DON'T FAIL TO ADDRESS CUSTOMERS' WANTS AND NEEDS Your customers and prospects do not care about you and what you want or need. Does that sound harsh? It may, but it's also true! Your ...

In the 19th century, businesses had three communication options: The Pony Express, Western Union, and (rarely) the telephone. With the Pony Express, at best you had to wait days or weeks for a response — a lot like a producer trying to cold-call senior executives today.

With Western Union, telegrams had to convey their message in a limited number of words. Today a marketing letter might get through, but the executive has little time to read it and it doesn’t display your verbal communication skills.