I thought I would finish my week by inspiring you with the worst sales story of my life. I don’t know exactly what day it was as I began my sales career but one thing I will never forget was that it was a day for the ages. My manager was the kind of teacher that had a very insecure personality.

When he went door to door, to cover up for the insecurity he felt when people insulted him at the door he had perfected a way to insult them back without them knowing it until he was gone.

Well, being a new trainee I definitely had not mastered that skill. By the way I never tried to master that absurd so-called skill. But what happened to me that night while I was working was something that leaves a lasting impression!

I knocked on this family’s door and the man of the house did not want to let me in, so I made some wisecrack comment and before I could blink this 40+ older gentleman knocked me over the railing of his porch. Within seconds several of his neighbors in the trailer park jumped in and held me while this man beat me into unconsciousness, literally. They beat me so bad they left my body in a ditch and the police found me at 2 o’clock am the next morning unconscious in a ditch. Don’t ask me what made me come back to pursue this great industry but maybe it was destiny at work as I became the most prolific “Stranger at the Door”! Hence the name of the website!

Even though this is perhaps the worst sales story I have ever heard it just goes to show you that the human spirit can overcome anything if you are willing to persevere.

“The Specialist”