Farquharson/Tedesco on Business Development: 10 Lessons No Longer Taught
4 Respect the client's time—If your appointment is at 10 a.m., be on time. If you are going to be late, call. If the job is scheduled to ship on Wednesday, see that it does. If your appointment is more than a week away, call to confirm. On a first sales call, confirm the amount of time the client has to spend with you. In your followup, thank him/her for taking the time out of their busy day. Failure to follow this rule can (and quite frankly, does) tell the customer, "I don't care." Everything you do as a sales rep reflects upon your company. You can kill a relationship quickly simply by missing a deadline or waltzing in a few minutes late. Yeah, it's that important.
Very much alive and now officially an industry curmudgeon, strategic growth expert T. J. Tedesco can be reached at tj@tjtedesco.com or 301-404-2244.
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