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Adwords.  What  I want  you to take  from  this is that when you
             encounter an unexpected change, there is an opportunity within it.
             What you need to do is clear your mind and assess it to find the
             positives. The change will come whether you like it or not so to be
             prepared is important  but  responding with a  clear  mind and
             imagination is important.

             To round up this part, I would like to speak about your competitors.
             There  are  2  different  extreme  versions  of  how  to  approach
             competition, you will have to decide what is the best approach for
             your business. Perhaps, you may find a middle ground between
             the two extremes.
             Let  me start with Henry Ford who was one the greatest
             entrepreneurs  to  ever  lived.  His  influences remain  in
             manufacturing up till today. He was the one who pioneered the
             ‘assembly line’ for  mass production. This discovery happened
             because he wanted to produce an affordable car of high quality
             that the masses can buy. He started manufacturing hundreds of
             cars per annum to manufacturing millions of cars per annum. If you
             see the car with the badge FORD, that is his legacy. They are still
             waxing stronger in the car industry today after more than 100 years
             after his death. This quote will give you an idea on his view about
             competition
             The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you
             at all but goes on making his own business better all the time. -
             Henry Ford.
             The way Henry Ford operated his business was without regard for
             competitors. He had the internal drive to provide the best of service
             to the community. As a result he was relentless with his search to
             provide the best service possible. What was fascinating about his
             method was that he put himself and the company under enormous
             pressure to find efficiency savings constantly. Henry Ford would
             announce a reduction in price from say 800 dollars per car to 750
             dollars without knowing how to achieve it. He would then say to his
             team after the announcement, we must find a way to deliver to
             customers at the price and still make a profit. They would start the
             process of study to find savings. Every hand must be on deck to
             get  this done and when they had done that successfully, they
             would heave a sigh of relief. Not yet, because next year, he would

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