{"id":667,"date":"2013-08-05T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bettinasettlesrealty.com\/Blogspot\/?p=667"},"modified":"2016-06-16T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:23:11","slug":"how-prepared-are-you-when-meeting-with-a-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/2013\/08\/05\/how-prepared-are-you-when-meeting-with-a-client\/","title":{"rendered":"How prepared are you when meeting with a client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/08\/reading-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-668\" alt=\"bulldog wearing eyeglasses sleeping over a good novel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/08\/reading-dog-300x200.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/08\/reading-dog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/08\/reading-dog.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Driving to a meeting with potential client I was going in my mind through the information I gathered for this meeting and thought back to a time back in school.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in class I was called out as the first student to give a short verbal description about the content \u00a0\u00a0of the book we were given to read several days ago. With a deer in the headline look I stared at the teacher and finally remembered that we were asked to read this book and I just totally forgot.<\/p>\n<p>The embarrassment I felt that day was earthshattering for me and at that moment I wished the earth would have opened up and swallowed me whole and later having to explain to my parents why I had to stay longer in school in detention because I did not do my homework was even harder.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving at the potential client\u2019s office I stepped into her office and we had a great meeting discussing her wants, needs and wishes. Thanks to being prepared for this meeting we were able to come up with a great solution for her and it was a solution she had not thought of.<\/p>\n<p>It always shows to be prepared and my embarrassing moment in school taught me that lesson early in life or how Confucius put it; \u201cSuccess depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving to a meeting with potential client I was going in my mind through the information I gathered for this meeting and thought back to a time back in school. Sitting in class I was called out as the first student to give a short verbal description about the content \u00a0\u00a0of the book we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/2013\/08\/05\/how-prepared-are-you-when-meeting-with-a-client\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How prepared are you when meeting with a client<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7,8,9,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-communication","category-education","category-inspiration","category-organizing","category-planning","category-team-work","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.settlesteam.com\/blogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}