“Dear Pei
I see that you are very experienced in Salesforce and would be great to have you as my mentor! I have just got my Admin Cert and I want to be a Salesforce Consultant. What’s your WhatsApp number?
From A. Newbie
Phone: 07xxx xxxxx”
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Umm, ok. So many levels of wrong.
I’m on 𝗗𝗮𝘆 7 of a 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝟰𝟱 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲, and I’m writing about graduate Rooj who’s joined Cloudacious. Luckily she’s been assigned a mentor in her company, but what about everyone else in the ecosystem?
It’s important to get a mentor especially when you’re starting into a world that is new to you, such as #Salesforce Consulting.
Just like selling or cold-calling, there are right ways and wrong ways of doing something.
In my next post, I’ll share the type of message which would work on me (hint: it doesn’t really involve 🍩)
How about you?
What type of ‘help-me’ messages put you off wanting to help them?
Why?
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