D2D Con 10 — Featured Speaker

Sam Taggart

Founder, D2D Experts · Host, D2D Con

From knocking doors at 20 to building the world’s most attended direct sales conference. Sam founded D2D Experts and D2DCon, trained 100,000+ reps worldwide, and continues to scale businesses across home services and beyond through OwnersOS and D2DU.

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17+

Years in D2D

100K+

Reps Trained

D2D Conference

Books Published

Key Facts

Founder & CEO, The D2D Experts

1,000+ businesses served (Extra extra)

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

Founder & Host, D2DPodcast

World’s biggest podcast

Industry Expertise

solar
Pest
Roofing
Alarms
Smart Home
Leadership
Recruiting

About the Speaker

Who is Sam Taggart?

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 and integrity to direct sales.

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Media

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What Sam Speaks On

Signature Stage Programs

Join us at D2DCon to hear from door-to-door industry leaders and experts who share practical strategies you can run with your team.

Elite Recruiting Systems

The exact system Sam uses to find, attract, and retain A-player reps. Build a recruiting machine that fills your pipeline with elite talent month after month.

Culture That Wins

How to create a team culture so strong that reps want to stay, perform, and recruit others. Sam shares the culture framework behind D2D Experts’ sustained growth.

Leadership in D2D

From team lead to CEO — the leadership principles that separate good managers from great builders. Sam breaks down the mindset and systems that drive long-term success.

The D2D Mindset

The mental framework that keeps elite D2D reps performing at the highest level, regardless of the season. Sam reveals the habits, routines, and beliefs of top-1% performers.

Steal the Playbook

Three frameworks you can run with your team today.

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

Why: comfort kills hunger. Top reps treat every door like a meal they earn.

How:

Anchor onboarding around the carnivore mentality.
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 D2D Formula

Why: most teams lack a clear, structured approach to revenue.

How:

Reps × Opportunities × Closing % = More Money — output is the product of three levers, so improving any one lifts everything, and improving all three compounds.
Don’t let doors leak at the threshold — fix your opener, drill top objections daily, and use a mental reset after each “no.”
Knock more first (Reps), plug the door-to-conversation leak next (Opportunities), then grind up your close rate (Closing %).

3) Mental Conditioning — Overcome Any Objection on the Door

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

How:

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.

Has Spoken At

D2DCon
AzoCon
Sales Summit
Wealth Con
Entrepreneur Summit

D2DCon Appearances

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027

What They Said

Impact Beyond the Stage

Sam brought an energy and clarity to our stage that left everyone fired up. His recruiting framework alone was worth the entire event.

Sarah ThompsonD2DCon 2023

One of the most requested speakers we have ever had. Sam does not just inspire — he gives people a real roadmap they can walk out with and execute immediately.

Marcus WebbSales Summit Phoenix

Quote Bank

“Don’t wait for the meal. Hunt it.”

— Sam Taggart

FAQs

Common Questions

What’s Sam’s connection to D2DCon?

Sam founded and hosts D2DCon — the flagship event of The D2D Experts, bringing thousands of direct sales pros to Salt Lake City every January. D2DCon 10 runs January 28–30, 2027 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

What’s “Eat What You Kill” about?

Eat What You Kill is Sam’s bestseller 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.