Stories of Selling Human Stories of Selling Human Wine, Sales, and How to Make Exceptional Experiences - Laurie Forster, The Wine Coach - Sell By Being Human

Episode 97

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3rd May 2023

Wine, Sales, and How to Make Exceptional Experiences - Laurie Forster, The Wine Coach

Summary:

Laurie Forster is one of America’s leading wine experts and author of the award-winning book The Sipping Point: A Crash Course in Wine. Laurie is a Certified Sommelier, National Speaker and TV personality who is not afraid to tell you her first wine came from a box. Her edgy approach to demystifying wine caught the eye of major networks and led her to guest appearances on The Dr Oz Show, FOX Morning News, Martha Stewart Living Today and ABC News at Noon.

I first met Laurie when our company fired her to run a virtual wine tasting experience for clients. She popped off the screen and was really able to get attendees to open up. This is skill of creating comfortable experiences for people to share is so key in selling anything. This episode you'll learn how Laurie creates experiences, what her Mom taught her about sales, and also what she learned moving from software sales to a Wine entrepreneur.

Key Moments:

5:11 - Laurie's road and what she learned in software sales. Making complicated things simple.

7:30 - How she engages her audience and connects with people in her events. Connect, Being Present, Educating.

10:11 - Laurie's definition of coaching and difference between teaching

12:20 - The difference of a boring sommelier and an exciting sommelier

15:30 - What convinced Laurie to get out of sales and into the wine business.

21:00 - How Laurie give people things to do and make what she's doing Less Crazy Than...

Connect with Laurie!

  • LinkedIN
  • Laurie's Website - Book Laurie for en event. Your clients will tell you it will be one of the most memorable experiences and they'll really appreciate you for doing it!

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About the Podcast

Sell By Being Human
We all want to be heard, seen, and understood. This podcast shares stories of how all humans sell just by being great humans.
I believe that all people want to be heard, seen, and understood. But how do we get people to hear, see, and understand us effectively? Salespeople train themselves on techniques to do this but there are people doing it well without the word sales showing up anywhere in their job title or job description. This podcast is designed to help us hone our human skills, understand subtle similarities between non-sales people and salespeople, and show how we can learn from both groups the next time we need to create change and sell by being human.

You will learn from people throughout all walks of life. Nurses, coaches, janitors, event planners, HR executives, and architects. Just to name a few. We'll contrast them with trained sales people to show similarities and differences. There's an art to human connection and sales. We all do it differently and we can all learn from our every day human interactions.

Please contact me and let me know who you see in your life selling by being human! I want to shine a light on them.

alex.smith@docebo.com
215-622-6670
@asmith202
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcsmith/

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