Sales: All in the family

I haven’t been in sales very long. But I have been doing this long enough to know that a lot of it has to do with confidence, belief in yourself and in your product, and your buyer. Last month one of my distant cousins on my mother’s side sent out a family email. She had met with another relative, who had recently penned a few remembered stories of my great-grandfather. This is one of my favorites:

“Pop and grandad sold plants and flowers on the market regularly. One season they had trouble selling their Geraniums for 25 cents. When the weekend came they put up signs on either end of the market “Geraniums, special today only, 29 cents” and sold out.”

As I begin a yet-again-new iteration of my blog, and as I work every day to create my “real” life, I think my Pop–whom I never knew–will provide a great deal of inspiration.

(photo by Aunt Owwee)