Good morning Dear OTTH Readers, I hope we're fine because I'm great. Today I'm going to share with us something I learnt from a keke driver though not directly. We should always open our mind to learning and be very aware of our environment because we don't know when the lessons learned would be needed.
The other day, Wande told us(I and some colleagues) about the lady he met somewhere and they got talking till it led to what she does for a living and she said she was a sales consultant which sounded pretty impressive, I'm sure you think so too. So one day, he went to Shoprite and as he handed his money over to the cashier, guess who it was, the sales consultant. Many of us would have called ourselves sales girls and sales boys because isn't that what it is abi what's the point of sugarcoating the truth?
The truth is, packaging puts you on a higher stool that where you are really because you feel you're a sales consultant so your mind begins to function that way, it makes you talk like it, dress like it and act like it but as a sales girl/boy? Errrrrrnm not really, doesn't sound so attractive. When you even tell people that, the next thing on their mind is how to send you on an errand, or how to ask if you have plans of going to a tertiary institution because that just how it sounds.
Just when I was thinking that the Sales consultant story wasn't such a bigdeal afterall she was working with shoprite and shoprite is a "tush" place so its not so bad, I saw a conductor dressed in a multi-colored long-sleeved shirt, tucked in properly into a black pant with a nice belt and a shoe to match and I was wondering, really? When he first walked towards I and my friend, we were wondering "who's this one that want to turn conductor for someone else's bus?", you know all those oversabi people but no, he was the actual conductor, dressed like that, I was wow-ed.
And I saw another just when I was trying to get over the shock, a keke driver dress in dansiki and a nice pair of shoes but this time, I took a picture by force so it won't be as if I'm exaggerating. I was surprised and impressed because only a driver and a conductor with a sense above average would pull a stunt like that and no, there was nothing special going on that day, it was just a normal week day and I still saw the normal dunlop/rubber slippers-dirty/torn clothes-looking drivers and conductors so yes, it was just a normal day.
This very morning, I entered a bus with a very neatly dressed driver and a neatly dressed conductor with beards like that of one who belongs to #beardgang and you know how cute that is. He wore an ankara and a sandal to match not dunlop slippers. Tell me why I won't enter that kind of bus when the people who drive and conduct the bus look like people who think beyond their present condition.
All these just got me thinking about how true it is when people say "abeg, all na packaging" because it really is about packaging. The difference between a bend down boutique and an actual boutique is packaging, I'm sure we all know this. The packaging is the extra effort you put into anything you do. For instance, the bend down boutique owner buys the clothes and sell them without washing but the main boutique washes, irons, even makes a rack for the clothes, folds them properly, displays some outside looking all neat and sells them for five times the amount the bend down boutique would sell, if not more. I know there are boutiques who sell brand new stuff but I'm talking about the ones who tush up used clothes and sell it, they're the real ones who package.
That's why sometimes when someone sees you and says you're enjoying, you'd then tell the person "Nooo, it's packaging" meaning tht you've branded yourself in a way that'd make you look better than the way you should on a norm. We should always package no matter the situation we find ourselves because we don't know the kind of customers we can attract with our packaging. Having said all these, I need to ask you a question and the question is; how good is ur packaging?
Facebook - Odusola Aanuoluwapo
Twitter - @odusolar
BBM - 2ACA8612
The other day, Wande told us(I and some colleagues) about the lady he met somewhere and they got talking till it led to what she does for a living and she said she was a sales consultant which sounded pretty impressive, I'm sure you think so too. So one day, he went to Shoprite and as he handed his money over to the cashier, guess who it was, the sales consultant. Many of us would have called ourselves sales girls and sales boys because isn't that what it is abi what's the point of sugarcoating the truth?
The truth is, packaging puts you on a higher stool that where you are really because you feel you're a sales consultant so your mind begins to function that way, it makes you talk like it, dress like it and act like it but as a sales girl/boy? Errrrrrnm not really, doesn't sound so attractive. When you even tell people that, the next thing on their mind is how to send you on an errand, or how to ask if you have plans of going to a tertiary institution because that just how it sounds.
Just when I was thinking that the Sales consultant story wasn't such a bigdeal afterall she was working with shoprite and shoprite is a "tush" place so its not so bad, I saw a conductor dressed in a multi-colored long-sleeved shirt, tucked in properly into a black pant with a nice belt and a shoe to match and I was wondering, really? When he first walked towards I and my friend, we were wondering "who's this one that want to turn conductor for someone else's bus?", you know all those oversabi people but no, he was the actual conductor, dressed like that, I was wow-ed.
And I saw another just when I was trying to get over the shock, a keke driver dress in dansiki and a nice pair of shoes but this time, I took a picture by force so it won't be as if I'm exaggerating. I was surprised and impressed because only a driver and a conductor with a sense above average would pull a stunt like that and no, there was nothing special going on that day, it was just a normal week day and I still saw the normal dunlop/rubber slippers-dirty/torn clothes-looking drivers and conductors so yes, it was just a normal day.
That's why sometimes when someone sees you and says you're enjoying, you'd then tell the person "Nooo, it's packaging" meaning tht you've branded yourself in a way that'd make you look better than the way you should on a norm. We should always package no matter the situation we find ourselves because we don't know the kind of customers we can attract with our packaging. Having said all these, I need to ask you a question and the question is; how good is ur packaging?
Facebook - Odusola Aanuoluwapo
Twitter - @odusolar
BBM - 2ACA8612
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