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- 0:01Hello and welcome. My name is Tavishima Ayede.
- 0:04I'm the host of the podcast and I'm making today's recording at
- 0:07home. So there will be some noise in
- 0:09the background. Apart from that, I have a cold
- 0:12so there might be some sniffling.
- 0:14Now if you'd love to connect, you can call, send a text
- 0:16message or a WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
- 0:24Now today on the podcast, we're going to be looking at minutes
- 0:30of an old meeting that I had with my Three Musketeers.
- 0:35You've been listening to the podcast for the last month and
- 0:39of course you're already familiar with, you know, my guys
- 0:41Rudolph, El, Elise and Cheryl. They are a sales team for a
- 0:50client of mine who deals in solar.
- 0:54And I look over sometimes I go over some of the old meetings
- 0:59that I had with them because there's valuable stuff that we
- 1:01discussed over there that it would only make sense for me to
- 1:04come and share over here on the podcast because there are people
- 1:07who are making some of these mistakes, you know, live and
- 1:09direct as we run our businesses. So there's one of the old
- 1:15meetings where we did where we spoke about value added follow
- 1:20through. Well, although in Niger we say
- 1:22follow up. So let me just use the word
- 1:24follow up, but for some of our sales professionals who prefer
- 1:27to say follow through and I'll explain why in a minute.
- 1:32So excuse me. So in this part of the world now
- 1:36in Niger, we have one very careless or blind way of doing
- 1:42follow up in quote. You know where you say, I just
- 1:46say I agree to you. How is the family?
- 1:50Long time happy new month. What again?
- 1:57You know what, I can pointless follow up now.
- 2:02In a way it's better than nothing, but still it can be
- 2:06annoying when you're on the receiving end as a customer and
- 2:09there's some of us that have been through it.
- 2:11You know, you're trying to buy something and so you're in touch
- 2:14with somebody as a vendor and then the person you know just
- 2:17keeps blowing up your phone. Happy new month.
- 2:18Happy new week. Happy new Sunday, happy
- 2:20Wednesday, happy Tuesday. So the spirit behind it is good
- 2:31because if you spoke to somebody January 1st and the next time
- 2:34you're scheduled to talk to the person is January 30th.
- 2:38It doesn't make sense to leave that gap in between January 1st
- 2:42and January 30th empty. Because if you do, you will be
- 2:46starting afresh most of the times when you reach out to that
- 2:49potential customer. Again, sorry about that.
- 2:53So we now have to look for ways of keeping in touch in between
- 3:00January 1st and January 30th. But we have to do it in a way
- 3:05that adds value to that other person or else you're on the
- 3:09risk of becoming an irritant. So that's one of the things that
- 3:14we looked at in one of our meetings.
- 3:16Now luckily the company, it's all a company that employs them
- 3:22has a website and they also have a content marketing strategy.
- 3:26So because of that, they have blog posts on all kinds of
- 3:31things that are up on the website.
- 3:34Now the sales team, what they like to do is in between they
- 3:38send somebody a company brochure or a company profile and you
- 3:43know that's OK. But one thing you have to
- 3:45understand is in the minds of our customers, company brochure,
- 3:48company profile and air flyer, all of them are the same.
- 3:52So chances are very few people are sending out company
- 3:57brochure. Sorry, very few customers are
- 4:00reading your company brochure and company profile and anything
- 4:07is this like for this company, they have two of those assets.
- 4:10There's the company brochure and then there's the company, the
- 4:14brochure and the what again, and the profile, the brochure and
- 4:17the profile. Those are only two.
- 4:21So if you send somebody the brochure after two weeks, you
- 4:30send a profile after two weeks, let's say they wait in six
- 4:34weeks, the remaining two or three weeks, why are you going
- 4:38to send again the out of ideas. So that is why if you have a
- 4:42company website and you if the company you work for has a
- 4:46website and they have been updating this thing every single
- 4:50week, you have a huge plethora of resources that you can reach
- 4:56into and be sending. So like for the company on the
- 5:01company website, they have all kinds of posts there.
- 5:05You know, factors to look at before you decide on the solar
- 5:09system, how to take care of a solar system, things to consider
- 5:14before installing solar, what else, how to efficiently use the
- 5:24power in your batteries. Like, you know, all kinds of
- 5:26articles. So those sorts of things are
- 5:30value added way ways of staying in touch with someone to say,
- 5:37you know, hello, Sir. Looking forward to our meeting
- 5:40on January 30th. But in the meantime, I came
- 5:44across this article on our website because we discussed
- 5:47this and this the last time we spoke on January 1st.
- 5:50I'm sending it to you because I think it will be a valuable
- 5:53resource, especially if you look at this section of the article
- 5:58where I talk about this, this, this, this, this, which is what
- 6:00you and I discussed the last time.
- 6:03Enjoy the rest of your day, Sir. Looking forward to our meeting
- 6:08on January 30th. Send.
- 6:12So you see that kind of follow up in quote or follow through as
- 6:16I prefer to say. You said that now that thing is
- 6:19now more value add. You're not being an irritant.
- 6:23It is not happy Monday, happy Sunday, happy new month.
- 6:29And then you send Bible passage and then what?
- 6:32Again, you know, this one is different.
- 6:35Even if the person doesn't read it like you're still top of
- 6:39mind. Message will come.
- 6:41You see the name, you see, the article is kind of relevant
- 6:45because it's something that the guy brought up himself during
- 6:47the last conversation. So you can see that is a nice
- 6:50way you stay top of mind. So forgive me.
- 6:55And that is how we that is how we now bridge the gap whenever
- 7:03there's that spread. Like you guys spoke January 1st
- 7:06and you know, the guy says, you know what, Gimme Telana kind
- 7:11January 30th. Let's talk again.
- 7:13That's how you bridge the gap between January 1st and January
- 7:1630th without being an irritant. So that's one of the things we
- 7:21discussed. OK, so unfortunately for the
- 7:26sales team, the way the website was set up was you can only
- 7:29access the last 6 blog posts. So I'm speaking to their auger.
- 7:38You see how we can loosen that up so that they can have access
- 7:42to the hundreds and hundreds of blog posts that are there
- 7:45Because man, it's a treasure trove.
- 7:47If your company has a website with a blog and you guys have
- 7:52been blogging one post every week, unless the company is like
- 7:585 years old, that is plenty premium resource that you can be
- 8:04sending as a way to do value added follow up or follow
- 8:08through. And then plus it sets you apart
- 8:13as like the thing just makes you you understand that you appear
- 8:18more professional. Like commodities are correct
- 8:22outfit. This is correct business.
- 8:25So that's the whole idea. So yeah, that's it then.
- 8:31OK, Yeah, then in that particular meeting we also
- 8:33looked at some pending cases. In fact, it ties into what we're
- 8:35talking about today. The proposal was sent out July
- 8:3921st. You know, one month storm pass.
- 8:42The guy is not answering the guy.
- 8:43No, the ghost and unfortunately no value added follow through
- 8:48was done in between. So we looked at the CRM and we
- 8:52had a conversation with the team member in question.
- 8:56See, this is the reason why having ACRM is important.
- 9:00So excuse me, the CRM is a customer relationship management
- 9:03tool. So basically it's just any tool
- 9:06that you have in your business where you have a record of who
- 9:11have I been talking to? What conversation did we have?
- 9:15When last did we talk? What did we discuss the last
- 9:19time that we spoke? Based on our last discussion,
- 9:23what are we supposed to do next? What stage of the relationship
- 9:27are we in? How are we going to move this
- 9:30thing forward towards a close? So it's important that you have
- 9:33some kind of CRM whenever you're running your business.
- 9:37So the company question they use Begin.
- 9:39For me, I use Zoho. I've spoken a lot about Odo
- 9:44because ODO is African and ODO is is free.
- 9:47So there are lots of tools, but then I've also spoken a lot
- 9:51about how like, even if you say you don't want to download
- 9:54audio, you don't want to use, oh, you don't want to use Begin,
- 9:57you don't want to use HubSpot, you don't want to pay for
- 9:59nothing. Even Google Calendar on your
- 10:02phone, you can use because you can have a file, an entry on
- 10:08your calendar. Let's say the customer's name is
- 10:10Madam or getting B. You can have a file on the
- 10:14calendar, the title is Madam or getting B.
- 10:18And then on that in the notes section, you have some small
- 10:21details, you know, Madam or getting be referred to me by
- 10:25Madam Susanna discuss this also. So so discuss that.
- 10:30And so so so you know, blah, blah, blah, just put everything
- 10:32down there in the note. And so every single time you
- 10:34talk to Madam or getting be sorry.
- 10:40So every single time you talk to Madam or getting be what you now
- 10:43do is let's say you have the conversation July 21st and you
- 10:47think it's a good idea for people to talk again August 1st.
- 10:51As soon as you finish this conversation today, July 21st,
- 10:53you just go to Google Calendar. You enter the note spoke to
- 10:56Madam Ogdenbe called her 10 AM. We discussed this.
- 11:01We agreed on this. Next line of action is this, you
- 11:04know, change the date from today, July 21st, you know,
- 11:08change it to August 1st. You now put a set reminder 24
- 11:12hours so that the day before your phone whooping in.
- 11:16When you look, you'll see that oh, I'm supposed to call Madam
- 11:19or getting B tomorrow. So you can see that this thing
- 11:22is kind of functioning as a CRM tool.
- 11:25The only problem is just that when you want to, if you want to
- 11:28find customer information, it will be hard because you have to
- 11:30remember how did you store Madam or getting BS info or Google
- 11:36Calendar and stuff like that. You know, so it's not perfect,
- 11:39in fact, no system is perfect. But The thing is, it's better
- 11:41than nothing. It is nice to have a place that
- 11:43you can refer to once in a while that will remind you, OK, my
- 11:46conversation with Chief so, so, so, and so or with Madam, so,
- 11:49so, so and so. Excuse me, where is that
- 11:53conversation? Where are we?
- 11:55Where are we heading? Am I supposed to have done
- 11:57something? Are they supposed to do
- 11:58something for me to move this deal forward?
- 12:01So This is why it's good to have a CRM because in this case,
- 12:04there was a place where me as a sales trainer, I can enter
- 12:06inside and say, well, let me see, when last did you holler
- 12:09this person? What did you guys discuss?
- 12:12So you can see that with the CRM during team training sessions,
- 12:18all of us as a team, we can sit down and analyze and say, oh, I
- 12:22had this case that our brother pursued like this.
- 12:26If you say that you, how you, how you pursue it, is there
- 12:28something that could be done better?
- 12:30So these are some of the benefits.
- 12:33So, so we looked in this area now and then we discussed and
- 12:38then we realized that the customer has said a couple of
- 12:41things in the past that we could hold on to.
- 12:42There are many other things, but these are just the ones I
- 12:45decided to just grab. I said, OK, we can hold this
- 12:47one. So one, the customer at some
- 12:51point say casual that you know what, maybe on that kind of
- 12:55first week of August, I'm trying to gather myself.
- 12:58That's what the customer said. But of course, you know, the
- 13:01salesperson didn't ask. What does that mean?
- 13:03Well, you know, you should try and find ways of gather because
- 13:06like for me, the way I handed, if somebody says I'm trying to
- 13:08gather myself, listen, on our first week of August, I'll just
- 13:11say casual and I'm like, correct container, don't hand that be,
- 13:16you know, person will laugh it up.
- 13:17Say hi container. How it means that money is
- 13:19coming in now saying I'm working on one or two things.
- 13:23Of course, I can't push through more crush more than that in
- 13:26that kind of circumstance, but because of the way that I just
- 13:29playfully followed up on that something, I now have a sense
- 13:31that OK be like say some correct money is landing around that
- 13:36time. I'll make a mental note.
- 13:38I also make a note on my calendar in my CRM on my phone.
- 13:44So that's one thing that the guy said that we can hold on to.
- 13:47Then another time the guy was mentioned casual that OK, and I
- 13:53don't worry, people are already on my To Do List.
- 13:56But of course, you know, the sales member didn't ask.
- 13:58What does that mean? Because me, I'll ask To Do List.
- 14:01That's good. So it means that you're ready to
- 14:03take action soon, Abby, because if somebody says you're my To Do
- 14:07List, what I'm trying to figure out is OK To Do List, that means
- 14:10you're ready to go. Like excuse me, you're ready to
- 14:13go. Like especially since guy said
- 14:16he's expecting something first week of August.
- 14:18So, OK, so that means like that first week of August, that means
- 14:20you'll be ready to make deposit now, Abby.
- 14:24But of course, remember, casual, conversational, friendly
- 14:29rapport, keep it like you're not an interrogator.
- 14:35So that's the second thing. Now another thing, the guy said
- 14:38he was looking forward to concrete discussions.
- 14:40Of course, the sales, sales guiding, ask what that means,
- 14:45but something you can ask concrete discussions.
- 14:48OK, me too. I'm looking forward to concrete
- 14:49discussion. But this one, I say concrete
- 14:52discussion. Is it that you want us to start
- 14:56earning out the proposal around that date or you want to sign
- 15:00the contract by that date, by XYZ date?
- 15:03You know, but remember, conversational, you know,
- 15:06casual, keep it loose. If you're too strong and too
- 15:09formal, you sound like, excuse me, you sound like, you know,
- 15:14money, money, money. That's all you want.
- 15:16You just care about the money. So even though we didn't know
- 15:22exactly what those meant, at least we had three things.
- 15:25Number one, I'm trying to gather myself around that kind.
- 15:28First week in August. That's one statement #2 you guys
- 15:32are on my To Do List #3 I'm looking forward to concrete
- 15:36discussions. So with that, I said, OK, you
- 15:39know what? Since this guy don't go stars
- 15:40for one month, this is what we'll do.
- 15:44We'll craft a message and see how we can get this thing going
- 15:47again. So we craft a message, we put a
- 15:50call to action or put a question like that message because
- 15:53questions beg a response. The mistake that this
- 15:55salesperson made now was he called around that first week in
- 16:00August, but he didn't send a message.
- 16:03And please, I'm telling, I'm begging you guys, whether you're
- 16:06a salesperson or you own your own business, there's no such
- 16:10thing as you call somebody and then you just leave it like
- 16:14that. If you call somebody and the
- 16:15person does not respond, send a message.
- 16:17It should be a default. It should be reflex action.
- 16:21You know how you breathe? That is how it should be reflex.
- 16:26Remember the days when you are toasting your wife or you are
- 16:29toasting your husband. It was reflex.
- 16:32You finish the conversation and then you smile and then you send
- 16:36him a loving message or send her a loving message.
- 16:39It was fun hanging out, blah, blah, blah.
- 16:41This da da da da send. It is the same thing as in love
- 16:45and relationships, so also in business.
- 16:47You finish your conversation with the prospect, send a
- 16:50message. It was nice talking to you.
- 16:52It was nice chatting. I remember that we have so, so,
- 17:00so and so pending. I'll get back to you.
- 17:01So so too on XYZ did send you call the person doesn't answer.
- 17:06You send a message. Tell them Mr. Cooley, try
- 17:09calling earlier. Number was busy.
- 17:11The reason why I was calling was because blah blah, blah, blah,
- 17:13blah. Let me know when you're
- 17:14available to talk. Send This thing should be
- 17:16reflexed. Every phone call send message.
- 17:20Every time you call people did not answer, send message.
- 17:23Every time you finish a meeting, send message.
- 17:29Was a pleasure having a meeting with you today getting to know
- 17:31the rest of the team. I'm looking forward to executing
- 17:34on this this this that that that as we discussed, I will get back
- 17:37to you on XYZ date as we agreed during the meeting.
- 17:41Enjoy the rest of your day. Send this issue be default.
- 17:44Always send a message, send a message, send message.
- 17:51Because in this kind of situation now where you don't
- 17:53send a message, yes, you reached out August 1st.
- 17:56But The thing is, you know, people forget, people are busy
- 18:01and just seeing 2 missed calls on your phone doesn't really say
- 18:08anything. What do you see?
- 18:10Two missed calls and then you see a message that said, oh, I
- 18:12tried calling you earlier because the last time we spoke,
- 18:18last time we spoke, you said was possible for us to move ahead
- 18:22because of this, that and that, you know, I'll put it, OK, that
- 18:28was not elegant. But basically, you send a
- 18:30message given the reason for why you call, and then, you know, a
- 18:35question or a call to action, that kind of thing prompts
- 18:38something, somebody. Now remember that.
- 18:40Oh, OK. I was talking to Gazi.
- 18:43I spoke to her three weeks ago. Actually, I'm supposed to do
- 18:46this for her. So please let it be your default
- 18:50send message after every single interaction.
- 18:53Send message. All right, so this is the
- 18:58message now that we crafted. Good afternoon Sir.
- 19:02I apologize for losing track of our last conversation and for
- 19:05not being in touch since July 21st.
- 19:08Now the reason why I start off the message like this is because
- 19:11we should always assume some of you say it's the customer's
- 19:13fault. They don't want an OP call and
- 19:15no problem. But we'll never blame the
- 19:17customer. We'll always take responsibility
- 19:19for everything. Yes, it's their fault.
- 19:22Now they have no, no DP call, but no problem.
- 19:24We'll always say it is us. So good afternoon Sir.
- 19:27I apologize for losing track of our last conversation and not
- 19:30being in touch since July 21st. That's one paragraph.
- 19:35Next paragraph. The last time we spoke, I got
- 19:37the impression you were ready for us to have concrete
- 19:39discussions as you are gathering funds for the first week of
- 19:43August. Now, in this case, I use the
- 19:46exact words gathering funds wherever possible and is the
- 19:49reason why we need a CRM. You notice that your people are
- 19:52saying some things, they use some kind of expressions, write
- 19:55those things down when you're referring to them, use their own
- 20:00words when they read it, it will sound like them, like, oh, it's
- 20:03true, I said it. Be noting all these things when
- 20:11you're referring to the previous context.
- 20:12When you're having conversations with people, be using their
- 20:15exact words where possible. So that is why I say gathering
- 20:19funds and that's the reason why I say concrete discussion
- 20:22because that's what the guy said.
- 20:23It's not me that I said it. That is what him he said.
- 20:27So the last time we spoke, I got the impression you are ready for
- 20:31us to have concrete discussions as you are gathering funds for
- 20:34the first week of August. Then remember every single
- 20:38message we gas to end with either the call to action that
- 20:42is do this thing next or a question so that the person has
- 20:46to respond to you. Because one of the reasons why
- 20:49your customers are ghosting, excuse me, is because you're
- 20:53sending messages that are just statements and the statement
- 20:55says nothing if you just say, oh, good morning, Sir.
- 21:00I tried calling earlier. Send, OK.
- 21:03Like what am I supposed to do with that?
- 21:05What is the customer supposed to do with that kind of message?
- 21:08I tried calling earlier and so, but if it is, I tried calling
- 21:13earlier. Your number was busy.
- 21:16You asked me to call you back so that we can arrange a site visit
- 21:20for next week Friday. When will you be available to
- 21:23talk, Sir? Is it has a different thing?
- 21:24The person will see the text message like oh, it is true,
- 21:30we're supposed to arrange site visit.
- 21:34So stop sending statements as text message.
- 21:37Even if you must put statement and end it with a call to
- 21:41action. This is what the person should
- 21:43do next or ask a question. If you're not asking questions,
- 21:47if you're not using call to actions, don't be angry that
- 21:50people are ghosting you. That goes to you because the
- 21:53next step is not clear. They don't know what they're
- 21:55supposed to do. Sorry about the noise outside.
- 21:59It's raining here. That's why Qatar wants to kill
- 22:01me. If I have to be on the radio
- 22:02today, I don't know how I'm going to cope.
- 22:04I should just take active and I'll sleep hopefully by evening
- 22:07time my head going on clear. So, so now final paragraph.
- 22:14So is that still the case or are you interested or have
- 22:18circumstances came, Sorry, circumstances changed on your
- 22:22end. So that was the the question.
- 22:26So let me repeat the message. Let me just say it in full now.
- 22:29So this is what we, I gave the salesperson to send.
- 22:34Well, of course you take this message and then you personalize
- 22:37it in your own words. You say the way you will say it
- 22:41because if you try and send a message the way some other
- 22:43person will say it, you know it will sound flat, it will sound
- 22:46like you, it will sound inauthentic.
- 22:48So this is the message. Good afternoon Sir.
- 22:51I apologize for losing track of our last conversation and not
- 22:54being in touch since July the 21st.
- 22:57The last time we spoke I got the impression you are ready for us
- 23:00to have concrete discussions as you are gathering funds for the
- 23:03first week of August. Is that still the case?
- 23:07Are you still interested or have circumstances changed on your
- 23:11end? And then we send that as one
- 23:14message. So again, we took responsibility
- 23:20for why the conversation stalled.
- 23:23Yes, that damn, no, they pick all.
- 23:25But you are the professional here.
- 23:27Take responsibility, put it there, refer to the previous
- 23:32context and then, you know, give call to action or you ask a
- 23:38question to move this conversation forward.
- 23:42So that's how we wrapped up for that particular customer.
- 23:45Then we now, excuse me, then we now did a role-playing exercise
- 23:50and then we ended the meeting and the role play exercise
- 23:53turned out to be really interesting because I'm not well
- 23:57doing the role play. I pretend that I'm the
- 23:58salesperson because I've noticed that when I pretend to be the
- 24:01salesperson, they like to fire me all the all the difficulties
- 24:04that customers have been giving them in the field.
- 24:07But this is also a useful way to grow your revenue and increase
- 24:14your sales because as a team, all of us are sitting down and
- 24:18we're having a very crucial exercise and exercises this if
- 24:22to say, not me, how would I have handled this thing?
- 24:28It is very good to sit down as a team and brainstorm around these
- 24:30sorts of things because the problem with lots of people is
- 24:34they wait until something happens to them in the field and
- 24:36then they just react. That's the wrong time, but if in
- 24:41the office all of us were just chilling and all of us were just
- 24:45discussing that, ah, today, last week, I called somebody.
- 24:51This is what the woman said. This is what me I said.
- 24:54What do you think? How you have actually, how
- 24:55should I have done it? Other members of the team are
- 24:58now learning from other people's experience.
- 25:00Then when customers say E, you say B or when customer does
- 25:04this, you do this. When somebody pipe high, you
- 25:06pipe low or when somebody do like this, you do like this.
- 25:09It's from role-playing that we tease out all of these things so
- 25:13that as a team everybody is better prepared and we're
- 25:15learning from everybody's experience.
- 25:17That way we handle conversations much better.
- 25:21Because I can remember as a young wedding photographer when
- 25:25one person pissed me off on my rake on the phone, severe
- 25:29raking. So my business partner at the
- 25:33time, that's my brother-in-law now.
- 25:35He had to calm me down like a guy, you know, that was
- 25:37unprofessional. But the thing, I was all up in
- 25:40my fields. I was like, what the hell?
- 25:42How can he be talking to me like this, blah, blah, blah, blah,
- 25:44blah. I'm an educated fellow.
- 25:47Master's degree on top of what, how much, how much they won't
- 25:50pay, you know, my business partner had to calm me down.
- 25:53Like, you know, guy, calm down, calm down, calm down.
- 25:55We got to be professional here. I understand, but we have to be
- 25:58professional. This is because I had not been
- 26:02exposed to those kinds of scenarios before.
- 26:04I had not done any kind of role play before.
- 26:06So honestly, I had no background, no other context on
- 26:12what to do when customer begin to provoke.
- 26:17So I was just going based on emotions, just based on my
- 26:21feelings. While you sit down, are you role
- 26:23play, You are your, your sales team, you are your business
- 26:27partner, maybe even you are your spouse, not that kind of role
- 26:30play, not the other, you understand as in business role
- 26:34play. So yeah, your spouse, you do
- 26:36business role play, you're prepared for other kinds of
- 26:38circumstances. So in this case, the person that
- 26:43was the customer pretended to be rude, flippant.
- 26:48I was not given information. So we now started discussing how
- 26:56patience comes into the sales process and what to do when
- 26:59we're dealing with customers that are rude.
- 27:02I don't want to say anything and what else and it was an
- 27:07interesting role play shot, but it's something you guys should
- 27:10consider doing in your businesses.
- 27:15If it's just you as the solopreneur, like I said, you
- 27:18can role play with your wife, with your brother or your
- 27:22sister, even your parents. I remember what role play I did
- 27:26with Momsie. At the time I thought Momsie was
- 27:28being silly, but the thing that happened to me live and in the
- 27:31field, mom, she said what you do if somebody says this, I said,
- 27:37OK, let's play it out. She's OK, Good.
- 27:39And she said, young man, give me the price.
- 27:42I was trying to finesse her, you know, to get some more
- 27:46information. And she said, look, young man,
- 27:48I'm busy, just give me the price.
- 27:50And I ended the role play. I said, look, mommy, I would
- 27:53never deal with a customer who talks to me like that.
- 27:55My mom, she laughed, She clapped her and she laughed.
- 27:58She knew what she was doing because my mom, see had been,
- 28:04she's retired now, of course, but she had been a marketing
- 28:06exec and of course she knows that, you know, customers can
- 28:10talk like that. And true, true.
- 28:11It happened to me. I was talking to somebody and
- 28:13the person said, look, young man, I'm busy, just give me the
- 28:15price. And my mind, I'm like, oh,
- 28:19that's where mom, she was coming from.
- 28:20It has happened to her. She was probably talking with
- 28:22somebody and the person said, look, young lady, I am busy,
- 28:25just give me the price. So from role play, talk to
- 28:30people, oh, mommy, how you handle this kind of thing,
- 28:34Daddy, how you handle this kind of thing.
- 28:36Oh my dear, come, I'll be getting some questions in the
- 28:39business and I'm wondering, you know, how do you think I go
- 28:42about this from role-playing exercise scenarios in a low risk
- 28:47environment. Because when you're
- 28:49role-playing, you know, is role play.
- 28:52Now play, play is low stakes. You people can't stop, you can't
- 28:56laugh, you can rewind. You will now be thinking of
- 28:59things ahead of time so that when you're in the field, when
- 29:01you're talking to somebody on the phone and something happens,
- 29:04you're practicing will just kick over.
- 29:09OK, All right, so it's been 30 minutes.
- 29:10Let me just bring it to close here and let me see how cure
- 29:14this my cutter because to go on live radio and be doing
- 29:18function, it's very unprofessional.
- 29:22OK, so that's pretty much remember if you'd love to
- 29:25connect, you can call, send me a text message or a WhatsApp
- 29:28message on 08064662140. Thank you for your time and
- 29:34attention. I'll catch you next time.
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