I have recently become the one woman jack of all trades. At one point I found myself with four part time jobs and none of them paying me all that much. I will say one job I am working on to make my career and it is growing. Another is purely because I love it. The last two jobs I am just doing to put some extra cash in my pocket. I digress. 

One of my part time jobs was selling vacuums door to door. I am not too bad at this and people like me enough to let me into their homes where I vacuum and shampoo one room in their house. Then I sway them that my $2,500 vacuum is better than their $80 Hoover. This was easy to do by the way. You would be surprised at the dirt I would get out of peoples seemingly clean carpets.

When I was just getting tired of this knocking and cleaning to go on I proceeded to one of my last appointments. He was a nice guy and was interested in purchasing the vacuum. After doing half of my pitch I started to vacuum his floor in preparation for the shampooing. I was just about done when the make shift bag I made to hold and show all of the dirt collected exploded in to the air (it had gotten too full, oops). As I turned off the vacuum and watched the home owner brush off the dust from his once black shirt I started to laugh. He did not think it was as funny as I did. Let’s just say there was no sale that day. Don’t worry his living room was clean when I was done. 

Not only is this a great story for any sales person but it is a reminder that sometimes your dirt bag explodes and instead of freaking out its OK to laugh. At one point or another we all fall victim to the unforeseen mistakes in selling. Just remind yourself that you are only human and continue to knock on the next door.