Business

Attention grabbing – www.salesblogs.co.uk

Time seems to slip through our fingers every day and many actions remain for tomorrow’s to do list, and this is the same for most of us. So given that everyone is doing more than one persons job or at least it feels like it, how do we grab the attention we need to get our messages across?

Well it’s like all relationship building, you have to talk sparingly and listen intently, and we all know what listening looks like and feels like don’t we guys?, and be persistent. Many marketing experts whom I have spoken to recently and whose books I have read, all appear to back this up, saying that we need to continue persuing our target relentlessly through an ongoing strategy of communication. We are building a relationship with our prospective customers so that when they are ready to spend, we are at the front of the queue and have built rapport and trust

Business

Free Training

free_5I was on a FREE training course last week – learning more about NLP as part of a diploma course, and surprise – the first 2 days were FREE of charge. If I like it, and want to learn more (take the final two days) I can do this for a small investment. Why am I writing this? Well a couple of reasons – first off, it was probably one of the best training courses I have attended, and I’ve attended a lot of courses, secondly, the gents running the course were very genuine and friendly and extremely competent. They knew the subject very well, and delivered a well paced and enjoyable course. I reckon it’s down to me now, to “try on” the learnings for size and make the most of this. If you want o know more – click the link Free training

Business

How much do you want to grow your business and what are you prepared to invest?

No really, it’s a serious question. You most likely say that you want to grow your business and that there are barriers to achieving your goals, but what are you prepared to DO about it?

Look at it like this – There are ten frogs sitting on a log and one of them decides to jump off. How many are left?

So you are sharp and you noticed that there were ten frogs STILL sitting on the log, because despite making a decision, there was NO ACTION.

Back to my original question – have you made some decisions but not yet committed the action?

If one of your decisions was to grow your business and yet you are unsure of how, or you know how, but do not have the resources or skills in your business to ACT, you should reach out and outsource – find a trusted advisor.

Social

Profiteering surely?

Well it’s not often that I rant, but boy am I all riled. I have booked my car in for a service this week, and I can’t help getting a strong senbse that becasue the tightening economy and folks not investing much in new cars, that the main dealers are absolutely taking the p*%$ with servicing costs to make up the deficit. Are they prepared to negotiate – Hell no – “it’s fixed price servicing sir” is what I’m told. I’m between a rock and a hard place really because I took the car on a personal contract plan, so taking it for a service at the independent garage down the road could cost me (it might not, but can’t afford conversation about invalidating warranties) Grrrr I feel incensed 😦

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Tweet tweet

The new marketing phenomena is firmly established. From my space to facebook, and the more business focused linkedin and ecademy, all these “social networking/social media” portals appear to be thriving with many many people totally bemused by the new wave. The big question of course is how much time should be dedicated to using these sites and of course what is the real value. I hear much positive chatter about these sites and indeed am using them myself, but the value is far from obvious in the circles I work in. Perhaps there are some alternative views – always keen to hear

Business, Social

Too scared to do anything?

The news every day does little to inspire risk taking for sure, but for many people I can see that it paralyses them completely, and instead of pursuing activities that will drive costs down, and improve efficiencies, they do absolutely nothing – I do find this curious, because it drives the opposite result to that which is REALLY desired – GROWTH and PROSPERITY.
Let’s all make sure we are part of the solution for driving this country into recovery and take some positive action today – reach out for help, and you will be surprised by the willing responses.

Social

Snow place like home

Many of us were “gazing out of windows” at home yesterday feeling empowered by the snow….What empowered by the snow?

Many years ago, folks would have simply not been able to work at all in weather conditions like these because they could not GET TO WORK, and businesses would have lost thousands of hours of productivity and £££££s as a result. But like me, many folks are location independent, and work is no longer a place that you go to, you simply work wherever you are, and for many people this means a room at home. It could equally mean a quiet corner for an hour in Starbucks smile

Flexible working offers a new paradigm to businesses around the globe – take presenteeism for example ( a phrase coined by the BBC I think), whereby people returning to work before they are properly recovered from sickness, infect other members at work – resulting in further lost productivity and more cost ££££££….Now the ability to work remotely allows folks, recovering from illness, but not actually too sick to work the ability to be productive without infecting their colleagues

Remote working – has it’s benefits and (I’m certain) it’s detractors too – what do you think – rather be in the garden building snowmen?

Personal Management

As Steven Covey says..

Our circle of influence becomes larger the more we focus our attention on matters that we can control and manage directly. Our circle of influence diminishes and withers the more we focus our attention toward those matters that are outside our control. Yet for many of us, this circle of concern as Covey calls it, can often dominate our thoughts. Turn on the TV, switch on the radio, or pick up a magazine or newspaper and the overwhelming message is we should all worry because of the recession. Well I reckon Covey was absolutely right and I for one will be focusing in my attention right where I can impact, and give over none of my attention to thoughts that concern. Afterall, if simply worrying is going to fix it, I’m sure we’d all be there. By the way if you haven’t read Covey – I highly recommend it – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – it’s a must read. Happy thoughts