The Wall Street Journal featured St. Louis' very own Edward Jones in a page-one article this past weekend. The paper visited the company's headquarters in Des Peres and followed around an Edward Jones agent as he knocked on doors in the southwest Missouri town of Monett.
Edward Jones reps are taught to hold a golf ball in their hand so their knocks are loud and their knuckles don't wear down. They greet people's dogs by holding out a clenched fist. "A