A secondary school classmate reached out to me for my WhatsApp contact on social media and followed up with a well-crafted message about starting a brand, suggesting that my patronage would help build their dream brand. I was excited about the idea and welcomed it, expecting to receive product photos. However, the photos never arrived.

Weeks later, I ran into my classmate at a grocery store where a friend of mine manages. When my classmate mentioned the product idea, thinking I had not responded to her yet, I reminded her that I was yet to receive the photos, showing her our whatsapp chat as proof.

My friend who manages the shop asked about the “product” out of curiosity in a conversation with all three of us ladies present. And, instead of my classmate sharing product details or photos, she suggested getting her contact information from me. I was taken aback.
In an example as this, you would usually find me assisting by directing the conversation to favor my classmate. However, she is a sales lady, so I wanted to respect her reason for not going for it immediately.

The question I asked myself was, why didn’t she take my friend’s contact directly or immediately by asking? Clearly, my friend is a potential customer and would buy. My classmate would not struggle with trust and credibility from my friend because of me.

This experience reminded me about the essence of paying attention to cues and non-verbal language in sales and every conversation of life or profession.

As entrepreneurs and salespeople, we often overlook these subtle hints and lose potential clients.

In this scenario, I expected my classmate to:
1. Respond promptly to my friend’s query.
2. Share product evidence or photos.
3. Ask about my friend’s interests or product preference.

To smash your sales goals this this week and the second half of the year, do well to remember these three things:

🌼 Be proactive
Every inquiry or curious remark is a potential sales clue. Follow up and don’t sleep on it.
🌼 Pay attention to comments and non-verbal language.
These can reveal hidden opportunities.
🌼 Potential customers are everywhere
Be prepared to engage with prospects in any setting.

Some of the cues and hints we miss are in relationships, personal and professional settings. It happens to all of us sometimes. Once you become conscious and guided by paying attention to conversations, actions, and inactions, you are one step ahead of being proactive and taking charge of situations.

Wondering if you can sell or be an expert at selling anything? Let role plays be a companion, pay attention to conversations and cues(verbal and non-verbal).

Enjoy July as we end the month being more aware and showing up.

Happy Selling and Happy New Week! 💜

By being more attentive to these cues, you can increase your chances of closing deals and building successful relationships with clients.

❤️adubia

I am yet to retire to bed, but this suddenly dropped. May be it is time to ink my first post for 2025 here so I can build on and stay consistent, blogging this year. This became necessary because I shared the link to this blog on my instagram account today.

It is essential to reflect on how the first half has been as we dive into the second half of the year. What has been your highlight so far? Your highs and lows? What goals did you set out to achieve, and how have you fared generally?

Before we progress, please desist from beating yourself up with the guilt of not achieving goals and meeting expectations. Primarily, having goals is good. It is a guide, not a process to a ‘death sentence’ of achieving. Take it a step at a time.

How do you feel?

The year for me started on a bright note, filled with hope and promise. However, as we transitioned into the later part of Q2, things began to feel heavy. It was as if a weight had settled in, and I couldn’t quite pinpoint the cause. Amidst my best efforts, the feeling persisted, leaving me wondering what was amiss.

But then, something shifted. A weekend in an Anglican church in Cape Coast, Pedu, proved to be a turning point. The powerful prayer and message helped lift the weight off my shoulders.

I felt light again, renewed, and rejuvenated.

As I look to the second half of the year, my goals are more focused than ever.

How are you handling your goals, dreams and aspirations this half year?

Here are a few key areas I would recommend you prioritize based on what I have learned as engines:

🌼Spiritual Growth:
That we may deepen our relationship with God and cultivate a stronger sense of faith and trust. A source of guidance, strength, and wisdom. Creativity would be a bonus. Whoever your God is, work on building the ties.

🍎Personal Development:                              Continuous learning and growing are non-negotiable assets. Whether through reading, courses, interactions, workshops, or mentorship. Adapting to personal learning and growth will aid in keeping your head up.

🌸Relationships:
Nurturing relationships with loved ones and building meaningful support. A focus on improving and building connections with others plays a great role in adding to our social capital.

🌼Productivity:
Staying organized, prioritizing tasks, and implementing. Making progress on everyday life activities and key projects puts us ahead of the curve, but first, it elicites personal efficiency and makes us effective people.

My experience at the Anglican church in Pedu on the Sunday of the weekend and reading on faith during the later part of June reminded me of the relevance faith has in helping us navigate life’s challenges.

How do you navigate life?

By seeking God’s guidance and wisdom, we find a sense of peace and clarity that eludes us when we try to do it alone.

I will gently nudge you with these scriptures; Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”💡

Proverbs 18:10; “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.”🌼

What gives you comfort, clarity and peace?

Our consolation is in the promise of God. His promises are in his word. That which reiterates safety, soundness, greatness, and peace. Whatever he says, he would make it materialize.👏

These are three major highlights for me I would leave with you today:

1. Faith can be a powerful engine for growth and transformation.
2. Community is essential for support and encouragement.
3. Self-reflection is of utmost importance for personal growth.🌟

Keep trusting and keep up with a faith mindset for the second half of the year.

Focus and put in the work. Everything is going to align friend.🙏

It would be great to read from you. How are you holding up?🍇

Thanks for engaging.🧡

❤️adubia

*03.07.25*

You won’t believe I was going through my draft and this post accidentally published. I didn’t realise it 😕 and have decided to leave it. It’s been about 72 months already since I wrote this. Yes!✨️ To the story…

Would you wake up in the morning worried about brushing your teeth?

Will you grumble about which breakfast you will prefer other than choose or decide?

Would you be disturbing yourself and depriving yourself of peace over where you have to sleep when you have shelter, a home or a bed?.

This is a rhetoric question.

The world seemed to have been doing fine.

Individuals were going about their daily activities, groups, communities and countries engaged in work.

From religion, to fashion, style, politics, corporate, informal, farming and travels. Then one day, an epidemic in one state turned into a pandemic, which changed the phase of many things and the world.

Did we worry? Yes! A lot of us did.

There were concerns. Also, the relevance to love, family and the need to take good care of ourselves were appreciated more.

We didn’t wake up worrying about a pandemic that hadn’t surfaced. We did when it happened.

What are the daily worries?

Why wake up and worry about things you may not be able to control?

Are you anxious about unforseen circumstances and opportunities?

Instead, why not focus on the blessings of each day and be hopeful for opportunities of today? ✨️

Better to be unfazed about tomorrow than worry about it and life situations.🌟

The universe has a special way of rewarding optimism.😍

Let’s see what Phillipians 4:8 says; Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

The good book talks about worry.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” Matthew 6:25

Before you think about being worried about anything, do well to think about one more Happy & Positive thing.💜

Encouraging myself with this. Hope you will be encouraged too and love it.

This new year Promises Newness, Beauty & Success.✍️

More great stuff await us.👌

Never Give up, Keep working & Keep Winning.❤️

Happy New Week loves. 💥

❤️adubia

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