{"id":1591,"date":"2019-04-11T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:16:15","slug":"youre-a-genius-but-wait-to-prove-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/youre-a-genius-but-wait-to-prove-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re a Genius, but Wait to Prove It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Here\u2019s a scenario.\u00a0You\u2019re in a meeting with a potential client, and like magic, you come up with a \u201cBIG IDEA\u201d that you know is the answer to helping the client make a ton of money, no less yourself.\u00a0In your enthusiasm to show the client how smart you are as a marketing and advertising professional, you blurt out your \u201cBIG IDEA\u201d!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>You\u2019re a genius, right?\u00a0Wrong!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>If you do have a good idea, as in this situation, and you throw it out spontaneously, the chances of it being excepted are greatly diminished.\u00a0 There\u2019s a much better time to reveal you\u2019re a real genius.\u00a0It\u2019s when you make your presentation!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Ask yourself this question.\u00a0Do you think your client would put more value on a great idea that someone came up with on the fly, or one that took a week or two to come up with after much consideration and brainstorming? The client will think, \u201cWow, they really put some time and thought into this idea!\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Instead of blurting out your \u201cBIG IDEA\u201d during the first meeting, say something like, \u201cI think I may have some good ideas, but I want to do some additional research and give some extra thought to these ideas before deciding and making our recommendations\u201d.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>While most good ideas take time to develop, we also know that occasionally we get lucky and come up with that GREAT idea on the spot.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>It\u2019ll take discipline, bite your lip, but whatever you do, WAIT, and don\u2019t give away that \u201cBIG IDEA\u201d so quickly!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a scenario.\u00a0You\u2019re in a meeting with a potential client, and like magic, you come up with a \u201cBIG IDEA\u201d that you know is the answer to helping the client make a ton of money, no less yourself.\u00a0In your enthusiasm to show the client how smart you are as a marketing and advertising professional, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[426,189,9],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-client","tag-presentation","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}