PUSHY PEGGY

A simple question turned into a sales pitch.

This is what makes my skin crawl and I will never be ‘that person.’  You know the one that you try to avoid at parties.  The one that you dread calling.  The one that is always talking about themselves.  You are having a conversation with them and it ALWAYS turns to them and them trying to ‘sell’ you.

I send a simple text to an agent telling her that I was showing her house and had a quick ‘yes or no’ question.

Well, 15 minutes later I found out that she was doing an open house on Saturday and that ‘if you have any buyers send them by’… and that she had another listing that needed to sell. 

This always gets me…

If I had asked about the other properties or wanted to show them, I would have.  No need to be ‘Pushy Peggy!’

You know the type.

I get a sense of people fairly quickly, but I can never figure out ‘Pushy Peggy’… Is she extremely confident?  Or is she so insecure that she always needs to be Pushing/Selling?

I figure that if you do your job in the beginning.  Do your homework up front.  Then you don’t need to be that Pushy Salesperson.  See, if you lead with content, then your character has been conveyed before anyone actually meets you they already know who you are and what you stand for.  The conversations that follow are pretty cool as they flow because there is a baseline of content/knowledge and the conversations can take a deeper, more personal tone.

Unlike Pushy Peggy who is always selling, always promoting there is Content Charlie who never has to sell, he just publishes content about who he is and what he stands for and people either decide that ‘I like that guy and what he stands for…or they don’t like you.’  But there is never pushiness!

Do you know a ‘Pushy Peggy?’