You could try ....
Amway! No wait...it's ...network marketing lol
I'm not selling or knocking Amway here now wait a minute...
I had a blast traveling around to the Amway seminars and rallies it was fun for a while and it was cheap.
I only did it for a couple years I didn't like that it was sold to me as my own business but found I could not use my network to move anything other than Amway's brand.
Some people find it's their thing and they do fairly well at it, it is a legitimate and respectable business. I don't want to offend anyone here who is into it, I'm just kidding around.
Can you imagine what Amway Hambers would be like? that would bog down a forum
"I'd like to talk with you later in detail about an interesting and lucrative opportunity"
I have to credit Amway associates with scraping away the crust from my eyes concerning my perceptions about jobs and giving me some fire in my belly for getting into business.
It's where I learned some truths like:
*There is no such thing as a good job.
*"It's not cold hard cash... IT'S SOFT...AND WARM!"-Zig Ziglar
(man would I love to see Zig Ziglar one more time...the original Tony Robbins)
*"Surround yourself with people who have what you want and who are who you want to be...In computers they say Garbage in Garbage out but I say you put the good stuff in you get the good stuff out!"-Zig Ziglar
*Your boss will only want to pay you so much... beyond that point, no matter how much more money you make him he will see you as making too much and can eventually replace you with someone cheaper.
*Time is money and no matter what business you are in, No matter what your trade it all boils down to the fact that you are either:
1) Exchanging Your time for money... or
2) Exchanging someone else's time for money
If your selling your time you have a limited resource
If your selling other people's time you can multiply yourself and have an unlimited resource.
*Id rather have a little bitty piece of a great big thing than a great big piece of a little bitty thing"
*The Wrigleys made their fortune selling chewing gum, one of the simplest cheapest things. The Rockefellers and Vanderbilts were rich but the Wrigleys own an Island off the Coast of California".
*You can go broke selling to the rich man or get rich selling to the poor man".
Some of the things I learned through sales training for a water purifying company in the line of business as Culligan:
*If you don't have a lot of money to work with, can you really afford to buy an inferior product and replace it several times, or should buy a superior product with an excellent track record and warranty... and buy it only once".
Our spiel was "The water is purified by evaporation when it leaves the ocean but then it spends time in the atmosphere, It falls on the ground runs over the rocks and soaks into the soil. Then we drink it, bath in it and try to clean with it
At this point of the pitch we ask if they would like to see a demonstration of our product. we have a water softener system built into a clear plexiglass tube you can hook to the faucet.
first we describe how the water is softened
We describe how the softener pellets "are a special plastic, they have a molecular electrical charge that works on impurities like static electricity works on dust. The impurities in the water are more strongly attracted to the beads than the water and are pulled out. eventually the beads become covered and need cleaned. a salt water solution which never enters your pipes is washed over the beads. the impurities are more strongly attracted to the salt than to the beads and are washed away. Then the salt is flushed away leaving clean recharged beads ready to go back to work."
At this point we'd have them taste test the difference between their normal tap water and the the softened water
Then we'd describe how the sink top drinking water system works that further treats only the drinking water... not the whole house water because purified water sitting in the pipes for an extended length of time can leach a little metal out of your pipes and end up tasting like copper.
"The activated charcoal absorbs chemical impurities such as chlorine.."chlorine is like the wrapper on bread. it's there to keep it fresh until you eat it but you don't eat the wrapper with the bread do you?"
"And the reverse osmosis filter forces the water through a membrane with pores so small only the water molecule can fit through thereby Making it pure refined H2O".
"Water is a solvent and purified water doesn't have all the rocks and minerals and impurities absorbed up into it, it is a more active solvent making it a better cleaner"
Then we'd let them taste the difference between all three and take a cloth with the tap water and a cloth with the purified water around the house demonstrating that while ordinary tap water cannot remove watermarks and stains on it's own...purified water can.
It was an ingenious sales pitch and a beautiful product.
I was on lay-off from construction and got called back to work I didn't do much water selling.
I like to sell but I'm the kind of salesman that has to believe in what he's selling
There are other kinds of salesman...all good and professional...
that can either:
1)believe in anything no matter how those beliefs may contradict each other or contradict ethics or...
2)set aside personal belief in the product and only believe in the sell just like any politician can sell you on one agenda then turn around and just as whole heartedly sell you on the opposite thing a week later.
It's easiest to just refer to those two as 1)believes in anything or 2)believes in nothing but the sale.
I'm a critical thinker and technical thinker. I have affirmed beliefs. I am a judgmental person and any product or policy I endorse has to pass my muster or I will not Hawk it.
It's not that I won't..I have tried but If I don't believe in it I will fail to sell it and my belief is sacred. It isn't up for sale it's the rock that I stand on. It does change as I grow in knowledge and understanding...As I discover new truths and as people set me straight.
You cannot have a firm footing without an open ear.
I hope some of these ideas might help you out as they have helped me out take what you need and leave the rest.
Michael Ederer
