Tweet

Create a Unique Business Strategy- Stop Saying You Will, When You Won’t - Well, Huh-Uh Honey Don’t

Guest post by: Tom Borg

Article Overview: Here is a quick and easy way to set an example and make you and your employees more productive.

Create a Unique Business Strategy- Stop Saying You Will, When You Won’t - Well, Huh-Uh Honey Don’t

"How Come You Say You Will When You Won’t?– Well, Huh-Uh Honey Don’t" - Carl Perkins. Carl Perkins had it right with his catchy tune he wrote and sang entitled “Honey Don’t”. To paraphrase the message in his song, we don’t like it when people promise to do one thing and then don’t follow through. Has it ever happened in your business or organization, where you, as a business owner, department head or employee, say you are going to start an initiative and you don’t get around to it? Worse yet, you start an initiative, but don’t follow through. How about the granddaddy of them all: you say something like “ I’ll get back to you”, and you just flat don’t do it. Interestingly enough, when you stop to listen, you hear one of your employees making a promise to follow through with a customer’s special request and later does not. Is there a connection between what your employees do (or don’t do) and your management style? You can bet your next house payment that it does. We can’t expect our managers or employees to follow through on their commitments and responsibilities, when we don’t do so with our own. For instance, we expect our employees to attend a training program or webinar and yet we don’t make the commitment to improve our own skill level in areas where it is needed. Let’s face it. The biggest room in the world for all of us, is the room for self improvement. We shouldn’t expect our customers to do what we won’t do, i.e. pay our invoices on time when we don’t pay ours on time. Return our calls or emails when we don’t return our vendor’s calls or emails in a timely manner. Some people call it “karma” some call it the “boomerang effect”. Whatever you call it, it exists and we are part of it. So, how do we make our business or organization more successful? Create a unique business strategy and do these two things: 1. Stop making promises you can’t keep. 2. Start following through with the promises you do make. Once you start following these two principles, the people you work with and your customers will appreciate it and so will you.

Related Articles
  No Passion , No Business
  What is the best way to develop my sales skills?
  Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession Part 2
  Can you afford to make your email marketing more targeted? Can you afford not to?
  How can you make more of your customers open your emails?
  Sales Skills For Service Professionals Part 2
  Are you a Star?
  Don't Support Outdated Rules
  Can you use webmail for email marketing?
  Contribution
  Home-based Business Opportunity: Why Should You Choose Beeswax Candles
  Tips for selling in hyper competitive markets
  Know your magic numbers
  How to generate referrals
  Social Networking or Social Distraction
  Home-based Business Opportunity: Clean Burning Candles
  Warming Up Cold Calls
  Miss Congeniality
  Internet Marketing Training Guide For Online Business Success
  “Multiply Your Marketing Results – Exponentially!”

Article Tags: create a unique business strategy
Referred by: http://www.salestrailblazer.com



Related Forum Posts
Book: Secrets of Six Figure Women - Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up your earning and change your life Barbara Stanny, 2002 Jacket: Maybe you've noticed - a subtle trend is gathering steam. Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing, and it continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white collar executives to free lancers and part timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. Through extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including dialogs with more than 150 high earners whose annual incomes range from $100,000 to 7 million, Stanny discovered that ...they all had certain traits in common: 1) a profit motive 2) Audacity 3) REslience 4) Encouragement 5) Self-awareness 6) Non-attachment 7) Financial knowhow She amplifies on these in the book itself. Table of Contents Intro: Welcome to the era of the six-figure woman 1. The Queen in the Countinghouse 2. The Lowdown on low earners 3. Raising the bar 4. Strategy 1: The Declaration of Intention 5. Strategy 2: Letting go of the ledge 6. Strategy 3: Get in the Game 7. Strategy 4: Speak Up 8. Strategy 5: The Stretch 9. Strategy 6: Seek Support 10. Strategy 7: Obey the rules of money 11. Claiming our power Appendces: Resources and websites Tips for getting out of dent Investing Basics: Wealthbuilding 101
Re: How to Use Twitter to Market Products? - Twitter is very useful for sales and marketing especially for the promotion of products and services. Do the following while active on Twitter:- 1. Follow the people having same interest 2. Post Unique and eye catching content 3. Post Images 4. Take your user name as your favorite product name or brand name. 5. Re tweet, replies and make favorite the posts 6. Create list of people interacting with you 7. Try to active at least 5 day a week.
Re: Twiiter an sales - Twitter is very useful for sales and marketing specially for the promotion of products and services. Do the following while active on Twitter:- 1. Follow the people having same interest 2. Post Unique and eye catching content 3. Post Images 4. Take your user name as your favorite product name or brand name. 5. Re tweet, replies and make favorite the posts 6. Create list of people interacting with you 7. Try to active at least 5 day a week.
Re: Business Coaching Resources - You're fortunate when you can find a Business Coach who has experience beyond where you've been and even where you are going. When your budget is slim and even after, it's good to have a mentor. Several of various backgrounds are very useful. They can be teachers, professors, pastors, business people, family members, bosses and former bosses. You have to be clear on what you want and what you desire to achieve, be able to convey it as simply as possible. Stop and listen and don't over tax their time. You should always expect results whether from a Business Coach or Mentors. If you're not gtting results, you're either not focused or you need to upgrade the quality of your mentors/coaches. Always surround yourself by people smarter than you.
Where's the Entrance? - that's true I've been seeing a lot of construction going on to the City of Toronto's sidewalks and even Movie shoots sometimes block of access to stores for a week sometimes.. Guerrilla techniques should be at play here. 1. Get a Can of Paint and some Footstep Stencils and paint footsteps all the way from the accessible street right to your temporary entrance. (may be illegal but the store owner could plead innocent and say he has no idea who did that - maybe a "fan" of the restaurant) 2. I remember when there was the SARS outbreak in Toronto a lot of the Chinese restaurants were not doing so well except for Lee's Garden. I noticed they created a special Menu with prepackaged Menu Items for $20. 3. Create some buzz like with a Unique expereince - "Someone stole all my Plates! Now serving food on Banana Leaves - Guess What! The Food tastes better than ever! Blah Blah...


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

THE “SECRET RECIPES” OF LEADERSHIP

International Employment Background Checks

Promoting your company and self with verve

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.