Nekisha Prince-Haynes

Your Client Is Not Your Friend Nekisha Prince-Haynes

Unique Brooke, owns and operates a successful online Virtual Assistant Business. Being a small business owner and making her own money has not been a white and yellow bed of roses; there were many challenges, setbacks, trails and errors, heartbreaks, tears and so much more. Clients come in all shapes and forms, and if not careful, lots of them come with sad stories that may cause us to empathize with them. That is how they usually work their way into our lives and take advantage of our services all in the name of friendship. Try not to forget that our clients are just our clients and we should not get too personal and close with them. In this book, Unique shows how to work with clients and maintain a professional relationship. She also warns that as business owners and entrepreneurs, it should be clear at all times that business does not have friends and families. Unique advised Benedict that business and pleasure do not mix. Whenever Unique finds herself slipping into the friendship zone with clients, she usually stops and take a reality check and repeat this affirmation, 'YOUR CLIENT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.'