Slow Down When You Sell
13 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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Slower speech makes you more persuasive. A salesperson should deliberately slow down when they mean what they say, balancing energy without sounding hyper. Match your vocal style to the moment.

Slower speech makes you more persuasive. A salesperson should deliberately slow down when they mean what they say, balancing energy without sounding hyper. Match your vocal style to the moment.
There's significant research that indicates that, like, the slower you talk, the more persuasive you are. That's what I'm working on. Yeah, I said that for you. I have to come up for sales. That's me. Jack needs to come down. It's normal, though. Like, everybody had— like, everybody sits on a spectrum normally, and then you just, like, you shift to where you need to be. TL;DR: slow down when you mean it. And then in terms of, like, how you start the sale, it's like, I want to be upbeat but not a child. High energy, but not hyper.