the watch of time

I recently re-discovered a booklet for consultants containing oft-attention getting, and hopefully to some extent business generating, concepts. Some ideas seem universal, but need to be kept up-to-date…

• Charity events, should be selected in consideration of which services being supported might have personal relevance in the future
• Community gardens, come with a built-in implication of watching for what varieties and substances are being encouraged to grow
• Public service announcements, provide a platform for measuring how much time one could use in vocal and speaker training
• Marriage and divorce financial seminars, recognize challenges faced in modern relationships, while one needs to be diplomatically alert to the same people showing up at both sessions
• Auto cleaning or emergency kits, help protect an asset often used by customers to attend meetings
• Cooking classes, will likely work better if no prima donnas emerge early on, because after all, everyone’s likes to be cooking
• Fitness programs, can help one determine – unofficially – how good (or bad) a prospect appears as a candidate for living benefits protection
• Movie premieres, may allow for some demographic targeting, but can also illustrate how monies can be wasted when the final product doesn’t look right
• Dancing lessons, can have a non-verbal benefit, in that one may learn moves to help make it easier for one’s actions to match one’s words
• Fishing seminars, are obviously fitting environments in which to unhurriedly land a big one