What do you think is the meme of the year. For me it is between antoine dodson and epic beard man. Keep a tally of the votes and add on write in candidates. I vote for Epic Beard Man.




Antoine Dodson -

Epic Beard Man - I

12/29/2010 4:15:58 PM

I realize this thread is about TWW's Meme of the Year....which this is not. Hear me out, maybe I can offer some insight.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really)

Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors.

Local distributor disadvantages: easily beaten in price, array of commodities, array of technology, lack of trained staff, low cash flow, etc etc etc.

This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small.

I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.

If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

12/29/2010 4:22:16 PM

^ this one

12/29/2010 4:22:44 PM

Was HOOPS MALONE's PACK PACK PACK meme from 2010?

12/29/2010 4:25:53 PM

amber lance

12/29/2010 4:29:12 PM

^^^^

12/29/2010 4:30:24 PM

ok, I'll try to keep this updated with as many votes and meme's as possible. I just remembered the Michael Glapion thread too.


Antoine Dodson -

Epic Beard Man - I

HOOPS MALONE - I

Michael Glapion -

Outside Sales - I

12/29/2010 4:30:29 PM

+1 Outside Sales

12/29/2010 4:31:19 PM

Fail.

Unless you meant youtube and 4chan copypastas of 2010

I'm astraladvent and I approved this message

12/29/2010 4:31:30 PM

is there a column for they're all fucking stupid?

i'll check that one, please

12/29/2010 4:32:53 PM

Outside sales

12/29/2010 4:37:31 PM

Outside sales is my shit

and yes it gets my vote

[Edited on December 29, 2010 at 4:39 PM. Reason : d]

12/29/2010 4:39:08 PM

Antoine Dodson - 0

Epic Beard Man - 2

HOOPS MALONE - 1

Michael Glapion - 0

Outside Sales - 6

12/29/2010 4:46:50 PM

+1 Outside Sales

12/29/2010 4:49:03 PM

12/29/2010 4:49:37 PM

HOOPS MALONE's meme makes me laff everytime

12/29/2010 4:51:03 PM

Quote :

"Antoine Dodson - 0 Epic Beard Man - 2 HOOPS MALONE - 1 Michael Glapion - 0 Outside Sales - 6"

...those aren't all TWW memes as the title suggests

but whatever

12/29/2010 4:51:51 PM

Hey TWW, Imma let you finish, but Kanye had one of the best memes of the year.

[Edited on December 29, 2010 at 5:13 PM. Reason : Happened in Sep 2009. Meme was in 2010.]

12/29/2010 5:10:06 PM

That was last year, good sir.

12/29/2010 5:11:14 PM

I vote for leathermyst calling Michael Glapion a thief and a liar

12/29/2010 5:12:38 PM

where/when did the HOOPS MALONE one start?

12/29/2010 5:33:05 PM

Quote :

"amber lance"

its lamps ... not lance lol

12/29/2010 5:44:46 PM

I thought this was about TWW Memes not Internet memes in general, I vote Three Word Quotes.

12/29/2010 5:48:35 PM

nasty_b asked me to take over the scoreboard for the night...

Antoine Dodson - 0

Epic Beard Man - 2

HOOPS MALONE - 2

Michael Glapion - 1

Outside Sales - 7

Three Word Quotes - 1

12/29/2010 6:03:38 PM

+1 Outside Sales

12/29/2010 6:07:03 PM

Lets do something large

12/29/2010 6:07:24 PM

HOOPS

12/29/2010 6:12:18 PM

+1 Outside Sales

12/29/2010 6:41:50 PM

who are these aliases?

12/29/2010 6:43:16 PM

Give me any odds of what you think this being the 2010 Meme of the Year is.

Let's do something large.

Let's do something like....

"There's a 1 out of 1x10^10 chance."

That means there's a one in ten billion chance of aliens existing.

Is that not rare enough for you? Okay. Let's do 1 out of 1x10^15. That's a one in one quadrillion chance.

Based on observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the universe.

It is estimated that at least ten percent of all sun-like stars have a system of planets, there are 6.25×10^18 stars with planets orbiting them in the universe.

If even a billionth of these stars have planets supporting life, there are some 6.25×10^9 (billion) life-supporting planetary systems in the universe.

6,250,000,000.

Now, what are the odds that NONE of these have any life on them?

12/29/2010 7:17:26 PM

Outside sales

12/29/2010 7:27:43 PM

glapion

12/29/2010 7:49:12 PM

outside sales

[Edited on December 29, 2010 at 7:56 PM. Reason : how did that meme start anyway? ]

12/29/2010 7:55:47 PM

outside sales.

I remember reading that post originally, it never gets old when I see it pop up in a thread it always makes me laugh.

12/29/2010 8:01:48 PM

outside sales

12/29/2010 8:02:07 PM

My vote is for is for Michael Glapion.

Antoine Dodson - 0

Epic Beard Man - 2

HOOPS MALONE - 3

Michael Glapion - 3

Outside Sales - 13

Three Word Quotes - 1

12/29/2010 8:06:57 PM

you gotta do this right if you're gonna do it, goddamn it



gather up all the memes from 2010 before you start taking votes on them



otherwise you get asshats like HCH who come up in here spouting bullshit about Kanye not being from 2009 (seriously dog? I made a website about that shit.... in 2009. don't fucking tell me the dates on my ftp are wrong. that shit was old come 1/2010.)



and keep it TWW-specific



I'm not voting on the "funniest thing I saw on the internet that just so fucking happened to spill over to TWW," I'm voting on the 2010 TWW Meme of the Year.


That means something very specific, in that it came from TWW and not the fucking asshole of the internet 4chan.


What does that mean?


Outside Sales

Hoops Malone

Michael Glapion

Gronke's "Let's do something large" idiocy

jessiejepp USPS lawsuit



and maybe we take holdovers and old standbys from years past -

ohhhhh, this water feels so good

i got raped, but he was hot as fuck

mustache separated and cam eback together


but bullshit that didnt come from TWW doesn't fucking belong

12/29/2010 8:53:22 PM

^u mad?

12/29/2010 9:02:46 PM

is the goodnight sweet prince thing ours? if so, I vote for it. if not, i vote for 3 word quotes

12/29/2010 9:04:20 PM

Quote :

"Three Word Quotes - 1"

way old

Quote :

"interesting, tell us less"

12/29/2010 9:12:29 PM

that being said my vote is for BOYCOTT DA SCHOOO!






[Edited on December 29, 2010 at 9:31 PM. Reason : sorry, vote change.]

12/29/2010 9:29:22 PM

Quote :

"is the goodnight sweet prince thing ours?"

absolutely not

12/29/2010 9:37:50 PM

shut the bed

12/29/2010 9:42:50 PM

HOOPS

12/29/2010 10:20:12 PM

Interesting, tell us less.

12/29/2010 10:29:12 PM

I keep reading this as TWW Male Model of the Year, lol

12/29/2010 10:29:59 PM

The Ernie delegation splits its vote between Let's Do Something Large and BDS

12/29/2010 10:30:35 PM

interesting, tell us less.

12/29/2010 10:31:46 PM

iop1

12/29/2010 10:34:15 PM

are all the memes definitely from 2010 or were some from 2009?

12/29/2010 10:34:43 PM