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Of course you should. But "timely" is a flexible concept. If you are looking for a same-day encounter, and you tell him that, it is reasonable to expect a very fast turnaround. Just because it's reasonable doesn't mean you'll get it - after all, this is a business that operates at the margins.

I haven't encouraged potential clients to text me, but sometimes they do. I have found that people who text tend to be better leads.

I hope it works out. It's a mofo when you have an aging parent with special dietary requirements who can't/won't fix their own meals.

Sure - and all those things matter. If I don't get a prompt response, he isn't forever banished. I don't reach out to guys unless I'm already very interested. So if I hear from him after a week, I'm usually pretty happy. There are only so many guys who pique my interest, so my short list really is pretty short.

I'm not in a consumer-facing business - strictly B-to-B. That is changing because I am going into a consumer-facing line of business. I have an answering service that takes all my calls and does initial intake. They ask qualifying questions and pass qualified leads to me. If the prospect doesn't qualify, they politely tell them to call somebody else. As far as email goes, not responding right away is a way of screening leads. I'm not interested in prospects who are shopping for the cheapest practitioner and want to talk to me yesterday. If the only question somebody asks in an email is "how much does it cost for X," I don't even respond.

My father got meals on wheels for awhile. It really filled a need at the time. He had no interest in food and had lost a disturbing amount of weight. The MOW food was OK, nothing great, but he liked it and it got him eating again. He got tired of them and started to crave a more varied diet. I told him I would cancel MOW, but if he stopped eating again, he was going to go back to MOW. He kept eating.

There is an unspoken assumption in a lot of the posts in this thread that providers want to see as many clients as possible and "of course" they would want to see me. If I reach out to somebody and I don't hear from him, it is entirely possible that he isn't flaky at all - he's just not that into me. One more reason why a thick hide helps in this pursuit.

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A couple I know were trying to style themselves as an "it" couple in the bodybuilding world. They lost their sense of proportion and began to appear ridiculous. Fortunately, they must have realized it and pulled way back. I'm glad they did because I'm very fond of them.

I know a photographer who does photoshoots for influencers. He told me there really are influencers who make millions of dollars/year. He said they are rare, but they definitely exist. Those beautiful condos you always see? They are are all 1-day Airbnb rentals.

One time, a provider asked me for a deposit. I had already decided that I wanted HIM, so I said yes and asked him how he wanted to handle payment of the deposit. Then he decided that he didn't need the deposit, so it all worked out. If I were a provider, I could imagine using deposits selectively as a screen. In that case, someone who said no to a deposit would be a D/F prospect. What's nice about it is that it is a self-executing screen. People who say yes have demonstrated serious interest and automatically become A/B prospects and people who say no screen themselves out as D/F prospects.

I think it depends on the kind of clients he wants. If he's looking for "right now" clients, yes he has to jump on it and get right back to them. When I reach out to a provider, I am always looking to make an appointment, usually a few days out. So I'm fine with a guy who doesn't respond right away. The mistake I think Jarrod is making is in thinking that he is going to change people's behavior - somehow turning a D/F prospect into an A/B prospect. But D/F prospects, mostly, will always be D/F prospects. So his challenge is in figuring out how to how to access more A/B prospects and fewer D/F prospects.

I don't. I check it twice a day. I'm going into a new B-to-C line of business, so that may change, but mostly, I'm looking for people who want to do business with ME, not people who are just shopping.

I'm a believer after my experience of the last 18 months. I never imagined I could go to hell so quickly. July of 2021, I did a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas and won both classes I entered. Sept 2021 I had a hip replacement that took me 8 months to recover from. Only a couple months after that I developed an autoimmune problem. I had no idea it was even possible to feel that bad. No end in sight for the autommune problem, but it is easing up some.

Ours is a typical San Francisco house - A ground floor and a flight of stairs up from the street to the main floor. He might be being a little over-protective. I've been working with personal trainer who has a credential in corrective exercise and I'm getting better fast. I might be nearly normal by end of summer.

I have a mobility impairment that I hope is temporary, but my husband has started to say we need a house without steps.

I live in a part of the city that is 70% Asian. Our neighbors across the street are a mixed couple - white husband, Asian wife, but the overwhelming majority are Asian husband, Asian wife.

Is that an ethnic thing or a class thing?

I couldn't say, but there is no rule that says Asian guys aren't subject to internalized raciscm.

Yep, that's it.

I grew up in that part of the country. I remember the winters very well. We lived in a small town in western New York and we had relatives all over the region. I remember driving on little secondary roads to visit them in the middle of winter. Sometimes you couldn't see over the snow banks from inside the car.

That's about right. Toronto winters are right up there with Buffalo winters.

I think I have been there three times. The hunky Cuban was during my first visit there - in 1975, I think. The bathhouse was kind of a small dumpy one. It was in the gayborhood - I don't remember the street - very close to a disco. I remember that the music in discos was unfamiliar - I asked a buddy I was with if it was Canadian disco music or off-brand American music - he said he didn't think it was Canadian. That was a fun trip - I went to Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco and LA.

Toronto is hard to beat. I have even liked it in the dead of winter and Toronto winters are not for the faint of heart.