Clients ask questions.
Sellers answer them.
Clients who want to become sellers ask questions and find their own answers.
Talking VS Telling
It’s easy to tell people about your business just by typing words and putting sentences on your About Me page. You can proofread and edit your bio. You can tell people what you’re all about without talking to them. You may not know who views your About Me page, but they know who you are, right?
When you tell people about your business, you will get a lot of visitors going to your About Me page. People will want to know what you’re all about, and an About Me page the perfect way to get the job done.
Although telling people about your business is a way to get more sales, talking about your business is different. When you talk about your business, you have to be talking with another person, face to face. When you talk to others about your business, you are building strong connections. The people you talk to will become your biggest supporters and your top clients.
Marketers are going for a strong About Me page, but there is nothing better than actual human contact. Human contact is not tweeting or sending a text. Those are forms of communication. Human contact is when two or more people are actually engaging in a conversation in the same room. You’re giving a few people (or a couple of hundred people) your undivided attention.
When you tell people about your business, you aren’t going to meet them all. When you talk to people about your business, you get to meet them all. Some of those people will end up becoming your top clients.
Not Even Half Full
We’ve all looked into that bag of chips (or something else) and wondered if someone ate some of the chips before we opened the bag. There aren’t many left, and the bag was just opened.
All of the money spent on that bag of chips results in less than half of what you wanted. It’s a gamble that many people take. When you get a bag of chips with more than half of the bag empty, there are two choices you can make.
The first choice is to realize that it’s a rip off. Even if the chips taste really good, there’s going to be someone else who sells bags of chips with less empty space. There’s a better deal somewhere else with more chips in the bag.
The second choice is to eat the entire bag of chips and want more. The chips tasted so good that you want to buy another bag. Then again, that could also be your stomach growling because you didn’t eat enough chips. You open the bag of chips, and surprise, the bag is more than half empty. Now you have to make a choice all over again. Buy another bag of chips or look for someone else. After a while, it gets annoying.
When you sell your product, make sure it does everything you tell your clients it does. Don’t leave your clients stumped, and don’t give them something that is only half of what it should be. Then, your clients will go through the cycle of making choices about going for the full bag of chips or the bag of chips that is more than half empty.
If you could either get a full bag of chips or a bag of chips that is more than half empty, which one would you choose? Make sure you are giving your clients a full product.
The Things That Will Be
We control who we become. There is no limit to the greatness that anyone can achieve. Create your list of goals and do the work needed to get them done.
The things that will be are the things that we don’t know about yet. We have a vague idea, but not a complete one. That vague idea however can be very helpful.
One of the reason Steve Jobs was successful was because he was a visionary. He created products that suited people in the future. Apple is successful because of all of the time Steve Jobs put into the company. When the visionary was fired, Apple nearly went bankrupt. Few people know that it was Bill Gates who saved Apple from going bankrupt. When the visionary returned, Apple did very well.
At first, it would be cool to look into the future. However, it would quickly get scary. That’s why it’s a good thing we can only predict what will happen in the future.
We don’t just have to predict though. Our actions control who we become, and our actions also control who other people become.
The Difference Between Blogging And Social Media
Blogging and social media both allow people to share their opinions and thoughts with the people who listen. Promote the link you wanted to promote, share that news status, and more. However, blogging and social media are also very different.
When you blog, your content is all by itself. There is no competition when someone enters the URL to your blog. It’s just your blog post followed by another one of your blog posts. With this method, you can develop a stronger community.
On social media, you will develop a larger community, but larger doesn’t mean stronger. If someone is following thousands of people, chances are they won’t see a lot of your tweets. Social media is also filled with competition because the timeline keeps on updating. A new tweet appears on my timeline every second, and millions of tweets are sent out every day. This is the same for Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and all of the other social networks. It’s also very easy to get fake followers although fake subscribers to a blog are less likely.
Blogging allows you to develop a strong community and social media allows you to build a large community. It’s quantity against quality. However, if you can mix the two together, you will have a big presence on the web.
Why Everyone Can’t Make The Cut
There are many people who try out for a sports team. However, there are only so many spots available. There’s never over 40 people on the MLB roster, and there’s only 9 of them on the field at a time. There’s no room for the 41st best player, and the really good back up can’t be on the field if there are already 9 players there. There’s only 5 pitchers in a rotation with a few exceptions.
The 40 people who made it are the ones that can be relied on. If one of them struggles badly, they are simply replaced. The 40 people who are on the roster right now won’t be going down to the minor leagues anytime soon.
The people who already have talent stay on. The people who aren’t on the roster that have talent are the ones that have to wait for a spot to open. On a professional level, they might not be able to deliver like they did in their high school. You can ask Billy Bean about that.
Not everyone makes the cut. There are more than 40 people who deserve to be on the roster. However, due to limited space, not everyone who deserves to play gets to play.
The only way to make the cut every time is to choose yourself. If you choose yourself, you already made it through the cut. If you got denied an entrepreneurial program, create your own entrepreneurial program. If you didn’t make the sports team, join another sports team and practice a lot. Choose yourself because there is no one better for you to choose.