Brian Schweitzer's life as a salesman
Above all, Schweitzer is Montana's premier salesman. Never a desk jockey who enjoys refereeing bureaucratic turf wars, Schweitzer instead crisscrosses the country to lure energy and other businesses here. "It's a little like when I've been in the bull business," he tells a press conference in September when releasing the Labor Day report on the economy. "You show a bull to somebody and you go through the record. You tell them, 'Imagine the calves that you'll get from this bull.' "That's the way you sell things. You've got to go out and make personal relationships with people. And sometimes you call them once, twice, three times, and you can't even get in the front door to see them. And you call them four and five times, you get in the front door to see them. After some more prodding, you get them to come out and take a look at your product. In our case, the product is Montana."
From the Billings Gazette: "Above all, Schweitzer is Montana's premier salesman. Never a desk jockey who enjoys refereeing bureaucratic turf wars, Schweitzer instead crisscrosses the country to lure energy and other businesses here.
"It's a little like when I've been in the bull business," he tells a press conference in September when releasing the Labor Day report on the economy. "You show a bull to somebody and you go through the record. You tell them, 'Imagine the calves that you'll get from this bull.'
"That's the way you sell things. You've got to go out and make personal relationships with people. And sometimes you call them once, twice, three times, and you can't even get in the front door to see them. And you call them four and five times, you get in the front door to see them. After some more prodding, you get them to come out and take a look at your product. In our case, the product is Montana." Read the entire article...
