I was talking to a person before who was trying to convince me to buy some kind of life insurance. It was definitely one of those hard sell pushes and he kept emphasizing on how people are going to be in big trouble in life if something happens to them and they are not insured.

I don’t know about everyone else, but this kind of technique usually discourages me from making a purchase. It just kind of puts you in a defensive mode in wondering “what’s the catch?” type of scenario. Some reasons for this type of approach that I hear is that sometimes people just don’t realize the importance of something and so you need to approach it in these types of ways.

I personally think the educational approach is better as it helps to make the other side think more while allowing them to make genuine decisions on their own.

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An interesting thing happened today at the office. There was a person that knocked on the door and we had no idea who it could be. It turned out to be an artist who did paintings for a living and attempted to sell his work to us for a over $100.

Although I didn’t talk to the person myself, I was told what it was all about and how the person attempted to sell his work by implying that he was a struggling artist of some sort. The person who answered the door was telling me how he didn’t know if he was being scammed as he has seen people do these types of sales techniques before where they give you a sob story to get you to purchase things emotionally.

I have seen these kinds of things on TV before, but have never actually had it happen to me personally yet. That is pretty courageous I must say in trying to sell door to door in an office building environment.

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