John Wetmore describes how habits from loading pallets in a warehouse, focusing on speed and efficiency, translated directly into phone sales and appointment-setting. The same timing and operational discipline that moved product moved deals.
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So dude, when I was young, I worked in a warehouse and I used to load the trucks. I learned how to take warehouse work in the efficiency of loading a pallet. You know, we had to hit a— we were timed and had to hit a certain efficiency. So I learned how to kind of slow down a little bit, read the order, see if the— what if there was 20 packs of water and then I had some paper towels? I'm like, yo, I need to go get the water first, make the base, and then it made my job easier, made your job easier. The only reason I relate that to this is when I started working the phones and making appointments and doing dials, I'm like, yo, if I can set everything up the right way, the foundation, and then just be really efficient with my time. I don't have to be as good at sales as some of the other guys to make more money. I used a lot of that, what I learned there, to help my career in sales, funny enough.