Let’s just say I’m not a member of
Martha Stewart’s fan club.
My encounter with her was years
ago, when I was selling jelly, the best 10 ounces of jelly that $4 would buy. I
paid big bucks to set up a booth at a garden show in a large city, where Martha
Stewart was the guest speaker. She made a tour of the booths (reluctantly, from
the look of her), and her entourage stopped briefly at mine.
During the luncheon, one of
Stewart’s flunkies came and asked if Ms. Stewart could try our jalapeño mustard
with her meal. I fixed up a three-jar gift box with the mustard, our best
seller, some shrimp sauce and strawberry almond jelly, my personal favorite.
Now, that’s not a big deal. It
cost me $10, and I gave away a lot of them over the years. What bothers me is
that Ms. Stewart never bothered to say thank you, or sent one of her people to
say thank you, and I just think there is a major, fundamental flaw with people
who do not say thank you.
What do you think?
Thank you are two words that can be most powerful professionally and personally. It is simply a matter of manners and manners are simply a matter of choice. There in lies the power. Maybe Martha is not that smart, not that well read. If she was, she would be familiar with Miss Manners. ~Kelly
ReplyDeleteOh, I suspect Ms. Stewart is smart, well-read or not. How else could someone with so few apparent marketable skills become so wealthy and well-known.
DeleteThanks for writing, Kelly.
She has made a lot of $$$ for herself hasn't she? I had a look at your products and they look delicious! I love raspberry chipotle on anything.
ReplyDeleteHi Connie. I haven't sold those products for many years, but they are excellent. When I worked for them, all their products were made by hand, one gallon at a time, in a kitchen filled with stoves and wonderful smells.
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