Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse

Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by mtrimpe on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:04PM (#5457606)

While trying to learn how to sell I once tried to sell charity on the street for a single day.

Already in that first day one of the less attractive, but probably more skilled, co-workers told me that in most cases you're actually selling 'having an attractive person be very friendly to me for a while.'

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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by derleth on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:43PM (#5458371)

> I once tried to sell charity on the street for a single day.

This sentence intrigues me. Were you working for a specific charitable organization or were you out there trying to sell one of the cardinal virtues as an abstract concept?

> in most cases you're actually selling 'having an attractive person be very friendly to me for a while.'

This is true, and it has been rediscovered over and over again in many industries in many ways. Some industries are really that and nothing else, and they have long, honored, and storied traditions in some cultures (so denigrating them means you're an ethnocentric swine, in case you missed my hint).

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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by mtrimpe on Friday March 29, 2013 @05:57AM (#5459944)

I don't know if it exists everywhere in the world, but this was basically an organization that would run campaigns for specific charities.

One week you'd try to get people to donate to a child cancer charity and the next to WWF and the sales company would get the first few months to half a year of that person's donations.

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