{"id":1142,"date":"2010-09-05T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2010-09-05T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:45:31","slug":"doing-business-at-the-speed-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/doing-business-at-the-speed-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing business at the Speed of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my daily business transactions I&#8217;m driven by speed: concluding sales, acquisitions or projects in the least possible amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>While this is prudent in the Information Age that we are currently living in, I recently had the type of encounter that&#8217;d qualify as an <em>epiphany<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A domain buyer contacted me via email, we took the communication offline and discussed the escrow process on the phone. Everything seemed to be going well, until his choice of exchange, which involved a transfer out versus an in-registrar push.<\/p>\n<p>At that point in time, the deal almost fell apart. My argument was, why wait 5 more days for the domain transfer to complete, when a push would instantly satisfy the escrow exchange? More importantly, why wait an extra week for payment from escrow to arrive?<\/p>\n<p>I became increasingly articulate in my argument, without realizing I was turning pushy. My modus operandi of completing a transaction in the least possible amount of time was clearly getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer told me very directly that I had become a pushy fellow. As he had placed an offer for the same domain five years ago and I had declined, there seemed to be little reason to rush things now. If I had awaited &#8220;pay day&#8221; for six years since I acquired the domain, what difference would an extra week make?<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that I realized how right he was. Caught up in my own Internet speed, I was not following the <strong>Speed of Life<\/strong>, where things take time; certainly more time than what we seem to allocate.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction completed in a very satisfactory manner and my escrow check arrived a week later. Meanwhile, I had the opportunity to review my processes and to allocate more personal time to the single most important person in my life: me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my daily business transactions I&#8217;m driven by speed: concluding sales, acquisitions or projects in the least possible amount of time. While this is prudent in the Information Age that we are currently living in, I recently had the type of encounter that&#8217;d qualify as an epiphany. 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