Financial Freedom Discoveries - Forget Your Family

October 25th, 2007 | Stacey | Financial Independence, Financial Freedom Opportunities, Financial Freedom

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If financial freedom finally seems that it is one the forefront because you have discovered the business opportunity of a lifetime, avoid hitting up your friends and family to be your first clients.

Although many people claim one of the secrets to financial freedom is being able to sell your family and friends, that is not necessarily the fact. Because people are your friends and family, often they are more demanding and want more of your time and effort than customers you don’t know. After all, strangers don’t expect special privileges, do they?

Familiarity can be a kiss of death when you are trying to establish a business and attain financial freedom. Some of the greatest problems you are likely to have to face in dealing with friends and family is that they will expect to get something for nothing or next to nothing and they will want more than they actually paid for. For someone starting and investing in a new business, this doesn’t mean profits. If you don’t offer all the unreasonable freebies certain friends and family want, you won’t have repeat customers either. Further, disgruntled family or friends can give you bad publicity and deter perfectly reasonable prospects such as neighbors.

Even if your friends and family behave reasonably at the beginning, it is likely you will hear things such as “friends don’t treat friends this way” or “I helped you when you had nothing in the beginning”. Since these statements inhibit your sense of freedom and damage your relationships, stick to strangers as client when you are seeking financial freedom through your own business – or be completely clear to friends and family that they get the same treatment as everyone else.