Sales Stories

I am a traveling man. I sell all sorts of products for the company that I work for. I am on the road quite a bit, and I have to set up displays at various conventions, in a lot a major cities.   I pulled into the parking lot of a hotel in a small Oklahoma City a while back, traveling between Oklahoma City and Dallas. It was about five in the afternoon and although I needed to be in Dallas the next morning to set up for a...

Keli was the area rep for a temporary labourer company that we utilized occasionally on our medium-sized construction site. She was a high-level athlete in female hockey and being that I used to coach, we hit it off right away. It wasn’t unusual for sales reps to stop by construction sites and promote their services. Keli was stopping by every two to three weeks. I liked the distraction. She was attractive. I wasn’t about...

Roger managed the company sales group and it was a high-pressure job. Without sales, the company would fold. He knew and so did all the people that Roger hired. Roger knew that the sales job depended on him hiring the best people and since the business was a tool manufacturing distributor, he knew he had to think outside of the box. “Sex sells,” was certainly the thinking of the time-period. Roger was given a lot of leewa...

I was assigned to help a new intern in our office learn about our sales team. I wasn’t particularly thrilled about the request, but my boss said that if I did it well, there would be a five hundred dollar bonus paid out at the end of the program, to the sales manager who made the biggest impact on their assigned intern. Jennifer was a cute college-aged girl with long brunette hair that stretched practically to her waist....