Sales Success And Happiness Where You Wouldn't Expect It

When Harry used to visit his mother-in-law at a small nursing home it would make him depressed.  It was painful to walk in and see a large group of old folks sitting in front of a television with blank looks on their faces.  Most of them not bothering to watch it.  Three women in their eighties and nineties, however, were laughing and joking with one another and seemed to be having a great time.  When he investigated, he found they were making little monkeys out of socks, and selling them for nine dollars apiece. One of them gave him a sales pitch that was absolutely a winner.  But when he tried to buy one of the sock monkeys he found he would have to wait three months for delivery.  They were that far behind.  They were that far behind on orders simply from the people who visited the home.  Harry keeps that little monkey as an inspiration.  It reminds him that if a ninety year old lady confined to a nursing home can develop a market that keeps her and her two assistants three months behind filling orders, there's no reason why his own market should ever dry up.