You’re not serious about your business
I advise people who are serious about what they want to achieve and I can tell when someone is ambivalent about their business. If you’re not serious about it, why would someone bother to buy from you, or do business with you?
1. When your voicemail message is BT callminder, so people calling you don’t know if they’ve got the right number or not
2. When you never answer your phone or get back to people
3. When you use a hotmail or yahoo email address rather than your own domain name
4. When your website is obviously out of date, and hasn’t been changed for ages – this means that google won’t take you seriously either
5. When you have are consistently late for meetings. Being late shows a disrespect for the other person, and makes you look disorganised and sloppy – which is not someone that people want to do business with
Does any of this sound like you? Any of it sound like people you do business with? Time to get it sorted – your business can never grow until you take it seriously.
Tags: business growth
May 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Well I don’t usually like these kind of things in magazines – you know – “which of the Tweenies are you?”. However I found this really useful.
I am a long term employed person who has only recently started to enjoy entrepreneurship. I reall like the work I do, I enjoy meeting business people and are often impressed and (I admit) awed by many. On the other hand I struggle to attain the driving ambition I hear people talk of.
However I easily tick all the above boxes! 1, 3 and 4 are just….well…naff. 2 and 5 are just rude!
Thanks Julia
Phil