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ISSUE #266 - (Sponsored by FineArtStudioOnline)
Straight Talk about Art, Marketing, Inspiration and Fine Living
Drop Everything and
Have a Cup of Tea
by Artist Keiko Tanabe
TODAY:
“Whether you sell your art or not, we all know how important customer
service is. We all have been customers, and we all remember how we felt
when we were treated nicely or rudely. That experience often determines
whether we want to favor or avoid a particular business. . .”
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE:
* Drop Everything and Have a Cup of Tea
* Be a Big Fish in Your Own Pond (Clint Watson), Revisited
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Drop Everything and Have a Cup of Tea
by Keiko Tanabe
Today’s guest author is artist, Keiko Tanabe
. This article has been edited and published with the author’s
permission.
Dear Oil,
Whether you sell your art or not, we all know how important customer
service is. We all have been customers, and we all remember how we felt
when we were treated nicely or rudely. That experience often determines
whether we want to favor or avoid a particular business.
Now, going back in history to 16th century Japan, there was a well-known
master of tea ceremony named Sen no Rikyu who described the art of tea
in simple language. He said, “the way of tea is naught but this: first
you boil water, then make the tea; then you drink it properly.” I
mention Rikyu because his famous words ichigo ichie are ones that I try
to keep in mind when it comes to my customer service. Ichigo ichie is
usually translated in English as “one time, one meeting” or “one
encounter, one chance.” Simple . . . yet profound, this expression
reminds us that we must treat every meeting with somebody as if the
meeting were the last chance to interact with him/her.
As we spend more time online nowadays, we are having less and less
face-to-face meetings. Some messages are just hard to get across in
written words alone. We cram our day with so many to-do’s, though not
everything is absolutely necessary. We live very hurried lives, maybe
not spending enough time in each meeting, on-line or not, with our
customers. I am talking about myself. Maybe it is not a bad idea to
drop everything and have a nice cup of tea once in a while. And think
about the importance of ichigo ichie.
“Though many people drink tea, if you do not know the Way of Tea, tea
will drink you up.” - Sen no Rikyu
– Read more on Sen no Rikyu
and ichigo ichie
.
– View Silence at Eiheiji Temple, Japan
and other paintings in my Japanese
Landscapes Collection
.
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