Do you ever feel like an alien?\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about the kind that\u2019s green, from another planet and oozes nasty fluids.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about the feeling you get when you feel like you\u2019re the only one who cares that the store clerk is having a personal conversation with her co-worker, while staring right at you, and still just goes right on talking as if they were the only 2 people in the world.<\/p>\n
Do you ever feel like you\u2019re the only one who knows how to pick up the telephone and have a conversation with somebody to solve a problem or handle an issue?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve said for a long time that we\u2019re creating a world of passive-aggressive people with all this email and text messaging and it seems to get worse every day.\u00a0 Now don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not anti-internet or anti-email, I use them both, a lot, but I also know how to pick up the phone to talk to somebody and I know how to have a one-on-one conversation with another human being.<\/p>\n
Am I frustrated?\u00a0 No, not really . . . ok, yes, I am frustrated.\u00a0 Let me tell you why \u2013 maybe you can relate.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re all busy people.\u00a0 And as busy people, we occasionally have something slip through the cracks.\u00a0 We forget to return an important phone call, we lay something on top of that contract we were supposed to sign and forget it\u2019s lying on our desk. Things happen.\u00a0 No big deal, right?\u00a0 We just make them right, ask for forgiveness, do better the next time \u2013 whatever it takes to correct it.<\/p>\n
Ignoring the situation isn\u2019t a way to make it right.\u00a0 Avoidance isn\u2019t solving anything.<\/p>\n
As a marketer, consultant and event planner, I am constantly negotiating deals with other business people, hotels, entrepreneurs, etc.\u00a0 It is amazing to me how many times people just simply don\u2019t get back to you.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if they have disappeared, fallen plum off the face of planet earth \u2013 not reachable by fax, email, phone, cell phone or carrier pigeon.\u00a0 Never fear, sometimes they appear again \u2013 sometimes not!<\/p>\n
Why I am ranting about this to you?\u00a0 Well, it isn\u2019t because I\u2019m frustrated, it\u2019s because I think we can all learn from this.<\/p>\n
I have found that in almost every situation there is a business and\/or a marketing lesson to be found \u2013 if you just look for it.\u00a0 One way to make this easier on yourself is to constantly be asking yourself this question . . . How Can I Use This (in my business or my life)?<\/p>\n
Have you asked yourself that question lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you ever feel like an alien?\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about the kind that\u2019s green, from another planet and oozes nasty fluids.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about the feeling you get when you feel like you\u2019re the only one who cares that the store clerk is having a personal conversation with her co-worker, while staring right at…<\/p>\n