The 5 Principles Of How to Win Friends and Poison People
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The art of getting started when you have next to nothing.
I have just made chocolate cupcakes, but…
I have also just started renting a small cottage in Rural
Portugal. None of our boxes have arrived from the UK yet, and so I have limited
resource.
I had a recipe, (even if I did not quite
understand it all as it was in Portuguese), but no measuring tools, no cake tin
and an oven I have not used before. But I decided I was going to do this thing.
I bought ingredients for the cake, paper cups, and some cooking chocolate.
I guesstimated the amount of water, simply adding a bit at a
time till it looked right.
Here they are just before popping into the oven.
The end result was just about OK…. The topping became more fudge like that I was hopping for, but passable.
So, even though I had little to start with other than my determination to make some cakes, and although this first attempt is not perfect, I am happy with the results.
The idea of this cake baking was to say thank you to our new
neighbours in the small village we have moved to for the eggs from their
chickens that they gave us.
I only hope the cakes don’t poison them.
BUT….. you just can’t win in the ‘being nice’ game if you
are up against the rural Portuguese….. The plastic cake container was returned
minutes later filled with their own olives in a beautiful garlic mix.
So what has all this to do with Online Marketing?
Well, the same principles apply.
1: Decide you are going to do this thing.
2: Start, even if you don’t have everything just right
3: Doing something is better than doing nothing, so don’t wait for perfection.
4: Don’t worry if it’s a disaster, just try again
5: You may well be surprised at the results it generates.
If you have been thinking about starting an online business, but not sure what to do first, or you don’t think you have the right tools in place to get started, and you would like some help, drop me a line and we can chat. [email protected]
Onwards and Upwards
Tony
6 replies to "The 5 Principles Of How to Win Friends and Poison People"
Nice analogy, and completely agree. We all want to produce the perfect result without realising that part of achieving that comes with experience. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Gordon. It is so true that the more we do, the more we become experienced the easier and better it gets.
What a great story and application to marketing! Well done!
Diana, thanks so much for the encouragement. I find that so much of what I do in my day by day activity can be a source of inspiration for my marketing activities.
Great storytelling and a perfect cliff-hanger post title, just needed to read the article as it woke up my curiosity.
and by the way yes I fully agree with you doing something imperfectly is still 1000 times better than the perfect never-done product.
Thank you so much for your kind words regarding my title… I am glad it piqued your interest. Yes, I am guilty of having so many things not quite finished when in fact they could quite easily be published and improved on as I go, in fact this blog post is an example of that as originally the tile said ‘Principals’ instead of ‘Principles’. Once again, thanks for the encouragement.