5 Solid Don’ts When Engaging in Face to Face Marketing

These simple tips will help you land more paying clients

Joan Amanwi
4 min readSep 2, 2020
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

A few weeks ago I got the chance to work 8 hours with a few face to face marketers and get a feel of the job.

If you are among the mass of people who consider face to face marketers annoying and impulsive, be nice next time you meet one.

Why?

Well, for starters; face to face marketing is a hard and extremely stressful job which entails constant walking and prospecting for 8 hours; sometimes more. Secondly, these people are human too. They feel the pain of rejection and aggression on your part.

I should know how hard this job can get after working with them for 8 hours.

Honestly, it felt like 10 years.

While on the field, we got the opportunity to meet with about 86 prospects. These are the few lessons I learned while on the job:

1. Don’t be overdramatic, people can see through the fake smile.

Everyone has met at least one salesman in their lifetime from insurance company sales agents to gadgets, charity, communication companies etc.

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