Day 43 – First Sales Call

After a little hounding of a bar owner (that I had connected with back in September when I was still considering to buy the franchise), finally agreed to meet with me, he informed me that they had already purchased an inventory system but was still willing to talk to me. Upon my arrival the owner delegated the meeting to his GM but everything still seemed to be ok. Although, the sales pitch I have practiced over a 100 times went straight out the window in the first 2 minutes. He was 100% on board with the Bevinco service, felt it was imperative that the inventory be audited. What was the hang up? They just spent thousands of dollars in December to buy a software and scale package and do it themselves. There experience over the past 2 months was that nobody had time to complete the audits, and if they did, generating a report to provide to the owners was weeks after the fact. So as a result they were ecstatic to have a third party come in and complete the audits for them. One issue remained.....they would bring me on board if they were able to return the system they had just bought. So now I wait for a few days to hear the outcome. If not, I will wait a few more weeks, hopefully they make no progress completing the audits themselves and I will offer my services again. Cross my fingers.