As real estate professionals, we may fear hearing «no» and
never ask for business from potential client.
The client rep laughs and says something like, «That's refreshing — because I can't tell you how many times I have dined, gone to sporting events or played golf with lawyers and
they never ask me for my business.
Imagine being a social butterfly who meets people constantly (and occasionally talks real estate) but
never asks for the business.
Not exact matches
I'd have three or four contracts on the go, but I always knew one might fall off, so I was
never shy to pick up the phone and
ask for business.
The professor at Arizona State University's
business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse,
asks her clients, «What are the things you would
never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers
for the quarter?»
Asking for this information will not only put them at risk, but it will also cause them to lose trust and potentially
never do
business with you again.
In the interest of all the students heading to college this fall, I
asked my colleagues at
Business Insider to share the best things they bought
for themselves in college that they might
never have thought to pack.
The question that you need to be
asking yourselves is not simply how do I use some of these new - fangled technologies to do my
business better — how will I use these new tools to do things
for my clients and customers that I
never imagined that I could do before.
Origination fees
for business loans have little wiggle room with lenders (though it
never hurts to
ask — they want your
business too!)
During my
business travels to other countries, whenever I have needed a temporary sim card
for my mobile phone and
asked a local where I could get one, many times they would express shock when they would tell me to go to the store of one of their largest telecommunication companies and I would
ask them to repeat the name of the company again because I had
never heard of it.
Kind of like «don't
ask, don't tell», except it is not and
never will be your
business regardless of whether you pay
for it or not.
The «propositional nation» right is glad to talk about the contributions of immigrants (especially when
asking Congress to permit more guest workers to staff their
businesses), but their policy preferences (tax cuts
for themselves, entitlement cuts
for wage - earners) will
never seem inclusive.
Members of SNA have the voice and ability to
ask for chamge, but people on the outside that have
never actually run this
business do not understand this
business.
Green said that SUNY Downstate had
never supplied a
business plan to the state comptroller despite being
asked for one.
The actress threw a #MeToo tag on a comment about Franco and Christian Slater, then after Franco won
for best actor in a musical or comedy, she tweeted: «Please
never ask me why I left the film / tv
business.»
If you're selling training as a
business, you obviously
never want to miss the chance to sell to a customer, but
asking staff to work less than desirable shifts to cover this might not be the best solution, and they may go looking
for a more traditional 9 - 5 role.
Herein lies the problem
for schools and
businesses: The person being
asked to evaluate a subjective problem and come up with a well thought - out opinion has
never been trained to do so.
I'd order the vehicle and he
never in all the years of doing
business with them ever
asked for deposit or down payment until the vehicle arrived
for me to take delivery.
I
asked them
for a phone number instead of emailing my card number, it took them a week to respond, I made 3 attempts at calling (during their
business hours), they
never returned my calls, so finally I just disputed the charge with my credit card company, gave them all of the information (including the emails from the hotel) and they took care of it.
Don't tell anyone your passwords - a legitimate
business or company should
never ask you
for your password, so
never share this information via email or over the phone.
I would like once in awhile to a get an upgrade to a suite while traveling on
business to non resort areas and non major cities but that doesn't happen either or course I
never ask for a suite.
I have
never seen a man be reticent to
ask me
for business.
«In all the time I was with either [previous firm] Adams Duque or [Nixon Mudge], I have
never asked anybody
for business,
never.
Asking a
business lawyer
for advice is
never a bad idea.
While we aren't regulated, we try to stick strict
business practices, such as —
asking for ID
for anti-money laundering rules,
never offering financial advice as a
business etc..
I want to be utilizing every opportunity to keep my name in their mind, but I
never use those interactions as a tool to
ask for business.
Despite the fact that about 70 percent of their
business comes from past clients, the couple has
never asked for a referral, says Joseph Callaway.
Two things: I just overheard a
business discussion on radio, where the speaker said he
never likes to hear the word «referral,» as in agents
asking for referrals from their clients.