Sales has a sorted past…from Homer talking about door-to-door sales in likely the 8th century BC, Itinerant Merchants, Drummers, Snake Oil “Medicine Men”, Mark Twain building a sales training program for 10,000, Phrenologists, Pyramid Selling, the beginnings of cold calling, and the goodness of transparency, sincerity and courteousness – this webinar has it all.
Check out Todd Caponi’s review of the true history of sales, chock full of goodness & weirdness.
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