Getting to the Happy Dance
I was 25. I had just gotten passed over for a job I had literally already been doing as a temp and felt a lot of pride in the work I had already done. But I knew many people felt I was too young for the position, too young to be taken seriously and make an impact. I wanted to prove them wrong. โฃSo, I started a business.
โฃFast forward to my very first course launch ever. Cart opens day 1... no sales. Ok itโs fine, itโs only day 1. Live webinars come and go... no sales. A steady, thrumming panic starts to take over my body. Just under the surface, but always there. Doubt seeps in... maybe I was right to get passed over for the job. Maybe I shouldnโt be doing this at all. Maybe I should stick to what Iโve been doing. Day 7... I finally confide to my boyfriend that Iโm scared I wonโt make any sales. My thought process before was if I donโt say anything, it wonโt be real.. but I couldnโt take the incessant thrumming by myself anymore. โฃ
โฃNow let me tell you about day 8. I was talking to my mom on the phone and casually logged into my back office without much thought. There it was. Dollar signs. I had made a sale. I had done it. After a moment of stunned silence, I said โmom, I made a sale, I gotta go.โ And I hung up, promptly stood up from the kitchen table and proceeded to dance around the kitchenโ literally doing a happy dance. The weight, the pressure, the fear and doubt lifted off my shoulders and I was dancing it out. I felt validated, someone believed in me, was trusting me to deliver and that was powerful. Thereโs been many more sales since, and while each one may not be followed with a happy dance, I am still consumed with the same feeling every single time. โฃ
โฃTHAT is why my marketing course for small business owners exists. That is why I put my entire heart into getting it into their hands. I want everyone to experience that feeling, to have no choice but to break out into a happy dance in the middle of their kitchen because they made another sale. Itโs like that quoteโ when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance.
