January 17, 2019
How many times do you need to hit yourself in the head with a hammer before you get the lesson? Over the years, it took me several times (with different types of hammers) to learn to identify my niche market (“sweet spot”) and stick with it. I remember a landlord/tenant matter that my then-law partner and I took on. The client owned a building, and was trying to rid it of non-paying tenants. So if owning a building was his business, that made him a small business owner, right? Not exactly . Or rather, not exactly the kind of small business owner who was in our sweet spot. We didn’t know the court rules. We didn’t know the building regulations. So we had to spend extra time (which we couldn’t charge for) trying to get up to speed. Every step we took felt like we were getting deeper and deeper into quicksand. Ultimately, we got the result the client wanted, but that didn’t make it a success. The client was upset with the lengthy delays;…
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