When talking about sales one thing that comes to my mind is a show called Nathan for You. This is one of the funniest shows I’ve seen, and one of the best things about it is that it is all real. In the show, the main character, Nathan Fielder, is a businessman who is trying to help failing businesses to succeed. Of course, this would not normally make for a funny show, but the twist is that all of his solutions are absolutely absurd.<\/p>\n
In one particular episode, he decides to try and help a liquor store to succeed. Liquor stores have many problems, but the problem he chose and the way he sold his idea were very important. The problem that he framed was that the liquor store was not getting enough customers. This is a problem with most failing businesses, but Nathan brought up an idea that the store owner had not thought of, that there was a potential strand of new customers that no liquor stores were reaching: minors.<\/p>\n
Nathan was pitching to the liquor store owner that he should sell to minors. Although this would normally be illegal, Nathan said that the minors would not be allowed to take the alcohol home, instead, it would be put in a storage locker in the liquor store.<\/p>\n
If Nathan had pitched the idea of selling alcohol to minors in any other way his idea would surely have been turned down, but the way he framed the problem and described the solution kept the liquor store owner hooked. In the end, the owner said yes and began selling to minors, but not letting them take the alcohol home, just keeping it until the customer turned 21. This was also an example of bad selling since they did not tell the minors that they wouldn’t be able to take the alcohol home until after they purchased it. This led to a bunch of dissatisfied customers who didn’t come back. This is an example of how dishonesty does not make for a good salesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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