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What are the key lessons you've learned from your mentoring experience, as either an entrepreneur or a mentor?

Please see this article https://www.micromentor.org/blog/positioning-yourself-for-success/ by entrepreneur Amadou Doumbia and mentor Eric Jude.

What are the key lessons you've learned from your mentoring experience, as either an entrepreneur or a mentor? They may be specific takeaways, or larger points of view. Share your story here!

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In my view the mentor must have an appreciation of the rainbow of human values that exist out there and the fact that good communication must relate on an open minded basis to that phenomena.

Most of us who have mentored for years appreciate the fact that the mentored individual will do the job reflecting his or her own values, attributes and outlook. Success will be achieved by them, not us. We are only there as guides. The ideal mentee makes the journey interesting for us as well. If they have a thought on performing the job in a different way than the mentor identifies they show some initiative by developing the approach and asking the mentor to comment.

My major concern in mentoring is locating the right match where I have the opportunity to make the best contribution and the highest potential outcome for success. I pick clients and make offers on Micro Mentor. Others contact me and if I feel the match is not a good one, I refer them to a Micro Mentor I believe can help.

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As a new publisher,micromentor platform was really helpful to me,I was mentored by Ayesha Hasan,and now I have published my book.Kudos to this platy

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The lessons have learnt is simply

There's no wealth you can't build if you have the right skills..

Focus on growth and sales will come

To be offerless MEANS to be moneyless

Learn copywriting that's the fundamental of all sales

I believe this help someone

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At first, I thought I didn't have what it takes to be a mentor, but once I met entrepreneurs, I realized the power of knowledge.

It was apparent that almost 3 years of B2B sales experience really is a lot of wisdom. Things I took for granted in my career were actually not "common knowledge", but collective scientific proof that took many years of field exposure from others who came before me... And I'm glad they did it and gathered the results in books and courses; otherwise, I would've been the one going through trial and errors, and wow, some experts had a bag of mixed results; of failure and victories, before they learned what works.

I'm glad I can learn from them instead of repeating history and fail, and now of course, I can teach these lessons to aspiring entrepreneurs, so they can start on the right path and catch up faster by knowing what really is B2B sales, versus being overwhelmed with the vast amount of content out there which might give some, analysis paralysis, and actually hinders some from even giving the first step!

I now value myself more than before, as entrepreneurs reveal how helpful our meetings have been, how much time & money I saved them, and how we went straight to the action and skipped the fluff and "filler" lessons because after all, this is the world of B2B Sales!

All aboard!? Hop on the hype train, because it won't slow down after it takes off, neither will it backtrack for you if you miss this opportunity

This is B2B sales! Readers, read; Sellers... Sell! And that's why I'm here for you $$$.

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