TCTHH Biz Blog of the Week #1: Door-to-Door
As the Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours community has grown, I have been looking for opportunities to share different perspectives on business, networking, events, and connecting with other Twin Cities professionals. In doing so, I have decided to create a weekly feature called the “TCTHH Biz Blog of the Week”. This weekly feature will allow TCTHH members to share their own unique take on business topics relating to their business and/or work experience. This week’s post is from Laurie Lynard.
Laurie Lynard is Vice President of Telemasters, Inc and has been selling, managing, training and coaching for 30 years. She now specializes in working with the financial services Industry facilitating workshops, coaching, and consulting.
How Many Doors Should You Be “Knocking On” Daily?
People occasionally ask me where I come up with the ideas for my blogs. Well, like most people, it is usually something I experience that gets the blog juices flowing. Today, that “something” landed, quite literally, on my doorstep.
I was working in my home office overlooking the snowy, gray landscape with the junior-high kids dispersing from the bus stop, when my doorbell rang. “Who could that be in the middle of the day?” I wondered aloud. There wasn’t a UPS or FedEx truck in sight.
I welcomed the break so I shrugged and ventured downstairs to see who was there. It was a nice-looking 40-something gentleman with a briefcase. I figured he was with the census bureau or something so I opened the door and asked him to come in “so the cats wouldn’t go out”.
It turns out he was a Financial Advisor with a local investment firm and that he was “new in town” and looking to determine what people in our neighborhood were most concerned about when it came to their finances. A-hah! A sales guy.
