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Old 10-05-2021, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by oneclickplus View Post
I never understood (and still don't) why vacuums have their own sales / service niche. I mean, no one has ever knocked on my door offering to sell me a toaster oven or a microwave or a bread maker.

My answer: too much gubmint control over the restaurant business and I doubt the vacuum business (regardless of your experience) will do well down here.

Suggest you open a funeral home. You won't have to worry about supply chain issues and it's not something that the government can really close. Plenty of potential customers all around plus even more when the long-term effects of these shots kick in.
Re: selling vacuums door to door
There have been many successful businesses that I for one wonder how they find people to do this. Tupperware in a famous one. Amway-there was a time when you could not walk down the street in New York City without someone trying to get you to sign up for a sell amway presentation. A bit of math, the bulk of the sales were the sample kits they sold to recruited sales people.
Vacuums the famous brand was Kirby. They were well made, expensive and sold on an installment plan.

So many people say there is no opportunity here. Most of us, walk past opportunity everyday and don't see it. If, we do see it, we say, I saw that but I didn't do it. Someone else did and was successful. I shoulda, coulda, mighta but didn'ta