Door-to-door selling

• Door-to-door selling

• Door-to-door selling grows up.

Direct selling is a key source of supplemental income in the US, especially among African-Americans, who make up about one-eighth of the industry's workforce. Multilevel marketing (MLM) is the fastest-growing part of the industry. Five direct-sales firms are profiled.

• Black Enterprise
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 5, December 1992

• Direct Selling has Switched From Door-to-Door Approach to Internet Approach

Harold Johnson found out on a hot summer day a few years ago that his job had changed forever. I was selling door-to-door in The Village, and I asked a woman for a drink of water because it was so warm outside, Johnson said. It just about scared her to death. That was one of my few bad experiences I've ever had doing this. But that's when I knew it had changed.

• The Journal Record
• March 03, 2005

• Selling Public Policy Door-to-Door

YOU CAN DISAGREE with Governor Corzine's budget or his toll-road restructuring plan, but you have to give him credit for meeting the public face to face. Between the town hall meetings, editorial board meetings, interviews and other public events short of riding a FedEx truck and delivering his message to your front door by 10:30 a.m. the next day there's little more the governor can do. Corzine met with The Record's editorial board Thursday, his second such meeting this year. Editorial boards are civilized by newspaper standards. We serve coffee, sometimes in real, not foam, cups. The hour-long meetings can be tedious and grueling if you're on the receiving end of the questions.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 18, 2008

• Managing Door-to-Door Sales of Vacuum Cleaners in Interwar Britain

Door-to-door selling was a key factor behind the particularly rapid interwar diffusion of vacuum cleaners among British households, relative to other "high-ticket" labor-saving appliances. Yet the door-to-door system incurred both high distribution costs and considerable controversy-owing to widespread sharp practice. Employers enticed salesmen through grossly inflated claims regarding earnings, which were in fact insufficient for most salesmen to make an acceptable living. This led many salesmen to engage in their own sharp practices-which eventually brought this form of marketing into disrepute.

• Business History Review
• Vol. 82 Nbr. 4, January 2008

• Memorial Hospital Warns of Possible Scam

A young woman who claims to be selling books to raise money for Memorial Hospital for Children is a scam artist, according to Memorial Hospital. The hospital received two calls in the past week from Colorado Springs residents wanting to check up on a young woman who had been going door to door selling books in the area of Rockrimmon Boulevard and Delmonico Drive.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• August 18, 2011

• Naic Consumer Alert: Scammers Take Advantage of Health Reform ; State Insurance Regulators Warn All Americans to Be On Alert

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers searching for health insurance coverage since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (PPACA) should be on the lookout for scammers hoping to take advantage of the confusion surrounding the details of the new law. State insurance regulators are receiving complaints about scam artists going door-to-door selling "ObamaCare" insurance policies or claiming there is a limited open-enrollment period to buy health insurance. Some of these scam artists have even set up bogus toll-free numbers to sell policies. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) warns consumers who have been offered a policy that is a "limited-time offer," has limited benefits or is advertised as necessitated by health insu...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 13, 2010

• Man Accused of Firing at Students Raising Money for School Team

A Colorado Springs man was arrested Wednesday night after he allegedly chased off three teenagers trying to raise money for Coronado High School while firing a gun. Arthur Baldwin, 39, became verbally and physically aggressive toward three boys who were going door-to-door selling discount cards as part of a school fundraiser, Colorado Springs police said.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• August 25, 2011

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... and began the challenge of door-to-door selling in Brooklyn, NY. In 1960, he met the spunky, intel...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• August 11, 2009

• Community Briefs

Girl Scout cookies Girl Scouts may be going door-to-door in your neighborhood this weekend, selling Samoas, Thin Mints and Tagalongs.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 07, 2011

• Popcorn Sales to Benefit Scouting

BLOOMINGTON - The annual Boy Scouts popcorn sale is under way throughout Central Illinois. Scouts will be going door to door selling popcorn - in flavors such as caramel, chocolate, cheddar and kettle corn - throughout October.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• October 26, 2010