My blogging career starts today, a big THANKS to those of you encouraged me on this journey.
The focus of my blog will be on the simple things we can all learn about Sales and Sales Leadership from my experience growing up on a small family farm in the tiny community of Musquodoboit, (say it with me, Mus-ka-dobb-it :) Nova Scotia, Canada.
I grew up working by hand with horses (yes, like the Amish). My parents felt it best that we grew up harmonious with nature (or as they put it, with 250 acres ‘to run around on, just get out of the house!’)
We didn't have to live on a farm "the ol' fashioned way"; my parents chose to. I can tell you that choice often drove me crazy.
After all I was a kid who grew up in the '80's pop explosion; I couldn’t WAIT to get off that farm.
I just wanted to play hoops, watch TV (no TV on the farm!) go to MTV Spring Break, make money, chase girls and eat junk food instead of raw rolled oats as a snack. I wanted Fast Times at Ridgemont High!
To thrive on the farm and supplement my fathers honest living as a professor at a local University (Dalhousie) we sold all KINDS of stuff from the farm.
To thrive on the farm and supplement my fathers honest living as a professor at a local University (Dalhousie) we sold all KINDS of stuff from the farm.
My first memory of having my own money to buy cool new clothes at a place other than at Frenchy's, the used clothing depot, came from raising veal calves. My Dad would sell the meat to families in the city after I raised them for a few months by feeding them, daily, a mixture of powdered milk.
I hated the cold calling my Dad suggested I do to sell our locally grown produce but, as I look back, the lessons I recall and am still learning today after a 25 year career in sales and marketing, are tried and true fundamentals for success.
These principles are timeless.
