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Acland Brierty…explained » I knew they were crazy firing me

Years ago I was sales manager for a fruit and veg providoring firm. I had resigned from there about a nanosecond before they fired me… there’s lessons in this post so bear with me. I bumped into one of the owners the other day and when I asked what he was doing now he told me the company went broke and he was supplying exotic/organic fruit and veg to restaurants, hotels etc… and this is why they fired me all those years ago!

As a sales person I was hopeless… the only way I can see us getting ahead was having a clear and distinct difference to the 17 other competitors we had supplying the same fruit and veg to the same marketplace. I needed an edge that wasn’t price, service or quality related. So I did some research and found things like exotic mushrooms that grew wild here in Australia (porcinis, ceps, morels), I was the first person to introduce salad mix or mesclun to our state, I found growers of baby vegetables… you get the idea.

So when I would visit a restaurant on a sale’s call, I had a some incredible stuff to offer them to make their menus more exotic and give customers something to rave about. The result was we picked up new business and started to create a great reputation. We didn’t make a heap of money out of this stuff but it did get us in the door to sell the onions and potatoes etc. To cut a long story short, we were bought out by another company and the new owner asked me how much a box of lettuce was… I had no idea. I never sold on price! Then he pointed out that this exotic stuff was not making us any money (even though it was the reason customers would change to us)… so the writing was on the wall and I quickly quit.