#prospective clients

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: Come Into My Parlour (1.10, Thames, 1971)

"A tube ticket?"

"Not a ticket. The ticket."

"Which one?"

"The one that should have been in my pocket."

"Was that your crime? Everybody's done that, some time in their life..."

"Not everybody gets caught."

"It's nothing."

"The most important thing that ever happened to me."

[blcssom]

closed for @thursdaygrl ft. roland ashmore

"darling.... i was up all night thinking of a kinder way to phrase this, but i'm sorry to say i came up short so i'll just tell you outright: i'm not sure you have what it takes."

[pipcore]

well !!!! twitter is eating its own poop ass so....

[cold-neon-ocean]

short-ish vent/explanation as to why things have been so slow sobs

I don’t really feel the passage of time anymore but it’s crazy how much time I’ve lost just since February to just one after another dealing with the house pets. First our puppy’s neuter, then my sister bringing her cats into the house, her cats tearing things up and needing to be watched constantly (by me of course bc I’m the only one here), her cats then giving everyone ringworm which was a nearly 2 month ordeal that we’re still recovering from physically and financially, and now both puppies (one has seemed to recover now) are having some sort of intestinal issue the vets don’t know the cause of, but I’m just cleaning bloody diarrhea (its not parvo, the vet tested) and doing laundry all day.

I never really got the chance to recover from the introduction of the puppies back in September last year. I feel like my life has been overtaken by all these animals completely against my will and out of my control. Mom is just hemorrhaging money from all these obligations and vet bills she never planned/asked for, and I’m trying to help (despite none of these pets being mine) while also barely having the time to work that I used to. I used to be able to sit at my desk nearly all day without being interrupted but now dealing with all these animals by the time I get to sit at my desk I’m exhausted and it’s like 7pm but I gotta get up at 6am to give out medications and make breakfast for 5 pets.

Its starting to calm down but I’m just really upset over how all this affected my ability to work since these extended wait times reflects on my business very poorly and it’s just been killing me because this is not how I normally conduct things but I just had the rug completely snatched from under me and haven’t really been able to get back up. 

I also want to make clear that none of these animals are mine, nor did I have anything to do with the decision making to get them. I was told by my fam that it was expressly kept secret from me- literally until the animals came through the front door, because they knew I’d be upset because I’d have to watch them since I’m the only one home. The only pet that belongs to me is my leopard gecko who is a perfect angel boy who I’ve had not one issue with since getting him (he just turned 2 last month). 

Things are (hopefully) starting to stabilize, I’m praying that we can have just a little time without an animal having some sort of health crisis. I’m really sorry this has been such a long running thing, I never could have anticipated for any of it. I’m so grateful for the patience of my commissioners and am especially sorry to them, this isn’t normally how my business handles and I’m really ashamed of it.

[scramboi]

[searching and looking at art commission prices because i wanna try opening comms soon]

[sees a professional, clean looking one]

"10$ per headshot?? on art this good?? huh?!?"

[scrolls to the bottom]

[sees "600K IDR" (40 USD) for a character sheet]

"hah org indo???

...well ig that makes sense"

[tankampascal]

TECHNIQUE DE VENTE: COMMENT CONVERTIR SANS PRESSION LOR D'UN APPEL DE DECOUVERTE ?

Plus qu’un simple coup de fil ☎️ un appel de découverte constitue les fondations de la relation avec un futur client. Ce premier échange à priori sans pression peut paraitre très simple, pourtant il nous aide à déterminer l’approche qui convient le mieux pour acquérir un nouveau client.

De par mes expériences la prospection téléphonique est toujours d’actualité, est très pratique et très apprécié dans le B2B.

Alors, pourquoi avoir peur ❓

Pour le prospect, c’est l’occasion d’exprimer ses besoins, ses problématiques et ses objections. Tandis que de notre côté, c’est le moment idéal pour montrer notre expertise, proposer des pistes concrètes pour résoudre les problèmes du prospect.

Je te présente les grands axes qui te permettront de réussir ta prospection téléphonique.

🔬 Prépare ton rendez-vous téléphonique.

📅 Planifie la prise de rendez-vous.

👌 Reste toi même.

👂 Ecoute attentivement ton interlocuteur.

✔️ Répond de façon personnalisée: reformule de la question et adapte tes réponses aux besoins.

😳 Ne panique pas face aux objections 🤔 ça arrive! Traite-les comme des opportunités.

Et après la prospection téléphonique ?

👏 Ça y est, votre appel de découverte est terminé… 📝 💻 mais pas ton processus de vente !

Envoit à ton prospect un email qui récapitule les points essentiels de votre conversation et qui rappelle les bénéfices de ton offre.

C’est aussi le bon moment pour lui transmettre ta proposition commerciale et prouver une fois de plus ton professionnalisme.

Tu trouveras les détails de ces pistes d'orientation aux travers de ce lien 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3hn6pm5b

[insurance-brokers-india]

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[soon-palestine]

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

[petermot]

Looking for clients

As a freelance translator there is one thing I’m not good at: looking for clients. It might seem to be easy. After all, everybody has to do it. But there is a difference with employees: a freelancer does not really have a curriculum vitae. Well, you have, of course, but it’s not as easy to describe your past jobs. Usually I work for agencies, and those people don’t want me to mention the end…

[darwin-bloger]

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[theinstagrahame]

Feeling salty today because I'm realizing that my last job really screwed my "Work Portfolio" over by never giving me bylines on anything. I did a ton of work on a variety of public and customer-facing projects, but as an Editor, I never took any credit.

Which means now, after they've laid me off (and then asked me back as a freelance contractor for like 10 hours a week while they develop an AI based on all my old work), I don't have anything I can show prospective employers with my name on it.

So my embittered advice is: if you work on *anything* public facing, no matter how small the actual audience, if it's your work and your company's name on it, insist that your name be in the credits or acknowledgements.

You did the work. Your bosses will shitcan you the second you're more expensive than they're willing to pay. That work should help you find a new job.

[blcssom]

closed starter for @starbrsts

her smile is patient and understanding as they outline their concerns, but the gaze she's got locked on theirs is steely. not out of any hostility (not yet, at least), but out of frustration. "look, i'm not sure what you know about my work—" though it was enough for them to request a meeting with her. "—but i'm very good at what i do. which can be an asset.... or it can be a threat. that's up to you." she still hadn't quite figured out whether they were looking to hire her or challenge her, unfortunately, but thankfully marcella was usually prepared for both.

[brownrice03]

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[shawtysdelirium]

Why do some ppl ask shit like “should I make fanart of x? Should I make a playlist of y? Should I write a fanfic of z? Would u guys like that? Would u guys read it? Lemme know who does and then I’ll do it” THIS AINT CATHOLICISM. THIS AINT UR STRICT PARENTS. THIS AINT A FUCKING DICTATORIAL GOVERNMENT. DO WHATEVER THE FUCK U WANT. U HAVE FREE WILL SO U BETTER FUCKING USE IT.

[drdemonprince]

if sex is no big deal and just a normal thing like having dinner with someone, how do you square that with the belief that children can't consent to sex? Like idk this whole thing of "sex is a normal act like any other and we shouldn't treat it differently" makes me soo uncomfortable because i feel like it's really obviously not in a lot of situations? Otherwise what's the difference between being told by my boss to have lunch with one of our prospective clients being told by my boss to blow one of our prospective clients? :/

let's take your dinner example to its logical conclusion, because you are on to something here, but I don't think quite in the way that you think.

children are forced to eat food that they this really dislike (due to sensory issues, allergies, or just run of the mill unfamiliarity) quite regularly by their caregivers. they are also sometimes denied the right to eat because they didn't behave the way their caretakers liked, and sent to bed hungry, or barred from eating food that they can handle, and instead left to go hungry because they won't eat food they can't handle.

treatment like this causes a lot of food issues and trauma to children. It exacerbates eating disorders and erodes a child's sense of their own body autonomy. It can also cause children to have nutritional issues and a scarcity mentality around food that can be really damaging to them.

similarly, people are forced to share meals with people who they are viscerally uncomfortable around all the time too, often to extreme negative effects. employees are forced to sit down with clients who debase them or harass them. Young people in particular are forced into sharing tables with relatives who have crossed their boundaries, insulted them, abused them, bullied them, and whom they want nothing to do with. people in recovery from eating disorders are surrounded by co-workers, family members, or friends at meal times who speak about calories and weight loss and comment on their own bodies and other people's bodies in incredibly invasive and triggering ways that often make them feel way worse, and make taking care of their own bodies far more difficult.

when a powerful institution wants to exert control over other people, they also often do so using food. prisoners are given almost no control over the kind of food they eat, and are often given very low quality food that is in a disgusting condition, or that violates their own nutritional requirements or religious beliefs. patients in hospitals and in mental institutions are also subjected to such treatment, and people in poverty are expected to eat anything that they are given without complaint. It is an extension of their dehumanization to control and limit the kinds of food they're allowed to access, and how and when they are permitted to eat.

each of these experiences surrounding food can be incredibly violating and harmful. food is quite frequently a tool of control and abuse. yet it is not because there is some magical quality to food or to dinners that make them uniquely fraught with the potential for trauma. these experiences are traumatic because they involve a violation of a person's body autonomy, and a lack of social power.

sex isn't any different from dinner. we just have a series of cultural beliefs surrounding it that make the pressure involving sex something that's both a lot more acknowledged, and mostly encountered in the private realm.

Sex is treated as an almost magical thing, at once both sinister and sacrosanct, and so people are primed to see the potential for harm in it, and it is frequently used as a tool for harming people because it is so loaded, but that doesn't mean there aren't abuses involving every other mundane human activity that we simply are conditioned to ignore because doing so is so normal.

People's body autonomy surrounding food is violated traumatically all the fucking time. unfortunately because we consider dinner to be a neutral activity and sex to be this incredibly fraught and almost magical one, we ignore the massive amounts of coercion, pressure, and violation surrounding food.

your boss shouldn't be able to force you to get dinner with someone. and people are uncomfortable with discussions about body autonomy that neutralize sex, because it forces them to confront how little freedom we actually have in every facet of our lives.