Following on from yesterdays Blog I was chatting on the phone with Mike Safely of NorthWest Alpacas about the complete lack of sales training in this industry.

Having started life with IBM as a large account salesman I had to graduate from their notorious sales school before being let loose on real customers. This was back in days when computers came on semi trailers and needed water cooling.



Anyway I digress. What occurred to us during the phone conversation was that there is probably a real demand out there to teach alpaca breeders how to sell. Now as I type this I can already hear some toes curling at the thought of doing some "selling" or even "cold calling" an AOBA lead to see if they want to visit your farm. Its so much easier to send 3,000 emails than make onereal phone call.

But I really believe that sales skills are one of the critical success factors that separates successful alpaca breeders from ordinary alpaca breeders.

Let me know what you think adrian @mulberryalpacas.com

And remember enjoy today because one day this will be the good old days!

Adrian Stewart