People want to do business with people they like. It’s as simple as that. The clients we’ve been fortunate to work with for many years are people we really enjoy spending time with. Regular business calls touch on a personal note, lunches and coffees are more social than work related, and meetings are an opportunity to catch up face-to-face on business, as well as on life in general.
And this is the way it should be. It can take time to get to this place, and a successful business partnership doesn’t necessarily depend on it, but it sure makes it more rewarding. When you are in-step with someone, a trust develops and you are motivated to go that much further to deliver value. When you build a business where you are surrounded by friends, what you do every day doesn’t feel like work.
Maybe this is unique to businesses in professional services where success depends on relationships. Or perhaps this is unique to businesses in the public relations field where you work with a client on so many levels from helping them launch and grow their business to interview coaching — a process through which many barriers are broken down.
This is where the reward lies. The feeling you are working together to achieve an objective. It can be as simple as a placement in the Globe and Mail or a social media campaign that had a great response, but it speaks to something beyond those successes. It speaks to a personal success, a business achievement and a validation by the outside world that what you are working towards is recognized.
And that’s what we do. We want to deliver that recognition by telling your story. We want to work with you to establish your identity and make you a go-to in your field. And we want to have fun doing it. Hope you do too.