{"id":120,"date":"2012-09-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:45:25","slug":"every-week-i-fail-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2012\/09\/every-week-i-fail-in-business.html","title":{"rendered":"Every week, I fail in business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every business person, no matter how successful they appear, deals with failure daily. It’s just a part of doing business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Every week, I fail in my business.
I never can outguess the customers!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Looking in from the outside, you don’t see the whole picture. A smart friend told me he’s intimidated when he looks at people he considers successful in business, including me. I started listing off a few of my more notable failures, from personnel to assets, to marketing and advertising.<\/p>\n

Every week of the world, I put in my stock order based on my best guess of what people will want to buy for the next week. I’m never completely correct. I get close, but there are always misses and sometimes horrible mistakes. It’s just that no one sees them, except for the hole in the shelf.<\/p>\n

But from the outside, you don’t see it that way. You think it’s all planned and precise, when I know that it’s really messy.<\/p>\n

My weekly stock ordering failures remind me that failure is a constant in business. If you’re not committing some errors and experiencing some failures, you’re probably not doing anything.<\/p>\n

Don’t be afraid of the failures. They are the only way you can learn and grow.<\/p>\n

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