Myrtle Beach’s Awful Timeshare Sales Tactics
ChristmanAJ23 The world is full of awful sales presentations and tactics, this especially being true for tourism-based cities. For the past eight years, I’ve lived in Hershey, PA, which is by…
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Sales for Greek Groups
Two weeks ago, rush for my housing group (Alpha Sigma) ended after three weeks of events and hang outs. I always recognized that certain levels of sales existed when it…
Deceptive Sales in the Tobacco Industry
In the modern era, it is universally agreed upon that tobacco isn’t good for you. However, whether you love it or hate it, the tobacco industry is undeniably a very…
My Experience with Positive and Negative Styles in a Retail Setting
For the first two summers after I graduated from high school, I worked for a family fun center. As far as first job experiences went, I honestly could not have…
How Dating and Sales Go Hand In Hand
It can be argued that finding a date is a form of selling. Like all sales endeavors, dating requires individuals to sell themselves to another person. This may sound a…
What Camp Ministry Taught Me About Selling
This past summer, I worked as a camp counselor for Ligonier Camp in southwestern Pennsylvania. If I’m being quite honest it was one of the hardest experiences that I’ve ever…
What the Wolf of Wall Street Got Right (and Wrong) in Sales
If you have seen The Wolf of Wall Street, you may be wondering why I am using the unethical sales tactics of Jordan Belfort as an example of good selling.…
Pain in Sales: How Far is Too Far?
A lot of successful selling involves providing solutions for people’s pains. After all, if a product isn’t perceived as valuable to the buyer, they aren’t going to spend their hard-earned…
The Ingenious Selling of “The Blair Witch Project”
In 1999, The Blair Witch Project, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made, was released to the public. While certainly not the first “found footage” horror…