How can I find (or does anyone know) the annual sales of tape measures in the US and worldwide?
posted on Oct 13, 2008 - 0 answers

Help me build my sales empire! [more inside]
posted on Oct 7, 2008 - 2 answers

Seeking advice on the art of sales. [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2008 - 5 answers

I've got an almost-new bicycle to sell, and I'd rather not deal with a twenty phone calls from bargain hunters asking if I'll go down to $50. Where should I go? (Los Angeles, CA, USA) [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2008 - 17 answers

Can I donate proceeds of the sale of something to a presidential candidate? [more inside]
posted on Sep 11, 2008 - 10 answers

What's it like to be a drug rep? [more inside]
posted on Sep 9, 2008 - 10 answers

Interested in buying and then selling stuff. I am running into two (and I assume, very common) problems. 1. The high quality stuff I find tends to be too expensive to buy. 2. The cheap stuff I find is really crappy. I know in order to make money, you need to buy low and sell high. But, this seems a LOT easier in theory than in practice! What am I doing wrong? [more inside]
posted on Sep 9, 2008 - 28 answers

How can I stretch office/classroom supplies? Where can I order cheap office supplies? Any hacks to avoid buying the real stuff (e.g., instead of buying glue, mix flour and water together)? [more inside]
posted on Sep 1, 2008 - 45 answers

How would you find a ranked list of professional sportsmens' jersey sales for a particular league during a particular season? For instance, where could you find a ranked list of the sales of NFL players' jerseys for 2007? [more inside]
posted on Aug 26, 2008 - 1 answers

Norwegian Businessfilter: How would an american with almost no understanding of Bokmål go about getting contracts from Norwegian companies? [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2008 - 3 answers

Why do some successful salesmen get fired by their employers after a really big commission sale? Logically, one would suppose that employers would want to keep talented salesmen. What incentives would an employer have to do so?
posted on Aug 20, 2008 - 18 answers

Obvious or creative--shameless or shady, even!--ways to cut costs and live cheap? [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2008 - 68 answers

What is a fair commission structure for non-sales people who bring in recurring work to a business when it's not covered by their initial employment contract? [more inside]
posted on Aug 13, 2008 - 6 answers

Any recommendations for good sales / business development blogs? [more inside]
posted on Aug 12, 2008 - 2 answers

Have you ever tried to send a piece of mail at the post office certified or signed? Yesterday I tried and the lady went into all this strange ins and outs to justify why I should pay $5 for priority mail envelop instead of the $2.50 (or so) I could pay to just track it (if I skipped the mailed receipt option). This included telling me I'd have to pay for the envelope (which is fine), but insinuating it would be expensive and deflecting how much an envelope would actually be (finally admitting it's only 10 cents). [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2008 - 14 answers

Anyone have experience with AdInterax? [more inside]
posted on Aug 6, 2008 - 1 answers

Bargain shoppers Extrodionaires: What are the websites that help you to save? [more inside]
posted on Jul 25, 2008 - 15 answers

What the heck is a "Schedule A" in real estate? [more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 4 answers

What are the best books/sites for learning the necessary web design and dev tools for an e-commerce site? [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 6 answers

I've been hanging out with my wife and her booth partner at a handmade goods market they sell at each week. It's pretty typical stuff, jewelry, crafts of various kinds. They also go to art festivals on occasion to sell their wares. We've been discussing sales techniques that could help them out. I'm wondering if there is such an animal: sales techniques for the artisan seller? [more inside]
posted on Jul 14, 2008 - 18 answers

I've got an x-y.com (two characters separated by a hyphen) registration that I haven't really used for 10+ years. Should I sell it for ~$2000?
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - 16 answers

Why is my van not selling? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 16 answers

I'm doing a career change into sales for an IT company. This company doesn't have a sales person now or a marketing strategy. How can I best contribute and succeed at this role? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2008 - 3 answers

Who can license music for download/sale? A friend came up with a wicked cool idea for selling music using the internet, but it can't be done through some affiliate mp3 link (like Amazon). We're just a couple of college guys, and we don't know any rockstars or label executives. [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - 15 answers

Help me name my sales team! [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - 27 answers

Is there any sort of code available / software / how would I design a digital download distribution model for an independant band? [more inside]
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - 8 answers

I don't want to be a salesman! Can anyone help a recent grad find a sane, non-sales job in Philadelphia? [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2008 - 9 answers

How do deal-a-day sites work? Are they really 'deals', and where do they get all the loot? [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 4 answers

Why are hybrid vehicles so hard to find? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2008 - 29 answers

I left my last position in outside sales after 3 years and it wasn't a great fit for me. I could do it but it left me drained and exhausted at the end of the day. Now what? [more inside]
posted on May 29, 2008 - 3 answers

What are some good parameters to use when judging someone's intelligence on the fly? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2008 - 32 answers

Whats the best way to get my home designed cards for sale in shops? [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 5 answers

NewbieSalesFilter: So im giving sales a try for the first time in my life. I will be selling motorcycles one day a week. Its all commision. What advice can you give to a newbie motorcycle salesman so that i can succeed and make a little extra cash? Suggestions im looking for are, how to close? open ended questions?? Thanks in advance!!
posted on May 12, 2008 - 19 answers

How can I sell surplus stock in North America? [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2008 - 6 answers

What are commission structures like for software sales reps? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 4 answers

Help me find an easy Point of Sale software solution for our business [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - 8 answers

Where can I find mall and department store sales statistics? [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2008 - 2 answers

What is the trajectory of an above-the-line sales career? Assume no college degree but slowly working towards one. [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2008 - 5 answers

How should we make the most of our business trip? Two partners and I are visiting NY next week for a client meeting. (We're normally in London and US West Coast.) We may have a spare couple of days, and I'd like to make those as productive as possible from a networking perspective. Suggestions? (More inside.) [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm going to shoot a TV program. How can I package and sell this germ of an idea? [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - 4 answers

Can you point me to studies/stats or bona fide case studies on the use of money-back guarantees with information products? [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2008 - 4 answers

So I just purchased a ' BRAND NEW HTC MOGUL W/ CLEAR ESN, FREE CAR CHARGER NIB!' from eBay, and now have a few questions about how these cell phone dealers work. [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - 1 answers

Where does one find public RFPs for technical projects - specifically websites? Is there a trusted, standard repository of some sort? [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - 4 answers

Help me know what people who sell online ads know. [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2008 - 1 answers

My family owns a small business. We manufacture boxes, which we sell to other industrial clients. We've hired a salesman, but he has no sales experience. (We're okay with that.) We're teaching him about boxes, but we'd like to get him some sort of training in sales. We don't have traditional expectations (we think of the job more as "customer relations"), and aren't going to demand that he meet quotas, but we'd like him to have grounding in the basics. Can you recommend some good books on sales? How about training seminars in the Portland (Oregon) area? Any web sites he should read? Info on how to approach cold calls would be especially helpful. (So far we're just going with the "baptism of fire" approach, which has its pros and cons.)
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - 16 answers

How can a new company track leads submitted via its website through the sales and post-sales process, simply, automatically, and online? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 12 answers

What is the etiquette of dealing with commission (commissioned?) salespeople? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 23 answers

My firm is trying to decide whether to hire a marketing/sales director. I have been tasked with gathering information about marketing and sales in general and presenting that information to the team, so that we can make a decision. So, what are the key responsibilities and duties of a marketing/sales director? What will such a person bring to our team? What's a good way to go about finding the right person for the position? What qualities should we look for in the hiring process? I am particularly interested in service marketing, for small consulting firms. [more inside]
posted on Jan 8, 2008 - 9 answers

What are some free web-based ticket sales applications? [more inside]
posted on Dec 28, 2007 - 3 answers

For an assignment in college, I need to cough up a sales promotion strategy for a bogus product, complete with a media and planning chart to outline timing and integration. Since the prof has not supplied any chart templates for the class, and I don't have all day to wait for her email reply, where on the internets might I find said chart to coordinate all these activities in a sane manner? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 0 answers