THE VIDEO SHELF · street salesmanship
Joe Ades , Greatest Salesman in New York City History !!! #KONYH !!
A short street-level clip of Joe Ades, the New York pitchman who sold vegetable peelers to crowds on the sidewalk. It shows his patter, showmanship and crowd handling in action.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN treats him as a master class in salesmanship and live presentation, where how you sell matters more than what you sell.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- KING OF NEW YORK HACKS
- Topic
- street salesmanship
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2014
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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See the guy in action at [VIDEO] A really fantastic pitchman, great to watch and made an absolute craft out of his work.
iuguy on Hacker News · 2009-02
In Peeler Man, HN Salesmanship Hero, PassesI don't think Steve Jobs is that great a presenter, Ballmer is (much) worse though. A good presentation and a good presenter are two different things. A good presenter can give a presentation about essentially boring material and make it live, be memorable. A bad …
jacquesm on Hacker News · 2010-04
In Ask HN: What makes a presentation great ?You seem to have been terribly misled. Only very rarely do products sell themselves. 99% of the time, the product is largely incidental to the sales process. Your idea doesn't matter one jot, what matters is how well you can connect to customers and really …
jdietrich on Hacker News · 2010-10
In After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?
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