Hard Work is the Best Seller When Fundraising
by Jake
(Alabama)
When I was in the Boy Scouts, each year we would have our fund raiser of selling candy - and each year we would moan and complain because it was so hard to get people interested in buying it. We would always wish we were selling cookies like our Girl Scouts ?sisters? were.
One year we finally faced the fact that it was candy that we were tasked to sell, so we made the best of it. We rolled up our sleeves and did some hard work selling that year, and we made quite a bundle of money for our troop - so much even that we gave some away to another troop who came up short.
But the real fact was that when we started working hard to sell the stuff, it became easier to encourage people to buy it. We actually began to have fun while competing to get our goals achieved, and when we set those goals high and worked for it, we did more for the troop than we had ever done in the past.
We learned that if we wanted to sell something to others, we had to first sell ourselves on the idea of selling it.