If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was surfing the net and found a woman who owns a coffee shop being interviewed on TV. She felt the city didn’t do enough for business. Why? She said she has to pay a parking meter every two hours [...]
We have gotten so bad at selling anything that we can’t sell anything without a “deal.” That cripples an economy. People mark things down to make the sale, not make a living.
Think of a time when everyone just “bought” from you. Weren’t those days really great? Think it was all coincidence? I don’t think so. You brought it on yourself. Think and say to yourself (and others) “No ones’ buying” and guess what happens? Self-fulfilling prophecy, no one’s buying from you.But it’s hard isn’t it? Sometimes we really do feel that way. How to handle it?
Sales were dropping off and the Arrow CEO saw that the trend was changing to a complete shirt. He announced to his board of directors in 1930, “We will never get there doing what we’re doing now.” That’s when something truly remarkable happened.
Make the first sale of the day. Not greet the first customer but make the first sale.
We cannot give power over our future to this incessant fear. Otherwise, we end up looking to our feet instead of the stars.
