Never Mix Business & FriendshipWritten by Terri Seymour
I have heard it said on net that you should not become friends with people whom you do business with.I say, "Why not?" Building personal relationships is foundation of your business success. Because business should be business and there is no room for making friends and socializing. Friendship interferes with a business relationship by keeping people from making right business choice for sake of friendship. I say, "No way!" Friends understand business decisions you have to make because they sometimes have had to make same ones. If they cannot, they are not a friend! I have been in Internet marketing business for two years and have made numerous close friends and many casual friends. These relationships have helped me personally and professionally. Personally, I have had pleasure of getting to know people from all over world. Interesting people. Professionally, I have learned from all these people and some of them have become my customers. When you build this relationship, you also build trust and people will be more likely to buy from someone they trust. Treat everyone you meet with respect, courtesy and consideration. This will go a long way in building friendships and your business. Because in doing this, you are building yourself, your reputation and your character. If you appear aloof and rigid, you will be looked upon with skepticism and mistrust. This will do nothing for your business or reputation, but it will probably keep you from making any friends. If that is your goal, you will then do well.
| | Packaging SuccessWritten by Arleen M. Kaptur
If success and achievement came in a package or a bottle, what would it look like? Would it be wrapped in satin and tied with a 14-carat ribbon? Would bottle that contained achievement be as deep as a ruby or as clear as an emerald? Picture yourself as having task of packaging these two aspects of life so that everyone would stop and pick them off a shelf. Are you up to this type of task or would very opportunity of facing success and achievement make you feel inadequate and unable to perform this feat? Well, there it is - right there before you every single day! The offer is a standing offer - you are person chosen to do this monumental marketing strategy. If you look over your shoulder, there doesn't seem to be anyone else in line, but you feel this just can't be so. The thoughts race through your mind - if world leaves this job to me, what if I mess it up or my ideas are just not right? You are given free reign in deciding how to market success and achievement. There is a time limit in increments of 24 hours and no apparent deadlines. Grab your best pencil, a piece of paper, and start planning. Surely you jest, is right now forming on your lips. No, there is no lighthearted note here. It is serious and it is vital. If you don't place concept of success and achievement in right package and bottle, it will lie dormant and collect dust on shelves across world. If you ever thought it would not be so far-reaching, just touch keys on your computer and you can reach individuals who have never stepped foot on land you live in or do not understand a word you say for they do not speak your language. The package containing success and achievement must resemble an ability to keep going albeit odds, to glow in small steps it takes to reach top as well as spotlight at mountain peak, and it must resemble an open invitation to everyone else to add to your quest, give advice, and benefit from results. Your striving for excellence, whether or not to actually touch it, is glimmer and shimmer of product. When you can treasure petals of a flower as well as a jewel-studded pin, if you can have heartfelt respect for someone with age that has struggled and traveled on road you now trek as well as marvel at a small child taking their first steps, and when you cry as deeply at hurt of another as you do your own pain, then opulent packaging of success and achievement is coming into reality.
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