Kids learn early about the need for marketing. Whether its cookie or candy sales, popcorn or knick-knacks or even holiday wrapping paper and cheese balls children learn what it takes to succeed.
Many of these school or youth organization fundraisers thrive on the sale of products to help fund certain activities, programs or a needed purchase.
These same fundraisers often reward the children for their efforts by offering increasingly spectacular prizes for those children who sell the most.
Armed with this knowledge, and a determined attitude to beat the snobbiest kids in school, children canvas neighborhoods and block incoming phone calls by contacting family members to see if they would be interested in purchasing German chocolate or a can of caramel popcorn.
Millions of magazines are sold this way every year. Many companies could not exist if it werent for the business they are able to do with charitable organizations in fundraising efforts.
Why is it so hard for adults to remember how they were able to make sales when they were growing up? For many it suddenly seems childish and inappropriate to contact friends and family when it comes to...