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If you’ve ever been employed in a sales position, chances are that at some point you had to work on a booth at a trade show. To an outsider this can look like pretty easy work: just hanging around on in some big hall all day and talking a bit to people visting the booth. Clearly those people have never had any first hand experience at it!

One of the surprising facts is that the work is actually more tiring on slow days, when there are not a lot of visitors to the fair, Continue reading →