The Dayliciosa team could easily be living in Brooklyn, working versions of the same day jobs they have in Bogotá — Web designer (Mr. Tobal), Internet ad salesman (Mr. Leigh), event producer (Mr. Kassin).
"We can physically locate anyone who spreads a rumor on the Internet," said the salesman, whose company's services include monitoring online postings and pinpointing who has been saying what about whom.
At Howard Cooper, I was handed off by Mr. McCoy, the Internet specialist, to a salesman, Ed Goldman.
About the first e-mail, it's worth pointing out that the friend who wrote it is an Internet entrepreneur, a successful salesman.
Morrison says it's hard to know whether the people who have written to him with their fears represent a fringe or a larger cross-section of Americans who, distrustful of traditional sources of information and the authorities behind them, are falling victim to the Internet's snake-oil salesmen.
"I'd pay up to a grand," said Mr. Needham, a salesman for an Internet ad company.
The men contacted a salesman over the internet to sell the organs illegally, but, when they turned up to undergo medical tests at a hospital in Nanjing, the man was nowhere to be found.
The McKinsey consultants' book offers good advice about tightening up the selling science, but as Mr Delves Broughton likes to point out, today the field is dominated not by the likes of McKinsey but by selling gurus such as Jeffrey Gitomer.Being a salesman in the internet age is getting harder.
She did no better when she moved to a display of hand-held wireless computers, stumping a salesman with questions about Internet service.
If you are not sure what the right length is, search the internet for information or ask the salesman at the music store what length your particular bass requires.
