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Any Good At Selling Vacuum Cleaners?
Starting It: “Have you ever noticed that vacuum cleaner companies and cutlery companies (as well as many other industries) often hire kids right out of school to sell their products? Why? Well, they know that even if the individual isn’t any good at sales, they will sell at least a couple of vacuum cleaners – one to Mom and Dad and one to their ‘Aunt Susan’?”
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Chuck on July 16th, 2004 9:22 am
Add the life insurance industry too.
Oh, I mean “financial planning” (ha!)
And Southwest Books of Nashville TN…
They recruited college students and uprooted them miles from home to hit the street and sell with no distractions.
There’s a huge sympathy factor too about a young person “pursuing the American Dream”.
Geoffrey Gonzalez on July 16th, 2004 2:08 pm
I agree. I have a $475 kitchen knife set. My wife called it “Supporting”.
I get it, they’re called “High Margin” “Supporting” sales.
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