Secret to Business Success
A secret to success in business, acquisitions, networking and start-ups has been overlooked much lately.
Start-up entreprenuers should rely on this foundational secret. It means the difference between success and failure. This secret is understood by those who have been there. Billionaires and multi-millionaires know this secret.
Business owners on their way to success have begun to smell this secret and its antithesis. They stand on the precipice of success and failure. They have probably been as close to this secret as their shadow. It affects the culture of their companies, their customer relationships, and their bottom-line.
But, somehow our society has become numb to the calling of this secret. It stands on the highest places screaming and yelling for attention yet appears to be completely and utterly ignored.
The sad thing? The secret to business success that escapes 99% of the marketplace does so because of its simplicity.
Its antithesis is selfishness, pride, greed, and fear. The stench of these overwhelms all else.
Have you figured it out?
The secret to business success that is being ignored now is:
Give First
- You want more sales?
- You want raving clients telling others about you?
- You want great reviews?
- You want to make millions?
You have to give first:
- Ask your clients how you can help them other than the service you provide.
- Ask your networking partners how you can refer better clients.
- Ask your service providers how you can best tell others about them.
- Ask your employees, teammates how they would like to be appreciated.
- Ask your friends more about who they are and how you can help them.
Do all of this before you ask them one more time to buy something you sell.
If you do it the other way around you will only look like a donkey.
Eric Standlee
