#sales

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio. ↗

— Jonathan Potter

#business #even #i #i think #increases

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff. ↗

— Adam Rich

#back #because #careful #comes #deal

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#i #news #product #sale #salesman

What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#sales #attitude

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. ↗

— Richard Masur

#commercial #deaf #disabilities #example #first

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#bill #businesses #deduct #eastern #especially

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold. ↗

— Jim Holden

#business-advice #sales #sales-advice #sales-training #business

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny

Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else. ↗

— Carson V. Heady

#how-to-sell #learning-to-sell #sales-coach #sales-concepts #sales-help

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#economically #harnessed #how #large #living