{"id":2401,"date":"2009-09-24T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2009-09-24T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:50:10","slug":"going-out-on-your-own-pursuing-the-passion-17-18-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/going-out-on-your-own-pursuing-the-passion-17-18-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Going out on your own: Pursuing the Passion 17, 18 &amp; 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#17 Client Obsession: Turning clients into your sales team<\/strong><br \/>\nYour clients are your best sales people, so look after them, obsess about their business, recommend their product to others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#18 Referrals build a solid business<\/strong><br \/>\nYour #1 business driver should be referrals! Why? Once you have a tight client base who know how you operate, what you deliver, they will naturally attract similar clients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#19 Remember to say NO<\/strong><br \/>\nSay no to clients.  Forget the &#8216;i need cash asap&#8217; and do things you wouldn&#8217;t normally do, maintain your focus and instead in tough times innovate.  You will find much more reward in innovation than taking work that you don&#8217;t like.  It doesn&#8217;t build your core business, doesn&#8217;t pay well, and isn&#8217;t growing anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#17 Client Obsession: Turning clients into your sales team Your clients are your best sales people, so look after them, obsess about their business, recommend their product to others. #18 Referrals build a solid business Your #1 business driver should be referrals! Why? Once you have a tight client base who know how you operate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[550],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}