I have been in retail for the past 6 years I started off as a sales associate at Urban Degree, I went on to study quantity surveying for a year that didn't quite work out I discovered that I actually wasn't cut out for the built environment I belonged somewhere more fashionable and more sales and product oriented. I decided to follow my real dream of becoming a fashion buyer and enrolled at LISOF
and that is where I completed my undergraduate studies in Fashion while I continued working part time at Urban. I am now at the point where I'm still very much in love with the satisfaction of satisfying a consumer's needs and wants while making money. From my days of selling clothing in store I developed a skill that I believe can make me money no matter where I'm stationed, I believe that it's never really the product or service that won't sell it's usually the person selling the product that's doing the awful job you may agree you may disagree. As a retailer, creative, trader, sales associate, marketer, entrepreneur you should never lose touch with the law of supply and demand. It's all pretty simple, as much as we are creative and product orientated we can never neglect the reality that there must be a demand for your product or service, if not then you must really love your product and believe in it in order to create a demand for whatever it is that you want to sell. Now I don't mean to go all technical and bore you but I would be doing an injustice to my sales pitch if I didn't state the laws of supply and demand. So here it goes; The Law of demand states that, if all other factors remain equal, the higher the price of a product the less people will demand it, the lower quantity demanded (downward slope). The law of supply demonstrates the quantities that will be sold at a certain price. The higher the price, the higher the quantity supplied (upward slope). And in order to find a balance or reach and equilibrium supply must meet demand, life is more sustainable that way. If this does not make sense to you philosophically as much as it makes sense economically then you have wasted your time reading this and you need to stop right HERE and if you are still reading on then I say you and I have a lot in common, you and I can do business, you and I can become great friends. If you believe in it then I believe in it so give it to me, I will promote it! This is the space, you're welcome. Tlhogi Letsholonyane
