Kicking kids in a meeting hall.

I got to meet this millionaire for a business deal. My close friend is a relative of this big shot.In his family they treat me like one among them. So I seek his uncles help to reach that man. His uncle made a call straight to him and got me an appointment the next day itself. In normal occasions we have to meet the manager convince him and get an appointment with the boss, it will go around for a month before we get a 10min appointment with the boss. You will wait 2 hrs and when u met and present your solution successfully there will be always some friend or relative of the boss or his wife who will bag the order at the end of the day.Now he saved me a lot of time and most probably I will seal the deal. My colleagues who are trying to reach him for another proposal have to wait till he decides to meet them. Thank you dude.

My appointment was at 5.30 I am someone who never appear late for an appointment. I went there at 5.20 and as the MD didn't arrive they asked me to wait. It's a jewellery showroom one of the biggest in Chennai and it's summer, that means there will be mad rush of peoples!!

There was a waiting lounge and I shared the seat with some children at first. I love children just the way Vijay loves them in the screen. But in this case it's different. I am all dressed up to meet a big shot and I don't want anyone to spoil my attire. These kids started with a little dash and then in a while they are all over me. Kicking my lappie stepping on my light cream color trousers and trying to knock my brand new BlackBerry. I am not going to allow it to happen but what can I do at that place other than trying to secure my things? I just let them abuse without saying a word. At some point of time I thought of walking away from that kids and standing in some corner. The time passed by and that's well over one hour there is no sign of the man.

I sat there silently entertaining some other audience now. As I am forced to sit in a place nothing to do much I started watching peoples around me who share the place maybe sharing same fate. There was a family of three females and two males. Of the three super white females two of them are young. They were veiled expect their eyes. Urudhu muslims I assume and that young chap is above 6 might be 6.2 and all of them are milk white. They walked slow spoke slow and even blinked slow. I made some eye contacts with those girls and I don't know what they had in their minds. That's something I hate in girls their face expressions will be the same whether they like you or not. Anyway I don't care. Thank you very much for sparking the air around me and keeping me engaged for sometime, see you around, bye bye. Those rich peoples finished the purchase and gone. Now I turned my attention to other family with a grandma, ma, daughter of around 18, sons of 15 and 12. They are not so rich and that showed well. Their first son is a grumpy dirty tall lad for his age. He shifted his position thousand times within 10 min. I assume he had a fight with the rest and they are cajoling him, he was playing the game.

The store peoples were serving soft drinks to all their customers and no wonder they paid attention to me, as I am not there to buy anything but in the contrary to sell something. I was more concerned about the drinks in the hands of the kids than nothing in my hand as they started painting themselves with the drinks. I was hoping god to save me from this little creatures. After a while when they finished soiling their dresses I had strike a conversation with the kids and I came to know that they are from Nellai !!! But that doesn't change anything, still I am wary of them.

When I approached the store manager he advised me to come the next day as it may take some more time for the Boss to reach. I made some more calls to my friend's uncle and then the meeting is set up all again. I wanted to finish it off within that day as I got something else planned up for the next day. Finally he arrived.

I met him and started the conversation. The trick is to start with something that will catch the client's attention immediately, I started with how we are helping their prime competitors to secure their stores. Guess what, he started listening. I introduced my company shortly and then talked about them and their competitors all the time. He is very interested and started asking question about our systems, so that's a success. He is interested in what I am selling :)

At last I presented what I wanted for the day. And he said yes immediately. I sat with him, had coffee and discussed about all the things for almost 80 minutes totally and in that I spend only 15 mins about the main thing.

I personally think the call from my friend's uncle made the day for me. That's what we call as personal influence !!!