Calling in help and having to pay for it is not what the doctor ordered. Business as usual. I've even noticed some mailorder dealerships making their way to the Net. Some are a problem, others are not. Whether you're on the Net or doing direct mail however, the inherent problems facing the successful are still there.
Disaster soon follows for everyone over the ensuing months.
But the disaster coming usually has some noteworthy trends that will accompany it. If you don't know much about them, you won't sell a thing. Barring the experienced con man type, the bull artist, or the guy who can sell snow to Eskimos, there's some general things you might want to watch out for. Based upon your already existing experiences with a company, it's employees and it's products, look for little things of human nature that may be a clue that your suspicions were right. The same person can't tell the same lie extensively for the most part.