Enterprise

Day 28 – Sales Day

Howdy,

It was the big day today, the day we actually sold our Gusto Gifts. The day started with me picking up our sales event stuff along with the rest of my team from the Howard Gardens. After we departed, we soon found ourselves in a hefty traffic jam which lasted about 45 mins, delaying our start to the day.

We arrived at Llandaff and promptly setup our sale stand. Within about 10 mins the stand was up and running.

Our sales were coming in at a moderate rate and I was content with being the salesman. I began by asking people if they would be interested in our chocolate stand whilst promoting our chocolate boxes. When this failed to create much attention, we began offering taste tests. The taste tests were successful at bringing in onlookers, however it didn’t really affect actual sales figures.

By the end of the day we had managed to sell out of our products and so, we had broken even and made a profit of £63!

Overall today, I have learnt a great deal about salesmanship and getting to know the customer fist hand. It was interesting to test out a variety of sales techniques to try and bring in customers and it was greatly rewarding when they ended up getting us sales. Its a real shame that I had to be plagued by kidney pain once again today however, as this made me less effective as the day went on.