30 Dec 10 Selling Toothbrushes
The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited.
Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off: “I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30,” she said proudly,
“My sales approach was to appeal to the customer’s civic spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success.”
“Very good,” said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next:
“I sold magazines,” she said, “I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events.”
“Very good, Jenny,” said the teacher..
Eventually, it was Little Johnny’s turn.
The teacher held her breath …
Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher’s desk. “$2,467,” he said.
“$2,467!” cried the teacher, “What in the world were you selling”
“Toothbrushes,” said Little Johnny.
“Toothbrushes,” echoed the teacher,
“How could you possibly sell enough toothbrushes to make that much money?”
“I found the busiest corner in town,” said Little Johnny,
“I set up a Dip & Chip stand, I gave everybody who walked by a free sample.”
They all said the same thing, “Hey, this tastes like dog shit!”
Then I would say, “It is dog shit. Wanna buy a toothbrush?”
“I used the governmental approach of giving you something shitty that they say is good, And then making you pay to get the shitty taste out of your mouth.”
The teacher was speechless. . . . . . . . 
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20 Nov 08 Do You Use This Free Phone Service?
Do you use the AIM Free phone line service? I tried it out for a while some time back, and it worked quite well if you didn’t mind running AIM on your desktop all the time.
AIM Free Phoneline is
I haven’t used it since I moved my business lines to Skype, which gives me much more portability, and the ability to use my cellphone as well via their service. AIM free phone line tied you to your desk. Still it was, well, free, and it was useful before I had GrandCentral to separate my personal and business calls for me.
Anyway, it’s another service that AOL are closing down. From January 13, 2009, it will be no more. They seem to be taking stuff down bit by bit. The AOL journals went recently too.
I don’t use AOL myself these days, and I only dabbled with it out of curiosity in the past, but they seem to be slowing fading away. They’ve attempted to become more and more part of the ‘mainstream’ internet in recent times, but I wonder if they’ve left it too late. Perhaps they could have been one of the leaders of Social Media Networking if they’d followed a different strategy. After all like ‘em or loathe ‘em they were one of the leaders at one time in online connectivity, with millions of customers. It was where the majority of the newbies went, and it was part of the crapware installed on many many store-bought home PCs.
Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time I had one of those AOL CDs appear in my mailbox…
Tags: aim, aol cds, bit by bit, business calls, business lines, cellphone, connectivity, crapware, curiousity, desk, free phone line, home pcs, journals, last time, mainstream internet, newbies, skype
21 Aug 08 Bad Back
I was recently reading about bad backs, and how we get into bad habits at the computer. Many of us spend many hours sat in front of a computer, and bad posture can lead to problems.
Many folks sit on the edge of their chair, and hunch forward. I kow I find myself doing this at times. It’s not good unless you want to be The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Also many folks have their monitor far too low on their desk. If you place your monitor directly on your desk, it’s almost certainly way too low. The way to check is quite simple. You should sit up straight, and look straight ahead. Your eyes should come to rest about on third of the way down your monitor screen. If they don’t or you have to move your eyes down to get to that point, then your screen is too low. What happens is that your eyes don’t look down for long – you tilt your head down, so you can look directly straight out – it’s a subconcious thing – and then you get neck ache, and hunched shoulders.
Get a chair with decent support. Some ergonomic chairs are silly money, but really you need to check for one that you can adjust the hieght, lumbar support, and arm rests on. Try and get one wit ha waterfall front on the seat too, that helps the blood supply to keep flowing to your legs.
Now, you’ve read this, and even before you’ve sat up straight, get up and walk around the room.
Tags: back problems, bad backs, bad habits, bad posture, blood supply, decent support, desk, ergonomic chairs, hunch, hunchback of notre dame, legs, lumbar support, money, neck ache, notre dame, posture, shoulders, waterfall
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