Don't Sweat the Sales Stuff
Introduction.. I'm sharing the very best of what I know with you in this article. I stumbled into my first sales job 20 years ago. I started out as an administrative assistant for a leasing company. They still had carbon copies back then, (wow. I'm old) and I was a terrible typist. I had already gotten fired from my first job as a Dictaphone typist for making too many errors. I was let go from another job because I was unwilling to go down the elevator, stand in line at Druxy's sandwich shop and purchase lunch each day for the gentleman I worked for. He was one of the Partners in a large accounting firm downtown. They had two coffee breaks each day in which one of the girls, (thank God it wasn't me) had to go around with a cart to all the offices and offer the Partner's coffee; I believe there was 11 of them. The coffee was poured to their liking and delivered r...