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SK: No, actually, once you get your clientele
the feel of people and everything—'cause I'm a
anyway, so it was pretty much easy for me... It's about your
selling techniques. You have to make a person feel relaxed
with you, comfortable with you. It's all about making.a person
get into you.
FP: So, [principals] will buy school supplies in bulk from your
company...
SK: Oh, yeah. They buy a lot from me. A lot. They deal with
me. My customers deal with me. So, when they like me, that's
all I need.
FP: Had you ever done [similar work] before you started
working there?
SK: Urn, I had done customer service work, but I had never
done anything like that before. But I was very strong in the
customer service field.
FP: Where did you work before?
SK: I worked at Dial America. I was the top sales rep
there... And I'm the top sales rep at District Specially Supplies,
also. And I also worked at HCS Marketing, which sold OSHA
manuals to like different big-time jobs, telling them about
safety skills... on the job and everything. So, I had a lot of
experience in that field.
FP: What kind of schooling do you have?
SK: I did a lot of intake at Athens Technical Institute. I did
some online at Kaplan University.
FP: And was that customer service-oriented in some way, or
did you study something else?
SK: Yeah, I did some retail marketing at Athens Tech...
[Classes] were pretty cool. It was pretty cool, pretty laid back.
FP: So when you say you I'ke a lot
of poetry, do you go perjorm poetry?
SK: Yeah, we do poetry—we used
to do it at the Bulldog Cafe, but they
closed down. So now, they do it at the
Suburban Lodge. We also used to do
at, what's it called. New Earth; we also Used to do it at New
too, but they stopped doing that.
FP; So, like, *open mic nights?”
SK: Open mic night, yeah. I like going to the open mic
night.
FP: What is the subject matter of your poetry?
SK: Well, it's, about anything dealing with inspiration or
anything motivational, is mostly what I target on.
FP: Inspirational— tike spiritual, religious?
SK: Well, sort of religious. It's more [like] religious-inspi
rational. Also, I like to tell people things for their own good,
like advice... Actually, 1 have an inspirational CD that I did last
year, and it sold pretty good. I sold copies around Athens... It
was Daily Vitamin: Take One.
FP: Daily Vitamin: Take One—that's a good title. What was
on the CD?
SK: It was very good. I had, like, music in the background
as I was motivationally speaking. It was music in the back
ground, and it was just real good. I had about 10 tracks, 10
different poetry tracks on it. It was real good.
FP; And would you just bring it to open mic night to sell?
SK: Well, I did bring it to open mic night, and I also had a
CD release party where I actually would sell them... I had a big
old CD release party.
FP: Oh, and where did that happen?
SK: It was at the Bulldog Cafe, but they done closed down.
That was on North Avenue.
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SHERRI KING,
Sherri King was quietly sitting on a bench downtown when
I approached her, but I noticed her immediately—maybe it was
her red shirt, .red shoes and red hair.
Sherri enjoys working as a sales representative to pay the
bills, but her real passion is poetry. She seeks to motivate and
inspire with her art and has recorded her own inspirational CD.
Flagpole: What do you do here in Athens?
Sherri King: I work for District Specialty Supplies. I sell
school supplies to principals in all 50 states: elementary, mid
dle and high school. I've been doing it for 11 years.
FP: And what does your job entail?
SK: I'm a sales representative. I do calls over the phone.
FP: Do you sometimes find it difficult doing sales entirely
over the phone?
FP: Where are you from?
SK: I'm from Greene County, which is a little town of
Woodville, Georgia, but it's Greene County, alt Greene County.
Yqu ever heard of Reynolds Plantation, Lake Oconee? That's it.
FP: So, when did you move to Athens?
SK; Oh, I moved to Athens like, oh my God, I want to say
I've been in Athens... basically since '98.
FP: What brought you to Athens?
SK: Just [that] I like Athens, it's a fun city, and Greene
County was a little too small for me, because I tike to be
around different people, and I just thought [Athens] was more
level. v
FP: Do you have any family here in Athens?
SK: My baby sister lives-in Athens and my brother lives in
Athens. : y x
FP: Do you spend a lot of time with
them?
SK: Yeah. We go shopping, me and
my sister. Me and my brother, we hang
watch basketball... We watch
football, just sports. We watch sports.
FP: And what daycu like to do
around town?
SK: I just find anything of enter
tainment. I tike poetry; I do a lot of
poetry. I like to do poetry.
FP: Oh, poetry, that's awesome.
SK: I do a lot of poetry. I like to
do things like, most of the time [my
and I] do a little of dance club,
[we go to] bars—different things.
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