America 1979

Chapter 57 I want to negotiate
Jones, who had been flying across the country for more than three weeks, returned to Brooklyn Thursday afternoon and delivered the college camp invites at Bill's house.

"This is an invitation letter from Ohio State University, this one is from Florida State University in the south..."

Jones, who was sitting on the sofa, handed the invitation letters to Bill one by one.

Mr Ferrari opened the first letter of invitation and began to read it.The content of the letter was relatively simple. It only said that the head coach of the Ohio State University football team saw Bill’s performance in the game and felt that he could go further on the field, so he invited him to participate in a one-year competition at the campus in Columbus, Ohio in late June. Three days of summer camp.

"The Ohio State University's school team is almost at the top eight level in the country. Their school's academic strength is also very strong. It is known as the Public Ivy League. Four or five alumni are Nobel Prize winners. The amount of alumni donations is almost the national Top ten, combined with your previous request, this invitation ranks first in my heart."

While Bill was reading the letter, Jones began to introduce the basic situation of the school.

The top ten alumni donations in the country means the tenth in the country, which is already very scary.

"My second recommendation is Leland Jr. Stanford University. This university is located in Palo Alto, San Francisco. Their football team is slightly inferior to Ohio State University, but it is also in the range from tenth to No.15 in the country. It is commendable that this university fully meets the requirements of your super prestigious school, and I think you also know the specific situation of this school."

Jones pointed to the second opened invitation letter in Bill's hand and said.

"That's right, that's exactly the invitation I want." Mr. Ferrari nodded, admitting that the scouts were spent wisely.

Jones is not a scout working for a college team or an NFL professional team. He is similar to a scout in a brokerage company in the usual sense, except that his team is not as large as dozens or hundreds of people in a brokerage company. Counting his assistants , Secretary, and Jones' company only has five people.

The ultra-small scale naturally leads to a single type of service. In fact, Jones and his team are only responsible for connecting customers with the target university team, and they cannot even guarantee 100% to secure the offer of the D-1 university team.

But this is exactly their advantage, and it is also the reason why Coach Murphy recommended this temporary agency team to Bill.

As early as the end of the Hamatun school team's regular season, Bill consulted Coach Murphy about how to run the summer camp. The kind Murphy directly made a plan for Bill to enter the target prestigious school according to Bill's situation: first at the end of December and early January I entrust a scouting team from a brokerage company to contact the coaches of the D-1 university team, use Bill's super brilliant season performance to win the invitation to the summer camp, and then maintain a certain level of performance in the summer camp and next year's regular season. You can almost get an offer from the target school, and you can even win more than one prestigious school.

In this process, ordinary players may need the operation of a large agency to get an offer, but Coach Murphy felt that Bill did not need to introduce a large agency in high school, so he recommended Jones as a team.

The advantage of this is that Bill can start signing contracts with large brokerage companies after the sophomore regular season, allowing professionals to approach professional teams so that they can negotiate a good salary and a guaranteed contract in all aspects.

Compared with introducing a brokerage company in high school, finding a brokerage company in college can give Bill a stronger voice, because if everything goes well, Bill can become a rookie in the NFL draft camp from one to April after the sophomore regular season Or a free agent, only one step away from signing a contract as a professional player.

However, it is a big hurdle to go from high school to college team. Premature introduction of a brokerage company will lead to more hidden terms, which will reduce Bill's contract salary by [-]% to [-]%.

For a contract that lasts for several years, the loss is also on the order of one hundred thousand dollars based on the average salary of three to four hundred thousand dollars.

"Let me see, Stanford's summer camp is from June 25 to 27, and Ohio State University is from June 26 to 28. There is a conflict. Is there a good university that staggers a day or two so that I can have a guarantee. "

Bill asked.

"That's UCLA, UCLA, Public Ivy, academics are strong enough, and the football team is also good. Their summer camp is from the 28th to No. 30. They just missed one night, and they were still in the same state, so they were delayed on the way. time is short."

"Good, good!" Bill was very satisfied with this arrangement, with Stanford as the goal, UCLA as the guarantee, and several good universities in New York State as the last guarantee when there is nowhere to go.

"Your work is very good, the part about the final payment..."

Just got the invitation to the summer camp, and the cooperation between Bill and Jones will last for a long time before the next link.

In fact, due to the poor contact between the strong university teams and the high school teams, if the recommended players are selected, the scouts of brokerage companies like Jones can also get a reward from the university. After all, there are more than 2 teams in the United States. The full-time scouts of high school teams and strong university teams can only be responsible for the recruitment of players from dozens of high school teams that have a good relationship with their universities.

After confirming the completion of his first step, Jones left in a hurry to deliver an invitation letter to the next invited client's home.

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On Friday morning, which is January NO.11, Bill drove his uncle's car to Manhattan, and then went to the New York Mercantile Exchange to start a new round of operations.

"This time, I no longer agree with the [-]-point handling fee and the low leverage ratio. I will negotiate with your Shearson company to ensure that the service I receive is the same as that of a normal customer."

At the beginning, Bill gave his bottom line.

He currently has about 26 funds available, even if he leaves a fraction of more than 1 to improve his life, he can also invest 25 in futures trading.

As far as he knows, after silver plummeted, gold also fell to the bottom, and then began to soar. He couldn't remember exactly how much it rose, but it should have risen by [-] to [-]%.So you only need to remember the lowest price of gold in spring to know what price to sell.

But because this transaction is also a steady profit, the [-]% handling fee is extremely high. Bill needs a negotiation to reduce the handling fee, increase leverage, and have the brokerage company advance the margin call.

Andrew spread his hands to express his helplessness, "Mr. Bill, it's not up to me to decide, I'm just a small trader."

"Then find someone who can make the decision!"

PS: Ask for a recommendation ticket and ask for a monthly ticket.

(End of this chapter)