What I Wish I Did Earlier In My Career: Transparency & Selling
The biggest mindset shift heading into 2025 is embracing digital transparency. Traditionally, businesses kept key details—pricing, contracts, and potential pitfalls—close to the chest. Now, being brutally honest about what your company does well (and what it doesn’t) builds trust with customers. Clear communication on pricing, contracts, and risks fosters stronger relationships, and in today’s world, trust is just as valuable as revenue.
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Heading into 2025, I thought to myself, what is one mindset shift that had the biggest impact on me and my business?
And I would have to chalk it up to digital transparency.
What I mean by that is historically, we all kept our cards close to our chest. What is your contract, your pricing, your profit margins, and what could go wrong?
Often we didn’t wanna share with the customer or the potential customer all the pitfalls of your product or service. And now I think it’s completely the opposite. I think it’s so critical in 2025 to be brutally honest and brutally transparent about what your company can do well, what it cannot do well, how the terms work, the pricing works, how to get out of contracts, what can go wrong. I just think the biggest mindset shift for me is to be really open and honest with customers and potential customers working with your company.
And the opposite, effect is happening where you create more trust. And I think trust is, the most important asset we have outside of revenue. But, the more honest you are, the more transparent you are digitally and non-digitally just by talking to clients, I think trust will increase, and I think it’s critical heading into 2025.