Side Hustle Show 68, how I got my first sale in six different businesses.

Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn

their side hustle dreams into reality.

Because your 9 to 5 may make you a living,

but your 5 to 9 makes you alive.

And now your host, Nick Loper Loper episode 68 a special Friday edition of the show for you. This is how I got my first

sale in six different businesses and we haven't talked a lot about sales on

the show and it's you know it's one of the most important things I've argued that

creativity is is more important than sales because you got to have something to

sell before you can sell it but next to that I would argue that sales is

probably the most important skill for any entrepreneur for the simple

reason that nothing happens until somebody sells something and I don't know the origin

in that quote but it's it's so true and sales gets a bad rap right like it's a dirty word you picture the what do you picture I picture you know the the guy and the plaid checkered suit on the youth car lot and I think my my vision of having worked in the car business my my

vision of sales was kind of soured by working corporate and I which is ironic because I was in a I was in what would be

considered a sales role only only my division my department didn't really act

like a sales organization. There was no incentive to push

beyond objections. You would present your product or service and the people would say no and you would say fine and that's like a whore you know you as

as someone who's gone through sales training you know that it's going to take seven

no's at least to get to yes but in this case because my income wasn't affected positively or

negatively by that no, there was no reason to push on. There was no incentive to do

it. So why as a young employee, why jeopardize my

relationships by being the pushy sales guy if you're not going to be any better off?

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