3 universal sales-lessons I learned as a young and dumb telemarketer
I was 16 years old when I started in sales and holy shit was I dumb. I couldn't recognize a buying signal if it struck me flat in the face. The first job I had in sales was for the national tabloid newspaper - when you could still smoke inside the boiler room (which obviously I did). Now direct telemarketing is probably the business in the world that has the highest employee turnover rate - which also explains why they would take me in at 16 -...