MONEY IN AGENCIES.
The Omnipresent Agent--What He Says and What He Sells--Power of the
Successful Drummer--The Five Secrets of the Book Agent--Five
Thousand Dollars Commission on a Patent--How Seven Men Carry
$7,000,000 Insurance--A Man Who Receives $5,000 a Year and Does
Nothing--How Teachers Pay for Their Positions--Searching for a
$10,000 Preacher--The Matrimonial is Often a Matter-of-money-all--A
New Way to Get Good Servants--The Farm Supply Company.
Few occupations offer such inducements for persons with little or no
capital as that of the agent. There are two classes of agencies. In one,
as a book or patent agency, the agent works for one or two persons at a
fixed commission and needs no capital. In the other, as that of servants
and of supply companies, the agent is also in a certain sense a
principal; he obeys no one’s orders, fixes his own commissions, and
makes his profits directly from the public. Here are a few points for
agents: