{"id":801,"date":"2009-08-26T13:16:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2009-08-26T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T13:16:51","slug":"whats-the-fin-diffference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s the f&#8217;in diffference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s a great quote, unfortunately I don&#8217;t know who said it&#8230; &#8220;I wish to do something Great &amp; Wonderful, but I must first start by doing the small things like they are great &amp; wonderful&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve <a title=\"Don\u2019t Become Indifferent\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/2009\/01\/05\/dont-become-indifferent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted previously<\/a>, don&#8217;t become indifferent to your customers or clients, you could lose them not only because\u00a0 you did something wrong, but because you didn&#8217;t do enough.<\/p>\n<p>Size really does matter, something insignificant to you, may be all important or a stumbling block for your customer.<\/p>\n<p>These things can be difficult to spot, no matter how hard you look, you won&#8217;t find them all, plus you&#8217;ll never be perfect, so listen to what your audience is telling you, and if they&#8217;re not telling you anything, ask them! don&#8217;t fool yourself by thinking their silence is because you&#8217;ve got everything right, it&#8217;s probably because they&#8217;re already looking somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>And make sure you&#8217;re asking the right questions, don&#8217;t ask, &#8220;Is everything OK?&#8221; ask &#8220;What is wrong &amp; what could we improve?&#8221;, don&#8217;t ask &#8220;Why would you choose us over a competitor?&#8221; ask &#8220;Why would you choose a competitor over us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s the f&#8217;in diffference? Is it the little things? the small stuff? yes&#8230; but it&#8217;s the small stuff you don&#8217;t see and has to be pointed out to you, like the extra &#8220;f&#8221; in the word difference, that&#8217;s the f in difference, don&#8217;t expect to find them all on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here&#8217;s a great quote, unfortunately I don&#8217;t know who said it&#8230; &#8220;I wish to do something Great &amp; Wonderful, but I must first start by doing the small things like they are great &amp; wonderful&#8221; As I&#8217;ve posted previously, don&#8217;t become indifferent to your customers or clients, you could lose them not only because\u00a0 you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,12,2,22],"tags":[270,52,15,272,273],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand-building","category-brands-marketing","category-drivel","category-not-what-you-think","tag-its-the-little-things-that-matter","tag-live-webcast","tag-networking","tag-quotes","tag-size-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}