The timing isn't ideal. Is it ever? Do you ever truly know when it's the right opportunity and the right moment for you to do something? You're busy, you're stressed, you're struggling to make ends meet, you're about to get married and then you're about to have a kid...I hear you. Life is filled with complications--today and six months from today. If you wait for life to stop throwing you curve balls, you will die waiting. There will never be a "perfect" time to change your life. Make your choices here and now - not tomorrow or the day after. A dream deferred is not a dream come true.
-Tabatha Coffey, Own It!
The most compelling selling message you can deliver in any medium is not that you have something wonderful to sell. It is: "I understand what you need." The selling message "I have" is about you. The message "I understand" is about the only person involved in the sale who really matters: the buyer.
Samsung had a problem. Its culture was static and inward-looking. Then, in the early 1990s, Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of the South Korean electronics giant, made a decision that would reshape his organization and create a blueprint for globalization. He sent a handful of the brightest young employees to far-away corners of the globe to immerse themselves in the culture, learn the language, and build networks so that someday Samsung would know how to supply those markets. What an amazing investment in the future.
As soon as you start to see your business as a reaction-making machine, you begin to make decisions very differently. Think of it this way: A chef isn't preparing an entrée: he is, in fact, preparing a guest reaction. The entrée is the vehicle, not the product. 
One of the biggest mistakes for any follow-up email is not including a strong call-to-action. Leaving the email open-ended with phrases like “let me know what you think” or “keep in touch” aren’t a strong enough incentive for your client to respond. You’re more likely to get a response when you ask pointed questions like “What day and time works best for you next week to discuss this further?” or “Based on the deadline that you mentioned, you’ll need to start our service by the end of this month—do you have 30 minutes to sit down and chat later this week?”
Cooperation means working together for mutual gain—sharing responsibility for success and failure and covering for one another on a moment's notice. It does not mean competing with one another at the team's expense, withholding important data or information to "one-up" your peers, or submitting to groupthink by going along, so as not to make waves. These are rule breakers that are direct contradictions to the team-first mindset.