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naturegirl321
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 Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: Ever get into book sales? |
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| I've been offered a job selling English books and giving workshops about them. Anyone gotten into the world of English sales? Got anything bad or good to tell me? I'm trying to decide if I want the job or not. |
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Guy Courchesne
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Might give you a chance to expand your horizons a bit...network? I've thought about seeking such a position here in Mexico before as all the big publishers have reps here. |
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guangho
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| How about writing and editing textbooks? |
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khmerhit
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Go for it, it will give you experience. Someone has just opened an esl materials store in **** where I live, and apparently she started as a teacher than shifted to publishing and sales in Japan. Oddly, there was no such outlet before she opened, in a city of 3 million where half the inhabitants are not native speakers... good on her. I wish I had her commercial nous. Now excuse me, i must get back to filling out my welfare application forms...  |
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guangho
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| She only sells ESL materials? |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: Ever get into book sales? |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| I've been offered a job selling English books and giving workshops about them. |
Where I work, we've been forced to sit through far more of those publisher workshops than I care to count. Most of them were pretty bad. My point here is if you become a workshop presenter for a publishing company, don't expect a warm reception and undivided attention from teachers in all schools. |
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Justin Trullinger
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Publisher's presenters usually get a warm welcome in Ecuador, because they bring presents. So far this year, I've got a nice day planner, a nice wall calendar, and a thermal insulated spillproof coffee mug. Sometimes we even buy their books, but I'm always glad to see them...
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Guy Courchesne
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It's probably only for the size and economics of the place, but Mexico City gets glitzy affairs when the top publishers come to town. I managed to get an invite for the launch of the Skyline series a few years ago. They had about 300 people in a 5-star hotel ballroom for a slick launch.
Jack Richards was here for a similar do last year launching the update to the New Interchange series. |
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Gordon
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Location: Japan
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Japan has them all the time and I get a promo every other week in my mailbox about some book launch. I doubt few people attend, I never have. The reps come by my office once or twice a year and hand out any coursebook we want. Yippee!  I would not want their job, lots of travel, sucking up and pretending to be cheery. That ain't me. |
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