Toddlers’ Tips for Salesmanship
photo credit: JasonTromm
Surprisingly we can learn quite a bit from our little toddlers at home and use it effectively in business. Toddlers require the exact same needs such as food, clothing, amusements, etc that us adults need, they just can’t usually speak well enough to let us know that’s what they need. Consider some of these points from a toddlers point of view and incorporate them in your business, you may find they work rather well on adults as well.
- Don’t be afraid to repeat yourself. Most adults with children are anxious, sleep deprived, busy, and slightly irritable, don’t repeat yourself at a toddler level, but make sure you convey your message enough that it is understood.
- urprise and delight your customer. As toddlers, they are always surprising and delighting us, we need to do the same with our customers, even adults like to feel delighted and surprised once in a while.
- Use their language. Toddlers have a way of repeating EXACTLY what adults say, sometimes this is not a good thing, but it get’s our attention for sure.
One of the less-known uses of surveys and testimonials is to find the language of your customers. Look through everything your customers send you for wording you can mirror back to them. Artful, “writerly” language isn’t nearly as important as using the words and phrases that your customers do themselves.
How has your little one helped you in your business?
home based business on March 1st, 2009 5:54 pm
Great post. I’ve learned a ton from my daughter, I often ask her about business challenges and problems, she is only nine years old but her insight is valuable, and useful… much more than one might think
cassy on March 1st, 2009 7:18 pm
i agree on this great post.its really good idea if we teach our kids early about doing a good sales on a business,coa it made them a great entreperneur in the future and maybe a successful businessmen.
Jonathan Kleiman on March 1st, 2009 8:28 pm
There should be a dale carnegie course for toddlers
danakeith on March 1st, 2009 9:56 pm
…. amazing feature and post!….
Kim Avery, Certified Career Coach on March 2nd, 2009 2:47 am
Not only do little children say astonishingly brilliant things, they are also a great ‘test market’ for our thoughts and ideas. If I can’t explain my thoughts in an understandable way to a young toddler, then I probably don’t really understand them as well.
Try explaining your new business idea to Johnny to see if he ‘gets it.’ If not, it may be time to drill down and simplify your plan.
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