i honestly can't remember how many so-called prospects and sometimes, referrals that i have served in the past 13 years or more (i'm now in my 14th year in the financial industry) and expanded many hundreds of hours with them, including saturdays and public holidays and the net result has been totally negative or if u like, a lose-lose situation for both myself and my company, promiseland independent.
take today, being the end of the holy month of fasting, hari raya puasa and a prospect insisted on meeting up and i naturally obliged.
after the usual pleasantries, our meeting came up to nothing more than asking me for quotations for himself, a young working professional who had no regard to a full or even partial financial needs analysis.
and the most unkind cut was when he posed this question to me:
"do i get anything for buying insurance from u?......