Lessons learned from selling supercars, taking a non traditional career path & working in high pressure environments

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Lessons learned from selling supercars, taking a non traditional career path & working in high pressure environments

What you’ll learn from this interview:

His experience working at McLaren and the level of service required when your clients are dropping $1 Million+ on a car
His experience working in high pressure environments as a Ferrari race mechanic at Bathurst 12 Hour
How customer service and sales has evolved and how he applies this at his latest role with Mercedes Benz

My guest today is Daniel Prince. He’s had a fascinating career as a race mechanic, a technician with McLaren and most recently a product specialist for Mercedes Benz.

I wanted to share Daniel’s story because he had a non traditional path and the stories and lessons from his career are fascinating.

IG: @dannny_prince

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Lessons learned from selling supercars, taking a non traditional career path & working in high pressure environments

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published 5 years ago

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Lessons learned from selling supercars, taking a non traditional career path & working in high pressure environments

What you’ll learn from this interview:

His experience working at McLaren and the level of service required when your clients are dropping $1 Million+ on a car
His experience working in high pressure environments as a Ferrari race mechanic at Bathurst 12 Hour
How customer service and sales has evolved and how he applies this at his latest role with Mercedes Benz

My guest today is Daniel Prince. He’s had a fascinating career as a race mechanic, a technician with McLaren and most recently a product specialist for Mercedes Benz.

I wanted to share Daniel’s story because he had a non traditional path and the stories and lessons from his career are fascinating.

IG: @dannny_prince

Bathurst 12 Hour Doco

67 episodes

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The James Harrisson Show

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Why the tough conversations we avoid are the key to our success (and how to have more of them) 46:20

6 years ago46:20