Nate Tilley argues sales is the one skill every business owner needs. He made over a million cold calls on large trading floors and learned what actually motivates people. He recommends getting your hands dirty in sales early, even joking he'd have his young daughters do it.
Over a million cold calls.
September 27, 2022.
Nate Tilley.
Doing sales for me that was just a huge, huge turning point in my life like I am going to I often joke about but it's true. I've got two daughters, right both under the age of four and they are both going to be doing selling as soon as they can speak they're on the telephones asking strangers for money and the reason why is that just teaches you so much about people, about what motivates people. It didn't stop with me in that sales job like I went I moved over to London I used to work in call floors with 200 people on them and calling people from all over the world. I've made over a million cold calls in my life and when you do that you learn so much and you learn so much about people of all different races, ages, genders and it's just like that in the trenches, down in the dirt experiences of doing like research of speaking with literally thousands, hundreds of thousands of people throughout my career.
