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Glenn August 7, 2014 02:37 PM

Bottled Water Biz Cards Get OTHER People to Talk 1st STRATEGY #3
 
Muchas Gracias Cornell,

Almost all of my F-r-e-e Ezine List are Shy and Introverted.

And I think you will agree this Was an AWKWARD Situation.

And really almost impossible to solve
using normal arguments or saying "Pretty Please" or using Threats.

BECAUSE of my Ezine I've gotten into the habit of Setting up Situations where
TOTAL STRANGERS have to do most of the talking.

Often They Talk first.

For Example - a Recent Triumph...

My Dad is 94 so I just moved out to the farm to take care of things.
Like our 5 acres of grass. Trees falling down. Gardens. Deer, GroundHogs,
Foxes and raccoons. LOTS of VARMINTS.

Dad remembers when our country road was DIRT. And
it was built with "Breakers" or big bumps in the road going at 45degree
angle to shunt the water off so it didn't dig big ruts in the dirt road.

The Country Road Experts ELIMINATED the breakers.

So now a football stretch of our little road runs water down into our lawn
and thru the bottom garden. We now have a 3 foot deep ditch in the garden.

And No way to stop tons of water from washing it deeper.

UNTIL RECENTLY.

I spotted a road crew resurfacing our old road.

Got a case of bottle water with my company contact info on it
out of the Fridge.

Put 15 pint bottles in a bucket.

Carried it down the road in the 90degree heat.

Handed water out to all the SWEATING Workers.

All I did was wave a Bottle of water and say, "THANKS."

"Thank You."

"Gracias."

You know what they told me? -- "NOBODY else along the road has given us Anything."

I waved thru the window at Their Supervisor who is sitting in the shade
in a big truck winds his window down. (I'll bet HE is popular.)

He says, "Thanks I already have plenty of water."

I said, "But is it ICE COLD right out of the Fridge?"

He capitulated. Held out his hand.

AND I HANDED Him a QUART Bottle of water.

THEN Told him how the road with no Breakers was Undercutting the asphalt
and running down thru our garden.

He Tried to Delay.
Stayed in the truck.

But I waited for him to walk down the road to look. And AMBUSHED HIM
to make sure he could SEE he would have to do EXTRA WORK if he
did't change the Pitch and Tilt of the road.

I was disappointed at first.

Couldn't SEE any difference.

But later that week I got caught in the rain
while trimming along the road with the Scythe.

SON
OF
A
GUN.

The water was running off little by little along a 30 yard stretch. The road
where the gully was forming (Previously) was DRY as a bone.

15.00 of bottled water.

Might have helped that I was Credentialed thru the roof
because he had NEVER seen any company owner with his
name on bottled water.

(Any small bottled water company will do this for you if you pre-order a few cases.)

Thanks,
Glenn Osborn

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AND is about to Double His Fees (AND HIS INCOME AGAIN) using a ONE PAGE SYSTEM I adapt for all my clients.

P.P.S. - HE TOO Is Shy and Introverted.

So this Single Page does ALL of the talking FOR HIM.

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Dien Rice August 7, 2014 02:45 PM

Re: Flower Power-How to FLIP An Awkward Situation In Your Favor #2
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Glenn (Post 33902)
P.S. - You can visit my magician friend who makes Red, pink, yellow, purple napkin roses AND watch his HOW TO FOLD a Rose Video.

I just ordered 150 roses. 3 folded packs.

www.napkinRose.com

Or

Go to YouTube.com where there are dozens of confusing techniques on how to make a paper rose.

Hi Glenn,

These are great ideas (you seem to have an unlimited supply of them!)... I'm going to have to start carrying around Lotto tickets and other items just for these occasions!

It's amazing how using a few tips like these can "spark" up your life, and make everything just that little bit easier (as well as more enjoyable)!

I would love to meet you in person one day... I think it'd be great to see you "in action"... :)

Best wishes,

Dien

Cornell August 8, 2014 01:34 PM

Thanks Glenn...
 
Thanks Glenn...always enjoy your posts and insight.

I garden and always over plant so there is always an abundance.

I pick in the morning and then take the surplus in the van with me.

When I run into someone - clerk, cashier, stranger - who looks glum or having a bad day....I simply ask them if they would like a freshly picked tomato, or some freshly picked green beans (whatever I have with me)...and their demeanor changes almost immediately when I hand it to them. In the event of cashiers or clerks, the next visit to where they are working I always seem to get a generous smile and excellent service :o) ...and the strangers always have a greeting and a smile when I run into them again in my travels (live in a relatively small populated area so seeing them again is quite common.

We used to have a roadside vendor that was quite blunt and seemed not very friendly or talkative.....on a hot summer day I passed him sitting there on my way into town...I grabbed a can of pop from a vending machine and on the way back home stopped and handed it to him....we have been friends ever since.

These methods do work, and it is always a pleasure reading about the ones you employ.

Cornell

Glenn August 9, 2014 12:04 PM

How My Mother Used Cookies to Build The #1 Home Ec Dept In MD
 
Thanks Cornell,

For years and years total strangers came up to my mother
when I was a kid - to Say "THANKS For Teaching My son Tom or Daughter Jill
to COOK!"

I used to help her arrange Bread and different Desserts I cooked
so she could take color photos. (She did dinner - My Job was Dessert.)

ONLY LATER...

During a Chat with another struggling Home Economics Teacher
did I Find Out what My MOTHER did that made her CHAIRMAN of the
Largest Home Economics Program in Maryland.

While all the others were sinking.

She
Fed
100's and 100's
of School Kids
F-r-e-e Cookies
MADE by Other Students.

#1 - Mom got her cooking classes to Bake 100's of Extra Cookies.
Put them in the freezer.

#2 - She got a list of all the Jr High Schools Feeding kids into her Senior High
school.

#3 - Mom made Appointments to Talk to Huge rooms full of kids
during home room.

#4 - Wrote Morning Announcement Scripts that the Principal could read
announcing F-r-e-e Home Made Chocolate Chip cookies were to be given
away to anyone who showed up at the Cafeteria to hear a 5 minute
talk about the Senior High Home Economics and cooking Program.

#5 - Colorful Flyers to post on Bulletin Boards and to send home.

My Mothers classes were packed to the walls.

Lines and waiting lists.

And the other teachers who taught other aspects of home economics
benefitted too.

HA!

I watched her BRIBE kids -walking down the hall - TOTAL STRANGERS to
Her cooking classes - to help her carry stuff out to her car from class
with Leftover food.

She left A Peach or a Plum or a Plastic Bag with a cookie
inside on top of the Trash Can - for the Garbage men.

WOW did we have the most carefully taken care of Trash can
in the neighborhood. Never tossed into the road.

Watching her
got me in the habit too.

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