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RE: Aggressive women?
They're teasing you because you're a safe target. They know you're working and can't play while on the clock.
Tease back. "Hey, careful with the merchandise! You touch, you buyyyy...me a beer." (smirk), "Looking for someone?" (smirk) "May I interest you in our fine selection of crystal encrusted plumbing accessories? <or other absurd thing you obviously aren't selling>" (smirk) and if she doesn't laugh but instead says "yes", look to the left and the right and then say, "Oh, I guess we're all sold out at the moment." or similar banter. But don't become an entertainer. Make at most three banter responses then take it down. Worst case you'll get more sales. Once you've made your best effort to close the sale (or did close the same and they've signed payment), transition to, "You look like a person who knows all the cool things going on this weekend. Where are you going?"
Have fun, enjoy the attention, and after sales are done see if you can get into the Daygame track to GALNUC and eventually get their phone number. Don't be picky, try to follow them all down. Worst case you'll get practice for the others.
And expect a high flake rate. That's just part of the Game.
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2012 09:49 PM by Blackhawk.)
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Blackhawk
Wingman
  
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RE: Aggressive women?
(06-08-2012 07:11 AM)muc Wrote: 2. I have boundaries. "Please stop touching me.", "Don't you think you are a little close?"
Those sentences are both sure to kill any sale. If I said either of those things when bartending I'd make $0 in tips.
muc has his boundaries, but when you enter sales, which is a people business, those all get moved over 20 ft. People are going to flirt with you. People are going to touch you. And it's pretty much expected that you flirt back if you're going to make a sale. You learn to read posture, body language, certain cues like the quality of hair style, their makeup quality, what shoes and purse they have, and you group clients into a few different categories where you know what to say and how best to give them what they want even though you've never met them before in your life.
The thing is, it's brief. Like I said, at most three banter responses and then reduce your energy level and get back to business, which is why you're being paid. Close the sale.
The problem in sales is when you're flirting all day to close it's difficult to know what's genuine and what's just part of the job.
Houston's probably right. If it was my primary source of income I would be more professional. Because I'm doing it as a favor to people I know and it pays nowhere near my day job, I'm probably a bad employee who hits on the customers.
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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