Calmness before the Storm! August 7, 2006
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“Economy is not meanness. True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.” P T Barnum
In an economy section of our local newspaper today, the front page read Calmness before the storm, and the day before, another newspaper in their business section, predicted that the 10 years cycle of economic recession is approaching. While the economists prediction or reading seemed gloomy, we can never discounted the fact that there were many people who made their wealth during recession and there were many more people who lost everything they have in the economy boom.
The different between these two groups of people lies in their preparation and readiness for the opportunity that they faced. The question here is; are you prepared for the economy recession to seize the opportunity that many people may let them slip through beacuse of lack of resources. Or are you the one that let the opportunities passed by even during economic boom because you felt that there were to many competition. Henry Ford once said, “Either you think you can or you can’t, you are always right!.”
In sales training, we always heard this story, two shoes salesman were sent to a remote village. The first one saw that non of the villagers wore shoes and telex back that there wasn’t any market there as the villagers don’t wear shoes. The second salesman saw the opportunity and telex back the company to immediately sent few containers of shoes so tha he can teach the villagers to wear shoes and the benefits of wearing shoes.
So which salesman are you? Many had seen the opportunity in Online Business and/or Internet Marketing as the new wave of marketing. they are also many said the Internet is already clouded and too much competition.
Either way you are right!
