Monday, February 18th, 2008
Quick Summary: Read my mantra for building business relationships — treat partners/ vendors/ suppliers like customers.
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Last week, I wrote about Anita Campbell’s compilation of best kept marketing secrets featuring tips from some of the world’s top marketers, small business experts and bloggers.
Toby Bloomberg is compiling another great list of tips (via Rajesh) from marketers and bloggers around the world by asking them —
How do you build great business relationships with people? Do “clients” and “partners/ vendors/ suppliers” have different points of view about what is important for each?
Toby’s compilation post on building business relationships has a wealth of good advice and I would strongly encourage you to read through it.
Here’s my own mantra for building business relationships — treat partners/ vendors/ suppliers like customers.
All of us know how to build great business relationships with customers. All of us know that we should –
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Mechanical Engineer turned Java Programmer turned Software Salesman turned Ship Chandler turned Stock Market Investor turned Transport Fleet Operator Chenthil shares the lessons he has learnt as a first generation entrepreneur -
Dream big, but make sure that there is some arrangement for running your day to day life. If your dad has left you a fortune, good for you. Another option is to have one spouse working full time while the other is chasing his/her dreams. All my risk taking is possible only because of the solid support of my wife, who takes more than her share of the family burden.
Techie turned restaurateur Madman offers similar advice to wannabe entrepreneurs -
It is good to dream, but not to day-dream. You need hope, but not delusion. That said, you should realise that to boldly go where no one has gone before (please pardon my Star Trek geek cliche) does indeed require a leap of faith and a hope for a market that may not even exist yet (certainly true in my case.) Just be sure that your decision is an informed one and based on solid research, not solely on an impulsive moment. We have to deal with the constraints of the world we live in, and one of those is earning a livelihood.
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