"A Game Of Polo"30" x 40" oil on canvas $1,200
Every art show I attend where it is a small cocktail reception like in Nashville or most recently the Polo benefit for charity a cougar is on the prowl. Cougars can give you false hope and waste the time you could be talking to a potential buyer. The good thing about Cougars is if you are smart and experienced like me you can use them to your advantage. Reverse the game on the Cougar by creating a sale to a real customer this is done by knowing your buyer.
A Cougar will bat her eyes try to interest you in her surgically enhanced breast and generally act interested in your most expensive painting which in reality she cannot afford. When a real customer is interested then you can make him or feel the pressure to buy the painting now because another person is interested in it. Sort of make a competition to be the one who gets the painting wins.
The other strategy to use against a Cougar attack is to find her husband or most likely young boy toy and tell him how much his lovely lady must have this painting and he can buy it to surprise her. I had two Cougar attacks in the past two weeks and I now have learned how to defend against these and turn them into my favor. Unfortunately I was not able to gain a sale just yet but I am still working on it and I feel I can pull at least one of them off.
My first attack was in Nashville during the tour of homes art preview and sale which was a disaster. I had a cougar clawing at the romantic allure painting of mine. She has been to Italy 2 times but never with a man so she said. She is waiting on the gondolier ride with Mr right. I am quite sure she found Mr Italian for a night but the language and geographic barrier could have had something to do with that relationship.
The second Cougar was at the Polo Match she wanted the game of Polo but could not purchase it with out her husband who for some reason never showed up. Cougars can suck all the hope of making a sale in this economy if you let them. So the next time I have a cougar trying to work me I am going to revers the attack either I will have a sale or I will have fun reversing the attack.
Artist be careful it's a real jungle out there and sometimes we can be the prey if we are not aware of our surroundings.
~mike
A Cougar will bat her eyes try to interest you in her surgically enhanced breast and generally act interested in your most expensive painting which in reality she cannot afford. When a real customer is interested then you can make him or feel the pressure to buy the painting now because another person is interested in it. Sort of make a competition to be the one who gets the painting wins.
The other strategy to use against a Cougar attack is to find her husband or most likely young boy toy and tell him how much his lovely lady must have this painting and he can buy it to surprise her. I had two Cougar attacks in the past two weeks and I now have learned how to defend against these and turn them into my favor. Unfortunately I was not able to gain a sale just yet but I am still working on it and I feel I can pull at least one of them off.
My first attack was in Nashville during the tour of homes art preview and sale which was a disaster. I had a cougar clawing at the romantic allure painting of mine. She has been to Italy 2 times but never with a man so she said. She is waiting on the gondolier ride with Mr right. I am quite sure she found Mr Italian for a night but the language and geographic barrier could have had something to do with that relationship.
The second Cougar was at the Polo Match she wanted the game of Polo but could not purchase it with out her husband who for some reason never showed up. Cougars can suck all the hope of making a sale in this economy if you let them. So the next time I have a cougar trying to work me I am going to revers the attack either I will have a sale or I will have fun reversing the attack.
Artist be careful it's a real jungle out there and sometimes we can be the prey if we are not aware of our surroundings.
~mike
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