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Employers are learning the hard way! More and more organizations are acknowledging a critical fact . . . Finding ways to retain valuable employees must begin before an experienced and talented worker is entertaining an offer from someone else.And things aren’t getting any easier for employers. A recent Harris and Associates survey shows that more than 50 percent of workers expect to change jobs within the next five years!Furthermore, rapid staff turnover is expected to escalate. That means that just when companies are devoting more time to finding new talent, they have to find ways to encourage current employees to stay.Managers can no longer afford to take for granted the steady, productive employee who is a good, if unre
First, a few words about my qualifications. I was a Yellow Page consultant for nearly 25 years and, prior to that, had my own advertising agency. I also have a degree in marketing. I’ve been designing Yellow Page ads for the past three decades. So I have experience in creating ads and have advised almost 7000 companies on how to put together the most effective ones. If you have a display or in-column ad, regardless of size, color or position, I can tell you it most probably needs improvement in essentials areas like the headline, artwork, body text, placement, book, or heading. So, whether you have an ad or are thinking about placing one, please read on.The small, home-based business was the backbone of our directory. Because they wanted
For those who don't know, a SWOT analysis covers your STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, and THREATS.
Take your strengths to begin with. All businesses have them; otherwise, there wouldn’t be a business in the first place. The point of highlighting them, is to increase them. If you can STRENGTHEN your STRENGTHS, you are on to a winner. And if you clearly understand what your strengths are, it is so much easier to add to them.
If you have a strong line of product sellers, then try and increase them. If you have a good agent, or good employee, producing great results, then give them more work and responsibility. If you have an exclusive line that pays
This is the key question on every prospective client’s mind, although it is rarely verbalized, and when left unanswered, the deal will be lost. "Why should they buy from me?" is the question every seller should be asking themselves because until one can answer that question to their own satisfaction, it will not be answered to the prospect’s satisfaction. Never make a call until you can answer that question.In every transaction with a prospect or a client, the salesperson or person acting in a negotiating role must be certain that the prospect clearly understands the difference between similar offerings from competitors and can answer the ‘why’. The smart salesperson will actually bring the question up and answer it to the prospect. Th
For those who don't know, a SWOT analysis covers your STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, and THREATS.
Take your strengths to begin with. All businesses have them; otherwise, there wouldn’t be a business in the first place. The point of highlighting them, is to increase them. If you can STRENGTHEN your STRENGTHS, you are on to a winner. And if you clearly understand what your strengths are, it is so much easier to add to them.
If you have a strong line of product sellers, then try and increase them. If you have a good agent, or good employee, producing great results, then give them more work and responsibility. If you have an exclusive line that pay
Life can sometimes be unexciting if not refreshed by the will to create according to one's own conscience and freedom. Often, the power of passion fuses into unexciting or appealing activities. One sometimes expects to be free from the demands, the macro-strings of the society, so that one could do what one wishes. In many different ways, one could say that freedom of this nature may bring about towering creativity though it can also breed chaos. How to find a method that could encourage a pleasing freedom as well as bring about the desirable creativity is very important for the society in general and for business in particular. In short, a balance needs to be sought and erected. But the balance, as I will show, is the one that encourages concept
If you have a strong line of product sellers, then try and increase them. If you have a good agent, or good employee, producing great results, then give them more work and responsibility. If you have an exclusive line that pay
Getting your product into stores can be especially hard when you have not been down this road before. Having been there, I can give some advice as to what needs to be done. First of all you need to make sure your product is fully functional, of great quality and passed all government regulations and tests. This Industry Canada website gives a lot of information for someone looking for answers to some of their business start questions.Secondly, once you have a product that you think is viable you want to get feedback from some friends and strangers first. Why? You should have a sample before you make alot or order alot from some company overseas. You will get many reactions from your product; prototype or sample; some good maybe, some not s
If you have a strong line of product sellers, then try and increase them. If you have a good agent, or good employee, producing great results, then give them more work and responsibility. If you have an exclusive line that pay
"May I help you?" "Just looking, thanks." "Okay, if you do need anything I'll be right here." "Uh, okay. Thanks."Does any of the above sound familiar? I'll bet it does. It's the usual scenario when you walk into some type of shop and most of us will probably recognise it, or have been victim to it, at one time or another.I did some retail work, once upon a time a long, long time ago. Where, or why, it doesn't matter. Misspent youth, I suppose.In the process, I've had quite a lot, and I mean a LOT, of sales training. One particular course always sticks to my mind as I am convinced that it was probably the best sales training course I have ever encountered, bar none. I won't go into the nitty gritty, the
WEAKNESSES? All businesses have those too. Know what they are, and attack them relentlessly as if they were the devil incarnate. Business is war, and it is a war that needs winning. Perhaps your products are too dear. Then do something about it. Perhaps they are not producing sufficient margin. Then tackle that head on. Perhaps you have a shop and too much of your stock is going missing. Then install CCTV. Perhaps your products are going out of date. Then wake up, and modernise. May be you don't spend enough time on
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