Not all sales leads result in you in working with small to medium practices. Some of them can lead to projects of such grand scale that you will find yourself working with other companies, even competitors, all in order to complete.
Fear may be portrayed negatively at times but it can also be a lifesaver when viewed in the right context. And when you generate sales leads, you need to take that context into account.
December 21, 2012 marks the end of the Mayan long count calendar. As such, plenty of Internet hoaxes and people have begun to associate it with the end of the world as we know it.