It happens at the most inopportune time…sitting down for dinner, putting the kids down or after just opening the front door to get a little light in the house.
Doorbell rings, salesman smiles and holds up (insert name of useless things that you buy at Wal-Mart…if indeed you ever buy). As a matter of pre-caution the storm door is always locked. The poor saps who come to our door hear the same message “We don’t buy anything from door-to-door salesmen”.
Door-to-Door was the brave new world of face-to-face marketing through the 1950’s. Many items were sold in the spring by a flurry of salespeople…including brushes, vacuum cleaners, fabric, etc. Homeowners typically welcomed the visit and planned in advance to purchase from their local salesperson. The times they have achanged.
Now, with the omnipresence of the internet and a more savvy consumer, few, if any, purchases occur via the front door. And with sales techniques becoming decidedly more pushy fewer and fewer are welcome in homes, let alone on the front stoop. The internet, and it’s endless stream of social networking sites, will inform and educate neighbors literally in minutes, thereby shutting down any opportunity for at least half of the homes on the street. The remaining face-to-face opportunity at that point is with the local police officer!
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