What was the first thing you ever sold?
Mine was walking door to door in my neighborhood slanging wrapping paper when I was about 6
TheOverTaker
First thing you ever sold?
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Had to sell these like coupon books for Football fundraising every year in Highschool. $20 for 20 coupons.
Yup same here, baseball though. Worked my ass off to make money for the program and got a lanyard in return. Learned early.
Those coupon books had one or two good coupons and the rest were shitty.
Chocolate bars door to door
Someone say…
Repping Cadbury's door to door downunder
Golf balls. Lived across the street from a golf course, found a million in the woods clean em up and sling em to everyone that was empty by the 6th hole.
Oh man that was some durable good ass wrapping paper too fam!
damn right. only the best for my neighbors
Spankings. Don't even ask how old I was.
Definitely the school contests where you go door to door in the neighborhood trying to get your neighbors to buy from the catalog.
My first taxed sales job was selling product for a company at farmers markets.
My first taxed sales job was selling product for a company at farmers markets.
those candy bars to raise money for our band program.
You talkin about those world's finest chocolates junt? The caramel ones were 💣
hey man for a $1 you can help me go to disney world if our team wins state
Those were the best. I wish my son was selling them now.
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This is hilarious hahahahahah
I appreciate the recognition of the underlying answer I gave 🙇🏼
Ziploc bags full of Cheez-Its door to door to my neighbors. Also, "raffle tickets" for the world's lamest raffle with junk from my house. I was such a little scammer as a kid.
Bahahahaha the raffle tickets got meeee. Hilarious
Sold shit from a catalogue door to door on a bicyle. Got top 5 in my school even though everyone else in the top 10 either had their parents spend money or drive them around to houses.
Taught me early on that you can't rely on marketing to give you leads.
Taught me early on that you can't rely on marketing to give you leads.
Selling vitamins at GNC was my first hustle, I got commissions by selling certain products or upselling to the larger size. Got a few hundred dollars a month on top of the hourly, so that was pretty good!
"Vitamins"
that was my first commissioned sales job too. not a bad deal at all
Girl Scout Cookies!
Popcorn. I was a Cub Scout okay...
Popcorn door2door for cub scouts. Honestly was one of the toughest sales because it was overpriced and everyone was already tapped out after buying Girl Scout cookies.
cookies beat popcorn every day of the week
Oh I know, lol
Used to sling candy bars outside of grocery stores with the squad for little league.
wrapping paper. School fund raiser. 2nd grade
marijuana in college
Mine too!! Not in college but hey it got me by for a bit hahaha weed kinda sells itself tho.
Burned CDs
School supplies like pencils, erasers, pens etc.. to the kids in my 3rd grade class until I got shut down by the principal
Weed
That makes three of us and a key bump further up the comments hahahhahaa
Girl. Scout. Cookies. A smile and a little persuasion. Gluten free, Vegan, flavorless, no problem we have cookies for that!
Lemonade and Candy…
I gave away the lemonade for free to sell candy.
The candy was heavily marked up similar to SaaS. Sometimes even 80% margins when you factored in my mom driving.
We used a consumption model and delivery via bikes. Niche down in our neighborhood. It was a great business model in middle school.
Sort of like SaaS and Data.
Girl Scout cookies!
Might have been lemonade or ice tea stand type deal or maybe I’m confusing my childhood with what tv tells me growing up is supposed to be like… No way to be sure…
Chocolate bars and coupon books for the golf team in high school. I was my own top customers for the chocolate if we’re being honest
Candy bars as a kid, then boosters for my baseball team. Then probably mowing lawns and landscaping around neighborhood. Fast forward to college started a swimming pool service company so I could make enough for rent and classes. Sold that company to a competitor in the area…should have stuck with it longer tbh
Chocolate bars and a frozen diy pizzas
Kirby Vacuums
My soul
No one was allowed to get out of the school building during school time. So I bought always some candy and cookies the cafeteria in school did not had but everyone wanted and sold them there with a few $ margin.. good times
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