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Recently I presented a business development training session at a conference. The audience were managers from all across Australia. I gave them a 2-minute break and asked them to get up and talk amongst themselves.

When we resumed I asked how many of them made a point of meeting someone they didn\’t know. One lonely hand went up in the air. Only one!

This was particularly important as the conference workshop was about building effective business relationships.

The moral of the exercise was that we naturally gravitate towards people we know and like. And it is easy to stick with our current network of clients, colleagues and industry contacts.

It can get scary when we have to meet new people.

But – from a business development perspective – it is extremely selfish when we are not brave enough too reach out to people we don\’t know.

It is selfish for us to avoid engaging with people with whom we may be able to develop a mutually beneficial relationship.

I have spoken with many clients and training delegates who are reluctant to meet new people. They feel a bit awkward and unsure of themselves.

Does that sound like you too?

In many cases this reluctance is based on self-centred feelings such as:

It is ironic that most people feel the same way, and could easily comfort each other. Yet everyone keeps to the safe relationships they already know.

So, in our efforts to stay within our comfort zone we act selfishly and do not fully explore new opportunities.

This can be the kiss of death to a service business. Especially for new businesses or those that are trying to expand into new areas. Meeting new people is critical to the success of the organisation.

By meeting – and fully engaging – with new people (prospects, industry partners, or referral sources) we open the doors to:

One of the greatest challenges for service providers, professionals, business owners, and new sales people is to have the confidence to strike up new relationships.

You owe it to yourself and to your business (or to your employer).

The tools you will need include:

For those who muster the courage, and learn the necessary skills, a whole new world of possibilities and success awaits you.

 

You might find this a weird suggestion, but it is true that, your games development can attain much better result and greater success if your games are created in assistance with the users themselves. Not many people will agree to this, but developing beta versions of your games and leaving it to the users to process is quite an interesting way of games development and as a matter of fact has also attained substantial results too. Lets see the impact of launching the beta or public version of your gaming site and decide if it is good or bad for your site.

 

The positive aspects of games development by public is that it is going to be quite critical which, as a matter of fact is a good thing to have. When the players themselves are developing the game, they will naturally pay attention at every minute aspect of the site and point out loop holes which, might be overlooked by a developer. Hence it will help you develop a game that is closest to the user’s requirement. Hence, the popularity of the game too will be greater.

 

While, your game development is being done by the users in stages, you are being able to create a rapport with them. You are able to grow an individual mailing list too. Which, you can utilize for your email marketing campaigns later. This is the second benefit of having games developed by the users themselves.

 

The next positive impact of players games development is that it spreads like wild fire. A player who has played your testing version and has attempted to contribute to your games development program, will recommend this to another friend, and the chain will carry on. This will help in publicising your website across the net too.

 

When players begin to shoulder the responsibility of games development for you, they get more and more involved in the activities that are carried out in your site. This will result in regular visits of these people to your site, which means more traffic and definitely higher ranking.

 

Just because your games development responsibility is upon the public it does not mean that you have no work in site development. You task is to keep developing things according to the suggestions that you have received. Mind you, not all of these suggestions are always good. So make sure that you are utilizing these suggestions wisely and coming up with a games website that is genuinely by the people and for the people.