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Sales Callers and Difficult Conversations

October 8, 2014 By: Rachel7 Comments

  One good thing that I learnt from my Mum was how assertively to tell sales callers that, “We don’t do business on the phone.” The first time I said that, I was about five, and the caller laughed a lot! It was probably the emerging actress in me and my attempt at a grown […]

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