Can you pull a sale your way by purchasing a corporate gift basket online?
Your boss has just told you that you are one of two in the top running for a major sales ad campaign. Nike has just called and they liked yours, but are still looking at one more. They’ll call tomorrow with a decision. Time to get to work. Would purchasing a corporate gift basket online shove your campaign just that one last time they need to decide you are what they want? There’s no harm in finding out. You log in and pull up a website displaying hundreds of corporate gift basket online options. You choose one, enter the company Visa card information and click send! That’s it! Now all you have to do is sit back and wait!
Waiting can be excruciating! There is no other word that quite describes the pain, the restlessness in your stomach and the pounding in your head experienced while waiting for word of something that will impact your life in a big way! Excruciating! You did your best sales presentation and now, after having purchased a corporate gift basket online, you hope that the final push wasn’t too much! What if it was? What if they see your tactic as an out right expression that you feel they can be bought with gifts?! Worse, what if they feel your work is bad enough that you actually NEED to send gifts to secure their confidence? Now you’re wondering if you should have ever sent the request to purchase a corporate gift basket online!
You hadn’t told anyone what you did…you just wanted to take the glory of your boss feeling you did that well of a presentation to trap Nike’s interest in your ideas. It’s time to reconsider. Or is it? Having spent over $300 of your latest commission check to have Nike swooning over you, you now remember that your rent is due…if you don’t get this contract, you’ll be living out on the streets!
You approach your boss’s office, knock on the door and, in a gruff voice, your boss grumbles “Enter!”. Keeping the sweat from dropping into your eyes, you look down and wipe your brow. Grasping the handle and turning quickly as to give the impression of confidence, you burst into the room and exclaim, ”I purchased a coporate gift basket online!” With slow recognition of what you’ve just said, a light bulb finally comes on. Your boss practically leaps over his desk, a sunrise seemingly rises across his face as he slaps you on the back and, while placing the smelly cigar between his fingers cries, “Atta boy!”. He continues, “A corporate gift basket online, you say? What a fine idea. After 52 years of marriage I can never surprise my wife on our anniversary. It’s tomorrow, you know.” You didn’t have any idea! “ I’ll make this one a year to remember…she’ll be so surprised!” Patting his large belly and shoving the grotesquely worn cigar back in between his lips, he takes his seat behind the desk. Confused, but relieved that you could be of some help, you sit down to explain, only to be interrupted.
“Sir, your phone call is on line 4” buzzes in Sandy, his personal secretary, or whatever it is she does for him.
“Thank you Sandy, thank you. Please hold all my calls until further notice.”
You get up to leave, figuring you’ll have to share your ultimate betrayal of the company and all it’s hard earned time and resources at a later date. You’ll be lucky to have the clothes on your back to carry out let alone your personal belongings in a box.
Motioning with his cigar free hand, your boss bellows, “Stay, sit!…This is what we’ve been waiting for!” As he takes the phone call, the sweat returns. This was the biggest mistake of your life…a corporate gift basket online…what were you thinking!
A day later, sitting in your apartment watching your new HDTV, you realize that your parents must have been geniuses to birth such an incredibly clever son…not only did you cinch the Nike contract, your boss gave you a bonus for suggesting such a wonderful anniversary gift…you breath easy as you realize you still have a place to live for another month!