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The Magnetic Entrepreneur
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Vitus Ejiogu
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A lot of people are in the business of entrepreneuring for more than enough years, yet their achievements in life are a mockery of their profession. Entrepreneurs are people of great worth, who recognize their own self-worth and the self-worth of others.
For any entrepreneur to be an achiever in life, such a person must have passed through a lot of specialized trainings that keep him afloat all through the time. Every successful entrepreneur believes that no one makes it alone, and therefore needs people around him, whom he can be open with.
Success in life depends upon the support and help of other people, that is why it is necessary for you to work hard in building a successful relationship with people. I mean, a relationship that is based on mutual respect. This is a fact, because one of the great problems we face today in modern society is the scarcity of good friends. It takes a lot of forgiving to be a friend.
To be a good entrepreneur is to learn to be friendly. Being friendly is to overlook the failings of others, even your customers or partners in business/trade. When you become interested in your customers instead of forcing them to become interested in you first, it will help to keep them closer to you more than you ever imagined. You should understand as an entrepreneur that the only way to have a friend is to become a friend, yourself. Your promises can help you make friends, but what keeps them to you all the time is your performances.
A good entrepreneur dies a little whenever he loses a customer - his friend. It takes a lot to build a customer friendship, and if you desire success as an entrepreneur, practice the following.
1. Be Acceptable - Your customers are kings, so develop an attitude of acceptance towards them. Do not practice conditional acceptance if you are not planning to kill your business.
2. Be Attractive - Your appearance before your customers matters a lot. Let your customers feel your business in your appearance. When you develop mutual attraction, you just find out that apart from flowing with the current trend, people will automatically find some good reasons to move on with you.
3. Be Committed - Commitment makes you more skilled at forming a deep relationship with your customers. Whenever you show commitment in your business, your customers feel much more secure in their support and loyalty to you.
4. Be Open - Developing a genuine openness towards your customers attracts a greater reward, despite all the risks involved. Throwing away all the masks in your business before your customers creates a platform for genuine trust.
5. Be Appreciative - Appreciate your customers and delight in their success. When you develop an attitude of appreciation to your customers, you create room for joy, happiness, trust and improvement.
Friend, your customers need you, and you need them too. Both of you can succeed together as your friendship together will double your joy and divide your grief. You are an attractive personality; you can build your customers into clients, and maintain a life-time relationship with them. Heaven is your limit, and to your success, I make a toast.
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Vitus Ejiogu is a writer and publisher with the Fire-Brand Int'l Ministries, a media ministry that is based in Nigeria. He is the editor of FOUNDATION SATELLITE magazine also published by the ministry. He pastors a Church in Bauchi and is married with two children. You can reach him at: firebrandhq@yahoo.com or, 234 802 8181 829. Website: http://www.palmgates.com or http://www.firebrandhq.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Vitus_Ejiogu |
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Article Submitted On: September 21, 2009
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