Money and Finance
Day 2 of Comex 2014. It has been quite some time since I ended my Internship, experiencing the life of a full time working employee. As such, I was completely unprepared for Comex to be honest.
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- My Investment Journey Update: September 2014 ; Survived Comex 2014!
So it's the 1st of September! Thankfully, I survived the past 4 days of Comex 2014. The income + the very VERY small commission will be very useful for my investments this month. Anyway, as I logged into my POSB eSavings Account today to check on...
- Don't Expect Money To Fall In To Your Lap From Investing
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Money and Finance
Earning Money Is Never Easy, I've Truly Understood That Now; COMEX 2014
Day 2 of Comex 2014. It has been quite some time since I ended my Internship, experiencing the life of a full time working employee. As such, I was completely unprepared for Comex to be honest.
The commission of selling $100+ items works about to roughly $0.50-$1/ item. I had to talk and talk until my mouth was parched and my throat was unbearably painful just to close a few sales.
The life of a salesman is simply not easy.
Having the ability to talk fluently to customers and being able to have full product knowledge with one day of training that lasted 3 hours is vastly impossible. As such, promoters mostly pick up knowledge during the job itself, and many times we give wrong information to our customers either knowingly or unknowingly in an effort to make more sales.
Such is human nature, because we all see $ as king. You will truly understand this when you experience it for yourself.
I urge everyone to try a sales job at least once for the experience. You need to be good to persuade your customers. If you keep silent and stand at a corner you'll lose out :) This applies to life as well. Especially if you're in the customer service line.
Cheers.
Signing off,
Teenage Investor
- Harvey Firestone On Salesmanship...
From Men and Rubber: The Story of Business: A man of affairs does not want to be bothered in the evening. A great many salesmen make the mistake of thinking that pestering a man is the same as selling him, and they get their prospects into such a...
- The Importance Of An Above-average Sales Organization...
From Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits: In this competitive age, the products or services of few companies are so outstanding that they will sell to their maximum potentialities if they are not expertly merchandised. It is the making of a sale that...
- Review Of Guy Spier's "the Education Of A Value Investor"
A quick review of Guy Spier's excellent book, The Education of a Value Investor, which I just submitted on Amazon as well.This book is about Guy's personal journey -- the good and the bad. As others have written about the book, he's extremely...
- My Investment Journey Update: September 2014 ; Survived Comex 2014!
So it's the 1st of September! Thankfully, I survived the past 4 days of Comex 2014. The income + the very VERY small commission will be very useful for my investments this month. Anyway, as I logged into my POSB eSavings Account today to check on...
- Don't Expect Money To Fall In To Your Lap From Investing
Just a short post today, going to work at the Comex 2014 :) Lots of tech stuff, come down and have a look if you're interested! But the main point is though we all hope to receive a steady stream of dividends from our investments, that is for the...