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So you think you can sell???
Well here I sit yet again stareing at my computer screen...wondering if my poor spelling will turn people away..but what the heck
So I have been doing this for 3-4 years now...
Sitting here dreaming of the oppurtunities the internet will bring me, realising that there is a lot out there to use...most of it is free..and why should'nt I be able to get more reward for my education and buisness experiance...??
Thus the adventure started out..
Having sifted through hours of wasted time chasing promised dreams of on line riches... it finaly dawned on me that I was wasting my time...empty promises of garanteed income from those you have to folow and pay them for the privalidge of off loading thier plan to sucsess
But I AM educated (cant spell tho...lol) and I AM capable of more from life than working for a multi-million co-orporation that does not give a fig about me, even though they spend millions on telling everyone diffrently (tax free right off is what they mean)
Frustrated and resentful - yes emotion plays a big part in any buisness your building from scratch with no money to spare - I chat to people REAL people, go on to play on line games and get to be a social animal
Thats how i meet Jack...well the wife met him first - he was from Honk Kong and was trying to sell jewelry on line.
Now I could write reams of boring stuff but cutting to the chase...Jack and me we get on and start sharing ideas about things
You know when that little light in your head turns on ...well this was the time
Honestly we came up with some crazy ideas...selling coffee...selling jewelry..selling body jewelry...selling beads...manufaturing beads...building display sets..we covered a lot of ground and nothing came of anything. There was the odd exchange of samples etc..etc but both of us knew it was not those products for us
So 2 guys opposite ends if the world...no chance
Then bam wham the product we were working on just evolved from our ideas to a product ....to more ideas to add value and it just grew out of our heads....it was great..... an adjustment here,.......a tweek there..great what if moment
Showing samples to friends and co-workers and they LOVED it and all wanted it
Now we have the product..its bieng manufatured...its bieng packages...all for less than £1,000
It was hard...communicating so far way trying to express the details for slight adjustments etc...etc. MSN chat was a god send and speeded things up a lot....but it was home from work...chat to jack...day in and out for the last 6 months
So the hard work is done...I can sit back with pride and say "Look what we made Jack..its fantastic...a real joy"
NO chance...the last 6 months were EASY...why
Because after investing so much time in our "Baby" we cannot sit back..the hard part is here and now...we got to sell it!!
So this is the start of my blog
I will put down my plans and who I am trying to see ...stratergies to gain appointments etc..etc..et
It should make interesting reading as I will be trying to do this AND work a night shift
I hope people can learn from what I do...either good or bad
I will try an share where I got good info/advise from and what worked and what did not
I dont want to bore people with the product..as this is for people here in general to see how the art of selling is either achieved or not, and what could work for them or what they need to avoid
The next post will be my thoughts on how to approach this area (I speak well but never tried to sell to a company before) as well as what I think I need to know about before i get my 1st meeting
If nothing else I will try to make it entertaining