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Eat What You Kill

Sam Taggart

Succeed in commission-based sales through discipline, resilience, consistent action, and full ownership of your results.

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Eat What You Kill

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What's it about?

Eat What You Kill (2025) presents a direct and energetic approach to building a successful sales career. Sam Taggart explains how salespeople can create their own opportunities, establish productive routines, adapt their message to different customers, and remain motivated after rejection. The book emphasises personal responsibility, consistent prospecting, confidence, and disciplined execution as foundations for stronger sales results.

Key ideas

  • Salespeople on commission create their own opportunities instead of waiting for leads or favourable conditions to appear.
  • Productive daily routines are the foundation of sales results, and they only work when you follow them consistently.
  • Consistent prospecting keeps the pipeline full, so it should be treated as a habit and not an occasional effort.
  • Your message works better when you adapt it to the type of customer in front of you.
  • Rejection is part of the job, and staying motivated after it depends on confidence and personal responsibility.

About the author

Sam Taggart is an American entrepreneur, sales trainer, speaker, and founder of D2D Experts, a company specialising in direct sales education. He began his career in door-to-door sales before building training programmes for sales professionals and business owners. His work focuses on prospecting, communication, personal accountability, team development, and creating repeatable sales systems.

Questions people ask

Who is Eat What You Kill by Sam Taggart for?

It is written for people building a career in commission-based sales, where income depends directly on their own effort and results.

What is the main idea of Eat What You Kill?

Sales success comes from discipline, resilience, consistent action, and taking full ownership of your results, rather than blaming circumstances.

How long is the Durar summary of Eat What You Kill?

The Durar summary takes about 15 minutes to read or listen to. It covers the book's approach to prospecting, routines, adapting your message, and recovering from rejection.

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