Increasing Success by F. W. Bishop

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

Increasing Success

By F. W. Bishop

At Taltal, Chile, last month I encouraged one of our workers to try taking orders for “Coming King,” and in four and a half hours he had five orders, besides his sales of smaller books and papers. My orders, while helping him, for the same time, for large books, were fourteen. One day of six hours’ work gave me twenty-eight orders, valued at two hundred fifty-two pesos. At Antofagasta, a little farther north, while waiting for two of our colporteurs to come down from the interior, the time put in gave me over four and a half orders an hour. One day, in six hours, I had thirty-three orders from the business people. This is the largest number of orders I ever took in one day. Last year, in one day, I took thirty orders in Ecuador for “Patriarchs and Prophets.” The first few years I canvassed in the States, I considered twenty orders good for a week’s work, but now twenty orders a day seems to me small in South America, if I have put in faithful hours.

Our plan is to instruct the brethren how to take orders for our large books, then go out with them and give them a little practical experience.

From personal observation, we see that the large cities are neglected. What has been done has been done on the outskirts and in the villages.

F. W. BISHOP.