A Special Offer for Our Detroit Area Friends!

Friends, how many times have you realized - but too late! - that you had an early afternoon sales meeting (or "call" as they are often termed), just as you finished the last - tasty! - bite of one or another Italian delight?

After a moment of panic at the thought of "garlic breath" causing the loss of a sale, you probably grab a breath mint or other candy, hoping simply to cover the faux pas, not to rectify it. (Have you ever wondered why we always use a French term for these things? Are the French simply more likely to commit them, and so have the best name for them? I know I have wondered precisely that.)

If your experience is anything like mine has been - and I have a good deal of experience, as Pat can confirm - covering up garlic simply doesn't work. That's where the GOOD FITE® comes in - in a veritable syzygy of the gastronomic and oral health worlds, Andiamo's and Listerine have teamed up to give frequent diners access to the latest anti-garlic breath technology: Listerine with AGB!

We here at Jay Standish, Inc.  LLC are helping these two titans of industry to roll out their alliance by running a limited time test program at the Royal Oak location. Frequent diners will be approached as they depart - based upon the analysis of the level of garlic breath as measured by the table service professionals at Andiamo's - with the option of gargling with the new Listerine with AGB! Takers-up will have their sales successes tracked and analyzed by famed sales expert Bartholomew G. Edison, and the results will be included in an upcoming revision to his bestselling tome, Selling 402 - How to Zig Past Ziglar and Make the Big Bucks.



Watch for the Jay Standish, Inc.  LLC associate recruiting test subjects at the Royal Oak Andiamo's in the next few weeks!

Excelsior!
Jay Standish
Jay Standish, Inc.  LLC


Remember: GOOD FITE® is a registered trademark of Andiamo's and Listerine.

Entertaining Clients

Are there lines which one ought not to cross?
Some pit-falls and prat-falls of T&E

We were having lunch at Michael's a week or so ago. I believe I saw Jack Myers there with an attractive woman who must have some position in an up-and-coming, off-the-wall new media company.
"Aren't you having a drink today, Jay? Are you feeling OK?" queried my guest.
"Yes, I'm feeling fine, thanks, but no, I'm not drinking today. This is my way of showing solidarity and lending some moral support to my erstwhile partner, Pat."

Some background may be in order here. What a long, strange trip it's been....
Perhaps I ought not to have been surprised, but I must admit that I was completely gob-smacked when I received the call from Dr. Rodney.
The good doctor was calling from the Casper-Harvey Clinic to tell me that Pat had “checked himself in” for treatment.
After hanging up – and informing certain of the staff here at Jay Standish, Inc. LLC – I had a long conversation with Morgan and Jody about the dangers of our way of life – viz. how entertaining clients can be a quick road to liver damage and other problems. Morgan – perspicacious as ever – opined that this might help to explain Pat's behavior back when he had announced my death to the readership of this newsletter and blog. I have a feeling that Morgan is correct.
In fact, I have been out in the great (!) Pacific Northwest® these past two months, lending to Pat what support I could in his efforts to de-tox his body and to re-start his life.
At first, I was almost more concerned for myself than for Pat, as I – for perhaps the first time! - noted just how much of the distiller's art I routinely quaff. Still, as the weeks went by, and I began sleeping more soundly than I had in years, I found myself almost thanking Pat for his “fall” from grace - as it were! - which showed me just how closely behind him I was poised (metaphorically speaking, in the main).

But ... back to my lunch at Michael's. My co-diner [but not co-winer!] was somewhat non-plussed at the fact that I was forgoing the traditional adult beverage. While not nearly as prevalent as it once was [alas, the days pass much too quickly], the consumption of alcoholic beverages as part of the business T&E tango goes on a-pace.
One wonders if there will ever come a time when the after-lunch brandy, the "House Chardonnay" with the entrée, or the pint of Guinness [for strength!] with a plate of fish and chips will be as unwelcome in polite society as is the Camel "straight" or the post-meal cigar in this day and age. I - for one! - dread any such developments as not only counter-productive, but also de-civilizing.

Still, I come back to that scene where I had to fess-up, as it were, to the fact that I was drying out in order to show support for a friend who was also being dessicated - and this for his own good, mind you.
There really isn't much more to put in this issue of our once-regular newsletter apart from this: We here at Jay Standish, Inc. LLC look forward - and most eagerly, let me assure you - to hearing your thoughts on this topic. Is there really a new era about to dawn on the consciousnesses of this generation of marketing professionals? What will a fully tea-totalling workforce mean to productivity measures? What of the workers at the breweries, distilleries, and wineries of this fine nation [and beyond!]? Think of the children! When will they learn the difference between an ale and a lager, a Pinot Noir and a Shiraz, or a true Bourbon and simple Tennessee sippin' whiskey?

We anxiously await your replies.

Last time, Jay wrote about long-distance relationships:
John Dvorak responded:
"I've been a true road warrior for as long as the term has meant something other than a wrestler or Mel Gibson wannabe, and let me tell you one thing. My relationships have been just as satisfying from a distance as they are up close In fact...."

Let me stop you there, John, before you reveal more than you perhaps truly intended.
As you may be able to discern from this issue's text, things are going, while not swimmingly, at least they are going.

-- Jay