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🗓️ 29 December 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A bad situation gets worse and it brings up even more lessons for all of us when running our own business.
Who knew there would be a sequel to episode 23’s “The Worst Salesman Ever”? If you haven’t heard that one, go check it out by visiting https://marketingyourbusiness.com/23. It was all about having one of the worst sales experiences of my life, when buying my Mini Cooper from a used dealership. And now, the story continues!
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0:00.0 | It pains me to be recording this episode because the bad just got worse. |
0:07.7 | Marketing your business is for you, the business owner, who has a product, a service, or a message that you believe in. |
0:13.9 | My name is Stu McLaren, and each week we'll take a behind-the-scenes look into the real-world marketing tactics and strategies for getting what you have |
0:21.5 | in front of a lot more people. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let's get started. |
0:29.5 | This episode is a follow-up to episode number 23 called The Worst Salesman Ever. And unfortunately, the story continues because remember I talked |
0:41.9 | how I went and bought my Mini Cooper? And the salesman was just horrible. It was like one of the |
0:48.5 | worst sales experiences I've ever had. And I was just talking about how the sales experience was so bad that not only am I |
0:56.7 | never, ever going to buy anything from there, but I'm actually actively trying to prevent |
1:01.0 | other people from buying something from this dealership. But the story gets worse because my car |
1:07.0 | started acting up. And I've only had it for probably like six or seven weeks and so long story |
1:13.3 | short I work from home two days a week and I work from our office three days a week and our office |
1:19.7 | is only about 20 minutes away so I don't really drive that much and as I'm you know going back and |
1:26.3 | forth a number of lights started coming on and that's never a good sign right so I'm, you know, going back and forth, a number of lights started coming on. |
1:28.8 | And that's never a good sign, right? |
1:30.8 | So I'm looking up what do these light indicators mean? |
1:33.6 | And one of them was something to do with my electrical. |
1:36.6 | And I was like, okay. |
1:37.4 | And then the worst light came on. |
1:39.9 | It was like this engine light came on. |
1:41.7 | And I was like, oh, no, this does not look good. |
1:49.6 | So anyway, I got home and I just said, I explained it to my wife and we chatted about it. And I'm like, I just don't feel comfortable driving this thing, you know, back and forth. |
1:53.2 | And she's like, no, not at all. So we kind of left it in the garage for a bit. And then when we had a chance, my wife actually took it to the dealership. |
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