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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Salemanship
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 17:12:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 17:12:55 1985
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>One might well begin to apply salesmanship
>in one's personal life.  Is this not too great a cost to pay for career
>success?
>
>						Mike Sykora

What do you mean by salesmanship Mike?  As I think about the people I know
who are successful (or *really* successful) in sales I think of people
who are very good at making me feel good, especially they project that they
care about me more than they care about themselves.  Other qualities are
attention to details, good listeners, remembering facts trivial to them but
important to me, etc., etc.  In other words many of the nicest friends I
have earn their living in sales - I don't see what the big cost is.

If you are refering to brown-nosing, or to sales techniques used by the
stereotyped used car salesman I agree with your point.

Peter B