{"id":124,"date":"2010-10-05T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2010\/10\/5\/135521.html"},"modified":"2010-10-05T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T17:55:21","slug":"clip-clop-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/clip-clop-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip Clop Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\">Beware of the Clip Clop Factor<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beware of background noises when you are on the phone.<span style=\"color: red\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I was talking to a client on his cell phone the other day who said<span style=\"color: black\">, <\/span>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m stuck in (clip clop) city traffic on the way to a meeting(clip clop, and I might lose you (clip clop) when I go under the overpass (clip clop)<span style=\"color: black\">&rdquo;.<\/span><span style=\"color: red\"> <br \/>\n<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Through the entire conversation I could hear this clip clop background noise. Then it dawned on me. My client wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;stuck in traffic on the way to a meeting<span style=\"color: black\">&rdquo;.<\/span>&nbsp;He was on his ranch, riding his horse!&nbsp; He had no reason to tell me that other than, <span style=\"color: black\">perhaps it<\/span> might impress me that he was on his way to a meeting at that time of day.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I often work from my boat, and when I&rsquo;m on the phone, I tell clients up front they may hear the odd seagull in the background, and that I&rsquo;m not boating, I&rsquo;m just where I work from my boat.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When you call a client or your boss, be careful what you claim to be doing; someone yelling, &ldquo;fore&rdquo; might give you away.&nbsp; <\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of the Clip Clop Factor &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beware of background noises when you are on the phone.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was talking to a client on his cell phone the other day who said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m stuck in (clip clop) city traffic on the way to a meeting(clip clop, and I might lose you (clip clop) when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}