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$500 a Week Selling Jewelry in 1970
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10% commission, no salary, flying on a clergy discount to chase out-of-town customers. Alex Edelman on his first real hustle. #BuildingABusiness #Entrepreneurship #MiddleClassPodcast
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telling me this maybe we can share that
also the jewelry business how you worked
very hard on making sure your customers
were happy, right? Is that the
>> Yeah, that was that was a major thing
because I used to
jewelry business was a competitive at
those days. Okay.
>> That was competitive, right?
>> It was a competitive because everybody
used to sell jewelry to everybody.
Jewelry was a big item. Worked in 47th
Street for for a from company of two two
brothers and they needed a salesman. I
took over the line from an elderly
person who was a salesman prior to me
being a salesman there.
And he had a tremendous reputation in
certain type of jewelry opals which was
very popular those days.
And I picked up the line and I started
to go out and sell follow up the
customers that he had. In the interim I
looked at other customers as well.
So I did pretty well. I I those days I
used to make between three to five
hundred dollars a week which was a lot
of money. 1970-71
it was a lot of money those days.