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To: Sparticus
People trying to sell you stuff are salesmen, and salesmen will say whatever they have to in order to separate you from your money.

I turned sales on its head years ago as a salesman with a technique I called "The No Sales Sale." What I did wasn't really selling (although that's what it was) and I never had to worry about sales since I had customers who basically begged to buy stuff from me. In fact, I never worried about selling and my main concern was supply.

The funny thing is that even though I haven't done all that in years, I still get phone calls from people who still want to buy more stuff from me. I once demonstrated to my wife how I did it by driving with her to an industrial park. I honked my horn, parked my car, got out and just yelled "YO!". Right away my customers showed up and I opened up my trunk and back seat as the customers swarmed around and pulled out the product and handed me money as I bagged it up for them. The whole time I said not a word (although I usually was quite talkative) because I wanted to prove a point to my wife.

Oh, and the product was not some sort of illegal drug. A perfectly legal product. (In this case it was body wash but it could have been a whole host of products that I used to sell).

A few years earlier I traveled around the country selling sunglasses using similar methods to tailgaters at car races or other sporting events. I often achieved sales rates of over 100 pairs per hour sold. One time I couldn't sell even a single pair in an hour. Why? Because my ATTITUDE was shot due to having a bad night's sleep the night before. The quick solution was me making a beeline to a nearby liquor store and buying three of those small minibottles of whiskey which I downed one after another. My attitude immediately changed for the better and was back to my sales rate of over a hundred pairs per hour. The way I achieved that rate is a whole other story.

67 posted on 11/01/2025 11:13:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator.)
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To: PJ-Comix
I once demonstrated to my wife how I did it by driving with her to an industrial park.

Just demonstrating, got it.

I honked my horn, parked my car, got out and just yelled "YO!". Right away my customers showed up

Whose customers?

75 posted on 11/01/2025 2:08:30 PM PDT by humblegunner
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