I gave my friend the answer to his financial problem, but he did nothing with it!

Well, now if you'd charged him a consulting fee of $50, he might have acted on your advice.

If you'd charged him a consulting fee of $500, he'd probably have acted on your advice.

If you'd charged him a consulting fee of $5,000, he'd have a profitable business by now.

And, if you'd charged him a consulting fee of $50,000, he'd be looking at franchising his operation or an IPO ...

Family and friends make the worst clients. After all, they remember how you forgot the hot dogs for that beach party five summers ago (or was it six), or how your closet is filled with Buffy the Vampire Slayer memorabilia, or (INSERT PERSONAL QUIRK OR PUBLIC MISTAKE HERE). Hard to take someone seriously who forgot the hot dogs back in '98 (or was it '96 ...)


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Over the years, I have been paid some BIG bucks for advice.

Believe it or not, I have had people pay me as high as $25,000 ... then, not do a diddly thing with the advice they paid for.

It ain't the money ... it's the nature of people who "want" but aren't willing to do anything to "get."

Jim

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> It ain't the money ... it's the nature of
> people who "want" but aren't
> willing to do anything to "get."

I completely agree. However, for most people - particularly the fellow Lawrence describes - money is a definite filter. It filters out the committed from the uncommitted.

That filtration happens at different levels for different people. Those folks who paid you $25,000 to ignore what you said - would they have done the same at $250,000? Perhaps they would have, come to think of it. Like you, I have been well-compensated for wise counsel that went unheeded. There's no accounting for sheer lack of stick-to-it-iveness, regardless of relationship or cost.

But, relationship and cost do enter the mix for most people.




John Kuraoka, freelance advertising copywriter