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What can you do to ensure the longevity of a business relationship?

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This excerpt discusses steps that both individuals and companies can take to ensure longevity in business relationships.

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With every business relationship, it is important to set expectations so that trust can be built. If people don't know what you're looking for, it's going to be difficult for them to deliver according to the criteria that you have outlined in your mind. People are not mind readers. Nice example:

- Just because it's your anniversary doesn't mean that a man is going to buy you diamonds.
- Just because a man takes you to a store to look at diamonds doesn't mean that he's actually going to purchase any of them for you.
- Just because a man tells you that he's going to purchase them for you doesn't mean ...

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