The D2D Podcast: The Ultimate Door-to-Door Sales Training Show for Reps, Managers, and Business Owners

An alarming number of people wallow in mediocrity despite having enormous potential bottled inside them. Why do they underachieve even while having diamonds in them? Simple: they failed to discover such potential, however sparkling. This is what Sam Taggart addresses in this podcast. In this episode, Sam teaches us how to dig inside, identify our strengths, polish them, and unleash such strengths...

The 21st century is bursting with societal pressure. No thanks to Instagram and the internet, there is enormous pressure on each of us to look fashionable and jump on the happening trend. Consequently, there is so much confusion and distraction that it is easy to be swayed off with a million different and contrasting desires each day. Owing to such lack of clarity, we struggle to fulfill the genui...

It is becoming rare to be the first-ever rep to knock on a door. Most likely, many reps would have knocked before you – and at times, a significant fraction of your predecessors would sell the exact service you are. Let us face it, neighborhoods are becoming saturated with reps. But some people are yet hitting remarkable sales numbers in those very supposedly saturated neighborhoods. Magic? NO!  T...

What is your excuse in life for underperforming? What really justifies that lack of hope you are stuck in? Alex Hoffman has probably been in worse situations, but he pulled himself right back up. From being in prison to becoming the owner of Protek, a leading roofing solution in Tampa Bay, Alex has had his fair share of the dark times. In this podcast, Alex teaches us how he managed to turn his li...

Talking about epic comeback stories in the roofing and construction world, and you would be right to mention Philip Sanov. How would his story be omitted when he bounced back from being declared dead in March 1997 to becoming the renowned trial attorney at Morgan and Morgan (the leading insurance company in the roofing and construction niche)? How did he achieve such incredible feats? Well, Philip...

Thank you for listening! Don't miss out on future episodes! Subscribe to The D2D Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Follow us on Facebook and Instagram . You may also watch this podcast on YouTube ! You may also follow Sam Taggart on Facebook , Instagram , and TikTok for more nuggets on D2D and Sales Tips.

Hello People! On today’s podcast, we have got the legendary Daniel Schofield. Daniel rightly passes as one of the “Marvel Superheroes” of the pest control direct sales industry. Come on, isn’t it superhuman that Daniel has sold 5,200 pest control account in just the last five years??? Daniel holds the record for the biggest sales in a week: hitting 31 accounts. He also holds the belt for the bigge...

Success is best achieved collaboratively. This explains why some of the most successful businesses today started as partnerships. Given the said enhanced success rate, why do partnerships end up failing most times? To get an actionable and authoritative answer to this, we brought  Judd Stanger and Brian Schonbeck on this podcast to extensively educate us on the dynamics of building successful part...

The typical sales rep’s journey is made of highs and lows – episodes of remarkable success and those of underwhelming performances. We all hit slumps, but how do you bounce back to your peak state? In this podcast, Connor Free, a true mentality machine with over 300 solar accounts sold in a year, teaches us the mechanics of overcoming slumps and downturns in performance, generating and sustainable...

Thank you for listening! Don't miss out on future episodes! Subscribe to The D2D Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Follow us on Facebook and Instagram . You may also watch this podcast on YouTube ! You may also follow Sam Taggart on Facebook , Instagram , and TikTok for more nuggets on D2D and Sales Tips.

Measure the beautiful life we have today to that of the 1950s, the TikTok, Instagram, and fabulous selfies. Much has changed, thanks to technology.  The same technological evolutions have also spilled to the door-to-door sales industry, with sales reps now preferring to work smarter and more efficiently via automation. But how efficiently have you been leveraging technology? How well have you been...

It is natural, your insurance providers want to pay less. Come on, they are a for-profit business not funded by the United Nations, so it is only normal for them to strive to cut payments at all opportunities.  Sadly, such costs often mean the carrier underpaying you. This could mean a deficit of a couple of hundred bucks, thousands, and even millions, depending on the enormity of your insurance c...

Commonly in the direct sales world, you find sales reps struggling to reach maximal performance. For the few that manage to reach top speed, they soon suffer mental wear and burnout. Eventually, they hit a high and lose the motivation or drive to keep on slinging deals. To better cure this door-to-door-sales pandemic, we bring on two exceptional performers in the direct sales space. Drew Hansen an...

In the door-to-door world, sales reps tend to be experts at making money but flop at managing money. It is not uncommon to find sales reps already cash broke by the end of the season and asking for an advance.  What we lack fundamentally is the capacity to plan our finances and maximize taxation dynamics to ensure we are either saving an incredibly substantial chunk of our income or compounding it...

Statistics show that between 50-80% of partnerships fail within the first 2-3 years . Why is this number this massive? It is simply because of the delicateness of partnerships. Not everyone is adequately informed on the mechanics of successful partnerships. Starved of the know-how of partnerships work sustainably, it is only natural that such businesses fail soonest. In this podcast, we bring two...

What really is achievement? There are a million and one interpretations of achievement.  For some, achievement is wholly financial. These individuals tie dollar signs to all their feats in life. But does it end up fulfilling? Most times, NO. In this podcast, Sam Taggart, shows us how to truly achieve the things that matter most in life without sacrificing our happiness. This podcast emphasizes cre...

Commonly, we see being introverted as a weakness, but what if you can turn it around to your strength? Tell you what, sanguineness helps in closing deals, but you can still find your way around it. In this podcast, Matthew Pollard, an award-winning sales authority and certified introvert, teaches us how to sell in an honest, genuine, and low-pressure way, for once doing away with all those aggress...

Most times, we commonly hear leaders are born. We tend to believe leadership is a gift that you are naturally endowed with. But this is incorrect. Leadership is a skill, and when best to learn leadership other than as a child? This is what Graham Dessert teaches us on this podcast. Graham espouses building the systems and thought patterns that enable you to instill leadership and entrepreneurship...

Often the door to door industry is readily mistaken for a macho world. People on the outside think it is a masculine-leaning job more suited to men than women.  Such assumptions are not unconnected to the relative scarcity of women in door to door sales.  But this is absurd; JUST ANYONE CAN KNOCK ON DOORS AND SELL. Women can excel in door to door if they are appropriately empowered. How? This is w...

Doug C. Brown is the CEO and business consultant at Business Success Factors. Boasting a sprawling business development experience, Doug has grown 35 companies, thanks to a sales career that started as early as age 3.  At points in his career, Doug has served as a president of sales companies owned by Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins. In this podcast, Doug explains some of the core, but fatal mistakes...

Sam Taggart is the CEO of D2D, Host of D2Dcon, Author of ABC’$ of Closing and D2Dplanner, and founder of the D2Duniversity, the world's leading door to door sales training and consulting platform.  This podcast teaches us how the ingenious secret of achieving at least 95% of our New Year resolutions. With the year drawing to a close and 2021 drawing closer, a lot of us – just like we did for...

John C. Maxwell is a renowned American speaker and author, and a leading authority in leadership. Named No. 1 leadership and management expert on the planet by Inc. Magazine IN May 2014, Maxwell is one of the few prestigious 25 authors that made it into Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame.  Three of John Maxwell's leadership books, namely Developing the Leader Within You, 21 Indis...

Hal Elrod is a successful American author and success coach. Famed for his bestseller, The Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod is an expert on maximizing your daily productivity via killer mornings. No one better can teach us the power of starting the day on a strong note. Declared clinically dead after a fatal accident that cut his Mustang in half, leaving him with 11 broken bones, severed nerves, a ruptu...

Communication is terribly important in our contemporary society. Simply put, communication is the lifeblood of relationships. The more people interact – positively and genuinely – the more reinforced the sentimental connection between them. ⁠ ⁠ In this podcast, Andrew Mackay explicitly breaks down the importance of communication and how vital it is to create a positive culture that fosters product...

Brad Lea is a famed authority in the web-based training industry. More specifically, Brad Lea is the CEO of LightSpeed VT, a revolutionary intuitive virtual training software. An established name in direct sales, Brad Lea leverages an enormous pile of experience hoarded across 25 years of crushing it in the Automotive Industry.  In this podcast, Brad Lea shares his coveted nuggets on training top-...