You take cookies?????

Gee, does your doctor bake you cookies when you make an appointment with him?  What about your attorney, your accountant, your plumber, and your carpenter?

Baking cookies, to me, is so totally unprofessional.  I would NEVER do that.  It's almost comical, as a matter of fact.

• I hear such mixed thoughts regarding getting accounts by going door-to-door soliciting yourself. - sm
  • Getting new accounts - How I did it
  • All of my clients are from "word of mouth". If I had to solicit sm - MTSO25
  • I'm not a very "outgoing" person and I find extremely difficult to sell myself. So the ide - KYMT
    • That was very helpful information - and sweet of you to post it. sm
    • Excellent! Good for you! - NM
  • It's how I got my private accounts....sm - back in 1997.........
    • I love reading stories like this! - SM
      • I'm happy my post helped you....sm - back in 1997.........
  • Don't do it... - Dolo
    • Soliciting accounts - roses
    • Excellent points! (sm) - Geek
    • Professional flyers - Patti
      • Please! - Dolo
      • You take cookies????? - Dolo
        • To each their own - Patti
          • I give sweets and baked goods.....sm - back in 1997.........
            • My cookies do not keep my accounts for me - Patti
              • and some of us have been doing it....N/M - for 30 yrs without baking *l*
          • Cookie making for scoring new accounts - CookieQA
          • GREAT post. Thank you. - nm
          • I like your approach sm - Passing through
      • Thank you for this. I will be on my own some day. - NM

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Gee thanks a lot, guess it is my cookies that do my 35,000  to 40,000 lines per month for my accounts.  All I do is that if they respond to my brochure, express interest or talk with me I swing by with a plate of cookies to say "thank you" or if it is an account I really would like I swing by with a plate of cookies with a brochure and more times than not at least the brochure will make it to the manager's desk.  It is the same as giving out pens with your business name on it.  Again I stress, if I did not do a decent job I could not have stayed in this business as a MTSO for 18 years, support myself, own a home and have a half way personal retirement fund set up.   Guess I will put on my tombstone, "I owe my success to my cookies".  And really my flyer is a brochure. 

Once you get to internet options from TOOLS at the top of your browser, you have a radio button to delete cookies, one to delete history, one to delete online files and then offline files - that is how you delete the cookies AND the cache/memory/history.

Is that what you need to know?  Hope that helped!!