{"id":350,"date":"2017-11-03T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:02:58","slug":"the-overlooked-business-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/the-overlooked-business-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overlooked Business Asset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11-03-17-colleagues-1238030-639x479.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-351\" src=\"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11-03-17-colleagues-1238030-639x479-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11-03-17-colleagues-1238030-639x479-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11-03-17-colleagues-1238030-639x479.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the most important asset of a business? Here are a few choices:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Customers<\/li>\n<li>Employees<\/li>\n<li>Technology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>They are all important, but there is one missing element. Relationships. Strong relationships are what make a business successful. It\u2019s not a new concept and it\u2019s been around since business started. Let\u2019s look at each one:<\/p>\n<p><em>Employees: <\/em>Most employees do not just want a job, but a place that they enjoy working at. Strong relationships start with appreciation and gratitude for your employees and a team-based approach. When you have great relationships with your employees then productivity increases, loyalty forms, and customer service is improved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Customers:<\/em> Every business should strive for strong, lifetime relationships with their customers. However, this means that you should do business with people that you enjoy doing business with. As a byproduct, strong relationships foster win-win results, including an increase of business activity, loyalty, and referrals from friends and family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Technology:<\/em> Technology can help to foster relationships by keeping you more connected with your employees and customers and making their experience more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Based upon anecdotal evidence and especially the thoughts of business gurus, the concept of relationships seems to be very true. Also, what greatly impacts a business and is overlooked even more is the condition of our personal relationships. Look around and see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat. Do not form vain relationships with people just because of what they can do for you or from a view of utility, but rather as an act of charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the most important asset of a business? Here are a few choices: Customers Employees Technology They are all important, but there is one missing element. Relationships. Strong relationships are what make a business successful. It\u2019s not a new concept and it\u2019s been around since business started. Let\u2019s look at each one: Employees: Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,17],"tags":[83,98,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-career","8":"category-financial","9":"category-self-development","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-customers","12":"tag-employees","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}