The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88991   Message #1674965
Posted By: catspaw49
21-Feb-06 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Businessmen's Cliches...
Subject: RE: BS: Businessmen's Cliches...
I ain't even going on this one.......15 years in sales, sales training and sales management and I know (and detest) them all. They are very tough to not use at times when they are in such common usage. So I try to "hold the line" and "maximize" the language. That's the real "bottom line" with me!   Geeziz...........

I did at times come up with a few of my own which I overused liberally. Probably best known among my reps was when they ask my opinion of something I would simply say, "Too early to tell." Then someone would ask if I was bothered by it being too early to tell and I'd respond, "Too late to care." Selling is a game of the moment.

Not related exactly but I love it when one phrase gets used in a way you're not used to hearing it. Watching Curling the other day, an announcer said the Skip delivered "the high, hard, one." Karen and I both looked at each other and cracked up.

Spaw