Starting, growing, and maintaining an online marketing
business is something billions of people worldwide are
trying to do as one of the ways to stay hip with
technology. If you don't have a PC, notebook, ipod, Utube
video, Facebook profile, MP3 player, and the whole shebang,
you are just not with the program.
I guess that means I'm out of it, even though I am an
online marketing business owner, because I only own a PC,
and don't even have a cell phone or text messaging. In
fact, text messaging has become my number one pet peeve
lately, with the cell phone being a close second.
People love cells and text messaging to the point that the
person they are with in the current moment is less
important than checking for, or writing messages to someone
else! Uh-oh! There's no better way to make someone feel
like an object rather than a person than to tune her out in
favor of that cell or text message.
Trust me folks, this is not a handy social skill in your
personal life, or your online marketing business life! Are
you losing it because of technology? If you are trying to
win over new prospects and customers, you better not be
thinking your incoming cell or text message is more
important than who you are with!
This is a sure way to lose business if you are not giving
your potential customers 100% of your attention when trying
to make a deal, sign up a new member, or just get someone's
feet wet with your online marketing business programs and
services.
If you think this is petty information from an opinionated
online marketing business owner, then think again! Do you
remember being a kid and watching TV with someone, and
asking a burning question only to be told, "Shhhh! I'm
watching this!" or "Shhhh! I want to hear this"? How did
that make you feel?
It probably made you feel less important than a piddly
piece of technology! If you run a business, you can't
afford to let it zap you of your social skills. Yes, you
have to spend time working on the PC or notebook to get
your work done. But you can't expect to run a healthy
online marketing business when you shut out the rest of the
real world and real people in it!
Have you ever gone out for a nice dinner and the person
you're with pulls out their text messaging? How
embarrassing is that!? As your potential customer, that
tells me that you are an online marketing business owner
who finds me boring, and you don't care, or think I am at
all important compared to the technology you have to attend
to. Uh-oh!
Now you may think that communicating online in discussion
forums, chat rooms, MSN, and this whole cell phone and text
messaging thing is still interacting with others. But wait
a minute! You are still losing an essential component of
human interaction here!
The human brain is capable of sending a piece of written
text over the phone, but only when you are face-to-face
with someone and in their presence, can the human brain
release neurons that feel what the other person is feeling,
sense what they are sensing. You only get a gist of this
online.
Empathy is something we can all have but it's developed by
being with people, not by having a relationship with your
computer. If you know that human relationships are the
essence of all our online marketing businesses, then you
will realize the importance of in-person contact with
others.
The point of this article is to make you aware that your
online marketing business and other techno-gadgets of this
new techno-internet age may be ruining your social skills.
These skills are so important in building our business and
personal relationships.
Remember that your online marketing business is about
relationships, not about technology. If you have well
developed social skills by being around other people, your
business will attract more customers.
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Liane Bate owns a Plug-in Profit Site web business, and is
author of 115+ articles related to online business and
internet marketing.
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