I AM NOT A SALESMAN

Ginuschuks Okonkwo- Hyginus Okwuchukwu Okonkwo

4 min readMay 9, 2023

I AM NOT A SALESMAN

Who then is a salesperson?

A salesperson by a dictionary definition is a person whose job involves selling or promoting commercial products either in a shop or visiting locations to get orders. This definition is too narrow to a fault considering that there are four types of selling according to https://tinyurl.com/2r2zxhb7

The Four Types of Selling (And What Will Work For You):

Transactional Selling;

Solution Selling;

Consultative Selling; and

Provocative Selling.

My focus here is on Solution Selling.

Solution Selling is based on Value Driven Propositions. It focuses on identifying the pain points of the prospects and matching them with the necessary solutions that provide value to them thus leaving them better than they were before the solutions were provided.

Solution Selling deals with the results in view. A Solution Salesperson does that, which separates the professional salesperson from the quack salesperson selling the values and solutions that his/her products or services will provide rather than the mere features of his/her products or services.

Solution Selling has exposed to all who care to know that we are all sellers at one point or another. The reason is that everyone is either a value carrier or a value enhancer.

We, humans, are not short of values but of the awareness and consciousness of our values and those who need them and where they are needed at the right price.

Recently, I was chatting with my nephew over some nagging family issues that require urgent attention. I told him to find a meeting point with his wife because both of them are principally the Chief Executive Officers(CEOs) of their immediate family.

I told him to find a way of selling his ideas to his wife and that once she buys into them, she will incubate, carry, birth, and groom them to fruition.

I also told him to know and note that women are natural incubators, multi-tasked beings, and gifts to their husbands. Therefore, any man who ignores or neglects their input and the presence of his wife has invariably chosen retrogression to progress in any family setting.

In his reply, he asked me if he must always sell his ideas to his wife who ordinarily should have known his moves, in and out, for they have been married for over 7 years.
I AM NOT A SALESMAN, UNCLE, HE RETORTED.

Given his reply, I told him, Guy, marriage is a lifelong journey of two who have agreed to complement one another.

It is a lifelong journey in which every day is different from another day but cumulatively forms who you turn out to become.

So, you need the full application of the unashamed nakedness rule of engagement between couples to derive the marriage union's best benefits of one chasing a thousand and two ten thousand.

Furthermore, I told him that marriage is the only institution of learning with an admission letter of acceptance that reads subject to discharge only whenever death calls either of the principal parties to whosoever believes unless when you are by readiness and willingness quit. And you know that quitters hardly win the race of life.

Having taken my advice, my nephew and his family are better for it now.

Don't be too quick to stop your salesmanship duties in your marriage fellowship and relationship with your spouse.

Always remember how you started the journey. It was and will continue to be a journey of faith.

Your spouse is that prospect who must buy into your ideas for you to succeed and have a blissful and peaceful home.

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To your greatness and fruitfulness.

Enjoy your day.

09052023

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