With clients and colleagues, I’ve got it down. See, one of the things I like to discern early on in a relationship is where the client is most likely to listen and respond. Are they a phone person? Do they prefer email? Will reaching them through gChat allow space for a decision to be made [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Proper Way to Address a Lady’
March 21, 2008
Co-knitting at Borders?
The local Border’s where I live in Columbia hasn’t received many of my dollars in recent years. The appeal of being in an endless big-box store, crammed (over-crammed?) with merchandise has lost its appeal. Yet, I’ve been to the local Borders more times in the last month than I’ve been in the last few years. [...]
July 19, 2007
How to spot a perv in 3 seconds or less
I’ve created a number of free, online resources for hula hoopers: namely, though not exclusively, themed collections of YouTube videos. Other YouTube users can, and do, submit videos which I can then add to my groups. One of my groups is “Kid Hoopers” and I just received this vid submission.
Second #1: [...]
May 28, 2007
Stamps 4 Sale at BofA?
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do two simple errands at one spot, such as buying a book of first-class stamps while depositing some checks at the bank?
Faith Popcorn, author of Clicking and the less-popular but equally informative EVEolution, says that one way for a business to earn the loyalty of its female [...]
October 27, 2006
A True Gentleman
There is a gentle man who comes through the neighborhood
where I live. He does this each year in the fall, like clockwork, offering to clean
leaves out of gutters and do minor patches on roofs. His prices are quite reasonable,
and I have used his service often, as has my mother.
Physically, this gentle man looks worn. His [...]
August 18, 2006
Thanks, I’m Just Looking
Today, I was having with my uber-girlfriend Cherie the umpteenth-yet conversation about marketing, business, energy, life, capitalism, husbands, contracts and hula hooping. (I hula hoop as much as I can while I talk on the phone … also helps the synapses.)
Cherie and I often examine how to sell to women, or perhaps better stated: how [...]
