I was attending a local business networking meeting last month when a new company decided to join. The new company sold janitorial supplies and they were going to be moving into our city very shortly. They wanted to make themselves known to all of the local businesses. The gentlemen that represented them handed out their cleaning products price list and just asked that all of us make sure that if we were not the ones who ordered those things for our office that we give it to the person who did.

I gave the cleaning products list to the woman in charge of housekeeping in our building and she promised to take a look at it. She came to find me about four days later and let me know that she had gotten it approved for our company to start using my friend’s janitorial supplies company instead of our old one.

I laughed and told her that I did not know the guy, he just came to a meeting and I took the price list to be nice. I let her know that I did not want any of the credit for the switch since I had no idea of what kind of business that this company was, for all I know they might be very unprofessional. She told me to take the credit since this new company was going to save our company about five thousand dollars a year in cleaning products.