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ON THE ROAD AGAIN

What a great feeling to be on the road again cruising forward after a period of stagnation.

Spare your customer the frightening and worrying about stagnation and forced inactivity. Be transparent about your services and products and share your failure rate and compare it to the benchmark of your industry. 

Offer a 24/24/7 customer service including back up solutions for your customer. Make frequent publicity about the reliability of your company and the back up solutions you offer. Yours customers might value this feeling of security even more than your products.

If your lowest delivery capacity is equal or higher to  your peak demand, then you have and will never have delivery problems. To avoid delivery problems your mean delivery capacity must at least equal your mean demand. For times when your demand is higher than your delivery capacity you may do one of the following:

> supply froom previously build inventory

> get help (using someone else's capacity)

> compensate late output by faster delivery

How do you react when you fail? Is it something like :

> do not despair

> elevate yourself from bad temper, frustration and self shaming

> hit the pedal, accelerate and cruise again

If you do this congratulate yourself. You are a living example of resilience.

Please consider using the comment section to share with the readers how you do this.

FEAR

Are you worried? Have you got serious preoccupations? How do you think to handle them?

> Paying an assurance?

> Turning a blind eye?

> Practive posititve thinking and assuming things will finally be ok?

> Taking medecine to calm your nerves?

Did you ask yourself how other people manage fear? Some say "Prepare for the worst and hope for the best".

Sounds not bad at all, doesn't it?

There is more to investment than buying shares. You may invest in training, equipment, real estate, by preparing what is to come. So many ways to prepare a better tomorrow. And there are many more possibilities. May be you share some in the comment section. I offer it to you as a possibility to invest into mankind. Use your chance and go ahead.

SELLING

Most books teach how to sell a maximum of merchandise or services. The leitmotiv being the more the better. Ethical selling adds some value to unrestricted selling to limit its excesses. Some businesses only sell environmentally friendly products or products made in facilitites for handicapped people. Running your business according to your valures is a great opportunity to being true to yourself and to give testimony of what you stand for.

FIGHT THE HEAT

High temeratures, excessive heat, are detrimental to performance and intellectual vigilance.

It is possible to raise heat resistance by training your body or to get a slimmer body. 

It is possible to reduce heat by ventilating in the late night and early morning hours and to shut the rooms in the hot afternoon hours till sunset.

If you can manage your business and office this way, make some publicity that you respect the environment.

In extreme cases however, all this will be insufficient and you have to turn to air conditioning.

STUCK?

When stuck you might try one of the following to unstuck:

> take a break

> analyze the situatio by asking why you are stuck five consecutive times in a row

> ask for help

> get a coach

Do your clients trust you? 

Generally people are convinced that the only thing garage dealers are interested in is their profit margin. Therefore they mistrust garage dealers. How would the situation be if garage dealers partnered with their clients and committed to travel security? If they gave a free of charge lesson by an expert instead of a price reduction?

Whatever your business is: trust is fostered by a shared goal with your clients. Find it and walk and talk and the results will find their way to you.

Assure 100 % and you will have given 110 %. The difference comes from all the unforeseen stuff which squeezes into your daily to do list.