Once again it’s becoming more evident my introduction is messy and doesn’t state clearly the benefits a conversation with me can offer people. Usually though, I’m able to hustle my way through by staying as close as possible to the truth of the situation. I’m telling people this stuff I’m doing sounds a bit weird (because that’s how I still feel about it), and after dropping a few problems heard earlier I manage to start a conversation or make an appointment. And that’s what I kept doing because until now it was most successful.

A lot of times I have a few bumps in the introduction, but I usually manage to get the conversation going. Today I had someone not only tell me he didn’t understand my proposition, he told me to hang up, put it down on paper and then get back to him. Wonderful.

Why would he give me this feedback? Why wouldn’t he just simply hang up because he didn’t see the benefit of it, or because it was wasting his time? Maybe it was because these people did get a slight hint of the value in it for him, even though I wasn’t able to express it clearly. Whatever it is, it wasn’t the first time I was told my introduction is messy. So I definitely need to work on that.

Help needed or offering help?
It looks like most conversations I have start off because the person likes to talk about his business or simply wants to offer me some help. I’m telling people I’m studying their market and want to figure out how these businesses can be improved. Maybe it’s a noble cause to them, even if they don’t see the direct benefit to themselves. It’s funny to see there are still a lot of people that do want to talk with me out of good will.

The ones that do want to see a direct benefit are probably the ones most interesting to work for, so I need to find a direct way to explain them my offer so I don’t have to throw up ‘study’ smoke screens.

Once again it’s becoming more evident my introduction is messy and doesn’t state clearly the benefits a conversation with me can offer people. Usually though, I’m able to hustle my way through by staying as close as possible to the truth of the situation. I’m telling people this stuff I’m doing sounds a bit weird (because that’s how I still feel about it), and after dropping a few problems heard earlier I manage to start a conversation or make an appointment. And that’s what I kept doing because until now it was most successful.

A lot of times I have a few bumps in the introduction, but I usually manage to get the conversation going. Today I had someone not only tell me he didn’t understand my proposition, he told me to hang up, put it down on paper and then get back to him. Wonderful.

Why would he give me this feedback? Why wouldn’t he just simply hang up because he didn’t see the benefit of it, or because it was wasting his time? Maybe it was because these people did get a slight hint of the value in it for him, even though I wasn’t able to express it clearly. Whatever it is, it wasn’t the first time I was told my introduction is messy. So I definitely need to work on that.

Help needed or offering help?

It looks like most conversations I have start off because the person likes to talk about his business or simply wants to offer me some help. I’m telling people I’m studying their market and want to figure out how these businesses can be improved. Maybe it’s a noble cause to them, even if they don’t see the direct benefit to themselves. It’s funny to see there are still a lot of people that do want to talk with me out of goodwill.

The ones that do want to see a direct benefit are probably the ones most interesting to work for, so I need to find a direct way to explain them my offer so I don’t have to throw up ‘study’ smoke screens.