By Stabroek News
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Small business chat
‘Whether you get a bad or a good day, the important part
is you keep going every day from Sunday to Sunday’
Clothes seller at the East Coast Car Park, Sebastian Williams, says consistency and adaptation are the keys to success.
The Hincks Street businessman related to the Stabroek Business that he has been self-employed for over 14 years and previously, had sold CDs and DVDs before he started selling apparel and footwear. He said that as a vendor, you have to be consistent with what you’re doing, with every day being a relentless hard-working process. “It’s not something where you’re gonna come in and sell two days, then you take two days and say, today is a bad day for me, whether you get a bad or a good day, the important part is you keep going every day from Sunday to Sunday.”
Williams stated that he is very dedicated to his job. “This is my passion, this is my life’s work, you know this is my life’s work.” He shared how he had to change what he sold when DVDs became obsolete. “DVD start get slow after the world modernise with the internet and the Wi-Fi and all these things. Sales get slow, slow, slow, so I had to find a way. I was living in a rent house, I have a family, I had to basically scope out the place and see the next move, right? How I could bring in a dollar? How I could get this done, right? So, I used to always have slippers with the DVDs and the CDs so I started with that. I come off the DVDs and pushed with the slippers, then I try some pants, I try some dresses, I try some jerseys to put the pieces together, it just take a couple years to me to improve myself with the clothing right now.”
