When I was working in the corporate world, my favorite and most frequent position was in sales (big surprise). I'm fucking great at it. The only down side is that I have to deal with people, and I don't really dig that. Luckily for me, my complete apathy seems to come across to clients as careful listening and concern. Anyway, I've been booking a LOT of last minute gigs lately with my favorite sales technique, The Takeaway. When they take more than a couple of days to sign, I simply contact them to say that another couple wants to book me for the same date, so do they still want me or should I take this other opportunity? They almost always sign and pay the deposit immediately, and when they don't, I figure that I wasn't going to land that gig, anyway. Very effective...