Client Fatigue is when you are tired from the burdens and behaviours of clients. It is usually built up over time when you have interacted with clients personally over a period.
You see this setting? Don’t do it in your WhatsApp or Telegram Groups. It is one of the cardinal reasons why groups die. Now, someone will say there are groups whose purposes is NOT to allow for members content but only administrative content.
I cut my hair weekly. There is only one place that I do so, unless I am out of Abuja the week I desire to. I have used the same barber shop for 6 years now. And I love their routines. Beautiful, smooth, and friendly. But they may lose me and more than 50% of my ‘fellow customers’ this week.
In the current book I am reading, which is the chronological journey of Facebook… I got an epiphany 💡 💡 💡 … WE ARE ALL SALES SIGNPOSTS. UNKNOWINGLY! WILLING! AVAILABLE!
Some of us work hard to set up businesses only to see them fail under our watches. When a business idea is conceived, I think the owner expects it to last for as long as it is yielding enough revenue. Revenue in itself is not a wish, it is the outcome of the structure put in place. This structure attracts or repels patronage. Many owners of businesses pay so much attention on aesthetics that they forget to get the right human resources for the provision of quality service.
“LESS THAN 10% OF VOCATIONAL PEOPLE IN NIGERIA ARE HONEST.” That is what he told me. Instantly, I felt like a fool. Because at the instant, voices flushed through my head of everything everyone else had told me about trust too easily and being too gullible. I hated that it seemed true after all; I trust too quickly and I love people to easily.
Kemi is Togolese. She has been making hair for people for over 25 years now. She operates in Ikeja Lagos. She’s been making hair for a friend of mine since my friend was a teenager till today. She’s so good (I hear). Over the past 25 years, Kemi has trained well over 100 other people who have been apprentices with her, and have moved on to establish their own businesses
In the current book I am reading “Why Startups Fail”, the Author “Tom Eisenmann”, a Harvard Professor of Entrepreneurship talks about 4 terminologies that I like and will break down for you, viz:
You have invested a great deal of resources to get a very good brand narration: great logo, aesthetic colours, powerful brand name, and world class effizy.
Even your website is like the White House, resplendent with finesse and class… it looks like WHAT GOD CANNOT DO DOES NOT EXIST… you have arrived.. but then someone reaches out to your business and there is trouble.
I have an estimated 7,000 followers on Facebook (5,000 Friends and around 2,000 Followers). Let me now shock you.
LESS THAN 200 of this 7,000 human beings have ever bought ANYTHING from me. LESS THAN 200. That is 2.86%. 🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂
What this means is that FACEBOOK IS NOT MY PRIMARY MARKET.
