Mark Cuban used a 14-second pitch to make money at his first sales job – CNBC

Some kids make extra cash running lemonade stands. A 12-year-old Mark Cuban sold trash bags door-to-door.The billionaire serial entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner recently told GQ magazine that a family friend gave him the opportunity, marking his first-ever sales job. The friend sold Cuban boxes of trash bags for $3, so Cuban could turn around and sell them around the neighborhood at $6, to save money for sneakers.Cuban said he developed a 14-second pitch for every customer. He’d knock on doors, introduce himself and ask clients if they used garage bags. Then, he’d give out his phone number and offer to personally bring over more boxes whenever they called.”It went like this: ‘Hi, my name is Mark. Do you use garbage bags? I’ve got a great deal for you, and every time you need garbage bags, all you ever have to do is call me and I’ll put ’em in the back of my wagon and I’ll bring ’em right down to your house,'” he recalled.”That was my first business: The world’s first, probably only, garage bag door-to-door subscription company,” added the panelist on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” The advantage of the brief pitch was explaining the value of his business
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