I heard an interesting comment today from a person who was interested in selling their property. While usually this is something that you would hire say a real estate agent to do she was specifically saying that she doesn’t want to use one because she sees how much money they make. She further emphasized how nowadays most people use the Internet to find a listing by themselves anyways and so she felt weird potentially giving someone so much money if people happen to be searching themselves for the property.

It’s kind of interesting as like in this case it had nothing to do on whether or not the service provided is a good value or if it produces the desired results that you are looking for. In that sense the reason to not do business is more personal I guess you can say. This makes me wonder that in certain business on whether or not it is better to not advertise how profitable or successful your business is for example so that you don’t automatically get placed into this negative category.

I suppose this is because the common perception is that a person who makes a lot of money must be in someway unethical or that automatically they must be taking advantage of you. Is that really a fair thing to say? I would say ultimately it should come down to value and whether or not you think the product or service you would be getting is worth the money.

I was watching an interesting interview today about a person who was super paranoid when it comes to most people as when he suddenly became successful it seemed like everyone all of a sudden wanted to be associated with him. As a result this made him second guess so many people including his friends that weren’t around him during other times. What this meant too is that he often turned down a lot of potential business deals as well for fear that the relationship is purely materialistic in the sense that there is no way they would even try to help him if he found himself in a tough situation.

That is always a tricky subject but at the same time it simply comes with the territory I think. At the same time, would it not be fair to say in this particular instance that even for yourself you have to treat it as just a business? What I mean by that is you would always have the the mentality that everyone is out for themselves for the most part and so ultimately it should be about whether or not you would benefit from the relationship positively as well. This is as opposed to thinking of the business relationship in a friend way.

As for people that come up to you afterwards, I would think the same would hold true. Basically, from your past experience you know the extent to when you can or can’t rely on them so again it comes down to thinking what’s best for you. They are obviously not there to be friends, so to speak. Therefore, make sure to simply look out what’s best for you I say where you are making decisions rationally as opposed to emotionally.

This got me thinking a bit today as I was looking at how this one company was growing where it was kind of mind boggling at first as all of its work seemed to garner very little attention. This made me wonder how in the world they could claim that they were so big as it’s almost like comparing a TV network where one network has a million views for a show and the one I saw on their network has like maybe one thousand. Turns out, they just have thousands of small sites that each generate very little business. I guess you can say it adds up.

It made me think too because people often get so discouraged as they try to make something that can compete with the big guys and when they compare the numbers it just doesn’t seem note worthy from one versus one standpoint. But like in this example sometimes quantity can be a legitimate way to build something large and successful too. Of course the quality has to be there, but for all the time and effort you spend in trying to make this one perfect item that may or may not be the jackpot for you this way can be a little less risk in many ways. Obviously it works for some so it’s something to consider.

Today I was watching this ESPN documentary that revolved around how rich athletes became broke. For the most part it revolved around people spending beyond their means where once the income stopped coming in they just collapsed. There was one factor though that is not usually highlighted as much where in this case it was friends and family members that were a large part of draining their funds.

An interesting scenario I saw was how apparently there were family members making the athletes feel guilty if they did not give them tens or thousands of dollars by implying constantly that if it weren’t for them they wouldn’t be where they are at. What a tough situation that must be I thought as while you want to try and help people at the same time you don’t want to be used just for your money. I did find it a little over the top that even parents would pressure their kids into something like this.

I guess as mentioned in the documentary you just at times have to learn to say no. While it is a bad feeling to say no to people, if you think about it in this case people pressuring you to give them money using guilt trips aren’t exactly being supportive. I would be inclined to say it is more like sales pitch.

What an odd story this was. Ever heard people say to others that if something seems too good to be true it probably is? Apparently there was a person who seemed to be too good at what he did where people constantly were apprehensive about doing business with him as this made them feel like he was somehow putting on an act where it made them relentlessly spend time in trying to find anything negative about him. Kind of ironic in many ways considering many times a good track record should be the reason you would trust someone to do business with huh?

I guess after some real thinking and research the problem seemed to be that the successes that he highlighted seemed way too big where naturally everyone is skeptical as they want to see some failures too for the sake of making it seem more real since no one is perfect. Sure enough, choosing not to highlight so many big accomplishments while mixing it up with some smaller success appeared to increase the trust factor by a lot.

That is definitely true for even things like sites that try to sell products emotional I think. Example, if all you see are results where people are all like billionaires or models then more than likely the cynical and skeptical meter will go high regardless if something is legitimate.