Diva Sales Tips

My dad thought he’d brought a wonderful surprise for Christmas dinner this year.

He had a HUGE grin on his face on Christmas Eve as he proudly showed me a GOOSE he had brought for dinner the next day.

I smiled, said ” I LOVE it Dad!” but inwardly was thinking…

“I’ve NEVER cooked a goose but what the heck – I can do this!”

Fast forward to early afternoon on Christmas Day.  My sister officially delegated me as the “Goose Chef” as I have double ovens in my kitchen. (Thanks sis!)

I had 3 cookbooks on the island – Nigella Lawson, Julia Child and even one from the Four Seasons Hotel.  I thought “This will be a piece of cake.”

I looked at the goose and said “Let’s get this party started!”

The rest of my story encompasses 3 hours of goose fat being spattered on my stove and inside the oven, burning my arms not once but TWICE, massive, rolling bowling balls of smoke from my oven and yes – I will admit – at one point I even had my ONION GLASSES on as my eyes were burning.  (You can imagine how pretty your Diva was at THAT moment!)

(Honestly – I even stuffed the damn thing with sauerkraut, apples and rosemary)

Finally I thought I had tackled this monster and dragged the roaster to my sister’s house where everyone was waiting for the masterpiece.

My dad put the bird from hell on the platter so he could begin carving it.  Brown and succulent on the outside – I thought I had it made.

By the second cut – we looked at each other and went “UH. OH. The goose isn’t cooked!”

Nope. 3 hours of cooking was definitely not enough and appearances were deceiving.

What happened next? Well thankfully we also had a ham, turkey and cabbage rolls waiting in the wings (what can I say – lots of people!)

So HOW Does My Christmas Goose Apply To You And Sales?

It’s simple really.

There’s probably something BIG you had planned for 2009 but no matter what you did…IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

Maybe you were planning on increasing your sales, adding more clients, adding another location, more staff…taking more holidays…however, it didn’t PAN OUT.

And you probably didn’t have a PLAN B waiting in the wings either.  And quite frankly – it probably HURT.

Right now everyone is hopefully planning how they want 2010 to look like. (You’d better be too lady!)

I want you to list what your “Christmas Goose” is for next year and I also want you to identify 3 BACK-UP PLANS.

One of the MAJOR MISTAKES made by salespeople and entrepreneurs is putting all their EGGS in one basket.

In business you need diversification of products and services so if one dries up – your GOOSE WON’T BE COOKED!

So there.

Love and Happy New Year from Your Sales Diva,

Kim

P.S. I’m devoted to helping as many women entrepreneurs and women in sales as I can.  If you know of someone who would love to learn HOW TO SELL THE RIGHT WAY, then please encourage them to sign up at www.salesdivas.com and we’ll get them on the track to success!