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Your first step toward winning those people over wouldbe to not look at or think of them as "liberal nut jobs".
A long time ago a mentor told me that when on the phone trying to sell people stuff to keep a mirror on the wall above my desk directly at my seated eye level. When talking with a mark...errr, potential customer always without fail look into this mirror and sell myself on the grift....errr, package. Be sure to smile and to pause paying attention to speak normally as I would to my own self. Do this and the results will carry over and through the phone to that person on the other side of the line.
I was told as much back when I was fresh out of HS and working my way through college, I think I was like 19 or 20 at the time. I thought he was full of dookie. Then one day on a goof I tried it.
That mirror stayed on my wall for a month and my sales numbers went up. I'm 36 now and run my own company keeping two offices. Guess what I have always kept above my desk and people commonly ask about thinking I'm nutty or simply vain. Yep, a mirror.
So whats that got to do with the cost of Winchester Whitebox?
When talking with liberals who are gun adverse, very likely gun ignorant which largely is no fault of their own, and are generally distrustful of conservativ and/or republican gun crazy nutjobs, it's important that you not challenge them with barbs or brwo beat them with rolly eyes, redfaced vitriol or cover their face in spittle. Just talk to them as though you are talking to yourself, sell them the package via a vis you.
Look into their face and see yourself before you were gun comfrotable, gun knowledgeable and not a nut job.
Some of us liberals require stats, others may require a little understanding as to how exactly a firearm actually works mechanically as we generally only here of them as being inherently evil like snakes, spiders and corporations. Others may have had bad experiences with other gun friendly nut jobs taking them out for a day of shooting only to be handed some handbreaker 454 Casull or a 3.25" Magnum shotty loaded with slug and no instruction as to how to proper hold & handle the firearm only to be laughed at upon discharge and flying backward to land square on their butt. Liberals and people in general have very many varying reasons for not wanting to have anythign to do with firearms and/or for looking at those of us who do as nut jobs.
So in closing take it easy, it takes time, and know that it's easier to catch fish with a net than it is to shoot the few who leap into the proverbial barrel.
Keep on truckin' mate but just let backon the gas a little as you'll save fuel and go alot farther in the end.
Oh and I almost forgot, welcome to the board.
- Janq is a liberal who just so happens to like guns and is pro-CCW
Your first step toward winning those people over wouldbe to not look at or think of them as "liberal nut jobs".
A long time ago a mentor told me that when on the phone trying to sell people stuff to keep a mirror on the wall above my desk directly at my seated eye level. When talking with a mark...errr, potential customer always without fail look into this mirror and sell myself on the grift....errr, package. Be sure to smile and to pause paying attention to speak normally as I would to my own self. Do this and the results will carry over and through the phone to that person on the other side of the line.
I was told as much back when I was fresh out of HS and working my way through college, I think I was like 19 or 20 at the time. I thought he was full of dookie. Then one day on a goof I tried it.
That mirror stayed on my wall for a month and my sales numbers went up. I'm 36 now and run my own company keeping two offices. Guess what I have always kept above my desk and people commonly ask about thinking I'm nutty or simply vain. Yep, a mirror.
So whats that got to do with the cost of Winchester Whitebox?
When talking with liberals who are gun adverse, very likely gun ignorant which largely is no fault of their own, and are generally distrustful of conservativ and/or republican gun crazy nutjobs, it's important that you not challenge them with barbs or brwo beat them with rolly eyes, redfaced vitriol or cover their face in spittle. Just talk to them as though you are talking to yourself, sell them the package via a vis you.
Look into their face and see yourself before you were gun comfrotable, gun knowledgeable and not a nut job.
Some of us liberals require stats, others may require a little understanding as to how exactly a firearm actually works mechanically as we generally only here of them as being inherently evil like snakes, spiders and corporations. Others may have had bad experiences with other gun friendly nut jobs taking them out for a day of shooting only to be handed some handbreaker 454 Casull or a 3.25" Magnum shotty loaded with slug and no instruction as to how to proper hold & handle the firearm only to be laughed at upon discharge and flying backward to land square on their butt. Liberals and people in general have very many varying reasons for not wanting to have anythign to do with firearms and/or for looking at those of us who do as nut jobs.
So in closing take it easy, it takes time, and know that it's easier to catch fish with a net than it is to shoot the few who leap into the proverbial barrel.
Keep on truckin' mate but just let backon the gas a little as you'll save fuel and go alot farther in the end.
Oh and I almost forgot, welcome to the board.
- Janq is a liberal who just so happens to like guns and is pro-CCW
