... I am starting the third week of the Challenge, and I didn't want to tell you about the results until I had seen how strong they were. I provide translation and voice-over services from Argentina, but 2020 left me with two marks:
1) a severe drop in order inflow and the near disappearance of important clients from abroad, and
2) I had to leave an Asian client with a certain volume of orders, precisely because he always forced me to ask him for his late payments and to beg him. In fact, he only pays an overdue invoice when he has to place a new order with me, and I got tired of that routine.
Today I frame that routine of hard collection in the terms of "unhappy money" and discover that this is what I was rejecting: collecting my fees from someone who does not feel "appreciation" for my professional services. And I reevaluate once again what I have already learned in these days about "gratitude" in a virtuous circle or the lack of it in any vicious circle.
Since then, I turned down three more orders from that client, and today another one for about 500 dollars: I have no regrets and I move forward calmly, because....
On the third day of the first brain retraining, the number of daily orders practically doubled and I have been at full capacity for two weeks, recovering figures that I missed in the first half of 2019. But I need to tell you this particular story: a customer with a good order volume and excellent payer, operating in Essen (Germany), was weakening since 2010 until disappearing in 2016.
A week ago I saw her website and noted it renewed, I noticed that she opened two new subsidiaries and I was sincerely happy for her. I then thought about preparing a message of re-offering of services to get her back.... but she beat me to it: 48 hours later, after several years and in the middle of the Challenge, she sent me an order for 630 Euros, which I delivered today.
Attention: Today she receives it and in one hour she sends me another new order... It's definitely mind-blowing! I was sure, that the cost of this Challenge would be paid off soon and with a difference. It's a before and after. In my mental reprogramming effort, I go further: I am flooding my loyal clients with gratitude and I decide to induce the impact of this challenge in their lives now, so that they themselves improve and consolidate, dragging my own economy along with them in their expansion. Best wishes of success to everyone who reads this.
Ale
1) a severe drop in order inflow and the near disappearance of important clients from abroad, and
2) I had to leave an Asian client with a certain volume of orders, precisely because he always forced me to ask him for his late payments and to beg him. In fact, he only pays an overdue invoice when he has to place a new order with me, and I got tired of that routine.
Today I frame that routine of hard collection in the terms of "unhappy money" and discover that this is what I was rejecting: collecting my fees from someone who does not feel "appreciation" for my professional services. And I reevaluate once again what I have already learned in these days about "gratitude" in a virtuous circle or the lack of it in any vicious circle.
Since then, I turned down three more orders from that client, and today another one for about 500 dollars: I have no regrets and I move forward calmly, because....
On the third day of the first brain retraining, the number of daily orders practically doubled and I have been at full capacity for two weeks, recovering figures that I missed in the first half of 2019. But I need to tell you this particular story: a customer with a good order volume and excellent payer, operating in Essen (Germany), was weakening since 2010 until disappearing in 2016.
A week ago I saw her website and noted it renewed, I noticed that she opened two new subsidiaries and I was sincerely happy for her. I then thought about preparing a message of re-offering of services to get her back.... but she beat me to it: 48 hours later, after several years and in the middle of the Challenge, she sent me an order for 630 Euros, which I delivered today.
Attention: Today she receives it and in one hour she sends me another new order... It's definitely mind-blowing! I was sure, that the cost of this Challenge would be paid off soon and with a difference. It's a before and after. In my mental reprogramming effort, I go further: I am flooding my loyal clients with gratitude and I decide to induce the impact of this challenge in their lives now, so that they themselves improve and consolidate, dragging my own economy along with them in their expansion. Best wishes of success to everyone who reads this.
Ale