I’ve written a lot over the past four plus years, and a lot of my favorite posts deserve to be revisited. With that in mind, I am going to be posting stories I have written in the past. Every other Wednesday (until I get distracted with something else or run out of stories), I am going to re-post older stories.
First from August of 2007, a post that is short, simple and conveys how I try to treat every single one of my clients.
There are no little deals
Every transaction is a huge transaction for the buyer, and usually the seller, too.
Dismissing the “little” deals as such is detrimental to everybody involved. We were all, at some point, a “little deal” ourselves.
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