Lessons From Door-To-Door Sales – with Ramu Tremblay

Ramu Tremblay, Paperless Pipeline, Customer Acquisition, Selling 1-on-1

If you do a search on Mixergy for the phrase, “door to door” you’ll notice that dozens of the successful founders I interviewed got started by knocking on doors and turning strangers into paying customers.

So, I invited Ramu Tremblay, who used to sell software and books for families with kids using door to door sales, to teach us what he learned from the experience.

Ramu Tremblay

Paperless Pipeline

Ramu Tremblay works in sales for Paperless Pipeline, which takes real estate transactions and related documents online.

 

Andrew: So coming up in this interview you’re going to hear why these three words – feel, felt, found – can turn someone who has an objection to buying from you into a customer. You’re also going to understand why sales people, door-to-door sales people, are invited into people’s homes and why those strangers end up buying from them. What kind of magical words are these salesmen using? You’ll hear it in this interview. And why should a salesperson actually tell a customer that he only has a few minutes for her? All that and so much more, man, if you are looking to increase your sales or are just curious about the magic that good sales people use to get strangers to pay them, this interview is for you. Stay tuned.

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