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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

An Indian Salesman:)

"I want to share a nice story which i read in a book with u all,Hope u lik it too!!"

A keen immigrant Indian Marwadi lad applied for a salesman's job at London

's premier downtown department store. In fact, it was the biggest store in

the world - you could get anything there.

The boss asked him, "Have you ever been a salesman before?" "Yes sir, I was

a salesman in India ", replied the lad. The boss liked the cut of him and

said, "You can start tomorrow and I'll come and see you."

The day was long and arduous for the young man, but he got through it. And

finally 6:00 PM came around. The boss duly fronted up and asked, "How many

sales did you make today?" "Sir, Just ONE sale." said the young salesman.

"Only one sale?" blurted the boss. "No! No! You see here, most of my staff

make 20 or 30 sales a day. "If you want to keep this job, you'd better be

doing better than just one sale. By the way "How much was the sale worth?"

93300534.00 pounds" said the young Marwadi. "What"," How did you manage

that?" asked the flabbergasted boss.

"Well", said the salesman, "This man came in and I sold him a small fish

hook, then a medium hook and finally a really large hook. Then I sell him

new fishing rod and some fishing gear. Then I asked him where he was going

fishing and he said down the coast. So I told him he'd be needing a boat, so

I took him down to the boat department and sold him that twenty-foot

schooner with the twin engines. Then he said his Volkswagen probably

wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to our automotive department and

sold him that new Deluxe 4X4 Blazer.

I then asked him where he'll be staying, and since he had no accommodation,

I took him to camping department and sold him one of those new igloo

6-sleeper camper tents. Then the guy said, while we're at it, I should throw

in about $100 worth of groceries and two cases of beer.

The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment, "You sold all that

to a guy who came in for a fish hook!!"

"No" answered the salesman, "he came in to buy a headache relief tablet and

I said to him, "Sir, fishing is best headache removal"

Boss - "You sit in my chair.......”

6 comments:

  1. That was a wonderful marketing story... but a boss would not have been impressed by that, he would have asked where did he filled the diesel or petrol?

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  2. That is a good one. Loved it. (Looks like you stopped blogging. Please continue.)

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