How
Relationships Affect Your Business
Life’s
daily occurrences change from day to day. These changes evolve and although
they sometimes may appear as challenges, they are truly meant to serve a higher
purpose, all for soul growth. We learn from our experiences, if we are open to
receive the lesson. For me, my growth stemmed from my family dynamics,
relationships.
Early
on in life I started observing relationships within family dynamics. After
studying relationships, I looked to model relationships after those that worked
effectively. It has been a constant theme throughout my life, looking at how we
are relating to one another, to ourselves, and how we relate to our
environment, finances, exercise to name a few. We are always in a relationship.
That is the magic key. If we work on Building a Better Relationship with
ourselves and get that mastery, we can have better relationships with whatever
we choose to bring into our lives.
This
theory applies to Social Media, as well. Social Media has really leveled the
playing field. Everybody has an opportunity to play with the ‘big’ guys and the
‘little’ guys. One of my clients mentioned that there are over 10,000 Baby
Boomers who are no longer working every day, either by choice or by being
pushed out. That means there are 10,000 people that have a lot of experience.
How can we be different than the next person on Social Media?
One
of the things I picked up from Bob Burg’s teachings is … his Golden Rule of
Networking … “All things being equal, people
will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and
trust.” A lot of people get that ‘know, like and trust’
part, but what I focus on is … “all things
being equal”.
So,
if I am a life coach, a mindset coach, if there are a 1,000 other people doing
the same thing, what differentiates me from everybody else? Whether you
are selling makeup, juice or something else, the consumers are looking for a
connection. They are looking for something in additional that they can tap into
other than just a product.
The
days of the yellow pages, or the Sunday paper where you saw an AD and ran to
the store was your only choice. Now everyone has choices. They are
looking beyond simply the purchase. They want more value, a sense of
connection. They want to be able to belong to something better and bigger,
which is going to be able to solve their current problems, and may give them a
path to trust you with their future problems.
So,
how can you build relationships on Social Media?
With
me, I started studying personal development when I got introduced to Tony
Robbins and Denis Waitley through video tapes while working on my marketing
degree in 1989. I started studying personal development every day, and I
collected a lot of motivational quotes that became tweets. I had a whole
library of them, so I started tweeting them. I instantaneously found that
people began responding to them. They responded with …’great messages’.
I saw that connection, the need to be available, and to tweet with people.
Talking to them was one thing that differentiated me from other coaches.
They were broadcasting rather than conversing with people, and responding to
what they were talking about.
People
responded to my #JustForToday messages. Reaching out to people has
touched people’s lives in a lot of ways. This is the power of one
tweet. Never underestimate the power of a single tweet.
I
am more motivated to share those messages because I know it is going to touch
people’s lives. By doing that I am going to attract other people who are going
to like the way I do business, the way I interact, and the way that I am
serving. They are going to see the consistency, doing things the same way. They
begin to feel a level of trust, and they start the process of working
together. That is the formula. Go out there and connect, go out and
serve. Be social, serve a higher good, solve people’s problems, and you will
attract people.