In sales, they say that you can be the best talker in the world, you can be the greatest product advocate there ever was, and you can be practically poetic about the item you’re selling, but you’ll still be a pile of shit unless you can ask for the sale.
I have seen it happen, where magnificently skilled and knowledgable people are consistently outstripped by poorly-trained, technically ignorant, but aggressive people who just ask for the business.
So I am asking for the business:
Go nominate me for a Weblog Award. This one seems to be open to everyone in the world for nominations, unlike others I could mention, so I have a fighting chance. I want you to go and nominate me, and I want to win.
Make it happen.
Sure, I don’t update enough, and I might not actually be very funny or anything, but I’ve been on this batshit crazy internet for nearly six years now, and I’m starting to think that nobody notices all the trouble I go to.
An award would go a long way to making me feel better about myself. And isn’t that your goal in life, most days? To make someone feel good?
Of course it is. I am asking you. Go on and dazzle me.
Comments (3)
Actually, asking for the sale means shit if you can’t close the deal.
Plenty of people notice the trouble you go to. Problem is that it’s not quite enough trouble. You’re very smart and rather talented, and you really don’t push it very far.
Oh, damn, that was cold. But true. Great tough love, there, k.
Mike, you’re smart and funny and all, but surely you could have spent more time this year blogging about award-worthy topics, like blow jobs and your house closing. Come on, man. Help us to help you.
Can we just say you are good and leave it at that.