{"id":846,"date":"2009-07-26T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:47:11","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-prospect-stands-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2009\/07\/what-do-you-do-when-prospect-stands-you.html","title":{"rendered":"What do you do when a prospect stands you up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/3600458529\/\" title=\"Edinburgh\u00a0 by bjmccray, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edinburgh \" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3556\/3600458529_e42e3f4077_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a>I&#8217;d like your advice. A prospect stood me up this week. When he asked, I declined to offer him another free consultation. What would you have done?<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter how good of a prospect he was? This person was one member of a volunteer committee, just gathering data to take back to the group to convince them to start the process. But should that make a difference?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your advice and your stories. <\/p>\n<p><i>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/05\/tour-of-small-biz-survival_29.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like your advice. A prospect stood me up this week. When he asked, I declined to offer him another free consultation. What would you have done? Does it matter how good of a prospect he was? This person was one member of a volunteer committee, just gathering data to take back to the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}