Showing posts with label the three letter word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the three letter word. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2008

THE MILLION DOLLAR THREE LETTER WORD

Recently my wife told me of a new Indian restaurant in town; so i decided to take her out for a
meal..
It turns out it was not Indian but run by Bangladeshi's from Leeds, we had a great meal and as i was interested in a contact in Bangladesh i arranged a meeting with the three owners..
At the meeting i suggested ways they could increase their customer base and use an upstairs room...plus negotiated a discount for all the customers who presented their business card signed
by me..
I needed a Bengali translator for startup-asia and asked them if they could help..Yes ,they could; then i asked if they had contacts in the IT area..Again ,yes they had..one of the owners brothers has a computer shop in Dhaka..a city with good internet connections.
We will see how this contact develops...but there is a lesson here for all budding entrepreneurs,
and that is, never be afraid to use the three letter word if you are seeking help...; you may not always get a yes in reply; but if you don't ask it will always be a no.

Every successful entrepreneur has asked for something and in some cases got it....Google for
example asked for $25 million to progress their search engine which at the time had not made
a cent...They got the money and the investor made a profit...




The three letter word ? "Ask ". ......humbird

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