Selling Out Pt 2: What products would you promote?

[Bandwagonesque]

If somebody approached you with a sack of money, asking you to promote their product - would you do it if it was a product that you firmly believed in and actually consumed, or would you use let a company your name/image on anything if the price was right?

 

[Violinist]

Watch companies like JLC, Panerai...clothing Zegna, Brioni, Carlo Franco etc...

 

[zjpj83]

There's a price for everything.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Omas and Namiki pens.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I mean, if Apple came up to me and paid me a million dollars to be in an Apple ad, I'd probably do it.

But then I'd go build a million dollar PC with windows vista on it, just to spite them.

 

[Piobaire]

Let me share a little story from my life.

One year I sold home improvements. It was like the movie Tin Men with Danny "The Lush" DeVito and Richard Drefus. I was a "canvasser", that is, I would walk around knocking on doors to set up evening appointments for my "closer". You would set up evening appointments making sure all the parties needed for a decision would be there.

Well, I found this little old lady one day. She made all her decisions and she wanted vinyl siding. So I got my closer right then and there and he sold her three ways to Monday. She had 15k in the bank and my closer figured the job would cost 3k. He had her sold for 12k. I spoke to him and said I did not have the heart to make such a payday off her. He relented and we told her we had called "home office" and were too busy for the job.

Well, about a month later I was in the same area. Her house was fully sided! I went and talked to her and she told me how it was too bad we were so busy. After our talk she had really, really wanted her place sided so she called another company. These gents got not only her 15k but wrote her a loan for another 4k!

Moral of the story: if you are offered money to sell or endorse ANYTHING, take it as someone else will and they might do it for even more.

 

[Brian SD]

i would love to do one of those goofy ass japanese toyota commercials.

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Let me share a little story from my life.

One year I sold home improvements. It was like the movie Tin Men with Danny "The Lush" DeVito and Richard Drefus. I was a "canvasser", that is, I would walk around knocking on doors to set up evening appointments for my "closer". You would set up evening appointments making sure all the parties needed for a decision would be there.

Well, I found this little old lady one day. She made all her decisions and she wanted vinyl siding. So I got my closer right then and there and he sold her three ways to Monday. She had 15k in the bank and my closer figured the job would cost 3k. He had her sold for 12k. I spoke to him and said I did not have the heart to make such a payday off her. He relented and we told her we had called "home office" and were too busy for the job.

Well, about a month later I was in the same area. Her house was fully sided! I went and talked to her and she told me how it was too bad we were so busy. After our talk she had really, really wanted her place sided so she called another company. These gents got not only her 15k but wrote her a loan for another 4k!

Moral of the story: if you are offered money to sell or endorse ANYTHING, take it as someone else will and they might do it for even more.

why didn't you do the job for 3k?

i would definitely sell out if i were famous. i could then donate more to charity.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

why didn't you do the job for 3k?

As I said, the cost was 3k. We were selling it. That would mean $0.00 money to Your's Truly. The closer wanted all or nothing.

However, I think you might, just might mind you, have missed the point.

 

[Brian SD]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Let me share a little story from my life.

One year I sold home improvements. It was like the movie Tin Men with Danny "The Lush" DeVito and Richard Drefus. I was a "canvasser", that is, I would walk around knocking on doors to set up evening appointments for my "closer". You would set up evening appointments making sure all the parties needed for a decision would be there.

Well, I found this little old lady one day. She made all her decisions and she wanted vinyl siding. So I got my closer right then and there and he sold her three ways to Monday. She had 15k in the bank and my closer figured the job would cost 3k. He had her sold for 12k. I spoke to him and said I did not have the heart to make such a payday off her. He relented and we told her we had called "home office" and were too busy for the job.

Well, about a month later I was in the same area. Her house was fully sided! I went and talked to her and she told me how it was too bad we were so busy. After our talk she had really, really wanted her place sided so she called another company. These gents got not only her 15k but wrote her a loan for another 4k!

Moral of the story: if you are offered money to sell or endorse ANYTHING, take it as someone else will and they might do it for even more.

Rough! I gues that goes to show you that even if you think you're taking advantage of someone, there's someone else out there who will take more.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by Brian SD

Rough! I gues that goes to show you that even if you think you're taking advantage of someone, there's someone else out there who will take more.

Exactly. And a corollary is, when people are trying to hand you their money, take it because if you do not, someone else will. So to the OP, endorse anything that anyone will pay you to do!

 

[odoreater]

I don't know what products I would promote, but as a products defense attorney, I would defend pretty much anything.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

I would endorse Kenneth Cole and Men's Wearhouse if the check had enough zeroes.

 

[Violinist]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Exactly. And a corollary is, when people are trying to hand you their money, take it because if you do not, someone else will. So to the OP, endorse anything that anyone will pay you to do!

that's probably one of the most morally bankrupt things I've heard. You're parents must be really proud.

 

[Bradford]

Originally Posted by Bandwagonesque

If somebody approached you with a sack of money, asking you to promote their product - would you do it if it was a product that you firmly believed in and actually consumed, or would you use let a company your name/image on anything if the price was right?

Yes and yes