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April 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 91 to 95 (happiness, outlook picture, predict reactions objections and responses)
101 tips continued:
91. Surround yourself with things that make you happy -
92. Change your outlook, and see the bigger picture -
93. Schedule time by blocks rather than tasks -
94. Learn to predict reactions, objections and responses -
95. [...]
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April 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 96 to 101 (business and success passion, planning, comfort zone, mistakes lead to success)
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96. Be passionate on your products, services and corporate identity -
97. Be passionate about success -
98. Allow staff to dress casually on Fridays -
99. Always spend one day a week at home [...]
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April 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 86 to 90 (CRM, good employees, visualise future)
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86. Use a central location or CRM system to document all issues – CRM, short for Customer Relationship Management system. These are good for businesses with a few sales people. For small 1-5 people businesses I don’t think [...]
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April 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 81 to 85 (marketing strategy, customer needs and wants, hiring, punctuality for meetings, weekly staff meetings)
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81. Plan successful marketing strategies by identifying the features and benefits of your products or services – always showcase your products and services with the FAB (Features, Advantages and Benefits) [...]
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April 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 76 to 80 (goals and vision, keep staff in the loop, strengths and weaknesses, publicly praise, create boundaries)
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76. Always communicate your goals, vision and priorities to your staff. This will enable them to know what to work towards – your staff like yourself want to [...]
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April 15th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 71 to 75 (training, pride, motivation, treat staff well, trade shows, customer acquisition)
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71. Ongoing training and nurturing of skills creates highly professional people – staff development etc
72. Remember – pride is more of a motivating factor than money – this is an interesting point. As [...]
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April 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 66 to 70 (procrastination, strategy, tell the truth, staff bonuses, the right employees)
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66. Procrastination is the enemy to growth – Procrastination, or just putting off things to a later date, is plain stupid. A business cannot run with procrastinators.
67. Engage others in both developing and employing [...]
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April 8th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 61 to 65 (customer referrals, sales techniques, the sky is the limit, success growth)
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61. See your customers as your sales team. Allow them to generate business for you through referrals- this needs systematising…you need to make sure that customers will give you the right referrals. No [...]
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April 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 56 to 60 (networking, goals, dreams, service potential, customer feedback, popular people)
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56. Networking is the key to success. Always look for opportunities to make contacts – I think their are plenty of networking opportunities…trouble is that a lot of people try too hard when networking! [...]
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April 1st, 2010 | No Comments »
101 Tips To Improve Your Business – Tips 51 to 55 (mail order, point of purchase, telemarketing, example of your own service, serve not sell)
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51. Design a mail order campaign – snail mail, slow mail or the old mail is still a good medium to market through. All successful marketing campaigns rely on [...]
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