Marketting!
- A young Indian guy moves to California and goes to a big department store looking for a job.
The Manager asks: - Do you have any sales experience?
- The Indian:
- Yeah, I was a salesman back home.
- The Manager liked the young man, so he gave him the job.
- "You start from tomorrow! I'll come down after close time and see how you did, but let me give you a bit of advice. If a customer comes looking, say, for toothpaste, you might suggest for him a toothbrush, or shaving cream etc. You get the idea. "
- "Of course," the young man said.
His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. - After the store was locked up, the Manager came down.
- How many sales did you make today?
- The Indian said:
- "One. "
- The manager groans,
- "Just one? Our American sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?"
- The young man said:
- "101,237.64 US dollars. "
- The Manager exclaims,
- "What? 101,237.64 Dollars? What did you sell him?"
The young man said, - "First I sold him a small fishhook.
- Then, I sold him a medium fishhook.
- Then I sold a larger fishhook.
- Then I sold him a new fishing rod.
- Then I asked him where he was going fishing , and he saiddown at the coast, so I told him he was going to 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 the new boat.
- So I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4X4 BMW."
- The Manager says,
- "You mean a guy came in here to buy a fishhook and you sold him a boat and truck?"
The young man said: - "NO! NO! NO! He came in to buy a box of Kotex for his wife and I said:
- Well, since your weekend is obviously f****ed up, you might as well go fishing.!!