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I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up! follows a young girl in school who is assigned the career of sales to write a report on and must now figure out what sales is. What was the inspiration for your story?
My daughter started selling Girl Scout when she was 6 years old. She wanted to sell the most cookies in her group so we talked about different sales strategies. We decided she would do a video “pitch” about why people should buy from her and then did a blog post about it and share it with my audience with a link to buy Girl Scout cookies. She ended up having the most sales in the entire town. The second year we took a similar approach and she was the top seller again. Around this time I was traveling every week for work and I wanted to find a way to connect with my daughter and help her understand a little more about what daddy did for a living which is Sales Training. With the Girl Scout experiences being directly related to sales we decided to write the book based on those experiences.
What were some educational aspects that were important for you to include in this children’s book?
It educates kids on key values like hard work, curiosity and helping people.
The art in this book is fantastic. What was the art collaboration process like with illustrator Juan Diaz?
I wrote the story and sent in some pictures of me and my family. Juan’s original depiction of the story was spot on and didn’t need much feedback from me. it was a simple but effective process.
What is one thing you hope children take away from your book?
That Sales is a profession they could and should be proud of if they decided to eventually pursue it as a career.
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I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up!
Career day is a special day that children look forward to when in school. On this day, they get to meet people and learn about their jobs. It gives them a chance to learn about careers they may never have even thought of. This is what happened to one little girl named Charlie. She is assigned the task of writing a report on a career in sales. What are sales even? What kind of a job is that, and why would anyone want to do it? These are some of the questions Charlie is tasked with answering.
I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up! by John Barrows is an educational children’s book that looks into the career path of sales. While this sounds underwhelming at first, the author does a fantastic job teaching children how important this job is. How the things in our home are acquired through sales, and someone has to be in charge of getting it from the manufacturer to the user. This is an important job and not as easy as it sounds. Charlie plans to sell cookies to learn about sales; on her first try at selling them, she learns some valuable lessons about pitching her product, knowing who her customers are, and knowing what her customers need or want. She also learns a valuable lesson about empathy, compassion, and kindness and how these qualities make an excellent salesperson.
When children think about what jobs they want to have when they grow up, they need to be exposed to all kinds of work, not just the ones that sound exciting and prestigious. But unfortunately, sales representatives often get a bad reputation in the media, and this picture book, I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up!, shares the beautiful experience that a sales career can bring people. So for any family that makes their living off a career in sales, this is a magnificent children’s book to help kids get excited about sales and see just how important this job is to everyone.
Pages: 38 | ISBN: 1643072382
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