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# FW: Go fish

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- Subject: FW: Go fish
- From: "John McLaurin" <jmglobal@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:55:42 -0500
- Importance: Normal

    For your thought provoking pleasure.   Sales Training 101, from my pal Ray
    Jones.

    John L. Mc Laurin
    Global Election Systems, Inc.
    Ormond Beach, Florida
    904-672-0460  Office
    904-672-7328  Fax

    -----Original Message-----
    From: 	Ray Jones [mailto:rjones@BEAVERFISH.com]
    Sent:	Friday, September 08, 2000 1:45 PM
    To:	'chip'; 'j mclaurin'
    Subject:	FW:  Go fish

    >  Go fish
    >
    >   A young guy from Texas moves to California and goes to a big department
    store looking for a job.
    >  The manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?"
    >
    >   The kid says, "Yeah, I was a salesman back home in Texas."
    >
    >    Well, the boss liked the kid so he gave him the job. "You start
    > tomorrow. I'll come down after we
    >  close and see how you did."
    >
    >   His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the
    > store was locked up, the boss
    >  came down. "How many sales did you make today?" Kid says, "One." The boss
    > says, "Just one?
    >  Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale
    > for?"   Kid says
    >  "$101,237.64"
    >
    >   Boss says "101,237.64? What in the world did you sell?"
    >
    >   Kid says, "First I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium
    > fish hook. Then I sold him
    >  a larger fish hook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him
    > where he was going fishing
    >  and he said down at the coast so I told him he was gonna need a  boat, so
    > we went down to the
    >  boat department and I sold  him that twin engine Chris Craft. Then he
    > said he didn't think his
    >  Honda Civic would pull it so I took him down to the automotive department
    > and sold him that
    >  4x4 Blazer."
    >
    >   The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a
    > boat and truck?"
    >
    >    Kid says, "No, he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his wife and
    > I said, 'Well, your
    >  weekend's shot. You might as well go fishing."
    >

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