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# Dealer Survival Guide: Ten Taboos and Fifteen Defenses!

> This article outlines ten taboos for dealers to avoid in business, such as waiting passively for customers, lacking courage, and overpricing goods, and lists fifteen types of people dealers should guard against, including fraudsters, flatterers, and spies, to ensure business success and safety.

**Ten Taboos in Business**
**1. Avoid waiting for customers at the door**
The commodity market changes rapidly, and trade emphasizes timeliness; it's hard to see customers if you just sit. Only by moving around can you learn market information, seize the right moment, and make a profit.
**2. Avoid lacking courage**
As the saying goes, if you have 70% certainty, you can act; the remaining 30% you need to strive for. If you hesitate, you miss opportunities and lose profits. Remember, in business, there are few surefire ways to make money.
**3. Avoid refusing to sell when prices are high**
Commodities cannot only rise and never fall. When prices reach a certain high, sell as long as you make a profit, regardless of whether it's big or small. If you wait for even higher prices, you'll likely suffer losses.
**4. Avoid hoarding money**
After earning, if you're unwilling to reinvest, you turn active capital into idle money. Only by continuously advancing, expanding your business scale, and growing your enterprise can you reach new heights.
**5. Avoid aiming too high**
Despising small profits and wanting to get rich overnight will never lead to great wealth. Only by starting small, accumulating gradually, and taking one step at a time can you eventually climb to the peak of wealth.
**6. Avoid thinking "good wine needs no bush"**
Many people focus only on production and neglect marketing, believing that if the product is good, customers will come. This is a passive sales approach. Only by actively attracting customers and expanding influence can you sell more and earn big profits.
**7. Avoid copying others**
Lacking creativity and always following others, being led by the nose, you'll only get little or nothing after others have reaped the benefits. Only by seizing the market first can you win.
**8. Avoid acting hastily on hot information**
When you get hot news, don't rush into blind action without adequate preparation. Fighting an unprepared battle leads to more defeats than victories. Only by carefully analyzing and researching the market, and being fully confident, can you proceed.
**9. Avoid favoring hot over cold**
Always thinking that the more people doing something, the better, but remember, when there are too many radishes, the ground becomes scarce. Only by spotting overlooked opportunities and breaking into new niches can you capture the market.
**10. Avoid high-profit sales**
If you focus only on sales volume and set high prices that deter customers, you'll sell less despite high margins. Only by keeping profits modest and prices reasonable will you attract customers; small profits and quick turnover lead to big earnings.

**Fifteen Types of People Dealers Should Guard Against**
1. Masked people
Some people use big names or appear as celebrities... These are masked people, often with ulterior motives hidden behind their masks.
2. Wealth gods
Here, "wealth gods" doesn't refer to the traditional Chinese "God of Wealth," but those you think can bring you fortune. They lure you with various temptations, and once they achieve their goal, they disappear. Contact with such people can sometimes ruin you financially.
3. Check writers
Some people like to write empty checks; they agree to anything. Not only that, they'll proactively promise to do anything for you, but every check bounces. With such people, keep your expectations low to avoid disappointment.
4. Trumpeters
Some people seem born to be your followers, loudly promoting and flattering you as if to blow you up to the sky... Don't be fooled by these people.
5. Self-promoters
These people love to brag about their abilities; if you're willing to listen, they might become all-capable. In reality, their abilities are questionable because they're insecure, so they rely on boasting to bolster themselves, like a coward whistling in the dark. So, discount what "self-promoters" say.
6. Deadbeats
Rogues and scoundrels are usually thug behavior, but now some people, regardless of their status, use these tactics: not paying debts, playing tricks, and turning against you, leaving you with no recourse. Against such deadbeats, you must act decisively and without hesitation.
7. Family members
As the saying goes, "Blood is thicker than water," but in a society soaked in interests, many family and friendship ties fade (not denying all), yet some people use the guise of relatives or friends to cheat you without mercy.
8. Strangers
Some people seem to approach you by coincidence. Be wary of such people; probe and question them thoroughly to avoid being easily deceived. Otherwise, you might fall into their trap.
9. Overly familiar people
Remember: excessive warmth often hides traps.
10. Spies
Take this seriously—guard against business spies.
11. Petty people
There's only one way to guard against them: keep your distance.
12. Ingratiates
These people are cunning and stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Guard against them at every turn.
13. Lechers
Such people cannot focus on business; keep an appropriate distance to avoid unnecessary trouble.
14. Gamblers
Keep your attitude reserved with such people, or one day they'll borrow gambling money from you and ruin your important matters.
15. Drunkards
No matter how capable, such people will eventually ruin themselves through drinking.


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