Jun
19
Picking Their Brains
I have a trick when I have no clue how to do something - such as start a business. This trick assumes that you live in a big enough town where a number of other people do the thing that you think they could tell you about. If you don't, you'll be calling a place where that is possible.
This is cold-calling, actually. It's not so terrible when you realize that you'll be calling business owners and employees who are used to serving the public anyway. The fact that you're not going to buy something from them at this time has nothing to do with it - and they know that. They know you might buy something from them in the future...or convince someone else to do just that. So it's nowhere near the situation where you are convincing them to give you money.
This is cold-calling, actually. It's not so terrible when you realize that you'll be calling business owners and employees who are used to serving the public anyway. The fact that you're not going to buy something from them at this time has nothing to do with it - and they know that. They know you might buy something from them in the future...or convince someone else to do just that. So it's nowhere near the situation where you are convincing them to give you money.