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Grow Your Business
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A postal clerk in Indianapolis made a discovery about her
customers and coworkers – and her own nature.
A newspaper editorial charged that her branch had “the
rudest clerks in town.” The clerk was angry.
"I was rude to people because they were rude to me,”
she said. “What goes around comes around.” Then she wondered
what would happen if she treated others with courtesy. Would
that come around too?
So she made an effort to get to know customer’s names. The
clerk began to smile and ask how they were doing. Even a man
known for his grouchiness eventually became a favourite
customer. All the clerks began to make an effort. Everybody
reaped a reward of cheerfulness.
And it all started with one woman who decided that “what goes
around comes around” can be good news.
Father John Catoir
Three Minutes a Day
The Christophers
It has taken me many years to learn a simple lesson. There are
very few things in life that we are able to directly change.
We cannot change our colleagues, the government, the weather or
our customers. We cannot change our spouses or our children.
If we wish to change any of those things we must begin by
changing ourselves.
If you work in any organisation there are probably coworkers
who you do not get along with as well as you might. No doubt
they annoy and irritate you. But have you stopped to consider
what might happen if you treated them differently? Would they
react to you differently and become less annoying and nicer
people? Perhaps it is worth a try, just do not expect immediate
results.
Often it is easy to blame someone else for a situation when we
are equally to blame ourselves. Even if a situation is not our
"fault" it is still probably worth changing our own behaviour
towards someone else if that will produce an effect that we
want. Even if the change just leaves us feeling better within
ourselves knowing that we have done whatever we were able to do
to change things.
How do you treat your customers? When was the last time that you
sent them a simple note to say “Thank you for your custom and
support”, have you ever sent such a note? How would you feel
towards a supplier who sent you such a letter?
When was the last time you asked your customers if there was
anything that you could do for them? I do not mean as a veiled
message which really means “is there anything else we can sell you.”
Simply and genuinely ask if there is anything you can do for them
without expecting anything in return.
Will some people take advantage? Probably but I am afraid that is
just life. Those people were always going to take advantage in some
way. What is important is the goodwill you generate among the
majority of your customers. If your customers feel that you care
about them they are far less likely to change supplier and it will
always be cheaper to keep existing customers than to find new ones.
Why not just try the idea out with a few of your best customers
and see what happens?
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Grow Yourself
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The best rosebush is not the one with the fewest thorns, but
that which bears the finest roses.
Jerry Van Dyke
Entertainer
The Daffodil Principle
credit to Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you
must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go,
but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead.
"I will come next Tuesday," I promised, a little reluctantly, on
her third call. Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had
promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into
Carolyn's house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said,
"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the
clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and
these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another
inch!"
My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the
time, Mother." "Well, you won't get me back on the road until it
clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her. I was
hoping you'd take me over to the garage to pick up my car."
"How far will we have to drive?" "Just a few blocks," Carolyn said.
"I'll drive. I'm used to this."
After several minutes, I had to ask, "Where are we going? "This
isn't the way to the garage!" "We're going to my garage the long
way," Carolyn smiled, "by way of the daffodils."
"Carolyn," I said sternly, "please turn around." "It's all right,
Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss
this experience." After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a
small gra ...
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