Re: How to Turn Down a Client

At 01:06 PM 6/18/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I most respectfully wholeheartedly disagree with this philosophy.  It seems as
>if you are merely sinking to their level as a copout.

Yeah, I felt like that *before* I became a professional salesman. Have you 
survived a few years as a straight commissioned sales person? If not, then 
how can I say you simply don't understand?

>I can not STAND getting
>"strung out".

Bingo! That's the point! Don't do the activity that annoys people so much 
that they avoid you and they won't! Why force us into a situation where we 
have to *confront* you with your own bull-puckey?

>Simply be up front with me and tell me the truth.

Yeah, yeah...

>I have built
>my business on a practice of honesty and making things as simply as possible.

Oh, sure. Haven't we all. If you were *really* honest with yourself, you'd 
guard lauding virtues on yourself, because you'd realize what you *don't* 
see when you look in the mirror nobody misses being horrified by in the 
real world.

>Have some backbone and take a stand.  Earn their respect by being able to be
>man or woman enough to stand for your convictions even when it comes to what
>you expect from a customer (as well as what they can expect from you).

Trust me: I am. I defended my wife against her parents when they stole her 
babies in a court of law. *Justice* ain't: it's all about money. I'd like 
to see you hold to a relationship with someone you hardly knew through the 
legal battle from hell while people are literally pointing guns at you and 
threatening to kill you. Don't talk to me about guts.

BenO

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