For generations, salesmen have scratched their heads at the prospect of selling a Windows PC.
Farmer hired college-educated managers and built a sales organization that paid drivers and salesmen handsome commissions.
The best analogy I can think of is the performance of life insurance salesmen.
Marketers, as salesmen, are far more likely to say whatever you want to hear.
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Like most insurance products, the product is more sold by salesmen than bought by customers.
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And, of course, when the product failed to deliver the salesmen was long gone.
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And we were like Amway salesmen for something that didn't exist yet, music television.
However, in most cases, salesmen at these firms advise clients without contacting competent outside counsel.
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He says he can relate to the cutthroat world of "Glengarry's" real estate salesmen.
He begins a sales pitch the way most car salesmen do, with friendly chitchat.
Salesmen then typically earn commissions of 25% of the dealership's gross profit on the car.
To grow from within, he has 8, 000 salesmen and will add 700 more this year.
"If our salesmen are A students in faxes, they're C students in copiers, " says Breslawsky.
Visits by numerous different salesmen to the same doctor have escalated into a costly practice.
Perhaps some day salesmen could even charge customers by the hour for their visits.
There, he would study competitors' shoes and soak up the lingo as salesmen hawked goods to retailers.
Unscrupulous Ginnie Mae salesmen quote unrealistically high returns to investors, and the victims' common sense is overwhelmed.
RCN's salesmen conquer mainly as an opportunity to borrow more money to lay more of the stuff.
Salesmen from his car dealership would deliver a dozen doughnuts to local businesses and leave without fanfare.
Sonet salesmen solemnly warn new customers that they may use their new handsets only from their offices.
The traders and salesmen on the floor paid as little attention as they could to these walks.
His team of 30 traders and salesmen are marketmakers, but they almost never engage in proprietary trading.
Akamai's salesmen recrafted their pitch, telling established companies how much they could make with faster Web sites.
Clever snake-oil salesmen like Mercola can easily circumvent the FDA with a few simple edits to their websites.
Until recently ad salesmen in the magazine world were famous for living the materialistic lifestyles their publications promote.
So far so good: two tech giants employing lawyers rather than salesmen in trying to conquer the market.
'' The complexity of investing may leave many savers prey to quack financial salesmen or, simply, to confusion.
Much of the current marketing campaign is being conducted on foot, with salesmen and other workers making house calls.
"I've been around enough shady businesses and surrounded by salesmen-types who were always talking about the deal, " he said.
Supply chain executives get used to salesmen from their suppliers selling to them.
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