How Not to Make a Sale
Saturday, October 11th, 2008How to not make a sale in 7 easy steps:
- Ring my doorbell and knock incessantly. That’s sure to put me in a great mood after waking me up from a nap.
- Look visibly annoyed when the dogs bark at you.
- Automatically assume that I am my partner.
- Ask me if I have noticed all the digging in my back yard done by AT&T and then tell me that he needs to check my connections. (The only digging that’s been done in our back yard has been done by my partner in the garden.)
- Look visibly annoyed (again) when I tell you that there are no connections to check because we don’t have AT&T phone service. We have VOIP.
- Argue with me about how I am locked into a two-year contract with Time Warner because of the VOIP, even though I say I’m not. (We use Vonage and we’re not locked into any contract.)
- Walk away shaking your head and muttering that AT&T U-Verse is better, but we’ll never know because we’re locked into a contract.