Thinking about selling something?
By Joe De Leon
Have you ever tried to sell anything? Have you been a door-to-door
salesman? How many doors do you have to knock on to make one sale?
My 11-year-old granddaughter is in business. She decided she needed to
do something productive. “I just needed something to do” she said, “so
I started making string bracelets.” She makes them and sells them,
about 100 to-date.
I was impressed by her creativity in making the bracelets and then by
her initiative and tenacity in selling them in spite of rejections. She
works on them while at home or in the car (about 15 minutes per
bracelet). Wherever she goes she takes her product and sells it to
whoever stands still long enough to listen to her sales pitch.
You should see her bookkeeping as well. She keeps record of what she
has sold where she sold it, and compares it to her costs.
Evangelism is like selling ―it takes a decision to do it, tenacity to stay
on task and creativity in sharing. I think we do not realize that people
are open to talking about their eternal destiny. About 20% of the people
you meet in the U.S. think about their eternal destiny once a day,
about 13% think about it once a week, about 12% think about it once a
month and 9% think about it once a year. That means 54%, more than
half of the people you meet every day, are wondering about their
eternal destiny.
I did not believe it myself so I tested it out with people I met on the
street and found it to be a fact.
So why are we not aggressively answering their questions?
Go to the site below to read the survey report and view the
PowerPoint.
