Requirements January 1957 until June 1972

1. Analyze an article of merchandise from each of five retail stores and make a report of what happens to each article of merchandise investigated from the time it leaves the manufacturer until it reaches the consumer.

2. Explain the value of a salesman between manufacturer and jobber, between jobber and retailer, or between manufacturer and retailer.

3. Sell a definite quantity of merchandise, the total sales value of which is in excess of $10.00, and give your actual selling experience, telling the methods you used to influence people to buy your merchandise, and how you overcame "selling resistance."

4. Indicate the place or importance of selling in business.

5. Explain how ideas are formed and how a salesman can lead a customer to decide to buy.

6. Sell at a profit something you have made or grown. Keep the necessary records to enable him to fix the right selling price and tell how much profit you have made.

7. Obtain, and hold for three months, a selling job for the hours after school, Saturday afternoons or vacation. Describe what is necessary to sell the things you handle.

8. In uniform, visit a business concern and learn how their product is sold. Describe the selling process. Take with you an outline of at least ten questions prepared in advance.

9. Name five fundamental requirements of successful salesmanship.

10. Go to some successful practical salesman in your community and find out what he thinks of selling as a life work. Write out in 500 words or more your conclusion of what the salesman tells you of salesmanship as a life-work.

11. (a) Explain what you understand to be the meaning of the statement that "Every man is a salesman. He must sell himself, his time, his ideas, his service." (b) Explain why truthfulness about an article is one of the outstanding requirements of all good selling. (c) Explain what it is that every salesman sells to his employer. (d) Explain how courtesy to prospective customers aids selling. Be prepared to give examples.