Laurie Bennett

Sales Karma

You might be able to sell snow to eskimos, but why? Put your sales skills to good use and actually sell something to someone that actually needs it, says Lishen Nair. > Salesmen of the right calibre were and still are able to generate strong sales. But their job in the 21st century is also

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The Baseball Card Bubble

In this excerpt from the book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction: Around the mid-1970s, a small cabal of serious baseball card collectors grew wise to the fact that their

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Big Box Deliveries

Groceries in Manhattan are so expensive that one guy with a truck has started a business delivering groceries. He will go to Costco and split the savings with you. Each Non-Perishable item for sale has a “Costco” price and the “Average New York City” price for the exact same item but with Costco-sized bulk packing.

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