Love’s Good for Business
Rhonda Abrams at The Passionate Entrepreneur:
Since Valentine’s Day is this week, I was curious to see whether being in love helped entrepreneurs. Did romance give business owners and managers an energy boost, or drain their time and energy? When it comes to the bottom line, is it better to be married or single?
So I had my company conduct a survey of the readers of my email newsletter to determine the effects of love, marriage, and being single on their companies.
The conclusion? Fall in love or walk down the aisle and your bank account benefits.
Overwhelmingly, entrepreneurs reported that love was good for the bottom line, with 59 percent reporting positive financial effects.
In fact, entrepreneurs are upbeat about the effects of love and marriage in three of the four areas surveyed: finances, focus, and self-esteem. The only area in which entrepreneurs reported slightly more negative than positive effects from being in love was the impact on their time.
Perhaps this is a result of a buoyant outlook on life, with 95 percent of entrepreneurs indicating that being in love improved their sense of self-esteem in business. Marriage likewise improved self-esteem, although by slightly less — 87 percent of married respondents got a heightened sense of self-esteem from having that wedding ring.
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