One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

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: