{"id":2847,"date":"2014-01-10T07:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2014-01-10T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:21:22","slug":"being-attentive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/10\/being-attentive","title":{"rendered":"Being attentive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/59686410\/\" title=\"We just won a lot of money! by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/31\/59686410_20a88ad31e_n.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" alt=\"We just won a lot of money!\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>As I always do, I make last minute purchases for Christmas. It&#8217;s not because of the lack of planning, more so that I&#8217;m getting busier despite the holiday season approaching.<\/p>\n<p>From 10am &#8211; 10.06am I called Machines in Gardens. No one would pick up the phone. I called iStore by C-Zone in Publika. Quick answer (picked up the phone within 4 rings), stock was available, so I reserved a few units. Within a span of 1.5 hours, I had my Christmas presents ready.<\/p>\n<p>You win business by picking up the phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Harrods yesterday, there were three concessions that we spent some time around &#8211; Chanel, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton. Sales people at Louis Vuitton always seemed busy and generally left one part of their concession empty. They weren&#8217;t busy per se, just not engaging. At Chanel, you could go grab a bag off the shelf yourself. At Gucci, they paid good attention to you, spent time with you and engaged heavily. Guess who won the sales then?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pick up your phone. Be attentive to your customers needs. Serve in the service industry. You will be rewarded by being successful in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I always do, I make last minute purchases for Christmas. It&#8217;s not because of the lack of planning, more so that I&#8217;m getting busier despite the holiday season approaching. From 10am &#8211; 10.06am I called Machines in Gardens. No one would pick up the phone. I called iStore by C-Zone in Publika. Quick answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-JV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}