This model.
Posted on 05/19/2015 7:56:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t know, what kind of sales were you doing, under what conditions, how many hires did you go through a month?
Shaping up just fine!
Robots will do all the work and government will print money out of nothing to give us all a basic salary as a human right.
What could possibly go wrong?
The truck will be like the 58 Plymouth “Christine”. Don’t mess with it.
Payphones, mortgages and recruiting. We didn’t hire monthly, people were more permanent than that. The payphones were outside sales, the others were inside. If you knew how much I made with the payphones you’d wish they were still around. LOL
Frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
This model.
This WILL happen.
Driverless trucks. Drones for in-motion refueling. Observation and attack drones for security.
All you hayseeds out there might as well give up and move into the Eurbanopia.
What kind of salesroom sold pay phones, mortgages, and recruiting, and why were badly speaking immigrants so good at those?
I assume they were all sales over the phone, were you working strictly on commission?
I’ve been in sales for 27 years. I have always made money. The product doesn’t matter.
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I am not sure if one or two generation might pass before new professions will realized. It might be possible that very few new occupations or professions will be developed in the future.
I am not sure if one or two generation might pass before new professions will realized. It might be possible that very few new occupations or professions will be developed in the future.
I sold those three things at different times. The immigrants did well at mortgages because of persistence. The payphones were not over the phone, we went to businesses who already had or could accommodate a payphone such as malls, truck stops, restaurants, bowling alleys and the like. I made $450 per phone in the mid-1980’s and averaged two sales a day. Think about that. Recruiting is one of the hardest sales jobs because you have to make two sales (employer and candidate) or nothing happens. Mortgages used to be a goldmine, with all the newer regulations it’s a wonder anyone still does it.
I will find out and let you know. Oh, how many cartons of Kools do you want?
Driverless vehicles will never happen. You have enough problems with people driving crazy without adding a driverless 40 ton truck whose software got buggy to the road.
well, for starters, many Mexican drivers will be put out of work (sorry, NAFTA). So all those taquerias will close.
#10 I buy that.
Think about how much money businesses will save once so many things are automated. They’ll make it work or die trying.
Fixed it.
I’ve been in some form of sales most of my life, from encyclopedia sales in multiple states and with my own people, professional fund raising as the branch manager, and aluminum siding, and other products, and when I left sales, I went into mostly doing service plumbing, because the first guy who hired me to make me a service plumber, paid strictly on commission, which was the only way that I liked getting paid.
The encyclopedia sales was the best for me, there was a lot of money in it and there were a lot of interesting work condition payoffs, like for some reason 19 year old girls being the best hires and the hard partying and daily classes that go with the business, and the deference that you get from other salesmen who thought of the door to door men as the Green Berets of sales.
Once I needed 4 T-Birds and I could do the entire deal over the phone, another time I was looking at Cadillacs, and the dealer would drive them over to my office to run them by me.
I always felt bad doing sales, even though I was always top salesman and have never been second in sales at any place that I have ever worked, including in plumbing, I was very happy to find a way to combine my sales talent and my pleasure in helping people, with a service that I felt better about.
I will say that I was actually making my best money at the professional fund raising, but I just couldn’t take the huge percentage that was in it for me, it tore me up inside. I did that after I had already done a year as a plumber, and I quit it to go back to service plumbing on commission, I have never plumbed when I wasn’t paid on straight commission, at the last company that I worked for, being the last time I worked for anyone besides myself, that meant that I only worked a few hours a week, and didn’t work Thursdays, and I collected commission off the people that I managed, which isn’t bad for plumbing.
I guess I averaged about 20 hours a week of twisting a wrench for them, and I still out sold every one else, always.
I remember some more about that last job for another plumbing company, I didn’t work on Thursdays because that was the day after my club meeting, and I didn’t take calls before 11:am, and I didn’t want to be in the field after 2:pm because of traffic.
So in reality I doubt that I actually worked many 20 hour weeks, a salesman can make even plumbing, a nice little job.
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