Guess what?

SG amp A that mean selling, general and administrative expenses.

What can you do? Can you make it?

I'm a salesperson.

This guy is a Bible salesman.

This is the PC guy over here.

Cell phone salesman.

He could also be a Bible salesman.

Sell, sell, sell.

So as you could see, we still have the same cost of goods to manufacture the product as before, 33.

I can't just put that in my pocket.

You ready to be a salesperson?

Cell phone salesman.

(Laughter)

Best Buy, the consumer electronics company, gets all its employees the cleaners, the shop assistants, the people in the back office, not just its forecasting team to place bets, yes bets, on things like whether or not a product is going to sell well before Christmas, on whether customers' new ideas are going to be or should be taken on by the company, on whether a project will come in on time.

Where it said, this is the Mac guy over here.

And so this is what this looks like.

Apple did a great series of ads about this.

This is jack... one of our best salesmen.

Okay, so about the cell phone guy.

So for some industries, distributors play a pivotal role in the distribution of the product.

So luckily, the science no, sorry the marketing is getting easier.

Otherwise i would keep you on at the store on a temporary basis.

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

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

Didn't you quit your job in sales?

Sold

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What do you sell?

She applied for a job as a saleswoman.

I'm an operator, Control, just an operator.

We call it a select opportunity .

Do you have any sales distributors in Japan?

He works a dealership over on Fulton.

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

I got to stand before an oversight committee. What will I tell them about Treadstone?

My dad sells tractors.

I'm offering you the opportunity of a lifetime... a new car dealership.

I have all of this overhead expense and often times, on a regular income statement, it will be called selling, general and administrative, or overhead costs, or operating costs or something like that.

I had to break a machine open.

Our liquor license!

What's so awesome about a queensize futon sale?

They provide distribution and accounting, bill collection, etc.

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

Retailers and mass merchants often, though not always, get their products supplied through distributors.