Solo Professionals Ideas

So many solo professionals are too busy to wash their cars and they make excuses like, my clients will not care, but is that really true? I submit to you that it is not and would like to ask you a few questions if you think it is okay to drive a dirt bomb car in your business endeavors. Now then:

• Would you eat at a Restaurant if you saw bugs on the floor?
• Would you fly in an Airliner with a Pilot who had tattoos visible?
• Would you ride on the back of a motorcycle with someone wearing sandals?
• Would you get your hair cut by a hairdresser whose scissors had rust on them?
• Would you trust a Financial Planner who used a little "Hello Kitty" pink calculator?
• Would you trust a contractor or remodeler who showed up in a Yugo with no bumper to do the bid?
• Would you do business with a 20-year old mortgage broker with a nose ring and a Led Zepplin T-shirt?
• Would you go to a car wash where the sign was falling down and the employees looked like they might steal something?

Heck, maybe you would, but I wouldn't and I guarantee you most of your clients wouldn't either. So, what do I know? Maybe you are the cream of the crop there in your area selling whatever it is that you sell, but you'll never get my business with that attitude or with a lack of respect to those who are paying the inflated commissions on their purchases.

Yes, I said inflated. You know many people think that those who sell something, even professional consultants are merely parasites. I don't, but believe me I have had conversations out there like that and heard the feedback that folks are too nice to say to your faces. I do not necessarily agree with them, mostly, I think that sort of talk is wrong, but the stereotype is what you need to overcome and believe me driving a dirty car is not doing you any favors.