The Low Prestige of Personal Selling

John L. Mason

Journal of Marketing · 1965 · 40 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The low social standing of persona I selling is acutely familiar to salesmen, sales managers, and marketing teachers. But the solution to the problem has been an elusive one. Here is a way of placing the problem in its proper perspective, and of removing some of the myths about selling.