull day after day!

We focus on attitudes when selling and how to handle rejection, also body language and tone of voice also how to close customers and build rapport.We also try to make it fun but I'm running out of ideas!!

Any suggestions on exercises we can do as a group and mix things up a bit?

Look forwards to some ideas, cheers guys!

edc

9,627 posts

280 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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I would ask whether the training is stale for you as the trainer or whether you are losing the impact with the trainees and as such are seeing less productivity? What is the objective?

K95TDH

Original Poster:

33 posts

217 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Both in a way! I love the idea that I can help these kids learn and it feels great knowing I've helped people improve, however doing the same things every day can get very dull! Also some of these kids are not the most intellectual either!

Sales results have decreased and it's very clear that when we have energy and enthusiasm in training then that days results definitely pick up.

But it's definitely more about improving results at the moment!

Pommygranite

14,466 posts

245 months

Wednesday 16th October 2013
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What is the company and product?

valais

59,332 posts

184 months

Wednesday 16th October 2013
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Idea: stop using exclamation marks (!) in place of full stops...

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iphonedyou

10,409 posts

186 months

Thursday 17th October 2013
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Sorry, but your post style epitomises everything that's wrong with those jobs, for me. All 'yay, let's go to work! Motivation, team! Come on, people!' And for 45 minutes a day?

Is the office absolutely tiny, hard to find, and has the company name changed more than once in the last five years?

Eh, I know I shouldn't post. But still.

Engineer1

10,486 posts

238 months

Thursday 17th October 2013
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Work - the thing you do because they pay you, false BS excitement etc may actually be demotivating people,

valais

59,332 posts

184 months

Thursday 17th October 2013
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K95TDH said:
Our sales pitch hasn't and won't change it is very scripted which is good as it works, however it's becoming dull day after day!
Lose the script and let them develop their own pitches - try them out on each other, etc? Or at least create a few variants?

Pommygranite

14,466 posts

245 months

Thursday 17th October 2013
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I live in oz so keen to know if I've had one of these sales peeps knock on my door.

Always interesting when a sales manager says their sales pitch works and won't change....

bad company

21,918 posts

295 months

Friday 18th October 2013
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K95TDH said:
Good morning Ph!

I'm currently in Australia where door to door sales is still very much active! My role is to train and develop the team every single day! Problem is it's becoming very stale!

A bit of background info, I have to capture the imagination of 20 young kids from 18 - 25 every day for 45 minutes. Our sales pitch hasn't and won't change it is very scripted which is good as it works, however it's becoming dull day after day!

We focus on attitudes when selling and how to handle rejection, also body language and tone of voice also how to close customers and build rapport.We also try to make it fun but I'm running out of ideas!!

Any suggestions on exercises we can do as a group and mix things up a bit?

Look forwards to some ideas, cheers guys!
hurl

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

199 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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They could learn a lot from this professional.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sCTC0LGfw


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