{"id":1083,"date":"2009-11-27T22:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2009-11-27T22:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:56:48","slug":"half-baked-idea-salesperson-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2009\/11\/27\/half-baked-idea-salesperson-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-baked Idea: Salesperson Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a half-baked idea that someone else can carry to fruition.<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a special trademarked logo, and a corresponding badge.<\/li>\n
  2. Have sales-people apply for badges, for an annual fee.<\/li>\n
  3. Periodically send secret shoppers who know their stuff into the sales-person’s place of employ to buy (or pretend to buy) a product.<\/li>\n
  4. Have secret shopper rate the sales-people on exactly how full of shit they are. (Note: May need to find euphemism for this concept, especially to make the logo seem attractive.)<\/li>\n
  5. The sales-people rated in the bottom 2% of the full-of-shit scale (not merely of applicants, but of the general sales industry) is granted the right to wear one of the badges.<\/li>\n
  6. Advertise to shoppers telling them they can trust the badge wearers to be less full of shit that the average sales person.<\/li>\n
  7. Advertise to employers that they should pay badge-wearers more, as they are respected by shoppers.<\/li>\n
  8. …<\/li>\n
  9. Profit!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Why, yes, I was shopping for a specialist product today. How could you tell?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In which Julian offers a solution to the problem of sales-people, and a profit,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cathartic-rant","category-thoughts-from-the-shower","tag-shopping-million-dollar-idea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}