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Creative Entrepreneur: A Podcast For Business Growth, Strategy and Monetization

Sales Lessons Every Entrepreneur Can Learn from Bartending with Neil Rogers

Creative Entrepreneur: A Podcast For Business Growth, Strategy and Monetization

Julie Lokun

News, Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business News

5.01.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Creative Entrepreneur Podcast, Julie Lokun and Dominic Domasky sit down with Neil Rogers, author of Bar Tips: Everything I Needed to Know in Sales I Learned Behind the Bar, to explore how bartending teaches powerful sales, communication, and people-reading skills. Neil shares how hospitality, empathy, and humility create authentic connections that drive long-term success in business and in life.

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0:00.0

All right, guys, pull up your barstool and loosen that tie.

0:07.5

Today, we are going to go to the place where everybody knows your name for a different kind of happy hour.

0:14.9

There's no watered down cliched, no watered down drinks, no stale sales receipts.

0:20.5

We are taking a sip of real sales wisdom with Neil Rogers, author of bar tips. Everything I needed to know in sales, I learned behind the bar. I'm telling you, this is a great book. I devoured it. Everything is dog-eared. I've written all over the book. It is so good. It's so helpful. And it makes me think

0:39.5

differently how I navigate, not only my business, not only how I navigate sales, but how I navigate

0:44.2

my life. If you want to learn how to read people, handle pressure, build instant rapport, and upsell

0:50.1

without sounding like a walking infomercial. We're going to love Neil Rogers today.

0:55.6

And Dom, I want you to grab your glass.

0:58.0

What are you drinking today?

0:58.9

We're going to pretend that you're drinking something really fun.

1:01.3

Let's pretend if I was drinking something.

1:03.6

It would be 60 ounces of something cold.

1:05.7

There you go, in a nice mug.

1:07.1

Would it be a Mountain Dew or would it be something stronger than a mountain do? Well, Neil

1:12.6

as a bartender does not want to hand out mountain dues to people. This is, this is for adults.

1:18.0

This podcast is for adults. 16 ounce, 20 ounce tall boy. There you go. Jolie, let's get into this with

1:23.5

Neil Rogers, this expert. We have an expert on here. So we do. Neil. Put a little vodka in that mountain, dude. Now we'll have a wide awake drink. See, I knew I knew Neil was going to go line with this one. What would you be drinking right now if it wasn't like 1.30 in the afternoon? Or maybe you were drinking something fun, Neil. Well, it's a virtually happy hour on this, on this fine day. It'd be so. Actually, I just picked up down of Whole Foods.

1:44.9

I grabbed a four pack of Kalsberg Pilsberg. Kalsberg, Pilsner. Is that German or what is that?

1:52.7

It is. I believe it's a German of, it's a German beer, yes. And by the way, Dom and I are going to end up with Boston accents by the end of this podcast. Just saying it.

2:00.8

You be calling me, dude, bro.

2:02.9

No problem. And oh, by the way, you probably read about my cousins, right? The Walbegs? The Walbegs. The Wildbegs? Yeah, I did read your back. The Walbegs. I don't know. They know it, although they actually do. But, yeah. So, yes, that's what I would be embodying in some preying time today for sure.

2:20.1

Okay, so let's get into this here. though they actually do. But, yeah. So, yes, that's what I would be embody in some preying time

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