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YOU DON'T ONLY NEED TO GET YOUR CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS TO KNOW HOW THE BUSINESS IS OF ADVANTAGE TO THEM, YOU'VE GOT TO RELATE WITH THEM ON A PERSONAL LEVEL. ESPECIALLY IF IT IS A PURCHASING ENDEAVOUR. Mayhaps, you are looking for a customer to sell your products or skills and you've just been advertising your wares and not getting the response you want. It's always better and easier to get to know the potential customer/client first, before shoving your wares in their faces. Here's my experience. I'm part of the Editoral committee of the Rotaract Club of my school and we are in the process of publication of our brochure/magazine. As such, we needed funds in form of subscription by fellow Rotaractors. I was delegated to convince them to subscribe to the brochure with a token. What I was busy doing for weeks was "Composing beautiful messages of how the magazine is being published, and what they stand to gain from the magazine" Yet, I wasn&#

You'd never know how disheartening a "No" from a potential customer/client is until you're on the receiving end. My place abode while in school is the hostel and students usually hawk their wares from room to room. The message always goes thus, "I have slippers for sale" or "I have your natural black soap for sale" et cetera.  Then, my answer could either go this way: If the person knocks and says "I have slippers for...." "I'm not interested", I'd always interrupt midway.  If it was any of my roommates that answered, they would allow the person to advertise her wares and then comment on how pretty it is before regretfully announcing that they weren't buying. As for me, I would tell my roomies that I didn't see the point, so my being blunt about my lack of interest. "Why waste someone's time if you aren't buying in the first place?" Fast-forward to a few months later. My sister had begun baking

Home? What is your definition of home? I'd like to say first that the idea I agree with most is "that home is where the heart is" Only where the heart is Picture this! A 5 bedroom bungalow that is beige tiled, with almaco windows and iron doors. A bouncy caramel  couch in the parlour, a 40" flat screen television, 3 pairs of recreation, a wide space outside. The tiles is mobbed everyday without fail, although some rooms are not even used The children of the landlord hardly sits on the couch, except for prayers, yet it is cleaned everytime The television is never used for entertainment by the children of the Landlord, The compound is swept daily unfailingly,  The children hardly exchanges words with their father, apart from greetings In a nutshell, the house feels strange to the children of the landlord Another scenario, a 3 bed room flat, 24" television, no tiles, just an average flat. In this case, the children returns home, always even the married ones The who