Given that the article talked about knives, I'm surprised no one's mentioned Vector Marketing yet: http://www.collegeotr.com/suny_binghamton/vector_marketing_s.... They basically mass-mail high school students trying to recruit some to sell knives. A couple of my friends did it back in high school. While it can be a way to improve your sales ability, this particular scheme (and many others) was little more than a fancy scam.
I fully agree with the title, but these "independent reseller" schemes seem to be hit-or-miss at best. It might be a better experience to work in sales at a big company, rather than as an independent reseller. John Doerr plays up the fact that he worked in sales at Intel before his VC life. Or even better, sell something you made.
I fully agree with the title, but these "independent reseller" schemes seem to be hit-or-miss at best. It might be a better experience to work in sales at a big company, rather than as an independent reseller. John Doerr plays up the fact that he worked in sales at Intel before his VC life. Or even better, sell something you made.