Thursday 19 March 2009

Positioning Yourself for Success: The Joint Venture Solution

It does not matter whether you are a fortune 500 company or a startup entrepreneur joint ventures are the easiest and fastest way to position yourself for success. Many large companies who can afford to use other marketing methods for growing their business utilize joint venture because it is the most effective way to develop new markets, gain new customers, gain new alliances and create business growth without needing help from a bank. Big and small companies choose to use JV's (as they are called) over advertising and marketing packages simple because of their effectiveness both in results and cost.

Joint ventures are more than a marketing strategy they are a business tool designed for long term implementation. If you want the latest business innovations to operate your business with then simply learning and creating joint ventures is that innovation for now and well into the future.

The reason JV's are so hot right now is because it allows your business economic growth during any economic condition and stabilizes your company's cash flow and cost expenditures. With joint ventures you work in a cooperative marketing strategy vs. a competitive marketing model. Learning to move your business from competition marketing to cooperative marketing will save you thousands and thousands of dollars just in advertising and marketing cost.

If you want to position yourself for success and grow a strong business that will grow during any economic condition then you must implement a joint venture strategy. If you are looking to become part of a joint venture community you will want to first find out what the community offers your business and how do they help you implement joint ventures.

The Private JV club uses B2B technology to find JV's within the club and sends them right to your club email. This helps you grow your JV alliances quickly and effectively. Accessing JV partners easily helps you learn the JV process quickly and will help ensure your success.

The last key to positioning your business for success is to become the kind of entrepreneur that others want to work with. Becoming a great joint venture partner means that you will become popular with other business owners who will want to work with you because you are ethical, have high quality products and services that deliver great value. You keep your commitments and bring what you say you're going to deliver for the joint venture and you bring it on time.

If you master the joint venture business tool you will have success with your business for many years in the future, create long term business alliances that turn into colleagues and friends and have way more fun.

created by Vickie Jimenez

Wednesday 18 March 2009

The Secret to Success When Times Are Hard

The truth is businesses and companies of all types are cutting jobs and going out of business as the Worlds economic crisis continues to harden. This article looks at what companies of all types including those in the not for profit sector can do to survive and even grow in the hardest of times.

Around November in the UK each year an annual fund raising event occurs aimed at raising money and awareness for Children in Need. In 2008 and in the grip of falling house prices
, redundancies and businesses closing down, the recent Children in Need are forecast to raise the most money ever. So how did this happen when people clearly have less money to spend on themselves let alone give to others?

Well the secret to the success of not for profit organizations and charities is that they can give their donors and supporters something which many businesses in the for profit world fail to grasp and that is a genuine feel good factor and a sense of making a difference.

People on the whole donate to charity and support good causes because they want to make a difference but with that very often come an enormous sense of well being for the person donating or giving. This feel good factor should not be confused with being selfish or supporting a cause for the wrong reasons as it is perfectly natural to feel good about you if you carry out or perform a good deed.

So how can businesses that are looking to survive and indeed grow learn from this? Well, the reality is charities like Children in Need have done well because they give something back.

Companies can learn from this by starting to look at their business in a different way and from the customers point of view. An example could be that an insurance broker who provides charity insurance to charities, community groups and not for profit organizations. Instead of focusing on the features of a charity insurance policy, they could instead focus on how the charity would benefit from using them. This could be that they get cover that is not available from other charity insurance brokers. If could be that the charity will be able to protect and insure their donors, trustees and volunteers or that the community group will get free expert advice that will reduce their exposure to risk and therefore reduce their community group insurance premiums.

Businesses of all types need to focus on their customers and how they will benefit and this is particularly important in the times of recession or during a credit crunch.

The charity and voluntary sector prove that by giving something back, they can remain strong even in the toughest of times. Focus on your customers, focus on promoting the benefits to them of using you and focus on trying to exceed their needs and expectations at all times. Do this and success can be and is achievable even when times are hard.

Created by Charity Insurance

Tuesday 10 March 2009

Make a Good Impression at Work: Give Business Gifts

If you want to make a mark in the hearts of your colleagues at work, especially in the heart of your boss, give a business gift. Almost everyone loves to open a gift. It makes them feel appreciated and special. It will appear as though you are thinking of them. Doing this gesture can eventually benefit your career, as it gives attention to you and your good deeds.

A good strategy is to notice the people you come in contact with everyday. Do you get reports from the Accounting Department? Give their staff some token to say “thank you” for always giving reports on time. Do you rely on your Information Technology Department whenever you need help in your computer? Give their staff a little something just to pat them on the back and they will happily assist you, even prioritize you from the others. Yes, even the janitor who cleans your room or your desk needs a gift. Give him/her a little item to recognize the effort and he/she will double the work for you. Of course your boss is the most important person to give a special gift to. Consider also giving the company president or CEO a business gift.

Are you using business gifts to manipulate people? Of course not! The goal is to get you noticed. Your thoughtfulness and generous heart will be viewed in a positive light. Instead of just being another person at work, you will have a unique spot in their mind and in their heart.

Wait! Before you rush out right now and buy your business gifts, you may want to consider some suggestions to make your gift count. Choose an executive gift for your boss or CEO with care. You may give an expensive pen, clock or leather accessories. Whatever it is, make sure that he/she will be impressed and the gift is completely different from the rest of the staff. You do not want him to realize that he has the same gift as everybody else.

Does this mean that you will spend all your salary in business gifts? No way! The regular employees in your company could just have a nice paperweight or a simple pen. Give any little thing just to acknowledge their existence. This is not the same as with the executives mentioned above because the bosses have to be really impressed with your gift. Who knows, that will really make a mark and might give you the break you have been waiting for in your career.

Lottie Carrot works in the business gifts industry for Argon Promotions, the leading company in terms of innovative business gift ideas. Lottie works closely with businesses to help market their products and services by providing information and help in the selection of suitable business gifts for their advertising campaigns.

Created By LOTTIE CARROT

Year Round Gratitude

The holiday season is upon us yet again. This is traditionally the time of year we think about being grateful for what we have; family, friends, our health -- and the customers who keep our businesses alive.

We should all take the time to show our customers just how important they are to us, how grateful we are that they've chosen us above all others. Sending holiday cards is the most popular expression of gratitude because it is well accepted. Our customers will know we care because we took the time to recognize them. They will feel important, thus reinforcing their loyalty to us. Having a solid connection with our customers in these challenging economic times is critical to the long-term success of any business.

There's a bonus to being grateful and showing our appreciation -- experiencing the uplifting feeling it creates. When we are happy, we are more alert, enthusiastic, determined and have more energy. These are all great qualities that can help us be more productive year round, so why limit ourselves to being grateful only during the holidays?

Take the time to celebrate your customers throughout the year. Send a "keep-in-touch" card every so often or a company-engraved gift such as pens, letter openers or mugs...or be more creative. Whatever you do will not only keep you connected with your customers it will remind them how important they are.

Start this new trend now, this season, by sending them a holiday greeting card. If you think there isn't enough time, keep in mind that New Year's cards don't have to be mailed before New Year's. And if you're still worried about the time crunch, remember you can always call on me to get those cards done for you now and year round.

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Created By KIMBERLY MCCLOSKEY

Monday 9 March 2009

Small Business Owners- The Biggest Reason You Could Be Turning Away Half of Your Potentially New Cu

Did you know that the average small business owner wastes 50% of every dollar they spend on advertising? Wouldn't it be nice if you could recoup that money and reinvest it into gaining new customers, like it was intended for in the first place? The problem usually lies in the way the ads are written. Let's do a little experiment....

Grab a recent flyer, newsletter, or ad that you have written for your business. Now do a quick count of the number of times the words "I", "we", or the name of your business appears in the ad. One more step.... now count the number of times the word "you" appears. If the first number is even half as much as the number of times "you" is written in your document, then you are essentially losing 50% of the potential customers that are reading your sales copy or ad.

Too many business owners try to sell the customer but telling them about the business and the details about their product, rather than talking about how it is going to actually benefit their customer. While it is important to point out key features of the product or service that you are offering, you want to do it in a way that allows the customer to see how it is going to impact their lives.

While it is important to address the customers need in the body of the ad or sales copy, you still have to get them to actually read it! This is why the headline is the most important part of any ad. If the headline doesn't draw the customer in and make them want to learn more about your products or services, than the first part we talked about doesn't even matter.

Think about the last time you picked up a magazine or newspaper... how many articles did you glance over the titles without actually reading the article? Any number of those articles could have been something important or interesting to you, but because of a poorly written headline, you didn't even take the time to read about it|Some of those articles you may have found very interesting if you read the entire thing, but because the title didn't grab your attention, you never got to the body of it}}}.

Writing great sales copy is not easy to do. In fact, even experienced marketers will outsource this part of the sales process to professionals. If you are determined to do it on your own, there are plenty of resources online that can help you learn the art of copy writing. If you plan on doing it yourself, I suggest testing different headlines and phrases to see which ones produce better results before doing any large campaigns. Internet advertising is a great way to test different headlines and phrases, since there are numerous programs that will track and monitor the performance of each ad.

When all else fails, seek the advice or help of a professional copy writer. In most cases, the added revenue gained will far out weight the added expense. Mike Geary and Gary Nealon are internet marketing experts that have co-authored a small business marketing program to help small business owners double or even triple their revenue without having to spend thousands of dollars on advertising. The program is designed using the same web marketing techniques that Mike and Gary used to build their multi-million dollar businesses.

Created By GARY NEALON

Sunday 8 March 2009

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Thursday 5 March 2009

Home Business Success Tip: Sorry - But It Ain't Gonna Happen Overnight!

Let’s take a second to talk about something that I wish I had taken to heart when I fist started as a home business entrepreneur. I had this secret told to me back in 2001 when I was attending my first “how to make money” seminar (which I spent $4,000 to attend). This was a real estate investing seminar and I was bound and determined to make it as a real estate investor (to this day I still don't know squat about real estate investing – lol)

Anyways, I went u to the gentleman who was teaching my group and proceeded to tell him how bad I needed money now! I can’t remember the gentleman’s name but we’ll call him “Bob” for the sake of this article. Here’s how the conversation went.

Bob: So Devon, which area of real estate would you like to focus on? Me: Which ever one will make me money the fastest…and I need money RIGHT NOW! Bob: But which area do you like the best, which area could you see yourself doing long term? Me: It doesn’t matter Bob, I went completely broke in order t make it here, I’ve got to make all of my money back in 30 days or I’m gonna die Bob: Look Devon, I’ve been there…and I’m telling you it’s not gonna happen overnight. You’ve got to stay focused for an extended period of time and then slowly but surely results will start to happen. Me: That’s nice Bob, but I don't have time to dilly dally around I NEED MONEY NOW!

Needless to say; my real estate investing career didn’t last very long: But that’s not the point of the story.

The point of the story is that I had someone telling me the REAL answer. I didn’t want to listen. So I went about doing things my way and continued to jump from opportunity to opportunity, while at the same time continuing to stay broke!

Here’s the bottom line. I don't care WHAT the guru promises you, how badly you want it, or how certain you are that “this is the one” Success and true financial freedom WILL NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT!!!! So there it is, the 100% truth, either accept it and move forward, or continue to fight it and keep struggling!

Let me put it another way….

When it comes to you achieving success, you will have to work hard at first and be willing to get little or no results. After a while, you will hit what I like to call the “tipping point” and things will start to happen for you faster then you ever thought.

To better illustrate his path to success, let's take a look at what will happen if you take a penny an double it ever day for 31 days.

Day 1 - .01 cents Day 2 - .02 cents Day 3 - .04 cents Day 4 - .08 cents Day 5 - .16 cents Day 6 - .32 cents Day 7 - .64 cents

WOW - not very impressive :-( But let's keep going

Day 8 - $1.28 Day 9 - $2.56 Day 10 - $5.12 Day 11 - $10.24 Day 12 - $20.48 Day 13 - $40.96 Day 14 - $81.92

Woo Hoo- $80 bucks and the month is half way over!

Day 15 - $163.84 Day 16 - $327.68 Day 17 - $655.36 Day 18 - $1310.72 Day 19 - $2621.44 Day 20 - $5242.88 Day 21 - $10485.76 ? This is where the “tipping point” occurs

Actually this isn't looking too bad - just 10 more days to go

Day 22 - $20,971.52 Day 23 - $41,943.04 Day 24 - $83,886.08 Day 25 - $167,772.16 Day 26 - $335,544.32 Day 27 - $671,088.64 Day 28 - $1,342,177.20 Day 29 - $2,684,354.40 Day 30 - $5,368,708.80 Day 31 - $10,737,417.60

Now, if you don’t understand the analogy, let me explain. The penny represents your work effort compounded over time. If you notice, you go about 2/3 of the way through the month before you start seeing any serious gains.

Just like it takes consistency to turn a penny into $10-Million…It also takes consistency for you to reach your financial goals as a home business entrepreneur. But with FOCUSED & CONSISTENT action; it WILL happen!

Devon Brown (a.k.a “The Success Renegade”) is one of the most talented young speakers and success coaches in the mlm & home business arena. His powerful information is helping home business entrepreneurs finally achieve the success they deserve and desire. Learn more about Devon and take advantage his FREE Home Business Success Tips by visiting: http://RenegadeSuccess.com

Created By DEVON BROWN