Tips on Business Success: Building Trust

IF you would want to be a successful businessman, the most important quality you need to develop is integrity.

Your clients and business associates need to know and feel that they can trust you. Given the following qualities below, what would you choose as ideal qualities for a partner in business:

a. high education (Harvard graduate)
b. experience
c. trustworthy
d. wealth.

IN my case, I would not care if he is a Harvard graduate or a rocket scientist, or a math wizard, or is filthy rich and owns a mansion in Beverly Hills. What is important for me is that I can trust my partner, my broker, or my consultant. If I know I can trust you, then I can confide in you my ideas, my secrets, and future plans for business. If trust in absent in a relationship, even in marriage, then that relationship is going nowhere. Better bail out as soon as possible from the partnership.

Let me relate to you what happend last week.

I got an email about a businesss opportunity so I texted the Consultant involved in my cellphone. I was having doubts at the start. I asked God to give me a sign if I would need to push through with this matter because it would require a lot of money from me.

I told the Consultant that I would send my resume and other documents then call him immediately. After three days, I did not have the documents yet but nevertheless I called up the Consultant in his cellphone.

I was having second thoughts actually because this guy only had a celfone as a contact number. He did not have a landline or an address. It reminded me of the cellphone scams I encountered during my stint in Smart Communications as a Customer Care Officer, where scammers would text clueless subscribers and say they won one million pesos. These scammers would then let the subscribers contact them through cellphone. So the subscriber would have to load their sim cards and call the scammer. I thought, that it should be the other way around. When a person wins a contest, the award giving company should be the one to call the subscriber.

Anyway, I gave the Consultant the benefit of the doubt and called him in his cellphone. I was shocked when he said "I already got your Resume, I received an email from you."

I said " You received an email from me?"

"Yes, I got one email from you. Give me two days so I could look at it."

I do not know why he said that because I NEVER emailed him anything. He even asked my age. I thought that if he read my resume, he would know my age.

I did not say that I did not send my resume yet because I wanted to hear where he was going with this. I also said that I got information about him from my friend whom he said he also knew but cannot pronounce and remember his name. I said "His name is Ronny." And he said,

"Ow Yes, Ronny."

This got me curious and made my Spider senses tingle. I felt immediately that I could not trust this guy.

Sometimes people say things just to make you know that they are busy, that they are doing something and that they are on top of everything when in fact they have do not have the slightest idea about what you are talking about. They say that they are arranging everything and that everything is okay when the truth is is that they have not done anything yet.

I felt that this guy is the same guy as above. He should have just said that he did not receive any email from me. I would have said that I did not send it yet and I may have even apologized for it. But he did not.

I gave him my email and I waited for two days. He did not send me anything after two days.

I got my sign and I thank God for giving me a clear mind to see it. That little voice within you is God's voice speaking. We can hear it if we listen. That is the voice we can really trust, the voice from God, our true and best business partner.