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Employment Screening
Bad hiring decisions can lead to consequences later on. This could be due to false credentials, bad credit, or a hidden criminal record. This can have a bad impact on the company as well as the other employees if the candidate does not seem to be as portrayed at the time of interview or on the resume. Employers these days prefer to screen applicants to avoid such consequences. Applicant screening has proven to be one of the best risk management strategies that can help management provide a safe working environment for all its employees.The applicant is usually told that the job would entitle a pre-employment screening so that applicants who are not being entirely truthful will be more cautious while applying for the job. A

ing agency, but your customers that are your best source of testimonials.

To initiate Word of Mouth Marketing,

2.Give away something for FREE

3.Make something that gives significant Benefit and Value to Your Customers

4.Publish a viral e-book and distribute it for Free, thereby increasing its sphere of distribution and influence

5.Be genuine and don’t spam!

6.Focus on Solving a Problem, Meeting a Need or Fulfilling a Dream

7.Don’t Forget to Tell Your Customers about your brilliant product: Market it!

Step 12: Enable Customization and Have Abundant Choices, It’s the Long Tail Era!

Companies such as Dell and Amazon have acted swiftly in this department.

For one, Amazon treats every individual as an ind

It's Not All About Cheese: The Missing Component in Employee Development (Part 2)
In part one of this article I told you about how perceptions are changing in the workplace. In part two, I want to tell you more about the “Merge Point Method” and how it helps you create training programs that lead to stronger collaboration between individuals and teams.The Wrong FocusIt is fascinating that the first thing we do when identifying human resources needs is list the job skills for the position (cognitive and technical). But when given the choice between two equally qualified applicants we tend to choose based on their level of “personal maturity”. Traits like self-confidence and other characteristics (like guiding awareness of values, goal orientation, awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, evide

Previously in Part I of How To Exponentially Increase Your Brand Awareness, we have witnessed that by identifying the building blocks of your business brand, knowing what your customers want by asking them directly, you will have a firm grasp of the basics of increasing your brand awareness.

In Part II of the series we learnt that to be successful in creating brand awareness you should firstly Get Inside The Heads of Your Customers and have an understanding about their lifestyle and preferences, then Empathize with the Feelings of your Customer. Then you Create Focus Groups to get deeper into specific topics and issues that is pertinent to your customers, your products and your brand.

Part III of the Series looked at more ways to increase your brand awareness. By Analyzing Industry Trends, you will get a better idea of the big picture of your industry and will be able to find profitable niche markets that you could dominate. Next to Put up a Challenge on All Critical Areas! focused on how you would profit by eliminating all the rate limiting areas of your product and brand. To further improve on your branding, you would choose to Evaluate Your Product Branding, as this would give you a clearer picture on where your product stands and whether the product is congruent with your company Mission Statement and Values.

So let’s get on with Part IV!

Step 10: Re-Design!

We will talk about Apple Computers again. Where would they be without their packaging, their aesthetics? What brings out the coolness factor?

If you decided to write a book, does the design matter to you? After reading Tom Peter’s book, Re-design, I’m utterly convinced that design really does matter. The design and packaging says a lot about your brand and your product.

There’s a saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, but in reality and in business, this is what catches the eye of your customer.

That said, what colors would you use to communicate your brand? Do you own the color for your product niche?

One very successful use of color branding would be Cadbury. Tell me, when you think of the color purple and think of chocolates at the same time, what pops out in your mind? Cadbury of course! That’s how powerful color branding can be. Coupled with a distinctive packaging and a memorable company logo and catch cry, your brand would sticky. It wouldn’t leave your customers mind.

What a way to stand out from the crowd.

Step 11: Let Word of Mouth Marketing Work Its Magic!

This is one of the most powerful strategy to exponentially increase your brand awareness. Now that you already know where your product is positioned, from step 1, then you can capitalize on that by focusing on your brand and products’ key strengths and Unique Selling Proposition.

If you have a product that is novel and unique in its own way, that promises real benefits to your ideal customer, and the target market is broad enough, people will start becoming your advocates- they will evangelize to others about your product and brand. Yes, they effectively become your sales rep, and volunteer ones at that.

This really can’t get any better because when your customers are your raving fans, they are the best testimony for your product. Not you, not your advertising agency, but your customers that are your best source of testimonials.

To initiate Word of Mouth Marketing,

2.Give away something for FREE

3.Make something that gives significant Benefit and Value to Your Customers

4.Publish a viral e-book and distribute it for Free, thereby increasing its sphere of distribution and influence

5.Be genuine and don’t spam!

6.Focus on Solving a Problem, Meeting a Need or Fulfilling a Dream

7.Don’t Forget to Tell Your Customers about your brilliant product: Market it!

Step 12: Enable Customization and Have Abundant Choices, It’s the Long Tail Era!

Companies such as Dell and Amazon have acted swiftly in this department.

For one, Amazon treats every individual as an indi

Managing Change - Information Overload
"There are many things a wise man might wish to be ignorant." Ralph Waldow Emerson said that over a century ago and man was he prophetic. We are bombarded with information today and we don't do a very good job of sorting out what is meaningful and what isn't. We get reports, voice mails and of course an inbox full of emails, all giving the appearance of being urgent and important. When managing change you better be a master of sorting incoming information.When you embarked on the change journey you had an objective, right? If you didn’t you're screwed anyway so let's work off the assumption that you did. Let's say you know what problem you are trying to solve and you have agreement on what success will look like when you d

a of the big picture of your industry and will be able to find profitable niche markets that you could dominate. Next to Put up a Challenge on All Critical Areas! focused on how you would profit by eliminating all the rate limiting areas of your product and brand. To further improve on your branding, you would choose to Evaluate Your Product Branding, as this would give you a clearer picture on where your product stands and whether the product is congruent with your company Mission Statement and Values.

So let’s get on with Part IV!

Step 10: Re-Design!

We will talk about Apple Computers again. Where would they be without their packaging, their aesthetics? What brings out the coolness factor?

There’s a saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, but in reality and in business, this is what catches the eye of your customer.

That said, what colors would you use to communicate your brand? Do you own the color for your product niche?

What a way to stand out from the crowd.

Step 11: Let Word of Mouth Marketing Work Its Magic!

To initiate Word of Mouth Marketing,

2.Give away something for FREE

3.Make something that gives significant Benefit and Value to Your Customers

4.Publish a viral e-book and distribute it for Free, thereby increasing its sphere of distribution and influence

5.Be genuine and don’t spam!

6.Focus on Solving a Problem, Meeting a Need or Fulfilling a Dream

7.Don’t Forget to Tell Your Customers about your brilliant product: Market it!

Step 12: Enable Customization and Have Abundant Choices, It’s the Long Tail Era!

Companies such as Dell and Amazon have acted swiftly in this department.

For one, Amazon treats every individual as an ind

When and How Do I Track My Advertising?
Each and every time it runs!That’s the easy answer. After all, it’s your money and your business at stake. You should be learning from every campaign. Here are some basic questions:(1) How many customers did you reach?(2) Why did they pick your business?(3) What was in the ad that made them call or come in?(4) What media did the best job?That last question is the result of proper tracking. It’s like going to school. You are given exams to test your knowledge and see if you are ready for the next level. Without the tests, you don’t know how you are doing. Marketing must be measured in the same fashion. Suppose you’re running a weekly newspaper ad. If i

e-design, I’m utterly convinced that design really does matter. The design and packaging says a lot about your brand and your product.

There’s a saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, but in reality and in business, this is what catches the eye of your customer.

That said, what colors would you use to communicate your brand? Do you own the color for your product niche?

What a way to stand out from the crowd.

Step 11: Let Word of Mouth Marketing Work Its Magic!

To initiate Word of Mouth Marketing,

2.Give away something for FREE

3.Make something that gives significant Benefit and Value to Your Customers

4.Publish a viral e-book and distribute it for Free, thereby increasing its sphere of distribution and influence

5.Be genuine and don’t spam!

6.Focus on Solving a Problem, Meeting a Need or Fulfilling a Dream

7.Don’t Forget to Tell Your Customers about your brilliant product: Market it!

Step 12: Enable Customization and Have Abundant Choices, It’s the Long Tail Era!

Companies such as Dell and Amazon have acted swiftly in this department.

For one, Amazon treats every individual as an ind

When Being A Facilitator DOESN'T Help
I talked with a group of internal consultants last week - they felt they had to wear too many hats in their work. They had to be consultants, facilitators, coaches and trainers - sometimes in the same one-hour session. They weren't always sure what role to be in and they felt that all this role-switching was draining them and was decreasing their credibility and effectiveness.After learning a bit more, I suggested two things to them:1) At times they were trying to serve as facilitators when another role would have been more helpful to their clients; and2) It wasn't switching roles that was causing them trouble - it was how they were doing it.I'm suggesting the same may apply to you.First, let's

: Let Word of Mouth Marketing Work Its Magic!

To initiate Word of Mouth Marketing,

2.Give away something for FREE

3.Make something that gives significant Benefit and Value to Your Customers

4.Publish a viral e-book and distribute it for Free, thereby increasing its sphere of distribution and influence

5.Be genuine and don’t spam!

6.Focus on Solving a Problem, Meeting a Need or Fulfilling a Dream

7.Don’t Forget to Tell Your Customers about your brilliant product: Market it!

Step 12: Enable Customization and Have Abundant Choices, It’s the Long Tail Era!

Companies such as Dell and Amazon have acted swiftly in this department.

For one, Amazon treats every individual as an ind

Business Owner's Essentials - the Best Recruitment Interview
Recruiting staff is another essential element that you need for your business to grow. And a key part of the recruitment process is the interview. When you conduct an interview you are trying to establish a number of points:-1. Will the candidate fit in your company?This is often one of the most important issues. If you find a person with all the right skills but you know they won’t get on with anyone else in the company, this is going to cause a problem. When you find out that someone has left their last three positions due to disagreements with other staff you need to ask yourself whether it’s relevant that they appear to be the common factor.Consider the attributes that are most common in your c

ing agency, but your customers that are your best source of testimonials.

To initiate Word of Mouth Marketing,

2.Give away something for FREE

3.Make something that gives significant Benefit and Value to Your Customers

4.Publish a viral e-book and distribute it for Free, thereby increasing its sphere of distribution and influence

5.Be genuine and don’t spam!

6.Focus on Solving a Problem, Meeting a Need or Fulfilling a Dream

7.Don’t Forget to Tell Your Customers about your brilliant product: Market it!

Step 12: Enable Customization and Have Abundant Choices, It’s the Long Tail Era!

Companies such as Dell and Amazon have acted swiftly in this department.

For one, Amazon treats every individual as an individual. It knows that everyone wants different products, and that makes them have gazillion products and many different specific niches. This makes them memorable, and helps them target many segments of the market at once.

Dell Computers on the other hand offers many customization options for their customers and having used Dell computers before, I’d say that is a very good strategy. This effectively means that they can cater to many audiences at once, be it a novice computer user to the avid gamer.

This is where Henry Ford failed. He did not want to offer choices to his customers and built the same model T over and over again, thinking that with better economies of scale he could produce cars that are more affordable. But customers are a lot more complex than that. They want options. And more options.

Hence, give your customers options, choices. They will thank you for that. And will remember your brand.

To conclude, there are many ways other ways to exponentially increase your brand awareness, and this series of articles provide a good starting point on your journey to branding greatness. What you need to do is take these steps and gradually apply it into your business branding strategy, measure the results and keep improving on what you have started.

The journey to exponential increase in brand awareness starts with you today, so started with it immediately!

For more information about Marketing and Copywriting, please visit my site at www.copymarketing.com

Hope that you have gleaned something useful from this series of articles and wish you all the best in your marketing endeavors!

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If you want to be in the movie or television business, you must be the kind of person who can get up at 5 in the morning. If you work in the theatre, your early rising will fall about 10 AM - because you work into the night.

Pick one thing, one focus for this year. That’s right – one. I’ve never been fond of new year’s resolutions, for all the reasons most observers report. However, I am completely in favor of identifying a theme for the year. The theme is a guide for decisions you make throughout the year. It’s not a way to stifle you or shut you down.

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