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This might the most common three words in email traffic every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s appended to everyone\u2019s out of office message.\u00a0 When customers send out an email to their vendor and happen to find their vendor out of the office, it\u2019s a helpful bit of information for the customer to know how to receive immediate assistance if their vendor won\u2019t be able to supply it.\u00a0 Immediate assistance generally implies that there is indeed an assistant who can alternatively provide guidance where the traveling vendor cannot.\u00a0 So what happens, then, for an operation of one, where there is no assistant, immediate or otherwise?I have long prided myself on immediate assistance.\u00a0 As a junior sales manager with Millennium Hotels and then a senior sales manager with Kimpton Hotels, I am confident that I secured business for my company in great number not because I had the most competitive or even creative bid (although I did in many instances) but because I was first.\u00a0 I was an early adopter of email so for me, transacting business this way comes second nature.\u00a0 I can\u2019t see any reason, short of not knowing the answer, why I would keep anyone waiting on an email response.\u00a0 The luxury of being able to respond at one\u2019s leisure should never be misconstrued as permission to be tardy or delinquent in responding.\u00a0 It simply means that one gets to choose the order and priority of their responses.\u00a0 I nary leave an email sitting in my inbox for more than an hour unless I\u2019m indisposed, at a meal, on an appointment, or, more commonly, in flight.<\/p>\n
And so very literally, with a one-man operation, the most truthful response for my being on travel, business or leisure for that matter, would be, \u201cFor immediate assistance\u2026 sorry.\u201d\u00a0 But on the contrary, I would never have it that way.\u00a0 I respond diligently when on business travel, and dare I say it, perhaps just as diligently when on leisure travel.<\/p>\n
Many will ask how I can tolerate not ever being disconnected, not even on vacation.\u00a0 And my answer is quite simple.\u00a0 My business is what allows me to vacation when and where I do.\u00a0 And my success in business has always been traced to my responsiveness.\u00a0 So why would I risk the chance of not being able to take another vacation when it\u2019s as simple as staying connected, granted in a limited capacity, when on said vacation?\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t foresee many sympathy cards because I\u2019m servicing a client\u2019s request\u2026 while standing in line at Disney World.\u00a0 Trust that if it\u2019s immediate assistance you need, immediate assistance you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This might the most common three words in email traffic every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s appended to everyone\u2019s out of office message.\u00a0 When customers send out an email to their vendor and happen to find their vendor out of the office, it\u2019s a helpful bit of information for the customer to know how to receive immediate assistance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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