One of the biggest struggles for starting Entrepreneurs is finding prospects for their business. Even with over 700 million people on Facebook, many people still struggle to find the right mix of people for their product or service.  One of the more overlooked places for new business owners is their friends.  I think many people feel uncomfortable approaching their friends with their new venture for many reasons, but this is often a very untapped market.

There are some important rules, however, in regards to your friendships.  This week’s Seeds of Success offers the following excellent tips on friendship.

The Incalculable Benefit of Friends

In 1907, SUCCESS founder Orison Swett Marden wrote an article titled “I Had a Friend.” These quotes from Marden’s timeless message express a few of the benefits and the necessity of true friends.

Friends are good for business.
“Most of us would have been very much poorer financially, but for the hosts of friends who have sent us customers and clients and business, who have always turned our way everything they could.”

Friends help us grow.
“Emerson says: ‘Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.’ “

Relationships require work. 
“Friendship must be cultivated. It cannot be bought; it is priceless. If you abandon your friends for a quarter of a century or more while you are buried in your pursuit of wealth, you cannot expect to come back and find them where you left them.”

To have friends, be a friend.
“If you would have friends, you must cultivate the qualities which you admire in others…. There is nothing like magnanimity and real charity, kindness, and a spirit of helpfulness, for attracting others. Your interest in people must be a real one, or you will not draw them to you.”

If you are in the networking industry, the first thing you are taught is to contact all your friends and family about your new business venture.  ”Hit your warm list” is the first order of business, right?  Business Leader and former Robert Kiyosaki student Rick Gutman says it best when it comes to prospecting for your business.  He says, “I treat the message that I have like a good stock tip.  I’m not here to hard sell the stock, I’m just here to recommend it”.  Sage advice, and an approach that we can all apply to whatever business we have.

In the end, you wouldn’t be involved in your business if you didn’t believe in it and find value in whatever you are offering.  By asking the right questions and positioning your business as a value to the marketplace, you will find that your friendships will grow and the right people will be attracted to your business.

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So often in business and in life we get overwhelmed by the incredible amount of things we need to do and the information we need to process.  Life is really a series of small, minute by minute choices we make.  Watch today’s video to hear what leadership expert John C. Maxwell has to say about the choices we make.

I hope you were inspired by today’s Maxwell Minute.  When the world seems to spin all around us, it’s important to feed ourselves daily with good information.

I hope you were inspired by today’s reading, and that you will share it with others so that you may help to inspire them.

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As I got back from my run this morning, I sat down to do my daily reading and came across a great read from John C. Maxwell.  I included his daily thoughts into my video blog for the day…

 

 

I think it’s important for us to realize that we DO typically get what we expect.  I used to be a negotiator for the pilots I represented quite a few years ago.  I remember having crew room visits and listening to people’s expectations of upcoming contract negotiations.  My overwhelming advice to them was, set the bar high because if you set the bar low, that’s exactly what you will get.

So go out today, take Mr. Maxwell’s advice, and expect to get exactly what you want.

And please share this post so that others may benefit by the words of Mr. Maxwell!

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