Comments on: Send the nonverbal message that you are listening http://canuckflack.com/2005/02/04/send-the-nonverbal-message-that-you-are-listening/ ... it's about public relations, marketing, retail quirks, government communications and oddities ... and written in Canada! Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:27:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Bruce DeBoer http://canuckflack.com/2005/02/04/send-the-nonverbal-message-that-you-are-listening/#comment-267 Bruce DeBoer Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:38:01 +0000 http://plattsburg.west-third.com/colintest2/?p=422#comment-267 Colin, There are reems of books, journals, magazine articles, not to mention the high dollar seminars that all say what you said in four short paragraphs. What do you think the future of the word SELL is? I don't know one person who likes to be sold a bill of goods. Marketing (the word) doesn't fair much better but at least, by definition, if you do it well you ARE listening. - bruce Colin,

There are reems of books, journals, magazine articles, not to mention the high dollar seminars that all say what you said in four short paragraphs. What do you think the future of the word SELL is?

I don’t know one person who likes to be sold a bill of goods. Marketing (the word) doesn’t fair much better but at least, by definition, if you do it well you ARE listening.

- bruce

]]> By: Dana VanDen Heuvel http://canuckflack.com/2005/02/04/send-the-nonverbal-message-that-you-are-listening/#comment-266 Dana VanDen Heuvel Mon, 07 Feb 2005 05:56:40 +0000 http://plattsburg.west-third.com/colintest2/?p=422#comment-266 Colin, Right on! In this day and age of the Internet, Hoovers, Lexis-Nexis, and dozens of other data resources out there, there's simply no excuse for not knowing more about your prospective customers, or for altering your phone call/pitch with information that you've learned from listening. I can honestly say that I've turned down some otherwise keen vendors because they sucked as basic things like listenting to what I actually wanted. Colin,

Right on! In this day and age of the Internet, Hoovers, Lexis-Nexis, and dozens of other data resources out there, there’s simply no excuse for not knowing more about your prospective customers, or for altering your phone call/pitch with information that you’ve learned from listening. I can honestly say that I’ve turned down some otherwise keen vendors because they sucked as basic things like listenting to what I actually wanted.

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