A remote operated Robot enters Red Rock Coffee, Mountain View, CA. shop and orders a scone to go through two way web cameras controlled by an engineer at anybots…Now what will the interns do?
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“It’s my form of painting. My form of photography. My form of being somewhat different.” – Mitch Alfus
The Selby does a day in the life of Mitch Alfus, owner of Libra Leather, covering both the quiet intimate moments as well as a tense sales meeting where he had his sales team on the hot seat.. one moment that rolled out like this….
Mitch:” I’ll tell you one more thing. You guys have to think, when your are working with accounts not to be wasting time. I’ve heard how you sell. For one I’d like you to know more about the real leather…But you know more than the customers so thats a plus. but another thing I think you spend too much time chit-chatting…you ramble on and on and on. And the laughter and the joy and the pleasure.”
Nervous Sales Rep (retorts): “but that’s what keeps them back. I think that my charm and my talking to them and knowing their line is helping me sale a fuck ton of leather. I have almost 2million dollars in sales.”
Mitch: “If you’re selling 2million a year with talking that much, imagine how much you’d sell if you talk less… And you knew what you were doing?
We’ll never know the back story behind this exchange, but from my days as a sales rep, I sense that she’s the type of rep that is comfortable knowing she’s earning good money for the company. However as a business owner I could tell he’s good with her progress but doesn’t want any of his reps comfortable. Push it harder, get ALL the money, don’t leave nothing on the table,and you cant do that with all that chitter chatter…I also know, a Sales rep has to have tough skin-tougher than leather.
what do you get from the exchange?
“It’s my form of painting. My form of photography. My form of being somewhat different.” – Mitch Alfus
The Selby does a day in the life of Mitch Alfus, owner of Libra Leather, covering both the quiet intimate moments as well as a tense sales meeting where he had his sales team on the hot seat.. one moment that rolled out like this….
Mitch:” I’ll tell you one more thing. You guys have to think, when your are working with accounts not to be wasting time. I’ve heard how you sell. For one I’d like you to know more about the real leather…But you know more than the customers so thats a plus. but another thing I think you spend too much time chit-chatting…you rmbe on and on and on. and the laughter and the joy and the pleasure.”
Nervous Sales Rep (retorts): “but that’s what keeps them back. I think that my charm and my talking to them and knowing their line is helping me sale a fuck ton of leather. I have almost 2million dollars in sales.”
Mitch: “If you’re selling 2million a year with talking that much, imagine how much you’d sell if you talk less… And you knew what you were doing?
We’ll never know the back story behind this exchange, but from my days as a sales rep, I sense that she’s the type of rep that is comfortable knowing she’s earning good money for the company. However as a business owner I could tell he’s good with her progress but doesn’t want any of his reps comfortable. Push it harder, get ALL the money, don’t leave nothing on the table,and you cant do that with all that chitter chatter…I also know, a Sales rep has to have tough skin-tougher than leather.
what do you get from the exchange?
The Forgotten Ones is Short Documentary on Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer, that became known for capturing images of poor and working class people;The people he considered to be the forgotten ones. Milton died last month at 101 years old, but his work will live on as a part of the documentary photo collection at the Library of Congress.
Also The Working Class Eye of Milton Rogovin, a gallery showing of his work, is up now through June 30, 2011 at:
Gage Gallery
Roosevelt University
18 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago