{"id":110,"date":"2025-02-07T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:18:41","slug":"date-them-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/date-them-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Date them for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf7c0703f86740119ad19264f68ea6b8\"><strong>Lesson<\/strong>: <strong>Don&#8217;t expect customers to want to marry you on first meeting. Be cool. Know your worth. Be critical of them. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a habit of wanting too much too quickly (when it comes to commercial customer relationships, thank you).  I don&#8217;t take my time. I seem a bit desperate and I don&#8217;t have patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to do a bit of self reflection to understand where this comes from. I am driven by a strong force to prove myself as an expert, which leads to me pontificating a lot, and also being a little too eager to show how much I know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I engage with customers in this way, it kinda puts them off. It can be authentic, to an extent, but more so it can be desperate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to understand the game we are playing. The expected steps and stages and timelines. Nothing happens quickly, and it all follows a predictable route. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also true for building a team. Attracting people to what I&#8217;m doing will take time. I need to invest that time and build relationships slowly and intentionally. Don&#8217;t ramp up too quick.  Don&#8217;t assume too much, give things time to settle before acting in one direction or another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So What Now?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This aligns with my other areas of development. Primarily, create space for others to contribute, don&#8217;t push and offer things. Be patient and allow relationships to grow. Expect people to prove themselves to you as much as you to them. Both customers and partners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson: Don&#8217;t expect customers to want to marry you on first meeting. Be cool. Know your worth. Be critical of them. I have a habit of wanting too much too quickly (when it comes to commercial customer relationships, thank you). I don&#8217;t take my time. I seem a bit desperate and I don&#8217;t have patience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}