The world is a small place
I Stumbled across a blog the other day, Stephen Murray’s blog.
Quite an interesting blog. While I was chatting to my dad this morning it turns out that he is an old friend of my Dad. So I logged into facebook and had a look at his profile.
While looking at his profile, I had a look at his friends list, and the friends we have in common. It turns out he knows my pastor, my Dad and even my cousin.
that got me thinking. The world is a very small place and gets smaller with the expanding internet. With Facebook, we have contact with just about anyone in the world. I find that the business world its just as small. I do ongoing work for a company and have built a really good relationship with them. While I was chatting to he MD the other day, I found out that he knows the owner another company that I do work for.
A lady that works there gave my number to one of her friends, When I got to the other company, I found out that they sold property to one of my other clients.
I was quite freaked out about the whole ordeal.
Whats my point?
No matter where in the world you go, online or offline. You can always find someone you know, or that knows you from someone else.
I believe that in business, its not what you know, but who you know. So if you tell the right person what your business ideas are, more people will know about it than you think. Word of mouth is the best kind of advertising.
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Absolutely, think also that everybody can be connected with everybody else through the people they know. The man on he street could know your cousin’s friend for example..
This is so, so true. Just have to make sure to keep our lives clean and pure so when you do have these small world experiences one can be proud to meet and not have to worry about what they know or heard about us. Reminds me ofa saying that I often bring to mind to keep my life in check. Goes like this
“Your life lies before you like a white sheet o snow. Careful how you tread on it as eery step will show.”