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Did You Wish Happy Mother’s Day to Improve Your Relationships with Clients, Mentors, Partners?
Sunday, 11 May, 2014
Today, I want to wish all the mothers out there, including yourself if you're a mom, for all the amazing work that you do - it takes a lot of courage, effort, and time, and of course love to raise a child! What if you could stand out amongst all your competitors to your prospects or clients? What if you could deepen the relationship between you and your prospects or clients? And put you instead of your business being viewed by clients as simply a business that wants to sell me something, to a business that I want to build a connection with? Well you can… But first, since today’s Mother’s Day – I want to thank my amazing mom who’s been with me through all these years, through the good and the bad! I love you mom – Happy Mother’s Day! A lot of times, the way to deepen the relationship with our prospects or clients is for them to see you as a person instead of just a business – because if you’re just a business to them, there’s all your competitors that they’ll see the same as you. But if they can see you as a person, people do business with people they like, know and trust. The reason why I chose to do this episode on Mother’s Day is because I wanted to point out something that will help you reach your goal of establishing a closer relationship with people, whether it’s for work or personal growth. Essentially, the idea is that often times, many businesses will send their clients or prospects a happy birthday card or something on their birthday to help them stay at the top of mind for those clients and prospects. The problem is that those businesses are competing with all the other friends/family/competitor businesses wishing them the same thing. As such, it’s much harder to stand out when you’re probably only 1 amongst lots of businesses that wish them happy birthday…and your message will likely be forgotten really quickly. Instead…what’s something else that you can find out about your client, prospect, business partner, or boss that can help you really stand out? Well, it’s to help you compete in a space that’s not so crowded…aka. Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. Think about it this way, unless you’re in an industry that is very specifically focused on mothers or fathers – likely, you’ll be the only one wishing them Happy Mother’s Day or Father’s Day besides their kids and close family. This will allow you to decrease your competition for getting attention from them for yourself or your business AND also show that you care about them as a person, and not simply someone to do business with. They’ll start to classify you as somebody they like or start trusting Now, a lot of businesses will send their clients birthday greetings, and maybe even holiday greetings. But at that time, pretty much that business and the whole world is wishing them happy birthday…so it’s hard for a business to rise above the noise to compete for their attention. Instead, if you hear them talk about their kids sometimes…try wishing your prospects, clients, or people you want to build a deeper relationship with in terms of happy mother’s day or happy father’s day Think about it this way – on the mother’s day or father’s day – who’s going to wish them that…their kids, their spouse/partner, maybe a relative or 2…and that’s it. I actually stumbled upon this strategy accidentally as I was trying to build a better relationship with my boss and also later on as my business. I thought to myself – what would be something that’s personal to my boss and my clients, that they devoted a lot of time to for which they can be proud of? And it was also around the time of my birthday – I got some “Happy Birthday” cards from my dentist, my car dealer, my family doctor, a local grocery shop, and so forth. And I realized that many of my clients are parents…they’ve spent a lot of time and effort on being a great parent – and they should be recognized for it! So instead of sending out Happy Birthday cards,
