Home business owners forget that on the other side of the transaction are human beings. And those human beings have expectations. Are you meeting them? Not sure? Then you might want to read this article. Failure to meet the expectations of our market can lead to dire consequences. One of them is the loss of income. In fact, if expectations aren’t met, it can result in no income at all.

In order to understand meeting expectations, one has to place ones self in the shoes of their target market. So let’s use a hypothetical example of somebody going to a movie theater to watch a movie. What would be the expectations of somebody doing this?

Well, for starters, they expect the movie itself to entertain them. Now, while this part if beyond the control of the movie theater itself, ultimately, the theater takes the hit if the movie is a bomb. People walk out and don’t come back to see it again. In fact, if that particular movie theater shows too many duds, they may lose a lot of potential business.

But the quality of the movie isn’t all. Patrons also expect the movie to be shown without any glitches. Remember the old days when you’d go to see a movie and the film would break? It doesn’t happen much anymore, but still…if it did, patrons would not be too happy. They expect to see the movie from start to finish without any glitches.

There’s more though. Somebody going to a movie expects the seats to be clean and not all sticky from somebody spilling their drink from the last showing. So yes, they expect the theater to be cleaned regularly. They also have expectations regarding food. Probably the most enjoyment one gets out of seeing a movie is being able to sit there watching it with a big bag of popcorn or a box of their favorite candy. Imagine going to a theater and it not having a concession stand. It would be unthinkable.

Point is, when you DO go to see a movie, you have all these expectations, and more, including rest rooms, ample parking and so on. If you sat down to think about all the things you expected when going to a movie, it would amaze you. Well, your prospects have the same expectations of YOUR business…whatever it is.

So what YOU need to do is put yourself in the place of one of your prospects and ask yourself this question. “What do my prospects expect?”

Until you can answer that completely, you can never run a successful home business.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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