One of my Clients has a husband who is, in her own words, "as persnickety as some of my customers."

She is, in my mind, lucky, lucky, lucky.

As I regularly tell my own Clients, never leave anything to chance if you can exercise some control over it. This is what her husband is doing, not leaving anything to chance.

To go along with this, we can learn from some of the oh-so-obvious instructions on things we buy, such as "Open before eating" printed plainly on a plastic food wrapper. What is happening is that companies are using their product, services, printer materials, web sites -- everything -- just like an uninformed customer might. They can exercise some control over things, so they do, even though the great majority of us find some of the statements incredulous. It is interesting sometimes just how much an uninformed person can mess something up or using it wrongly.

Learn to think like your prospects, even practicing if you have to. If you can't do that, perhaps someone close to you can. You just might be surprised by something that isn't obvious to you. 

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