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How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
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10-27-2006, 08:29 PM
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Trade: remodeling/specializing in kitchen & baths
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: midwest
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How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
i am what i am and dress accordingly. always dark blue carhart jeans (never faded) and a pressed button shirt ( good quality or company w/ logo) and a good pair of echos. jobs can range from 3 to 200 thousand. what do you wear?
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10-27-2006, 08:44 PM
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Trade: Doors-Windows-Decks
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Dress pants, button up long sleeve shirt, polished shoes. Once in a while I will throw on a tie and a jacket.
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10-27-2006, 08:48 PM
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Trade: Painting Contractor
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
kakis and polo type shirt
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10-27-2006, 08:48 PM
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Trade: remodeling/specializing in kitchen & baths
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Location: midwest
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
excellent doug. if i dressed like that my employees would ask "who died" lol
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10-27-2006, 08:57 PM
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
It makes them happy, they know that I am out selling so they will have work to do. When the see me in jeans we have a problem.
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10-27-2006, 09:34 PM
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General Contractor
Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Coronado, CA (Just outside San Diego)
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Khaki shorts, construction boots, T-shirt. people like knowing the guy doing the bid is a hands on worker (at least around here)
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10-27-2006, 10:14 PM
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Don
Trade: Paint Contractor
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Winston Salem NC
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Painter whites, company tee, work boots.
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10-27-2006, 10:18 PM
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Trade: General Contractor
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Hennessey, Oklahoma
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
If I show up at a customers home or business, i look like I do on my job sites. Levi's and tee or shirt, work boots. I am not out looking for work, they find me. And I agree with the idea, everyone will have a different opinion, but I am not dressing up to go over details of a steel building or a roof dressed like I will have lunch at the Sage Room.
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10-27-2006, 11:01 PM
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Trade: Custom deck builder
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
I just kind of depends upon when it is and if I think I need the work or not... Most of the time I shower and shave at least the morning of (instead of the night before) I wear jeans (no stains or holes) and a t shirt (company) and sometime the work boots go on and sometimes just shoes. I have gone in work clothes and work boots before.
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10-27-2006, 11:29 PM
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Flooring? What's that?
Trade: Flooring
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ohio
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls? Tan Khakis, Black Polo w/ Logo, Belt, Dress boots, And a million dollar smile
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10-27-2006, 11:56 PM
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Trade: General Contracting / Electrical Contracting
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Depends on the client and the project.
Residential- pantsuit Commercial- skirt or suit
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10-28-2006, 12:04 AM
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Ok Purdy:
cleint #1 gangsta rapper, how do you dress? client #2 farmer " " clint #3 banker " " client #4 a tradesperson " " |
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10-28-2006, 12:11 AM
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?Quote:
Enough detail... lol Point is, dress according to the situation. It makes a statement of who you are.
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10-28-2006, 12:14 AM
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Ok, so you got all of the colors going on, you completly forgot footwear>
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10-28-2006, 12:17 AM
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Of course not, heels with the skirts, flats with the pantsuits, boots with the jeans. Matching purses of course. haha
The stilletto's are reserved for the after hours meetings with the banker you mentioned. 
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10-28-2006, 12:25 AM
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
Since I know nothing about my clients show up dressed the same way everytime. Once I meat them I go back to my car and ad to my costume.
Gangsta rapper--place a joint in my mouth farmer--place redman or skoal in my mouth banker--place a dollar in my mouth tradesperson--all 3 of the above in my mouth |
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10-28-2006, 12:48 AM
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Trade: Painter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pgh, PA
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
I usually show up in my work pants which shows yes I am a painter. However I toss on my clean shoes & shirt so I'm not too dirty or track crap in their house.
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10-28-2006, 01:03 PM
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Trade: kitchen cabinet maker and installer
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: near Swindon in England
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
If I haven't met them before then I will usually wear fairly casual stuff but with a clean shirt and a necktie, usually one my wife made for me from material printed with various cartoon cats. This is a nice combination of my demonstrating that I am concerned enough with their opinion of me to make an effort, with a friendly and casual element as well, to put them at their ease
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10-28-2006, 02:12 PM
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Trade: Fence Contractor
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
If the estimate is on the weekend, or other non field day, clean jeans, sneakers, and a nice button shirt. After work I try to at least change my shirt into a clean gray tshirt, but I always load up on the deoderant.
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10-28-2006, 03:03 PM
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Trade: From dirt to ridge vent
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Re: How Do You Dress For Sales Calls?
I go naked.
Bob
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