Jason with Business Explosion!
Posted on March 25, 2008
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Today I got to talk, briefly, to a nice young fellow named Jason (probably not a reader, but "hi Jason" if you're out there).
Jason's company was not really called Business Explosion, but it was something similar to that. I can't really remember the exact name. Here is a transcript of the call:
Jason: "Hi this is Jason with Business Explosion!"
RAB: "Business Explosion!" (I like to sound enthusiastic when people call, so I sometimes echo what sound like important words. Since I was obviously supposed to be impressed with the name "Business Explosion," I repeated it with zeal).
Jason: "Um, yes" (off balance already… this is not a real pro… poor guy) "Mumble, mumble, we sell insurance leads and wanted to offer our mumble mumble…"
[a pause of approximately five seconds]
RAB: "I'm glad you called! One of our best markets is insurance for insurance lead providers. Let me start a quote for you now!"
Jason: "Umm, ok…"
[in the background: "can we do that... do we want a quote for insurance?"]
Jason: "Actually, I was calling to offer–"
Rab: "Oh you want to sell me insurance leads." (Jason: "Yes") "We don't need any insurance leads. Have a great day, Jason."
[Finite]
Ok, so this was not one of my best countersales; but it was an amusing addition to a day filled with solicitors and other creatures from the murky abyss. Do remember to stop and enjoy the next solicitor who calls your office.
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You have entered 'start your head on fire,' housed at www.robertbeverly.com. 'start your head on fire' is the blog of Robert Beverly. It is not a very serious blog. Mr. Beverly writes most of the news items, but you will also see us (Debbie and Secretia) posting from time to time to clarify things. We are his "blog secretaries."
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Rather than publish a biography or ask Mr. Beverly to record his memoirs (which would be dull), we thought we would post a summary for anyone who was wondering. He said we should do something like this because that's what other people's blogs have on them. Mr. Beverly goes by Rab, which is a common name for Scotsmen and their dogs. We call him Mr. Beverly in person because we're trying to talk him into a raise, but you can really call him Rab. Rab drinks gallons of coffee daily and makes jokes that we usually don't understand. We laugh politely because he writes the paychecks for Debbie and I (he hired us both as blog secretaries back in October 2006... we didn't even know what a blog was before this). Mr Beverly goes to the gym a lot, which is why he doesn't have time to type in his blog entries, and he does all kinds of weird exercises like Kung Fu and Yoga (NEVER ask him about this unless you want to hear all about martial arts). He enjoys literary analysis and esoteric reading and games like "Go" (the ancient Japanese strategy game) and chess, not to mention those weird "role playing" and "strategy" games he designs himself, all of which account for why we do not to start conversations with him. (Secretia here... what the hell was wrong with Yahtzee, I ask you?!) We like talking about peekapoos and the best grocery store sales, but we don't get to talk about that here.
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