Personally I will never promote anything to friends and family until after I have proven it works. You may say that is a bit unfair on friends and family because they could have been in sooner and helped you. I say if I can make it work without friends and family then so can they.
If you are not careful your friends can soon become a lot less friendly and you can end up an outcast in your family because of poor information you have given them, but if they have seen you strive to make a successful business they know the possibility of a good business is there and it is only themselves that can be to blame if it doesn't work.
Friends and family can be a great asset, but if they are not willing to put in the work and your success or failure depends on them then the whole relationship can change overnight.
Once you are up and running successfully, then you will not be reliant on friends and family but you will have the experience to help them and maybe accelerate their working in the business. So they are really going to be better off running with your experience to help them.
To my mind that is far better than relying on them to help you get the business going.
These are my thoughts and the way I work. I know of others with the opposing view.
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Personally I will never promote anything to friends and family until after I have proven it works. You may say that is a bit unfair on friends and family because they could have been in sooner and helped you. I say if I can make it work without friends and family then so can they.
If you are not careful your friends can soon become a lot less friendly and you can end up an outcast in your family because of poor information you have given them, but if they have seen you strive to make a ...more
