Shane Parrish
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A trophy.
Not an alligator handbag, not the status symbol of success she'd been dreaming about for 12 months, a lousy trophy.
Of course, she accepted it graciously, but something inside of her shifted.
A seed planted itself that would grow for decades.
When she eventually built her own company, recognition would be different.
It would be thoughtful.
It would be meaningful.
And women wouldn't get trophies that collected dust.
They'd get diamond rings and pink Cadillacs.
Prizes that announced to the world this woman was successful.
Prizes that mattered.
But that was years away.
For now, she'd proven something crucial.
The system that she had designed worked.
Follow through worked.
Writing it down worked.
Treating customers like relationships instead of transactions worked.
She had a method, and that method got results.
Then she discovered recruiting.
Stanley Home Products offered small commission percentages on sales made by people you recruited to become salespeople as well.