Entry for August 01, 2007

Day 12 of The YES Experiment
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Still no evangelists.
Today I said Yes! to a sales enquiry at work. You know the sort of e-mail that comes in - all positive, explaining how they (the salesman) admires your company and feels we can work together to our mutual advantage. A No Man would interpret this as a rather crass attempt to get the foot in the door so that they can sell you life insurance, but to me a dedicated Yes Man, it sounded like I needed to reply in positive terms -
"Dear Bill,
Yes!
I would love to fit time into my "busy schedule" to have a chat about how we can "work together to our mutual gain". That sounds like too good an opportunity to pass up - hell, it might even be fun. Please call me right away; I'm just as excited as you are about the prospect of "building a close professional relationship". Who knows - if things go well, we might even take it beyond the professional - I'm game if you are.
Looking forward to our meeting already.
Alan!"