If you think about it, we didn't talk about how much to charge.

But this is, of course, an optimistic scenario. Let's think of other scenarios.

Sell, sell, sell.

You will be paid a stable base salary plus commissions on sale.

Where is there a soft drink vending machine?

You know, the average grocery store today offers you 45,000 products.

What do you sell?

What about the dealers filing suit against you?

Fee?

You know, he helps me sell the paintings and shit.

All right, that's 40 times 42 minus distribution charges....

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It computes the cost of goods sold.

And their value proposition, as even they realized later, was pretty unclear.

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Three percent of your commission from here on out.

My dad sells tractors.

And the few people that are selling them, they're usually selling them when they are distressed in some way.

And then everyone quit on us. We have absolutely no distribution.

But this still works out, right? I'm still making more money.

For facilitating.

So m, the amount of money collected, is a function of the number of tickets he sells.

This is the guy that invented it, Sir Clive Sinclair, and he's showing his machine.

We call it a select opportunity .

This is the PC guy over here.

Our liquor license!

What's so awesome about a queensize futon sale?

This guy is a Bible salesman.

He's selling tickets, and so he can't sell negative tickets.

So I'll call that m, the function will be m, and it's a function of how many tickets he sells.

He's like, you know what, we have to match his prices.

And that's better than what you get out of treasury bonds.

So that's what sell side means.

October is inventory time.

Cell phone salesman.

He could also be a Bible salesman.

In a physical channel, a direct sales force are sales people that work for you directly and typically sell directly to the end user.

And if you go a little bit lower, it tells me capacity utilization.

By the way, the how many is a classic question, and the answer is it depends.

Really?

Eight hundred thousand in commission dollars.

I'm a salesperson.

I had to break a machine open.

He's going to be selling Nerf footballs.