youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:22 am
CU88 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:26 am
youthathletics wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:47 pm
More deals are done on the golf course and a bar top than in a board room. Stop being so judgemental,,,, god.
Proof?
Donald Trump
That's proof?
Seems to me that he's the laziest POTUS in the last century (I dunno, maybe someone was lazier previous to that). Refuses to read anything with details, makes all decisions by the seat of the pants in reaction to what he sees on Fox or other crass partisan political instincts, damn the facts.
Frankly, I'd be fine with him doing zero 'work' and spending all his time at Mar-A-Lago on the golf course, if that meant he'd stop tweeting and lying.
But that's not going to happen, so pointing out the hypocrisy of the outrage over Obama's golf, that meme promulgated again and again by Trump himself, is simply what Trumpists will need to suffer through now.
More deals are done on a golf course...total baloney.
I've never done a deal on a golf course (nor on a bar top)...nor in a strip club.
Lotta deals, totaling in the 100's of millions...
But hey, maybe selling buddies an insurance policy, or a Ponzi investment, or other scam deal, maybe those 'deals' on the golf course add up.
My first job, post-college and an ill-fated six month stint as a paralegal as prep for law school, was as a straight commissioned salesman for a new collection agency service. 1980: New-fangled computer generated demand letter service, fixed fee (instead of 33-50% of collected). Started on West Coast, first entry to East Coast. Genuine naugahyde briefcase and flipchart, no base, no expenses, 40 hired with 3-day training. Calling on small business, doctors, etc. Knocking on doors, cold calling. Constant rejection. My manager was a former encyclopedia book salesman.
The competition had the advantage of exactly what you describe, lots of golf, bars, and strip clubs. "I use my high school buddy, my cousin". A month in, only two of us had survived. I tossed the Flipchart, created my own pitch and called on larger customers, banks, hospitals, etc. Won the business on the basis of the real merits of the system (high rate of fast collection of smaller bills, low net cost, higher total net). But, yes, lots of difficulty with some credit managers clearly getting greased by the competition. Opened an office for the company in a new city prior to leaving for business school. The company still exists today. Same model. Very successful.
Great experience, learned an enormous amount.
I've never used the 'grease'.
