prospecting: Add my detector, pan and shovel... ready for adventure around Sandy UT - 03/04/14 09:45 AM
Add my detector, pan and shovel... ready for adventure around Sandy UT
Winter allows for dreaming and reading and planning. What to tackle in the warmer times?
One of my hobbies is looking for gold. I will settle for silver, meteorites or forgotten treasure.
My early training in Archaeology included Geology and an interest in alluvial gold. Utah provides my playground - a State with a history of mineral wealth (I live a few miles from the World's largest open cut copper mine and a short distance from historic silver wealth in canyons of the Wasatch Front) with much documentation of early sites.
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prospecting: Always prospecting - 06/12/12 09:22 AM
Always prospecting I enjoy being a salesman. I promote No Limits No Excuses.
Early on, I came to realize that making a sale was not the victory, and that success in sales was a long journey. Make a sale and I am unemployed again for indeed, I work for me.

Various mentors and trainers have talked about "keeping the hopper full", tree shaking', "looking at my 90 days out" etc. Roughly translated this means that a sales business is a living thing, mostly if there is no continuous activity, then predictable outcomes are at best haphazard.
The one constant for … (7 comments)

prospecting: I look for gold, but along the way... - 06/05/12 08:54 AM
I look for gold, but along the way...
Utah is mineral and gem rich. During active prospecting times, gold did not run out ~ people just stopped looking. 19th century writings of prospecting and mining in Utah are a "goldmine " of information, indicating the extent of the wealth.
Utah is home to a world's largest open-cut copper mine, the Bingham Mine, seen in the distance from my home in Sandy UT, as well as from space. The Bingham Mine is a disappeared mountain from ninety years of digging, now a mile deep, producing gold as well as copper.
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prospecting: Great weather for farming - 07/21/11 02:48 AM

Great weather for farming Gentle breezes and temperatures in the low nineties make for a pleasant time to be on the ground in my farm.
Door knocking is proving to be easier than expected, in all, a pleasant experience. Consistency in contact has led to more conversations as people have gotten used to my various forms of transport.
My 3-wheel scooter places me at a good height for communicating and it handles the varying terrain with ease. It is also a stable platform for photography as I update pictures appropriate to the season in my farm area.
When I am … (2 comments)

prospecting: Prospecting - a daily routine - 07/14/11 02:58 PM

Prospecting - a daily routine Clients are where you find them. A lot of factors have to align, a lot of different methods employed.
Intersecting with a person who wishes to buy or sell a house, or who is even remotely contemplating it, is like a return to the hunter-gatherer era and to be in search for food. For someone involved in sales it feels like the ultimate survival.
You have your favorite methods; from mildly annoying lots of people by cold-calling, doorknocking and other more "subtle" forms of farming, opportunity taking at networking functions and using the social media … (7 comments)

prospecting: 100 Day Attack - 70 days in - 04/12/11 06:53 AM

100 Day Attack - 70 days in
Clients, Clients, Clients - the quest continues.
The edges of impossible are being rolled back by persistent, consistent effort, and with a 10% increase in activity each ten days. Prospecting, the most important part of my day, is now instinctive.
More calls, more farming activity, more follow up. "Keep contacting until they tell me to stop" - and, by and large, they don't (used to be my limiting self belief, now dispatched by installing new habits).
An increase of 10% in my exercise routines each ten days of the attack is making me … (19 comments)