How are you saving money if you're paying money for something?
My wife assures me it’s possible all the time
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Mine too!My wife assures me it’s possible all the time
How are you saving money if you're paying money for something?All the money your saving if you buy one. You can go to all these places.
Well ha ha...you're not saving money if you're buying anything in life. Fortunately, I come from a family of treasure hunters. I just watched and observed them get into these situations and learned from observing their mistakes. Fortunately, the only way you save money entirely is never spending it, but that is not possible to live. You have to spend money.How are you saving money if you're paying money for something?
Really good point. I did learn video editing, some web design and I was recently looking to really focus on learning computer engineering/programming.In the meantime, learn a practical trade (welding, painting, computer engineering, etc). It doesn't just need to be sales and marketing (it's already super saturated as it is). There is plenty of jobs out there, just most of them are out of your skill set.
Or why not work on increasing sales at your grocery store?
This is not selling. This is cheating. There's no honor in any of this.As you've probably read before, I own and run a local grocery store.
After having my relative run the store for sometime, I thought why not get a sales job? I would learn sales, make relationships and learn more about different markets.
The job was that we would sell portable wi-fi routers by using door to door technique where we basically enter every shop and ask them if they would want to buy the offer.
This company called DirectSales gives all it's employees a ten days sales training course.
They basically teach you the following (and that's what we had to do for 12 hours later) :
You enter the shop by introducing yourself and colleagues. You'd then tell them about the wifi router and its features, showing them that it costs 77 dollars in the main shop (which is a big lie). HOWEVER because of some local occasion (the sales guy can choose whatever he sees fit, for example christmas, easter, ramadan w/e) there will be a draw and whoever gets the pick will get a free wifi router with a pre-paid card.
So what happens next is the sales guy asks for your ID in order to enter you the draw by sending the photos through watsapp. The sales guy then chooses one guy from his own choice and says "The system has chosen a winner!" and makes a big happy moment that the person has won!
Everyone cheers! Everyone's happy! The people gather around to congratulate him.
The sales guy takes out a contract sheet and starts filling the paper in order for the guy to receive his gift. After the sales guy fills the contract, he then asks the guy who won to pay 33 dollars to his colleague and sign a one year agreement to pay 18 dollars a month for the card subscription. WTF. Many people reject and disagree on what the hell is going on. But out of 20 shops, one person accepts and buys the offer thinking he has won more than 70% OFF even though the sales guy clearly said in his intro talk that whoever wins will get it for free!
WHAT THE F*ck.
Lol, 12 hours later - I quit.
Is this even allowed? Has anyone experiences this shit before?
Seems like a lot of door to door salesmen use similar techniques. I remember people trying to sell me rainbow vacs numerous times and I'd listen to the whole thing, but never bought one.Is this even allowed? Has anyone experiences this shit before?
As you've probably read before, I own and run a local grocery store.
After having my relative run the store for sometime, I thought why not get a sales job? I would learn sales, make relationships and learn more about different markets.
The job was that we would sell portable wi-fi routers by using door to door technique where we basically enter every shop and ask them if they would want to buy the offer.
This company called DirectSales gives all it's employees a ten days sales training course.
They basically teach you the following (and that's what we had to do for 12 hours later) :
You enter the shop by introducing yourself and colleagues. You'd then tell them about the wifi router and its features, showing them that it costs 77 dollars in the main shop (which is a big lie). HOWEVER because of some local occasion (the sales guy can choose whatever he sees fit, for example christmas, easter, ramadan w/e) there will be a draw and whoever gets the pick will get a free wifi router with a pre-paid card.
So what happens next is the sales guy asks for your ID in order to enter you the draw by sending the photos through watsapp. The sales guy then chooses one guy from his own choice and says "The system has chosen a winner!" and makes a big happy moment that the person has won!
Everyone cheers! Everyone's happy! The people gather around to congratulate him.
The sales guy takes out a contract sheet and starts filling the paper in order for the guy to receive his gift. After the sales guy fills the contract, he then asks the guy who won to pay 33 dollars to his colleague and sign a one year agreement to pay 18 dollars a month for the card subscription. WTF. Many people reject and disagree on what the hell is going on. But out of 20 shops, one person accepts and buys the offer thinking he has won more than 70% OFF even though the sales guy clearly said in his intro talk that whoever wins will get it for free!
WHAT THE F*ck.
Lol, 12 hours later - I quit.
Is this even allowed? Has anyone experiences this shit before?
Ah, men. I'll tell my husband that something is 40% off, and he'll say "But that means it's 60% on."
As for the sales tactic, that business won't last long. There will be a lot of chargebacks and unhappy people saying it wasn't what they signed up for.
There are so many better resources out there to learn sales. I love Brian Tracy although he'll repackage stuff and sell it as new. (He's really good at selling)
Find a need and work to help others rather than try to just sell. And get their email address so you can keep them in your system and remind them of new things and reward them for loyalty.
Thanks for such a vivid description. You must have been dying laughing on the inside wondering if it was a joke.
Thanks for such a vivid description. You must have been dying laughing on the inside wondering if it was a joke.
In the meantime, learn a practical trade (welding, painting, computer engineering, etc). It doesn't just need to be sales and marketing (it's already super saturated as it is). There is plenty of jobs out there, just most of them are out of your skill set.With around 50% unemployment rate, I am still trying! Thanks for the motivation
I hear and read about people here saying sales is the no. 1 skill to make money. However, most of the time, it's always about cold-calling one-to-one or the traditional door-to-door.
How would this even translate to eCommerce where you obviously can't cold-call strangers asking if they want to buy your product on your website LOL
Maybe persuasion is the key.
How about cold emailing? lol you are correct. I met man who built a multi-million headset retailing company and he said most of his business comes from eCommerce.
Shoulda stuck with it for the experience. Direct sales like that tends to be sort of grey area , its experience book learning just cant get you though
Even if your own venture isnt borderline scammy you'll wish you had some actual hours of face to face persuasion under the belt because eventually you'll be selling yourself to someone.
I remember I was selling kirbys door to door and one of the highlights was "natural" shampoo , idk idk that really means but I closed a deal once by eating some when a customer asked if it was safe for pets.
Thats both a funny anecdote and a an example of "show dont tell" that ill never forget.
With around 50% unemployment rate, I am still trying! Thanks for the motivationGet a real job.
Thank you for distilling Kohl's entire marketing strategy in one sentence. Seriously. The entire draw at that store is "LADIES, DO YOU SEE HOW MUCH YOU HAVE SAVED BY BUYING THESE JEANS?!" To which I then buy more I had intended, and then I get to my car, see the receipt and ask, "how did I save anything when $21.99 is the basic, competitive price of Levi's?"My wife assures me it’s possible all the time
Really good point. I did learn video editing, some web design and I was recently looking to really focus on learning computer engineering/programming.
As for increasing sales at my grocery store I do that too currently at day time and in the afternoon I try to learn like you mentioned a high income skill...
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