A Medicare salesman with 20 years of experience showed up disheveled, messy hair and wrinkled shirt. The speaker argues sales professionals need to dress sharp anyway, even on phone calls, because the right clothes put you in the right mindset and signal competence to clients.
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this guy that does Medicare, his hair's all disheveled. He's like, looks like he wadded his shirt up, put it in his pocket, then put it on. And he smelled bad. It was just like, I mean, how does he sell? He's been in the business for 20 years. How does he sell? And I'm like, well, apparently he sells everything over the phone, I guess. I don't know. But, uh, even if I'm on the phone and I'm not on a Zoom or anything like that, I've gotta be dressed appropriately cuz it gets my mind in the right spot. New suit and tie. I kind of got away from that. I got more casual. Some of my older clients still kind of expect that in a way. Overall. You know your demographic too. I think there's a level of, you said it best, like how, what makes you feel good? And then a combination of, you have to know your demographic.