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EDITOR'S NOTE 03
WHY WE ENGAGE IN SPORTS. 04
RUNNING AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE 06
Contents VICTOR WANYAMA: FOOTBALL POWERHOUSE 10
CAREERS AROUND SPORTS 14
DEMYSTIFYING SALES 16
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Editor’s Note Hello & Welcome to White Collar! Someone once tried to define professional sports as ‘rich people going to watch other rich people shooting a ball in a hoop or net’. There is some truth to that statement, but we refuse to reduce sport to such a simplistic definition. In this issue we unravel what sport offers people physically, psychologically, emotionally and even intellectually. We take things a step further and look how we could use sport to combat unemployment and the poverty that it brings. Sport can offer a sense of cohesiveness and unify people across the lines of race, religion and nationality. We have recently seen a polarised Europe sing the praises of a talented African Muslim footballer, and how that can shift the image people have about each other. I hope you enjoy this reading issue, as much as we enjoyed creating it. We love hearing back from you guys. Do not hesitate to reach out to us across out social platforms.
Contributors:
Michael Kiruthi, Esq Emmanuel Kyama Ian Macharia
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Kyama Kivuva
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Demystifying
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Why people buy what they buy
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n order to find a sales technique that works one needs to experiment and gauge what works best for a given target demographic. However, majority of the businesses that need to experiment have finite marketing budgets that restrict how well they appeal to the market. So how does the average business reach their niche in the most effective way possible?
We need to understand that sales techniques vary depending on the intended result. Also that no one person has the entire ‘Sales Playbook’. It takes a combination of experimenting and relying on tried and tested classic techniques. We go a step further and instead of looking at Sales techniques we look at the cornerstone of every sales interaction, Human Nature. If you have a grasp on your product’s applications and human nature in relation your product then selling it becomes the easy part. We highlight the internal and external influences with the hope that the new information affects how entrepreneurs shape their strategies.
PEOPLE BUY THINGS BECAUSE OF ABSOLUTE NECESSIT Y. In the first half of the 20th Century Abraham Maslow constructed a hierarchy of needs. The concept is popular in developmental psychology. It states that until the needs of a lower level are met one cannot move to fulfilling higher kinds of needs. This means that it is difficult for a person to pursue needs around esteem and self-actualization if they lack food or water. In the very same way some organizations are centered on providing the most basic of needs that is; Food, water and shelter. Sales of these kinds of products is relatively easier
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