Archive for September, 2008

Ask for what you want… (and be very specific)

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Remember how can someone give you something unless you ask for what you want?

Be specific as well, in asking for exactly what it is you desire, the more specific the better.

Also remember that should you ask for something there maybe be consequences of that request being fullfilled, so remember to think about all the options:

i) what will having this give me

ii) what will having this not give me

iii) what will not having this give me

iv) what will not having this not give me

Sometimes we ask for something and with it comes something that we didn’t want, but that being said, we couldn’t have actually had the request met without it… unless we had been more specific.

Have a great day

Thom

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Time versus Money

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

I heard a profound yet simply quote the other day and it went like this:

The rich spend their money to buy more time, while the poor spend their time to save money.

You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time (let us not get in to a time/ quantum soup discussion here).

So basically here I am realising that I do lots of things right now, such as work on my car when I could take it to a garage and buy me some more time.

Are you spending you time wisely? Is your time spend cost efficient? What may take you 5 hours to do could take someone else 2, and in that 5 hours, what if you could earn three times what the person would cost to do the job?

Hmmmm food for thought.

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Buy and Sell on Value and not on Price!

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

In today’s world everyone seems to have been conditioned to buy on price.

What is the cheapest price that we can find it for?

Very little seems to be considered about the extras. Those things that often are of little measurable value up front, but can be of huge value later on.

On example of this is when we take out a new mobile phone contract and with that contract we take out insurance, now all three providers we evaluated offered the same phone with insurance for slightly different prices and the calling rates where almost the same.

On first appearance these offers had very little difference to choose from.

However, only one of these mobile phone operator offers to send you a replacements phone out the next day, the others operate a return to base for exchange policy. Imagine having to be without your mobile phone for 5 days!

So, the question is, what is of value that we give (sometimes we are not even aware of it), that when quantified will obviously be worth so much to our clients that they will not consider dealing with anyone else?

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