When I was in college, we had this project wherein we need to sell something. We were divided into five groups with seven members. Each group was given similar items to sell. At the end of the week, our professor would checked which group has the biggest sale. The money that would be gathered after the activity would be used in the library that the class was building. Unfortunately, all seven of us from the group did not have any experience in selling. In fact, we all hated the activity but we didn't have the choice. We could have played or
favorite Nintendo games rather than do these crazy stuffs. I could not imagine myself going from one house to another and asking the homeowners to purchase anything from us.
Too bad, we did not have a choice but we decided to try it anyway. On our way to the first house, I saw Julie, a family friend who was working as a
car insurance agent in our village. She asked where we were going and I told her what happened and I asked her some tips on selling. She said that it is important that we believe in the products that we we're selling. Eventually, the confidence will be translated on the way we introduce the product, and therefore the buyer will be impressed, too. If a customer sees that we have no confidence in our own product, he too will not be convinced to buy. Using the tip that we got from Julie, we made sure that we explained very well the products that we have as well as our purpose. At the end of week, we found out that we got the largest amount of sales in the class. Therefore, we realized Julie was right. We have to believe in ourselves or else no one will believe in us.
