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In this age of cheap prices and add-on fees, it’s easy to confuse “quick fix” revenue generation tactics with the long term profitability that comes from an outrageously positive customer experience.
The proof you’re looking for doesn’t exist. Rock solid, guaranteed, “won’t fail” proof — it’s not out there. As a business leader, if you wait to make a decision until you know you’re right, you’re usually making the wrong decision. To be successful, you have to develop the habit of trusting your instincts.
But actions don’t magically happen all by themselves. Before you ever do something, you think about it. Even if it’s only for the shortest of moments, your brain processes your emotions and any information it has at the time and tells you what you should do.
It’s as fair to say that your business has outgrown some types of customers as it is to say that you have some customers that you should have never brought on in the first place. (You know who they are!)
It is not always easy to do the right thing. At times it can be hard to know what the right thing even is. Bad personal experiences and stressful work environments make long-term thinking and personal morals a challenge to execute consistently. Or even at all.
There is no fast track to achieving amazing goals. Anything life-changing is going to take you most of your life to achieve.What is fast, proven, guaranteed to work, or quick is a recipe for mediocrity.Making money fast is a scam. Earning more while doing less is ridiculously absurd. Changing the world without pain and personal loss is impossible.
‘Tis the business parable of magic mushrooms. There is this unspoken business advice that you will hear from many experts that if you build a good enough process for your business that you can walk away and things will operate like you intend.You’ll hear experts tell you that if you “have a marketing platform” for your business that you can launch an endless stream of successful products and each one will leverage the experience of the previous one. All with you out of the picture.
Continue reading “How Give-and-Take Becomes An Absurd Business Strategy.”
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In the short term it seems like the right solution. Sometimes it feels like if you talk louder or longer you can get what you want without having to hear the annoying feedback of those around you.
Not getting along isn’t a winning strategy for long-term success. You just end up looking like a fool. While it’s only human that you have an opinion, forcing your opinion on everyone else all the time just isn’t a winning formula for getting people to follow you.
You lean back in your chair, swing your hands over your head, let out a sigh, and shake your head in disbelief. “No one cares.” Despite all of your hard work no one seems to be listening to your message. Your marketing goes unnoticed. Your pitch falls on empty ears.You’ve been there. You’ve seen it.You’ve felt it.And it’s frustrating.
There is something incredibly honest about failing brilliantly. About laying it all on the line and still coming up short. When you just decide that you are going to try something audacious. Despite the odds. Despite the pressure. Despite your inadequacies.You are simply going to attempt to achieve what others consider to be ridiculously difficult.
You know it already, but it bears repeating that somebody else’s success isn’t the key to your success. It’s a good distraction. But it is nothing more than a fantasy.Actions don’t make you a winner.Attitude does.If you want to copy something from the experts, copy winning attitudes.Be amazing. Resist what is easy. Fight to be better. Decry cruelty.Rise about your obstacles.