{"id":3752,"date":"2013-10-03T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airtight.co\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2013-10-03T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T12:10:23","slug":"low-dollar-minded-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/low-dollar-minded-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Dollar Minded Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtight.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bandaid-Money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3757\" alt=\"Bandaid-Money\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airtight.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bandaid-Money.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Understanding who to do work for before you begin is crucial to the success of any business. Sometimes, you encounter people and companies who don&#8217;t understand what you represent or the degree of care that you employ to take care of their company.<\/p>\n<p>A customer who is always searching for the lowest dollar or the quickest Band-Aid, and not a true solution, rarely is the same customer that is willing to pay for quality.<\/p>\n<p>You, as a contractor, consultant, provider, or whatever you call yourself, may try hard to strip down your offering to meet the customer\u2019s diminished expectations, but it&#8217;s inherently difficult to change the DNA of your company to suit theirs and have everyone come out happy.<\/p>\n<p>True business savviness comes from finding a customer who is best suited to benefit from your specific offerings.<\/p>\n<p>When dealing with companies or people that are stuck in the low dollar-mindset, trying to move them towards your way of thinking is typically a futile effort. Often, the high standards your company represents and the qualifications that you have earned is a detriment in the eyes of people in a low-dollar minded organization. They simply see that as something that makes you more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard a pundit say \u201cfire a customer who doesn\u2019t appreciate what you do for them\u201d? OK, but what do you do after that? It&#8217;s simple, but not easy.<\/p>\n<p>Know what you do and do it well. Seek out and work for those who appreciate your contributions and those who want to perform at a level equal to or higher than the one you try to obtain. Although this may prove difficult at times, the reward of finding such a partner is worth every moment spent in search of that relationship.<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself in the constant company do-it-as-cheap-as-you-can minded customers, the onus is on you to get out and find a better customer to serve.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing today to find a better relationship of mutual satisfaction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding who to do work for before you begin is crucial to the success of any business. Sometimes, you encounter people and companies who don&#8217;t understand what you represent or the degree of care that you employ to take care of their company. A customer who is always searching for the lowest dollar or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}