December 15th, 2008
by Lorrie Thomas
- In a web marketing relationship challenge? Ask yourself, What Would Audrey Do?
I can speak for all the wild web women at Web Marketing Therapy when I say that we love what we do. Helping people help themselves is a really gratifying experience, the team plays well together (we have the Pajama Bowling pics to prove it) and we only work with ideal clients. However, in our clear blue sea of “we love web marketing so much we want to marry it” feelings, our sloppy drippy web marketing love can get derailed. Sometimes patients critically judge what they don’t understand or are stressed and tense and we feel their pain.
The web marketing wisdom I want to share to help you stay positive to do positive work (that works for me!) is to always ask yourself:
W W A D (What would Audrey Do?)
Before I launched www.webmarketingtherapy.com, I added a picture to my desk (this exact photo of Audrey) to remind me that:
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice
I am sharing this because with web marketing, you are engaged in relationships. Relationships are everything and you are responsible for your role in making that relationship great. You work with colleagues, vendors, clients and managers and there are some days when people may not be nice to you and you may want to be defensive (that is human nature) and be ugly back.
Audrey Hepburn helps us keep it real as she symbolizes calm classiness (not to mention her stellar humanitarian work!) and we try to maintain that every day. Being a pleasure to work with, no matter what role you play in web marketing matters.
People like to play with nice people. It pays to play nice in the sandbox…when you are ready to pounce, remember WWAD, it may save you a lot of backwards work!
Web Marketing Therapy Related Links:
- Being a pleasure to work for/with PAYS
- Healthy Dose of Web Marketing Inspiration
- The Art of Relationships (and what Valentine’s Day can remind us about Marketing)
- Web Marketing Motivation
AnaMaria
(December 16th, 2008 at 12:43 am)
Hey, W W A D What would Audrey Do?… that sounds familiar! Where did you hear that?
AnaMaria
Lorrie Thomas
(December 16th, 2008 at 12:54 am)
I only steal from the best darlin’! You can vouch that her pic is on my desk! Saves me from myself somedays!! I learn from the best!
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(January 26th, 2009 at 11:53 am)
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Sue
(February 6th, 2009 at 8:48 pm)
But sometimes I’m kind of interested in what Audrey would WEAR. Is that ok, too?
Lorrie Thomas
(February 8th, 2009 at 6:45 pm)
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(March 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm)
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