My creative mind said "Take advantage of the Traffic on Halloween Night to sell some of the plots that have been plugging our inventory in Venice Florida years" and all of my colleagues thought that it was one of my most brilliant of ideas (and I have had MANY!).
So, armed with flash light and 80 full-sized candy bars, ranging from the ever-popular Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, to Almond Joys, Baby Ruths (remember them?), and Hershey's Dark Chocolates, I awaited the first customers at dark.
Knowing that I have never been referred to as "Handsome" but a lot of other inhumane things that I no longer find derogatory, I took my colleagues advice and hid behind on of the overgrown shrubs at property's edge so that the oncoming customers would not see me head-on, be frightened and not want to hear my Plot Sale Presentation.
Well, colleagues, that is the last advice I will ever take from you. "What do you know about Plot Sales on Halloween in Venice Florida?"
The 80 full-sized candy bars disappeared in jig time, with some of the vultures, oops, customers tried to take two, like they had done at other "sales offices" where they offered those tiniest of tiny candy things, implying that times were tough.
And, you guessed it, every time I jumped politely out from behind my over-grown shrub what looked and sounded like sheer panic and near-death prevailed, in every customer except the one colleague who told me how to Sell Plots in Venice Florida on Halloween Night! I did not get to give a single Plot Sale Presentation, and it was superbly prepared with vivid pictures of some of the "residents". In fact, I would say that the Full-sized Candy Bars were a distraction, for the customers quickly ran away as though I was going to take them back.
I heard a few of the familiar names thrown my way, but having taken a number of those Motivational and Positive-Attitude Courses and being well ahead on my Continuing Education, they never entered my cranium or pierced my dermis.
There is a silver lining in this seemingly down experience on Halloween Night in Venice Florida. It is obvious that I should have shook the over-grown shrub before I jumped out and that I should have released a signaling shriek or the like!
No, really, I now know that with a little tweaking of my approach and a re-reading of my Lead-Capture and Property Staging course books, I will be a Top Producer in the sales of everything that Venice Florida has to offer. I will not let my innate talents go to waste, NO! Watch out colleagues, and thanks for the advice that led me to the tweaking exercise.
I will gladly share my experiences in attempted Plot Sales on Halloween in Venice Florida with any and all of you at any time, for the mere price of a Full-Sized BABY RUTH!
