"Selling on the street was a bit embarrassing for me at first, so I spoke to customers in a low voice. They didn't hear me, they didn't even stop for a moment, so I realized I was going nowhere,” says Erdzan Sadik, who sells Lice v lice in Skopje, Macedonia.
“Now I know that this is a good and decent job and I had to
put more effort into Lice v lice so that both the magazine and I
would succeed.”
The 21-year-old now sells more copies of the magazine than
any other vendor. “The most important thing is to smile, look people in
the eye and show them the magazine cover," he says. "It's easier for me now, because I'm
not a rookie anymore. I speak to customers loudly and clearly,".
Erdzan shares his sales tips with his fellow vendors
and even encouraged his little brother Armando and his father to sell the
magazine too. "When they saw that I leave the house clean and that I
come back clean, that I am neither tired, nor upset, and I even had money left,
they wanted to do this job too," he says.
Training sessions offered by Lice v lice did more to
give Erdzan the skills for selling the magazine, they also encouraged him to
continue his education. He has now finished fifth grade in school. "I
know that I have to study and I can promise that I will do everything I can to
make that happen," he adds.
Photos by Tomislav Georgiev.
This is a summary of a vendor profile written Lice v lice's Maja Nedelkovska that was published on INSP's News Service. Street paper editors can view, download and republish the full article here.
