This is the first post I’m reading of yours. I read it all which is uncommon for me and I loved it from beginning to end. I found you because I just participated in the curation contest.
I’m not trying to butter you up by saying this. I’ve been studying business and entrepreneurship for the past year. What you have said I’ve heard before from smart, established, and successful people.
One example, and I’m not going to fact-check this, was Seth Godin giving the advice to get 1000 true fans.
You don’t need a million people to like you, you can be plenty successful with a much smaller number of enthusiastic supporters (1000).
This post was gold from start to finish. I appreciate it but I’m also at a level where I can understand your advice. I understand because those ideas are foundational and have been repeated to me many times and from many sources.
Thanks so much for visiting the post @nikema. I am extremely excited that you have joined our #payitforward contest/project. I'm not sure who it was that made the 1000 true fans remark, maybe it was Seth Godin, but I agree with it.
I know an Armenian couple that lives in my building here in St. Petersburg. They own a small 24 hour shop at the bottom of my building that sells food, drinks, cigarettes, etc. They have a small child, and they are genuinely nice people. I asked them about their business and they told me, "All we need is for 1/4 of the 4 thousand people within 50 meters of our business to be our friends/customers. No more and no less. This is why we are successful." You see if they got any bigger than that, they would lose the relationships they have with us folks that visit them nearly everyday. So instead, they invest in their family's doing similar businesses in the city. It is such a different concept to how I was taught business in the U.S., but it is so much more to my liking.
Anyways, thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing/hearing more from you.
Thanks for being so welcoming. I like your no-nonsense writing style. It seems it's a good practice to follow @elsiekjay around. She mixes with the best folks here :)
I really enjoyed my writing my first curation post. I'm excited about the next one because I will take my time and make it much nicer. A free way to pay it forward feels great. It's as much self-serving as serving others. I'm okay with that.
Hahaha. Honey! You make me laugh. Lol
I am extremely excited to see you helping out here. I am really enjoying curating as well as drinking from the well of wisdom that is @energyaddict22 lol
See you on week #5 for the contest.
Xo
If I made you laugh, that's a good thing. Maybe I should start the Elsie fan club :)
Haha. Girl please! I'll leave that to Ellen D-generous. Lmao.