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Employee motivation is probably the most important single manageable factor for success and profitability of all the facets of specialty store retailing. It is too vital to be handled on a hit or miss basis, depending on the whim or spirit that stirs the store owner or manager from time to time.To be effective, employee motivation must be promoted on a day-to-day, month-to-month basis. It is a functio
*** Thinking it was all a waste of time if you didn’t make an appointment for a sales presentation.
*** The following day, sending marketing material to everyone you met.
So What’s Wrong With These Behaviours?
Every single
Several years ago I decided to quit my job as a charge nurse at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and travel the United States as a travel nurse. The thought of being paid to visit the beaches of Hawaii and California or participate in the culture of New York City had become just too appealing. Looking back, there are several things I wish I had known prior to signing up with my first travel nurse agency. The f
And yet networking, done properly, is possibly the number 1 most effective marketing or business building activity one could engage in. So why hasn’t it been done properly? What are the mistakes that people are making that has turned networking into such an unpleasant, unfulfilling and plain awful experience?
Do These Look Familiar?
*** Stuffing your card in someone’s hand the moment you meet.
*** When a complete stranger says “and what do you do?” you respond with a 15-second elevator pitch.
*** “Working the room”.
*** Trying to “make an impression”.
*** Seeking opportunities to capitalise on potential relationships, including looking for sales opportunities amongst fellow members and/or guests.
*** Thinking it was all a waste of time if you didn’t make an appointment for a sales presentation.
*** The following day, sending marketing material to everyone you met.
So What’s Wrong With These Behaviours?
Every single o
A nasty, thoroughly dishonest story is beginning to emerge about one of the biggest financial scams ever!Which, in turn, gives an awful example of Top-Down-Management, and the total disregard and contempt it holds for its most important asset, you, its customer.Firstly it is obvious that the Management of British Banks are incapable of knowing what its left hand is doing from its right. Because
And yet networking, done properly, is possibly the number 1 most effective marketing or business building activity one could engage in. So why hasn’t it been done properly? What are the mistakes that people are making that has turned networking into such an unpleasant, unfulfilling and plain awful experience?
Do These Look Familiar?
*** Stuffing your card in someone’s hand the moment you meet.
*** When a complete stranger says “and what do you do?” you respond with a 15-second elevator pitch.
*** “Working the room”.
*** Trying to “make an impression”.
*** Seeking opportunities to capitalise on potential relationships, including looking for sales opportunities amongst fellow members and/or guests.
*** Thinking it was all a waste of time if you didn’t make an appointment for a sales presentation.
*** The following day, sending marketing material to everyone you met.
So What’s Wrong With These Behaviours?
Every single
My best friend Karen and I were at the gym last week walking on adjoining treadmills and chatting. Karen was telling me about a man she saw at the gym the day before. "He was so handsome," she said. She went on to describe his flowing hair, piercing eyes, and great body. "But then I saw..." She paused as she scrunched up her face. "...he was wearing a fanny pack." I laughed out loud. (A fanny pack, for those
Do These Look Familiar?
*** Stuffing your card in someone’s hand the moment you meet.
*** When a complete stranger says “and what do you do?” you respond with a 15-second elevator pitch.
*** “Working the room”.
*** Trying to “make an impression”.
*** Seeking opportunities to capitalise on potential relationships, including looking for sales opportunities amongst fellow members and/or guests.
*** Thinking it was all a waste of time if you didn’t make an appointment for a sales presentation.
*** The following day, sending marketing material to everyone you met.
So What’s Wrong With These Behaviours?
Every single
Ah, a great, cheesy classic American rock song! Wasn't it so right, too? In the 80's when that song came out, everybody was working for the weekend. Your week was simply black and white; you worked Monday through Friday and at 5pm on Friday you free and clear until Monday morning at 8am. Let's a take a look at how things have (DRASTICALLY) changed since the good ol' days.It's 1981, Loverboy was clim
*** “Working the room”.
*** Trying to “make an impression”.
*** Seeking opportunities to capitalise on potential relationships, including looking for sales opportunities amongst fellow members and/or guests.
*** Thinking it was all a waste of time if you didn’t make an appointment for a sales presentation.
*** The following day, sending marketing material to everyone you met.
So What’s Wrong With These Behaviours?
Every single
People of lower positions need to keep a grateful heart at all times, while people of higher positions must always give their care and loving hearts to those in lower positions. Only then the higher and the lower can link together into one breath and there would be no friction among them. Only then the world can become perfect. Only then the distance between people can be lessened gradually, and people can mer
*** Thinking it was all a waste of time if you didn’t make an appointment for a sales presentation.
*** The following day, sending marketing material to everyone you met.
So What’s Wrong With These Behaviours?
Every single one of these behaviours has in common the fact that they are self interested and rude. It’s ugly, and the only people who’ll be attracted to someone who behaves like this is similarly self-interested and rude people! Competent and experienced people, people with wide circles of influence, avoid those who demonstrate these behaviours like the plague, for the simple reason that they don’t want their friends, colleagues or clients exposed to it!
What’s the Alternative?
The far better, more effective, more enjoyable alternative turns out to be very simple. Just remember that networking is about finding business soulmates. You absolutely should not be looking for business at your networking group’s meetings. You’re looking for business people with whom you have things in common, with whom you can build solid, authentic relationships.
You won’t form those relationships at the meetings themselves. Those meetings are opportunities for members to introduce guests to each other, to grow the membership, to perhaps take tentative steps toward building relationships, and to consolidate great existing re
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