I think business done in a hurry is mostly bad business.
As the buyer, you ought to reserve the rights to look around. Consider counter offers, do your due diligence and then make a decision.
As the seller (which is the class I want most of my readers to be), I believe you should not be in too much of a hurry to sell your products/services. A lady chatted me up on Google Hangouts on Saturday and within maybe 15 minutes, she was pitching me her wares already! I found it funny and so I engaged her in humorous fashion. I actually said: “Well, as you can imagine, I am well stocked on so so and I didn’t wake up this morning knowing that i would meet so so today =D ” “So, I do not have a budget for that”.
End of story.
What a missed opportunity!
I am sure that I would have been more valuable to her and her company over time, not overnight if she had engaged professionally to find out more information about me and what I do before making the first sales pitch. I guess she was just trying to fill her sales quota.
In business (as it is in life), patience is a much needed value.
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Watching the World
- iDea Nigeria admits four startups into its second accelerator class.
- Some guys are working on headphones that are actually headphones! You wear it on your head and it plays the music through your skull… leaving your ears free. It is also cordless, you might want to take a look.
