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Not interested! I bet you hear that a lot! Well, today I am going to be breaking down into details about why this is happening to you. Why it is you are getting this type of response from customers. But first I want you to know how I felt when I first started in this industry. I am not going to lie to you. I had my own speculations about knocking on doors and if it was actually considered a profession or not. At a very young age, I wanted to become wealthy and I had heard door knocking when mastered can, in fact, provide you with a high income. Now, I want to eliminate the negative stereotype that exists today with wealthy individuals and that is that they are greedy and selfish. This is not true. I for one enjoy teaching and spend my wealth on helping others while …

What’s shaken door to door mastery fans?! This is Paul Shakuri and in this piece, we are going to have John weigh in on the reasons why door to door sales is awesome! John reached out a couple of days ago and had a couple of questions about my coaching and mentoring and what it actually entails. Now, John used to be in a sales environment and now works for Cox Communications. The previous work in sales was in a retail environment and John had worked there for approximately ten years. He started at circuit city before the company laid him off and went under. He then went over to Best Buy and began doing sales there. He later switched to selling home security. A product that I mastered in and sold to thousands of people. Now, John I am sure you are agreeing with me, in order for anyone to become …

Hello everyone and welcome to another look inside door to door sales! My name is Paul Shakuri and I want to reach out to the entrepreneur, to the sales professional who is going out there and presenting their products and services and getting rejected! Not even getting the time of day to converse with the potential customer! You get not interested often or people don’t really want to do business with you because you can’t progress, you can’t seem to gain traction. Do you feel this way? Have you ever felt like everyone’s rejected you? Or you gained traction and moved forward but then the customer tells you that they just don’t want it! So, what’s going on? Why is this happening? If we can understand why people do what they do, then we can come up with a fix! Think about your automobile, if you have a problem where your car …

As I write this. I get flashbacks to the thousands of accounts I sold and all the things customers did to try to close the door on me. If your anything like me, your probably frustrated from this. So why are people so against doing business with you and how can we tell. People are not wanting to do business with you because the nature of the scenario. Door knocking is a cold call where you knock on the door and a random stranger is standing at the door. Let’s face it, no one wants to hand over money to a stranger. Knowing this, we have to focus on building the relationship. Most sale people who fail just pitch and keep talking hoping they will get the customer to say ok. Clearly this does not work. This is also not to say that door knocking doesn’t work, or is difficult. …