Attitude Saves The Name Not Arrogance..
Hey listen there! I am a business man and I understand
businesses don't really go the way we want it all the times; sometimes
we gain and sometimes we lose.
As a business man, I do have partners and investors who
put their money for higher return at the end, and also I do have
customers who expected an outstanding service or product for their
money.
But..
When things goes wrong in a business, you ended in debt and your approach/attitude to it will save your name and integrity.
Last year till June this year, I was owing over N3.2
Million debt to friends, family and investors, and I am owing a single
investor who never met me before N1.2Million (He
invested that huge money to someone he never met before and we still never meet till today).
For the period of over 6 months of owing these people,
none of them come online to say I scam them or call me to pubic to ask
for
their cash, but why?
I never lose contact with them, I talk to them almost
all the time, I take out my time to call, chat and speak to them about
difficulties I am facing and the progress I am making in
making sure I pay them. They are happy I never stop taking to them and they respect me for that.
Stop running away from people you are owing, stop
telling them how bad things are around you but tell them how you are
planning and working to pay them, tell them about new idea
you have that will work and make you be able to pay them the debt.
Every successful business men have one or two debts to clear, stop blocking people or shunning them because you are owing them.
You are owing them and they have the right to ask you about it and you are obliged to take to them every time they needed it.
Even when they threatened me to write about it on
Facebook, all I tell them is "Sir, you think that will make me pay you
the money? If I do have it, I will surely pay you but putting it to
public will only spoil my image and still at the end, I will pay you
when I have it but how about the name you have tarnished, we have a long
way to go together, so kindly be patience
with me".
Also because they are patient with you doesn't mean you should take them for granted, pay them immediately you have it.
Don't allow your name to come out to public in a bad way, cos you can't fix it no matter how little is the dent.
Learn to say sorry and explain how sorry you are to your customers or clients you made unhappy.
It will lead you far.
