28 CapitalPress.com
January 8, 2016
‘I try to sell stuff that I can feel good about selling’
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“A lot of time you don’t get the business right there,” he said. “It is
two months later — sometimes six or eight months later — when
a guy calls and says, ‘Oh, I saw you at the ag show.’”
Jim Gerber of Gerber Trailer Sales
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