I was a “No Sale” at Hello.

I got a phone call last night. It was long distance and I did not know who it was, as most of the time I don’t. When you are an internet marketer and you leave your phone number all over the Internet you get phone calls from all over the place. Sometimes the calls come from people trying to sell you something and sometimes it is someone who is really interested in more information about what you have.

Anyway, this lady calls and as it turns out she has called in the past trying to get me on a “call that has only one spot left that takes place in a half hour.” I did not have time two weeks ago and I did have time last night. As it turns out I gave her a half hour on the phone talking. This whole time she is giving me a lot of patchy information about a product she knew very little about. It got worse. She raved about some doctor I had never heard of nor did I really care anything about. Chances of me meeting him are slim to none, so why should I care anything about his patented concoction? I was a “no sale” at hello.

She did not help her chances any, not saying she had a chance, but if there was ever one she put a stake in the heart of it when she started putting my business down. Now I don’t care who you are, but rule number one is you never, never, never, put down someone’s businesses even if it is the most rotten business on the face of the earth.

My response to her was polite and I simply said, “I am not interested. You need to know something about me. I picked my business after a lot of research. Once I decided on my business I set out to interview uplines, you know, the people I would spend years with building my business with. To tell you the truth, if I had the worst product in the world I would not leave the people I am involved with.” She was speechless for a moment and then asked for clarity as if she did not hear me.

The truth is that we are not in business just for the money, we are in business to be around people we enjoy. To be perfectly honest, I could not imagine being in a network marketing business with people I did not adore and enjoy being around.

This lady might have had a fraction of a chance if she had taken a moment to learn about me instead of trying to slam some business opportunity down my throat. The lesson for me was the next time I talk to someone on the phone I am going to remember this phone call (I hope) and spend more time listening and learning.