Land­scape Designer?! What on Earth does that have to do with MLM prospecting?

Truth­fully, very lit­tle, unless you’re like me and you learn from ALL your expe­ri­ences and apply them to what you’re doing today…

I bring this up because I ran into some­one I used to work with at a Land­scape Design/​Build Firm here in Tuc­son last night at a net­work­ing event.

Her name is Diana Turner and she is an AMAZING designer who is pas­sion­ate about what she does and cre­ates some very unique and cre­ative land­scapes for her clients.

Diana branched out on her own a few months before I quit and you can find out a lit­tle more about her at her web­site: http://​www​.turner​-design​.com/

Any­way, I learned a lot dur­ing my time there — prob­a­bly enough to write mul­ti­ple posts.

But today, I’m going to talk about the les­son I learned from Diana Turner about talk­ing on the phone with prospects.

You see, when I started at Santa Rita Land­scap­ing, I was new to the entire industry.

Sure, I had a degree in Fine Arts from the Uni­ver­sity of Arizona…

Sure, I had grown up work­ing with my Dad in the con­struc­tion industry…

But I had no idea how to be a Land­scape Designer!

• I didn’t know how to use CAD to draw plans.
• I didn’t know the dif­fer­ence between a cac­tus and a succulent.
• I didn’t know the stan­dard dimen­sions of a BBQ enclosure.
• I didn’t know the code for installing a gas line.
• I didn’t know a poly-​​line from an emitter.

You get the point — there was a lot I didn’t know!

(Come to think of it, I must have done an amaz­ing sales job to get past the head of HR and the Design/​Build Man­ager…) Con­tinue read­ing 4 Things I Learned About Talk­ing to Prospects from My Time As A Land­scape Designer