Sam Taggart

D2DCon Founder & Host • CEO, The D2D Experts

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The D2D Experts

D2Dcon Speaker

World’s #1 D2D coach who built the biggest direct sales conference, trained 1,000+ companies, and now scales sales empires across solar, pest, roofing, alarms, and beyond.

Key Achievements

Founder & CEO, The D2D Experts (1,000+ companies served)
200+ keynotes delivered worldwide
Best-selling author: Eat What You Kill, D2D Blueprint, ABC’s of Closing
Founder & host, D2DCon — world’s biggest direct sales conference

Short bio

Sam Taggart is the founder of The D2D Experts and the architect of D2DCon—the world’s biggest direct sales conference, hosted annually in Salt Lake City. From his start in solar door-to-door, Sam has built a multi-company empire focused on training, recruiting, and retaining top sales talent across solar, pest, alarms, roofing, telecom, and home services.

A best-selling author of Eat What You Kill, D2D Blueprint, and ABC’s of Closing, Sam has been featured on CBS, Fox News, and USA Today. His coaching frameworks have been adopted by Vivint, Lumio, ADT, GAF, Brightside, and Hawx.

Beyond speaking and authorship, Sam runs Vanilla (AI texting), D2DU (online training), XPAND (leadership coaching software), and the Taggart Bucketlist Mastermind—and is a real estate investor with 150+ apartment units. His mission: unify, uplevel, and bring honor & integrity to direct sales.

Industry tags

Solar
Pest
Roofing
Alarms
Smart Home
Leadership
Recruiting

D2DCon 9 (2026)

D2DCon appearances

D2DCON 2018
D2DCON 2019
D2DCON 2020
D2DCON 2021
D2DCON 2022
D2DCON 2023
D2DCON 2024
D2DCON 2025
D2DCON 2026
D2DCON 2027

Steal the Playbook

1) “Eat What You Kill” — Build a Sales Carnivore Culture

Why: Comfort kills hunger. Reps who thrive treat every door like the meal they earn—not a paycheck they receive.

How to run it:

Anchor onboarding around the carnivore mentality from day one.
Replace flat base+commission with structures that reward hunters and penalize coasting.
Run weekly leaderboards by activity AND outcome—surface effort, not just results.
Coach reps to sharpen prey drive: better pitches, faster pivots, daily reps.

Pair with chapters from Eat What You Kill and run roleplays before live doors.

2) The Achievement Framework — Hit Any Goal in Sales or Life

Why: Most reps fail because they chase outcomes without engineering the inputs.

Define a 12-week target (revenue, accounts, recruits)—be ruthlessly specific.
Reverse-engineer to weekly activities (doors, demos, asks).
Run a 5-minute daily and 30-minute weekly review—what worked, what didn’t, what’s next.
Track 3 leading indicators (contacts, conversations, confirmed appointments) and coach to those—not the lagging revenue number.

Same frame Sam uses to coach top-producing reps and seven-figure team leads.

3) Mental Conditioning — Overcome Any Objection on the Door

Why: Doors don’t break reps. Self-talk does.

Drill the five most common objections by industry—daily, before knocks.
Build a personal anchor (phrase, song, memory) to snap back into state after a no.
End-of-day debriefs focus on the rep’s narrative (“what story did you tell yourself?”)—not the outcome.
Pair every new rep with an accountability partner for the first 30 days.

Sam’s Mental Conditioning keynote has been delivered to 200+ teams worldwide.

Watch / Listen

Quote Bank

Don’t wait for the meal. Hunt it.

FAQs

What’s Sam’s connection to D2DCon?

Sam founded and hosts D2DCon. It’s the flagship event of The D2D Experts and brings 5,000+ direct sales pros to Salt Lake City every January. The 2026 edition (D2DCon 9) runs January 22—24 at the Mountain America Exposition Center.

What’s “Eat What You Kill” about?

Eat What You Kill is Sam’s best-seller that codifies the sales-carnivore mindset—pairing hunger, discipline, and craft to outproduce in any direct sales market. Endorsed by David Meltzer, Tim Storey, and Andy Elliott.

Does Sam coach individual reps or only teams?

Both. The D2D Experts run programs for top-producing individuals (XPAND), full sales teams (D2DU), and enterprise direct sales orgs. Sam also delivers private keynotes and on-site trainings worldwide.