superselling Author:ed mcmahon What the heck does Ed McMahon know about professional selling? That's a fair question, especially if you know me mainly as the six-footer who says, "Heeere's Johnny!" But working on "The Tnoight Show" is not all I do. I have a lot of other careers going, and all of them revolve around selling. "Sure," you might say, "you make commercials for... more » TV and radio, but that's not the kind of selling I do. While you're being driven to the studio in a limousine, I'm out here in the trenches. How can you understand how I feel?" Don't kid yourself. I know exactly how you feel, because I've been there. At the tender age of sixteen I was calling bingo games with a traveling carnival show. Later on I pushed vegetable slicers and fountain pens on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Then I spent some years going door-to-door with pots and pans. There isn't much I haven't sold at one time or another. I was a salesman, and I still am. In all that I do I'm selling, sometimes products or services and sometimes myself.« less