Applause Award Winner: Barb Girson
This month’s Applause Award winner is Barb Girson.
Barb Girson’s career began with Tupperware, working her business part time, while teaching full time. She was not very successful at first. She made endless phone calls, experienced disappointments, felt uncomfortable and struggled. Barb did not recruit one person her first year.
If you knew her then you would not have bet a dollar that she would have made it. She made changes, developed successful systems and built her schedule to an average of 7-10 personal parties weekly. She maintained that schedule and top sales consistently for several years. She had become so booked that she shared the overflow of parties with the large team she recruited!
Barb was constantly recognized as a top manager, placing as high as # 2 in the nation out of 10,000 independent managers and 80,000 consultants. Tupperware, then, gave franchise opportunities to those managers who ranked regularly among the Top 50 nationwide, and Barb was one of the youngest ever offered a franchise. Barb Girson led her multi-million dollar Tupperware franchise to the top 10% of franchises in North America by helping managers achieve national recognition in sales, recruiting and promoting managers.
Her husband gave up his job to help. Their Tupperware income supported her family of four solely for 11 yrs. Ready for a new challenge, Barb Girson joined the corporate arena for a decade to lead sales for direct selling party plan organizations. She served as: *Vice President, General Manager for Knowledge Adventure developing market entry plans to launch a new distribution channel for their software. *National Sales Director for The Body Shop At Home leading the US sales force consisting of 500 leaders and 10,000 Consultants with $40+ Mil. Revenue. *Director of Field Sales for Discovery Toys in North America consisting of 500 leaders and 20,000 Consultants. Barb, wanting to be an entrepreneur again, is founder and president of My SalesTactics™, a professional skill development business helping companies and home-based entrepreneurs grow sales. Barb, a highly interactive, creative speaker, coach and author, is sharing successful systems and tactics via workshops, conventions and teleconference training. Barb’s programs receive a 98% satisfaction rating and routinely have repeats. Active participants will build confidence, take consistent action, celebrate victories, effectively deal with disappointments and increase profits.
Contact Barb: 614.855.0446 or visit http://MySalesTactics.com
You can read Barb’s WAHM articles here.
Congratulations Barb! Your story is an inspiration, and I thank you for sharing it with us.
