Epic FAIL Trying to Make a Living

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Rob wants to share an epic fail he has seen a lot when people are trying to make a living. Whether you are a business owner, entrepreneur or simply trying to get ahead listen to this episode to make sure you are NOT still doing this EPIC fail in 2022! KEY TAKEAWAYS Unfortunately there is a lot of homelessness in Rob’s hometown but often he is unable to help as he doesn’t have cash to give them. In the same way, a flower stall he wanted to buy flowers from, didn’t take payments from a phone. Both times he could have given these people his money but was unable to. You need to make it easy for people to buy from you, you need to take all forms of payment including applepay! Money loves speed and hates friction. Make it as easy as possible for people to pay you! BEST MOMENTS “Everyone pays on their phone now” “How much money are they losing not taking money from phones?” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.7	I want to share an epic fail. I see a lot with people trying to make a living.
0:07.1	Whether you're employed a business owner or entrepreneur or you're just trying to get ahead
0:13.2	and it is 2022 in case you hadn't noticed and I can't believe people are still making this
0:20.8	epic fail trying to make a living. Unfortunately there are some homeless people in our town centre
0:29.6	and where I believe the money will do good I often try and give money and of course they ask me
0:37.2	for money and of course I don't carry cash. I don't know if you carry cash. Do you still carry
0:43.4	cash? Remember cash? Do you carry cash? And so unfortunately the poor people are on the streets
0:50.8	probably losing out a lot of money because they don't accept payments on their phone.
0:57.5	If they have a phone now. So I've just tried to buy a bouquet of flowers and I thought to myself
1:04.0	I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to do something nice. So I bought one for my wife
1:08.8	and one I said give to the next person in the queue just when I'm gone because I wanted to do it
1:14.4	anonymously. So they wrapped up the flowers. It was all good. They were really happy. They thought
1:19.7	what a sweet thing to do and then guess what the flower stall didn't take apple pay. They don't
1:27.4	take payments on a phone. So I'm there going it's kind of embarrassing. It makes me feel like I
1:33.5	haven't got the money even though I don't carry cash. Do you carry cash anymore? I don't think most
1:38.7	people carry cash. Let me ask these two. Excuse me, excuse me, just a quick one. Do you carry cash
1:44.8	anymore? Do you pay on your phone? Pay on my phone. Everyone pays on their phone now. So
1:51.4	if you are an independent business, a small business then you need to make it easy for people to
1:58.8	buy from you. Whether that is taking or forms of payment. Let me ask this person here. Hello.
2:05.2	How are you doing? Just a quick one. Do you take apple pay for donations?
2:09.6	Do I take apple pay? Can people pay on their phone to donate? No. No. So I can't donate because I
2:16.9	don't carry cash anymore. Thank you. So I wanted to donate there to the Salvation Army but they
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