The ultimate goal is to land a great mentor. You will be in a personal relationship with your mentor intimate sharing your business dreams, hopes, fears and challenges, as well as your strengths and shortcomings or weaknesses; definitely not revealed to anyone. The mentor will help you move out of your comfort zone. Expansion, hiring, changing market evaluation, marketing, social media presence could be a few of the areas the mentor will compensate for your inexperience.
4 Ways LinkedIn Can Convert for Your Biz
Truth to be told LinkedIn has over 238 MILLION members! For biz owners looking to promote their services to new clients, LinkedIn is the platform to embrace. How would you leverage the power of LinkedIn?
How Is Your E-Commerce?
* Turn your website’s visitors to opt-in subscribers – Participate to the old “Tool Time” – Attend to your keywords. – Your website needs to be easy-to-navigate. -Take advantage.
What Drives a Business Leader to Success?
Once in a while, I look at the list below to remind myself what characteristics I should master in order to thrive as a business leader. It makes me humble, thankful for what I’ve achieved so far, and eager to master the characteristics I’m lacking. To support everyone who reads this blog, I’m sharing the list:
7 Ways to Help You Stay Motivated
Nothing should stop you from preparing budgets and plans of action, but take it one day at a time. Live to the fullest each day, being present to all turns of your business and customers.
Take the Bite out of Feedback, Employee Reviews, or Random Criticisms
Let me start by stating that there are two components in this situation: Delivering feedback … and how to receive feedback effectively. Can we all agree that even when we clearly make every effort to understand that the feedback we’re receiving is essential to our development, and we want to trust that the person delivering wants us to succeed; it can activate a plethora of triggers … even some as high as feeling we’ve been socially or professionally threatened?
Do you have a Growth Strategy?
When your goals are to win the larger market share, even when you have to sacrifice the short-term profits, you will need to apply a Growth Strategy. Companies and organizations often incorporate one or more of the following strategies to satisfy their need for a Growth Strategy: product development, market penetration, market development and / or diversification.
4 Steps to Cultivating a Winning Culture for Your Employees
Is your business cultivating the necessary culture to prevent quality employees from leaving? Besides the amount of time and money spent on hiring and training, quality applicants will not necessarily knock on your door looking for work. So once you find them, how can you keep these “A” players?
Would your Audience Listen to You and Take Action?
Speaking is a very serious business, and you should never underestimate the need to practice. My father gave thousands of sermons in his life. Even at his level of knowledge and experience he never skipped spending hours in preparing and rehearsing his weekly message. Practice will enable to deliver your comments the exact way you have planned and to deliver your story and the call to action with grace and inspiration.
Newsflash: Cause-Related Marketing Is Not Philanthropy!
Cause marketing or cause-related marketing refers to a type of marketing involving the cooperative efforts of a for-profit business and a non-profit organization for mutual benefit. Make no mistake, cause marketing differs widely from corporate giving philanthropy.