Third Friday @ Body Contours

Hmnn... Feeling kind of tired and sort of helpless... Marketing is sort of like a waiting games at some times... after you pass the proactive stage of hunting down the possible connections, partners and avenues to do stuff... You make the approach and... you WAIT... anything from three days to a week...

And then you got to submit your stuff to Management and wait for approval and most importantly... budget to be released... In the midst of all this waiting... you sit down and finetune your proposals and yes... trawl the net and magazines for more ideas and more inspirations... and make more approaches... just so that you got more stuff to... yes WAIT for again...

Hmnn... perhaps I am just one impatient soul... actually it's not I think... I know it's proven and my friends know I am blardy impatient as well...

I so dislike the feeling of waiting and feeling helpless... yet you can't keep bugging other people like you are some desparado right? What kind of professional image am I portraying then... but yes we wait, we wait and we wait...

Then when an email response does come through... you are keeping your fingers crossed to hope it's not a rejection...

To be a wee bit more positive... It's through rejections that we finetune our approach... our speech... our conversational skills and yes... we think of ways and means how to reduce the rejection level...

How? Dating gives us a good analogy... boy A sees girl A... not well-groomed enough... dud...no interest...

Boy A sees Girl B... nice, pretty, well-dressed and well-groomed - Okie, might have a match there...

Therefore it's the same here... we got to keep elevating ourselves to reach the levels of the partners we wish to prospect... not so much as to be something we are not...

But say for example.... Girl B and Girl A are one and the same... difference is, Make-Up, Dressing, Deportment, Speech and the rest is history (of cos this is a fairly biased and not that accurate analogy - but I think it works well for the corporate theory)

Your partners judge you by your website, your company name, your logo, your correspondence, your associations, your public profile and of cos... the voice that comes through to them on the phone... confident? Shaky? Focus? Blur Cock?

Thus it is so important for a company to have the right people... people who can represent the company correctly and professionally... that's where training comes into play... a good company must invest in the training (continuous) not just one-time and hope for a miracle...

So that's all the rambling in my head and the update in the workplace...