All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.
All things being not quite equal, people STILL want to do business with their friends.
HINT: To climb the ladder of success, you don't need more techniques and strategies, you need more friends.
From the book, Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Black Book of Connections
I think social media can play a large part in helping you build stronger relationships with those in your network; additionally, they will introduce you to the folks in their network (which is outside yours) for you to cultivate and further grow your network.
Accountants know this better than anyone; the higher up on the Value Ladder you are with your clients (where you are a friend and integral part of their business), the lower the price resistance for services rendered (because your service is not a commodity) AND the greater the likelihood of continuing to doing business with that client long term. Really great accountants are in the business of relationships, not bean counting!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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