The moderators of the Community, and the authors of 'Selling ADSPACE Made SIMPLE' (the e-book for adsales people), are Roy and Ann. We've sold advertising space in newspapers, trade press magazines, web sites, and 'one-shot' booklets. We've sold space for $23.75 (for a small classified ad) and for £19,640.00 (for a series of full colour pages).

We've sold ad space in the U.S.A., the U.K., and in Europe. We've even sold space in Australia and South Africa (by phone, for an international trade publication).

During that time we've won prizes for breaking sales quotas which include holidays to the Middle East, jewellery, 'Gold circle' membership and the other rewards for making outstanding sales.

We've made friends of many customers and created terrific relationships with some of the people who have advertised with the publications we represented.

BUT, during this time we've also been slandered, libelled, been sworn at, had doors slammed in our faces, and been blamed by unhappy advertisers when 'our' adverts failed to sell 'their' goods (no matter that the goods were shoddy or the advert itself was lousy)....

We've also lost sales which we should have made (through saying the wrong thing at the wrong time) and made 'lucky' sales which we didn't deserve (by saying the right thing at the right time - by mistake!).

In short, we've been there, and still have the scar tissue to prove it.