There's a great quote from the movie Notting Hill, by the character played by Julia Roberts. "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
I was thinking about this quote earlier today, when speaking to a potential client. So often in the business cycle we have either been harassed continuously or abused, that we lose sight of the fact that the person on the other side of the call is just a person trying to do business with another.
The cycle of business requires that I call you to try sell you my goods or services. This cycle will in turn come full circle with you calling me to sell me your goods or services.
Now it might not be quite as easy to see within a closed loop and cycle, however any business community is dependent on the parties making up the community, transacting with each other. There is a simple economics principle that says, the more times that people within the community transact and do business with each other, the healthier and more affluent the community becomes.
The two problems that I come across in business is the business community that too quickly sends business outside of their immediate community, and we see this all too often in the global business community. The second problem I see is that many business people are not willing and open to hearing from different people with different solutions.
Remember that in doing business, we need to remember that we are all just people, standing in front of another person, asking for an opportunity to add value or products to their business.
I was thinking about this quote earlier today, when speaking to a potential client. So often in the business cycle we have either been harassed continuously or abused, that we lose sight of the fact that the person on the other side of the call is just a person trying to do business with another.
The cycle of business requires that I call you to try sell you my goods or services. This cycle will in turn come full circle with you calling me to sell me your goods or services.
Now it might not be quite as easy to see within a closed loop and cycle, however any business community is dependent on the parties making up the community, transacting with each other. There is a simple economics principle that says, the more times that people within the community transact and do business with each other, the healthier and more affluent the community becomes.
The two problems that I come across in business is the business community that too quickly sends business outside of their immediate community, and we see this all too often in the global business community. The second problem I see is that many business people are not willing and open to hearing from different people with different solutions.
Remember that in doing business, we need to remember that we are all just people, standing in front of another person, asking for an opportunity to add value or products to their business.
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