Trust But Verify Your Potential Business Relationships

I wanted to just quickly make a suggestion that works for me and that is to "Trust But Verify Your Potential Business Relationships"! As we all know, anyone can have an Email Address, Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter Account, but that certainly doesn't tell us all we need or want to know about a person. Going back and forth on emails can definitely help separate who you may want to work with as the way an email is composed and the information provided in the email can certainly help you determine if the person you may want to work with really meets or exceeds your expectations. If they are neither meeting or exceeding those expectations, it is a good idea to immediately decide if progressing any further is worth your time or effort!

Moving ahead, the relationship should shift to a phone call, video conference, and/or the best of all, a direct in-person meeting, whenever the situation warrants! Having all of these elements in place will give you just about everything you need in order to figure out who the person is that you are looking to establish a working relationship with, and if that person(s) didn't really meet your overall expectations, you can then end the relationship(s) before any additional time and energy is invested!

Remember, you should consider your Business Relationships as an "Investment" and not just something that passes the time. This investment should be calculated to include all of the time you spent searching for someone to work with, as well as the time spent on emails, phone calls, and meetings, etc. There must be a value created, which should be a mutual benefit to both parties, which is the foundation for any lasting relationship to be created.

Lastly, you should never "judge a book by its cover" and due to the fact that there is so much public information available about most of us, be sure to give the person you are interested in working with the benefit of the doubt and then proceed forward the same way as I suggested for any potential business relationship, and that is with the "Trust But Verify" approach!

I wish you all the very best of luck moving forward with your relationship building process!

Thank you!

Steven Ceceri

Creative Financing Options Group

Steven@CreativeFinancingOptionsGroup.com