How To Engage With Your Customers

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There are many different factors that contribute to business success or failure, including, of course, the strength and application of your ideas. And then there’s the matter of your customers. If you can successfully engage with your customers, then you’ll find that it’s much easier to build long-term success. After all, if you have people who feel close to your business, then they’ll be more likely to use your service again in the future. It’s always worth remembering that it’s much easier to retain the support of your current customers, rather than continually having to win new customers. 

In this blog, we’re going to take a look at a few ways that you can engage with your customers on a deeper level. 

Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Bloodsport

A Reel Leadership Flashback Article

Bloodsport is the 1988 action movie that is actually a biography of the real-life Frank W Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Dux has gone AWOL from the military to travel to Hong Kong for the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts competition. (Pick it up on Amazon)

The Kumite is a brutal, violent event. It is a full-contact fight to the bitter end. Sometimes, a Kumite fight may end in death.

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport

Dux goes to the Kumite to fight for his Shidoshi, Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao). Senzo’s son, Shingo Tanaka (Sean Ward), had passed away. Senzo no longer had an heir to represent his family in the Kumite. Dux wanted to take up the Tanaka mantle and fight for them.

There are brutal battles in Bloodsport. There are also plenty of leadership lessons in Bloodsport. I took 3 full pages of notes. Not all of them will make it into this Reel Leadership article but I hope you’re ready.