This week was hard. Between working at home to be ready for Halloween, I have to deal with a neighborhood that is less than Jazzed about the whole recycling thing. No one seems to want to recycle and sometimes I wonder if they would recycle even if it was a free service!! I think I need to expand my service area to capture enough people that I can get business from at least some of them who care!!
It is frustrating to think about all the money I probably spent on the flyers and the time I spent walking door to door, and to only have.. ummmm NO ONE recycle! I feel like I spent so much time making a nice website, and probably no one has bothered to go to it! I feel like if they would just get to my website, they would take me more seriously!
Anyway, I watched another action hero video. This one was about Ben 'Bud' Brigham. He wanted to always be the best he could be. It is interesting that he always knew he would be an entrepreneur... I still don't feel like one, and I am trying to! I never considered owning my own company when I was younger because it looked way too hard! Bud seemed to have had a difficult life... he sounds like he has the kind of life my dad experienced, and it reminds me that there is success on all levels, that comes out of the dust. Success can be a man making a ton of money, or a man raising an amazing family and making enough to provide for them. Bud suggest developing a core vision and core value system. It helps us to overcome our obstacles because it defines who we are, and every decision comes down to the simple question, "Does following through with this bring me closer to the person I want to be based on my core values.. or farther away?"
Making customer service an important part of my future business is what is going to make it or break it. I feel like there are very few companies in this world that can get along without good customer service... We would like to believe that all it takes it bad customer service to go out of business.. but the truth is that you either have to be really great at serving customers, or provide a service that the masses cannot live without... Take, for example, WalMart... people hate their customer service... but if they were to go away, a lot of peoples standard of living would decrease because their dollars buying power would decrease. They woud no longer get as much bang for their buck... And I know that WalMart's products are inferior.. but a coat hanger is a coat hanger... it would have to be extraordinarily crummy to be incapable of hanging a shirt... And bread is bread... People want a sandwich, they get two slices of bread... if Walmart is cheaper and they dont really have other options, then they will go with that.
It is frustrating to think about all the money I probably spent on the flyers and the time I spent walking door to door, and to only have.. ummmm NO ONE recycle! I feel like I spent so much time making a nice website, and probably no one has bothered to go to it! I feel like if they would just get to my website, they would take me more seriously!
Anyway, I watched another action hero video. This one was about Ben 'Bud' Brigham. He wanted to always be the best he could be. It is interesting that he always knew he would be an entrepreneur... I still don't feel like one, and I am trying to! I never considered owning my own company when I was younger because it looked way too hard! Bud seemed to have had a difficult life... he sounds like he has the kind of life my dad experienced, and it reminds me that there is success on all levels, that comes out of the dust. Success can be a man making a ton of money, or a man raising an amazing family and making enough to provide for them. Bud suggest developing a core vision and core value system. It helps us to overcome our obstacles because it defines who we are, and every decision comes down to the simple question, "Does following through with this bring me closer to the person I want to be based on my core values.. or farther away?"
Making customer service an important part of my future business is what is going to make it or break it. I feel like there are very few companies in this world that can get along without good customer service... We would like to believe that all it takes it bad customer service to go out of business.. but the truth is that you either have to be really great at serving customers, or provide a service that the masses cannot live without... Take, for example, WalMart... people hate their customer service... but if they were to go away, a lot of peoples standard of living would decrease because their dollars buying power would decrease. They woud no longer get as much bang for their buck... And I know that WalMart's products are inferior.. but a coat hanger is a coat hanger... it would have to be extraordinarily crummy to be incapable of hanging a shirt... And bread is bread... People want a sandwich, they get two slices of bread... if Walmart is cheaper and they dont really have other options, then they will go with that.
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