I am sure you know that feeling that comes when you are trying to get business and the person that is giving you the business becomes elusive. Sometimes you call and they pick up your phone and promise to call you back and they don’t. Other times you call and they do not pick up at all. When you come face to face with them, they tell you a story that makes you vindicate them after they promise that all will be well, only for you to call them the following day and they do not pick up your phone.
In such cases, you are annoyed and usually promise yourself that it will be the last call that you will make. After all, you tell yourself, just how much money is the deal worth? Unfortunately, it always is at the time when you need that money and so you find yourself making the call to the same person once again.

When you know that you are working with a person who does not have a lot of respect for you or the services that you are offering, what do you do? In most cases, we get annoyed at the person, but keep setting ourselves up for disrespect. But what else is there to do? This might be a perfect opportunity for us to examine the situation and once again ask ourselves, “What kind of a business person am I?” Well, you know the kind of a person you are doing business with, but can you take responsibility and choose to get out of such relationships? Of course the sacrifice will be the business that you will miss out. But given that you are going to be in business for many years to come, wouldn’t it be time to start weeding out the undesirable business practices before they taint your outlook?