Why do sales guys speak so loud?

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: Why do sales guys speak so loud?

BTW: Do you know why people get into sales?

No one plans to make a career out of sales. Have you ever asked a young person what they want to be when they grow up and they say that they want to be a sales person?

Most get in sales because they have no other options. Make of that what you will.

[tsbservice]

Re: Why do sales guys speak so loud?

IMHO they speak loudly in order to sound more important than they actually are.

Good point slim I like it. Nevertheless in my eyes good salesman worth his/her weight in gold. I saw it only once while I worked through the years with several good techs.

The good news is that there's a high turnover in sales so hopefully the loud ones are replaced.

I value your opinions in this topic. Seemed quite logical even I'm biased toward other ends.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: Why do sales guys speak so loud?

Slim is correct that some people talk loud in an attempt to try to sound important or they just want to be noticed.


Like I said, I've worked in both sales and service. My dad was a car dealer and as a kid, he used to take me to work with him in the summer and on weekends. I vividly remember watching the sales staff sell a car to a customer. I also noticed that most of the customers all had the same questions and that the sales staff were really prepared for those questions/concerns because they heard them over and over again.

When I was about 12, I was convinced that I could sell a car so I begged my dad to let me try. I was dead serious. He, on the other hand, got a big kick out of it and just laughed. But I didn't drop it. I made him tell me why he wouldn't give me a chance to sell a car. After he stopped laughing, he told me that I was a 12 year old kid and that no one would buy a car from me. I didn't like that answer but it made a lot sense.

[BillyCarpenter]

Re: Why do sales guys speak so loud?

What observations have we made about a copier tech?

Here's the one that comes to mind for me.

At every dealership that I ever worked, there was always one tech that was a dick. He thought he knew more than anyone else. He didn't share any information and it made me want to punch them in the face.

[mloudy]

Re: Why do sales guys speak so loud?

Throat punch sales reps and face punch service techs.

On serious note I recently ran into the grandson of the owner of an auto dealership that was around up until about 20 years ago. It was a family owned dealership and the owner and his boys were all what I considered upstanding "gentlemen". Fast forward to today and I get to work on the copiers and printers in the sales offices of dealerhships. As many of you have experienced as a tech we tend to disappear after a few minutes on-site and get to hear things we which we hadn't. Yikes! F this, F that, that F'in idiot.

I will say that the old dealership that have been family owned for generations seems to have a better group of sales reps that at least act like they are professionals when I am around.

I would much rather have a 12 year old come greet me in the car lot than most of the guys I have dealt with over the years.