{"id":9,"date":"2006-01-06T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/uncategorized\/being-reliable"},"modified":"2006-01-11T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T18:55:28","slug":"being-reliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Being Reliable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">When a customer or potential customer is pressing you for a faster delivery date on a particular order, try using this story:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Imagine that one morning you start your car and at the first intersection you find you are in serious need of brakes.\u00a0 You have an option of calling one of two mechanics that you have used in the past.\u00a0 The first mechanic always says, \u201cBring the car right down, I\u2019ll have it for you in the afternoon.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes he has it finished, and sometimes he doesn\u2019t, depending on his workload.\u00a0 The other mechanic sometimes says, \u201cBring the car right down.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes he says, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t even look at it today, I\u2019m too busy.\u00a0 If you bring it down I can fix the brakes tomorrow for sure.\u201d\u00a0 He gives you a definitive answer as to when he can even look at your car, but he is always 100% reliable when he makes the promise.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The question is which mechanic do you call first?\u00a0 Almost everybody I have spoken to would choose to call the one who is reliable first, even if he charges more money.\u00a0 If he says he can\u2019t look at your car today, then you can still take it to the other guy and take your chances.\u00a0 Or you wait until the reliable mechanic can actually fix your car.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The moral of the story is that being reliable gives you more business to look at and choose from.\u00a0 Being unreliable means you get the business that the reliable guy doesn\u2019t want.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a customer or potential customer is pressing you for a faster delivery date on a particular order, try using this story: Imagine that one morning you start your car and at the first intersection you find you are in serious need of brakes.\u00a0 You have an option of calling one of two mechanics that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}