Comments on: Getting ready for the upturn http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2009/06/24/getting-ready-for-the-upturn/ Leslie Burns writes on the photo business and marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Martha Retallick http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2009/06/24/getting-ready-for-the-upturn/comment-page-1/#comment-40148 Martha Retallick Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:00:52 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/?p=1161#comment-40148 I've been preparing for the upturn two years. It was in May 2007 when I decided to start going after business instead of waiting for it to come to me. Since then, I've made thousands of cold calls and warm calls, and guess what? Thousands of people have said no to me! But I'm still here. Amidst all those nos have been some yesses. Some of them have come from the most lucrative clients I've ever had. One of them has even given me the opportunity to do what I most want to do, and that is combine website design with photography. Oh, I should also mention that there's a benefit to having thousands of people turn you down. You develop a level of fearlessness that you never had before. You'll start making contacts you never thought you'd make. The CEOs of major corporations? No problem. The President of the United States? Go for it. I’ve been preparing for the upturn two years. It was in May 2007 when I decided to start going after business instead of waiting for it to come to me.

Since then, I’ve made thousands of cold calls and warm calls, and guess what? Thousands of people have said no to me! But I’m still here.

Amidst all those nos have been some yesses. Some of them have come from the most lucrative clients I’ve ever had. One of them has even given me the opportunity to do what I most want to do, and that is combine website design with photography.

Oh, I should also mention that there’s a benefit to having thousands of people turn you down. You develop a level of fearlessness that you never had before. You’ll start making contacts you never thought you’d make. The CEOs of major corporations? No problem. The President of the United States? Go for it.

]]>