A lesson from Mercedes

byJeffWhenman

2.6K followers

7 years ago

Last year I became a grandfather, having done so my wife said one of us needed to get a sensible car for picking up the grandkids and all their stuff. We were both driving two door coupes at the time, and by one of us she ment me.

I don't like big cars, two of my previous cars were a Honda S2000 and an Audi tt V6.

Eventually I settled on a Mercedes C220 AMG, If I could not have a sports car I would at least have side skirts and big mag wheels.

So I picked up the car from a private seller and drove 90 miles home, the very next day I broke the car, it was not old and it was low mileage, but hey thats life.

9000 perfectly engineered parts moving in perfect sincronicity, but one broken one effecting the performance of the whole car.

Now we know that having fixed it I can expect thousands of trouble free driving miles, because we know thats how it works with good cars.

However, when it comes to business, and particularly with online business systems, we often see under performance, which leads to frustration, low revenues and in extreme cases the individual will quit.

I guess what I am saying here is that like my car, you may have 9000 perfectly moving parts, and one possibly minor, possibly yet undiscovered part is affecting the performance of your whole business.

You may be just one more fix away from many years of successful internet revenues, you may have climbed 99% of the hill, and just don't realise it.

The truth is most people quit just before they are about to win, I am encouraging you not to be that person.