People don't buy your product, they buy you. Play the long game.
Build mutually beneficial relationships on top of your unique assets and abilities. Collaborate with people who compliment your skillset.
As your network grows, and your reputation increases in value, so do the participants in your network, and by extension, the opportunities you have access to.
As this compounds, you can become more and more selective in the opportunities you choose to pursue.
When you mess up, own up. ?Your reputation takes years to build and five minutes to destroy.? ? Warren Buffet
I have made a few mistakes in growing the Visualize Value business.
On each occasion, owning up and asking for forgiveness has resulted in some of the most incredible bursts of growth we have seen as a company.
With ultimate transparency comes a higher degree of risk, respect your network like your livelihood depends upon it, because it does.
Wrong way? Good. Right way? Good.
The true differentiator in everything we've discussed is the unfathomable number of organic inputs that made you the person you are today.
Here's one of my first YouTube videos that explains the concept:
The more transparent you are in your marketing, the less pretending you have to do when you're working.
?Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance." ? Nassim Nicholas Taleb