He had to visit 100 prospects all through the Northeast winter to secure 25. "I'd leave after workout programs, at 4 30, and I'd drive to Albany and back in a night.
But he does visit to prospect for talent for his rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX.
One afternoon in Manhattan, when he was heading across town to visit a prospect, it began to rain.
As most online grocery shoppers choose to stick with the brand whose physical store they already visit, the prospect of a three-figure fee may be another hurdle in the way of changing habits.
When prospects visit your site, offer them something — a free quote, a book chapter, a white paper — in exchange for their e-mail addresses.
These generally unofficial parties will reach a peak over the next few weeks as hundreds of high school prospects visit major football colleges for two days, trying to decide where to enroll next fall.
For a list of companies that are likely to offer internships to especially eager prospects, visit the Wind Energy Career Center at the AWEA Web site.
"Because we only want genuine buyers and sellers, we have rejected over 25% of those who register on our site," says Tang. Account managers do a pretty thorough job of due diligence, interviewing prospective clients within 24 hours of their signing on, doing credit checks, getting bank and trade references even occasionally visiting the prospect's office.
"We have rejected over 25% of those who register on our site because we only want genuine buyers and sellers," says Tang. Account managers do a pretty thorough job of due diligence, interviewing prospective clients within 24 hours of their signing on, doing credit checks, getting bank and trade references even occasionally visiting the prospect's office.
In the winter of 1913 14 David and Sydney visited Canada, prospecting for gold on a claim that David had purchased in Swastika, Ontario.
