Why on earth would you want to blame yourself for everything? Because it allows you to build up an incredibly rugged business. It allows you to change how external problems affect you.
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<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Ill jump right into an example of what I am talking about. Let\u2019s say you have spent hours on a single clients computer. You do the work, invoice the client, a few weeks pass and you give them a call. They tell you that they are not going to pay you. Not because they have a complaint or that you have done anything wrong, they are just not going to pay you.
I am sure you will be thinking all sorts of expletives towards your customer and how this external source hurt your business. However, at the end of the day you let this happen.
You probably should have had a system in place to prevent this happening, but hindsight is always 20\/20.
You need to take it on board and put a new system in place. Take a deposit up front, do a credit check before you take on big projects, get a contract signed, create payment milestones, whatever you need to do.
Suddenly, you\u2019ve taken control of the situation to prevent or at least minimize the chances of it happening again. It was your fault that you didn\u2019t have a system in place to begin with, you took it on board and now you do. Your business just got stronger. <\/p>\n
Another example is a common scam that is attempted against business. In fact, one of my business clients fell for this one. It is a scam where scammers "invoice" businesses for something very general. The secretary or whoever is in charge of paying the bills often doesn\u2019t know what is happening out in the field and therefore doesn\u2019t know what their co-workers purchased. This is especially true in larger business. It\u2019s the secretary\u2019s job to pay the bills and so they do what they are hired to do.
This scam works very well on businesses that don\u2019t have a defense against it. Now, as I mentioned before, one of my business clients got stung by this one so they set up a system where the boss (who has a better idea of the businesses purchases), gives all the invoices a quick "once over" to make sure that they did actually purchase what they are being invoiced for. Again, the scammer was an external source but they took it on and controlled it.<\/p>\n
You might have lost one of your clients details in the craziness of your day to day work. Don\u2019t let that happen again by setting up a CRM like CommitCRM, mHelpdesk or ShopManager. Not Blaming Yourself<\/strong> The business is failing? "The person who I bought it off cooked the books"<\/em>. <\/p>\n "My customers take advantage of the business, they are all bastards"<\/em>.<\/p>\n All of these issues remained something that he couldn\u2019t control because he never took ownership of them. Eventually, the business went bust. He still maintains that it wasn\u2019t his fault.<\/p>\n By always taking the blame on board, you are being pro-active at preventing it from happening again, making your business incredibly robust. © Technibble – A Resource for Computer Technicians<\/a> to start or improve their Computer Business<\/a>
Forgot to invoice? Make your onsite Computer Technicians invoice from their Smartphone as soon as they return to their car. Tech CRMs like CommitCRM<\/a>, mHelpdesk<\/a> and Shopmanager<\/a> can all be made web accessible so onsite Technicians can do this.<\/p>\n
I knew someone who has been blaming others for his problems for his entire life, no matter what it was.
This person eventually purchased a business with a shop front.<\/p>\n
So next time something happens, think "I shouldn\u2019t have let that happen, and I am not going to let it happen again"<\/em>.<\/p>\n
To get started with your own computer business, check out our Computer Business Kit<\/a>. Blame Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n