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Home > Self-Employed Success Blog > Running a Strong & Efficient Business > The REAL Reason Santa is so Jolly – He’s Self-Employed!
The REAL Reason Santa is so Jolly – He’s Self-Employed!

The REAL Reason Santa is so Jolly – He’s Self-Employed!

Karyn Greenstreet

Believers and non-believers alike know that Santa Claus is a happy person. For that matter, so are Mrs. Claus and all the elves (even the ones who want to be dentists). In a world of trouble and strife, why are these folks so jolly?

The simple answer is that Santa is happy because he is self-employed. He’s doing what he loves to do and he has the freedom to create the business and life of his dreams. While running a family business can be complicated, with Mrs. Claus by his side, they deliver a perfect product to a cheering clientele.

Imagine that you owned a business where you had to deliver your product or service only one night a year to an audience eagerly awaiting your arrival. The other 364 days a year are spent in product development and listening to your customers. If that doesn’t make you jolly, what will?

But that’s not all. Each year, Santa’s audience of little children (and some not-so-little ones, like me) write letters to him, telling him exactly what they want. Getting your customers to be that specific — and to get them to put it in writing — certainly reduces the need for market research.

Marketing is easy. Word-of-mouth referrals blossom among the children who love him, and social media and the Internet only makes it easier to spread the word. He doesn’t use Facebook and Twitter to send out endless “buy my products” posts. Instead, he uses them to create relationships and to listen. Santa is GREAT at listening.

And how does Santa get paid? With love, cookies and milk, which are in constant and unending supply. He has no doubts about abundance or whether his clients will pay on time.

It shouldn’t surprise you that Santa has intricate and extensive leadership skills. He doesn’t make toys himself; he gets the elves to do it for him. He instills in them the passion, meaning and purpose of the corporate mission, and they eagerly make toys all year long, happy and singing. There are no recorded instances of elf employment protests. Santa knows how to respect and motivate the craftspeople who work for him. He puts the “elf” in self-employment.

But Santa doesn’t sit on his laurels (because, in fact, it hurts to sit on laurel shrubs). Every year his strategic team comes up with new products and services sure to delight his audience. Notice I said, “team.” Santa can’t do it alone and he recognizes the need to surround himself with those who are smarter than he is in their specialty field. I think it was Santa who first said, “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

To all of you who own your own business, and to those who dream of one day being your own boss, I wish you the brightest of holiday seasons. We can all learn a thing or two from Santa Boss, can’t we?

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  1. LaCharla

    December 22, 2015 at 11:01 am

    Karyn, this is a great post. I love the parallels that remind us of some of the keys to entrepreneurial sanity & success.

    And you had me at ‘”elf” in self-employment’!

    Merry Christmas!

    • Karyn Greenstreet

      December 22, 2015 at 11:47 am

      Yeah, I wondered if the “elf in self-employment” was just a bit too far, LaCharla. LOL

  2. Chery Kendrick

    December 15, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    Excellent!
    Brilliant seasonal comparisons ❤️

    • Karyn Greenstreet

      December 15, 2016 at 1:54 pm

      There is “truth” hidden everywhere, Chery! 🙂

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