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Originally Posted by issybird
 A long time ago now, I moved from New York City to California and I became aware, after a while, that I seemed to be interrupting people a lot. This embarrassed me, of course, and I started to pay attention to my timing. Shortly thereafter, I read an article in the NY Times on geographic differences in conversation, which said that in New York, it was courteous to interrupt people. You were signaling that you were engaged, that you were interested in what the person said and conversations would proceed in this manner. Clearly I had taken my New York ways to an environment where that did not hold and I only became aware of it because instead of furthering a conversation, I was being signaled, presumably by a slight halt in the talk, that my manner was unacceptable. Phew! I wasn't quite the innate bumpkin I had started to think, I just hadn't acclimated yet. |
How salespeople sell is also different depending on the region. My wife and I used to travel doing jewelry restyling shows. We had been in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey for about six weeks and then flew to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I laughed because my wife for got where we were and was (trying) to sell like we were still in the Northeast.
Trust me it doesn't work.
Apache