Monday, August 3, 2020

Sell more, save more, start now

You want to sell more. Do not apologize about your desire to add value to others. You want to sell. You add value to people. They need people like you to make their lives comfortable. You provide solutions to their pain and they will gain from your product or service. You are worthy of just payment for your efforts.

Mwende is a farmer in Makueni County. She wants to earn more from the vegetables she grows but doesn’t know exactly how to get more for the many hours of toil she puts into her farm. Her produce is sold at costs determined by middle-men in her local market close to Wote.

What does Mwende have to do, to earn more? She will have to manage her costs and manage her income. She will have to cut the wastage of money on her farm and manage post-harvest losses from theft and pests. How does she attract paying customers who will pay her on time? I have bought into Mwende’s honesty and industry.

Like Mwende, if you want to attract the right customers or clients you must tell them, tell them and tell them but ask that they buy into you first. They first buy into your message, then you and then your product or service. Sometimes the message is wrong. They will not buy into you.

Knowledge about your product or service doesn’t lead to a sale. Maybe you didn’t package your knowledge well enough. Maybe you didn’t break it down into a language that your potential clients could understand. Maybe your value proposition is not clear. Maybe your value proposition has no emotional appeal. Buying is an emotional process.

I work with people who understand the need for Savings, Investment and Risk Management. All of them are selling something. They are selling their time and talent, sometimes their property for treasure. They all need me to educate them about how to manage their treasured money.

I take them down the road of appreciation for the good that money can do, the need for it to be managed properly and the need to plan for saving it now and using it in the future

Victory is not always to the swift but time and chance happen to them all. Some get it quickly. Some take a while. There is a need to delay gratification for a stress free future. One has to forego immediate wants for future needs.

At 1 year old you are successful if you have mastered the art of walking. At 65 years old you are successful if you are free of disease. What happens in between can determine how successful you are at 65 years. Ask anybody in his or her sixties, ask me. We will tell you that what you do with money in your earlier life impacts on your later years. It gets lonelier the older you get.

Money can buy company (often the wrong kind including gold diggers) but it could also buy you peace of mind that your bills will get paid in your retirement. Savings is an art, Investment is a science, Risk management is a gift you give yourself and your family in adversity. Plan yesterday, start working the plan today.

If you want to review your Business,  Savings , Investment and Risk management plan or don’t even know that you need one, talk to me for free by booking a discovery call with me by clicking here


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