Treat People Like People
Working in a service business can feel like an amazingly thankless endeavor. A client relationship can be tough when the relationship feels like a one way street with one side always giving and the other always demanding more. Have you ever felt that way about a client relationship? Sometimes we get so caught up in results and our day-to-day that we forget to treat people like people. Don’t get me wrong I love working with people to solve problems in their business. It’s what I do best. However, there are certain instances or relationships that give me pause at times. I had a former client who used to treat me
Unlike My Women…I Do Like My Projects Fast and Easy
Fast and easy projects? Oh you like those too? Not all projects are going to be as fast and easy as we would like. One asset that I have utilized to help our business get projects completed on time is people. More specifically, people that we know and trust. When it comes to people you know and trust, you don’t even have to specifically know them. If I have a partner that I know and trust that recommends someone to me, then that is good enough. I mentioned recently what happened to my consulting firm, The Business Blueprint, when we weren’t ready for the growth we had experienced. We broke
Smart Business Owners Know How To Use Relationship Capital
When you are starting out, you can spend all the money in the world on a fancy, optimized site, the latest marketing techniques and create the finest product ever created and find out that none of it matters. Without relationships, you’ve got nothing. Smart business owners know how to use and manage their relationship capital. Smart business owners know that without a team to implement their ideas, their ideas are meaningless. If they don’t have the right circle of influencers to help them spread the word about their product or service then no one know about it. Think about the relationships that you have had in your life, what was
What’s The Best Way To Manage Relationship Capital?
Relationship capital is the most underutilized capital that all of us have at our disposal. The best thing about it is that with a little effort and decorum, you can build it quickly and easily. There are different schools of thought about managing relationships which bring to the question: What’s the best way to manage your relationship capital? What got me thinking about this was after I recently read Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. The last chapter is titled The Art of Being a Mensch. Guy wrote a blog post about what a mensch is as well as his 5 guidelines to follow. His 5 guidelines are: Help
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