This Post isn't about marketing and children, rather its about having your children with you and a client wants to meet in an hour. UH-OH...
I have banned my girls from my office. My girls are 10 & 8 and wonderful little girls, by themselves. Put them together and we have the beginnings of WWIII. Normally my 15 yo son will babysit if I have a sales meeting or floor duty, but the day I banned my girls my son was at church camp. I had a sales meeting that I had to attend, there was a guest speaker from Bryan Tracey coming into the office. I had left my girls in my office, (they like to play Real Estate) and went upstairs to the sales meeting. When I came out of the sales meeting I went to my office to find dirty foot prints on my wall. I was really upset over this because my office partner had paid to have the office painted before we moved into it. For this reason and the fact that they act like little banshee's when they are there is why I banned them.
Of course the inevitable would happen... I have a day off and I had let my son stay the night with a friend the night before. I had the intentions of only going to the office to pick up my check from a closing I had the day before and then the girls and I were going shopping to get ready for Vacation Bible School that started that night. We are in the drive-thru line for Wendy's when a investor client calls. We had put an offer in on a property the night before and received a counter. He wants to meet in 30 minutes and go over the counter, the property disclosure, and take pictures of the property. Before he accepts the counter he wants to estimate how much he is going to have to invest in repairs. He had told me the night before that he can't stand rude and disrespectful children. UH OH!!! Now What???
I can't miss the opportunity right? I warn my children, that they had better be on their best behavior. I meet with my client, we go over the paperwork and then go to the house. Luckily my girls were behaved, they had the curious kid questions, but that was ok, my client (a single father) actually told me that they were more behaved than his 9 yo daughter. He didn't purchase the house, too many repairs needed to be made. And my client's daughter will be cheer-leading with my 8 yo this fall. I told him that he can't get away from me because he has to see 3 times a week at practice. We both got a good laugh out of it, not only do I have a client I have made a friend as well. My family has invited his family over for the 4th of July and in the meantime I will be looking for another home for him to invest in.
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