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Using Marketing Gifts To Market Your Small Business
Marketing your small business can be a challenge. Advertising is often prohibitively expensive, and doesn’t always deliver the results that you want. There are other ways – better ways – to market and publicize your small business. You can get wonderful results marketing your business using marketing gifts and promotional products, if you think ahead and plan out your marketing strategies. Here are some great suggestions that you can use to get the exposure your business needs to prosper.Trade Shows Every business h

you may not get the real truth. Often people will not voice how they really feel for fear of repercussions or because they know that whatever they say will fall on deaf ears!

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Strategic vs. Operational And How It Affects A Small Business Owner
For everyone who runs their own business, they know how easily they can be pulled from one task to another and eventually they can have the sense that the business has begun to spin out of control. Not knowing how to keep the focus of the business and how to handle the day to day tasks has a large impact on how a business runs and how well it can succeed.As a business owner, it exciting to come up with the ideas of where you want to take the company and also how you see the company getting there, is it ideal for you to

Following on from the last edition of The Organised Times where we spoke about developing the people in your business, this week we're focussing on the importance of the continual development of your managers.

Leadership comes from the top down. Poor management skills is the cause of most employee dissatisfaction and results in their poor performance.

The following article by Nathan Chanesman from My Profile is worthwhile reading:

Poor management skills lead to poor employee performance

It's disheartening to read that poor management skills is the cause of most business dissatisfaction. You'd think that with all the training and investment that has gone into this topic that we'd learnt by now to get it right.

Employees have lost trust in the companies they work for Kelly Services Survey published in October last year indicated that 47% of Australian employees believe "that companies do not have their best interests at heart".

Dissatisfaction seems to be the order of the day. 50% of Australia's workforce want to quit it's job and nearly 40% reported that they often "woke up in the morning not willing to face the day".

SEEK, the online job board survey of October 2003 reported that 75% of employees questioned are not happy with their current job.

Asked what they liked most about their job 51% said "the people I work with". And what did they hate most? 60% said "the quality of management". Not surprising, dissatisfaction with management increased as people got older.

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Ask for direct feedback from your people.

This can work however it may also be very confronting and you may not get the real truth. Often people will not voice how they really feel for fear of repercussions or because they know that whatever they say will fall on deaf ears!

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Take a look around you. Are your people happy? Do they enjoy coming to work? When you speak to them are they g

Is your Infomercial Sinking You? How to Attract more Business using Great Networking Skills
In today’s fast paced world, many small business computer consultants are wrapped up in their daily fire fighting activities at their client’s location and have almost no time to attract new opportunities or build strong strategic alliances.One great way to keep a new business growing while building relationships at the same time is to join a networking club.There are many networking organizations throughout the country, they can range from your local Chamber of Commerce to private networking clubs that their sole

You'd think that with all the training and investment that has gone into this topic that we'd learnt by now to get it right.

Dissatisfaction seems to be the order of the day. 50% of Australia's workforce want to quit it's job and nearly 40% reported that they often "woke up in the morning not willing to face the day".

SEEK, the online job board survey of October 2003 reported that 75% of employees questioned are not happy with their current job.

The Solutions

Get Profiled

360 degree Pirihi Productivity Profile

Discover how effective a leader you believe yourself to be and receive feedback from your people stating how they see you. This can be a real eye-opener and extremely beneficial.

Ask for direct feedback from your people.

Get coached

Be Aware

Take a look around you. Are your people happy? Do they enjoy coming to work? When you speak to them are they

What Is Your Greatest Weakness?
The fastest way to make a good interview go bad is to avoid questions posed by the hiring manager. The one question candidates love to avoid is, “What is your greatest weakness?” Most candidates are quick to respond with superficial answers such as “I’m a workaholic” or “I’m a perfectionist.” Not only are those responses boring, but they are also predictable answers interviewers are used to hearing. So much so that an interviewer’s comeback line often is, “That doesn’t sound like a weakness. Now why don’t you tell me about a re

d that 75% of employees questioned are not happy with their current job.

The Solutions

Get Profiled

360 degree Pirihi Productivity Profile

Discover how effective a leader you believe yourself to be and receive feedback from your people stating how they see you. This can be a real eye-opener and extremely beneficial.

Ask for direct feedback from your people.

Get coached

Be Aware

Take a look around you. Are your people happy? Do they enjoy coming to work? When you speak to them are they

Franchise Overload
Going into the franchise business might be a very good idea for you as it is one of the popular methods of doing business today but when you do a search of the available franchise opportunities, choosing one among the hundreds might be a daunting task.Of course you can always go into the fast growing fast food franchise industry but if you feel that your location is already saturated with this kind of business then maybe you can look up the other franchise opportunities that can be perfect for your area. Moreover, compa

d goals.

360 degree Pirihi Productivity Profile

Discover how effective a leader you believe yourself to be and receive feedback from your people stating how they see you. This can be a real eye-opener and extremely beneficial.

Ask for direct feedback from your people.

Get coached

Be Aware

Take a look around you. Are your people happy? Do they enjoy coming to work? When you speak to them are they

Can Your Website Do This?
The question isn’t whether or not your business has a website, it’s a given it does. The real question is this: Does your website allow you to connect and interact with visitors? If it doesn’t, you are missing out on an enormous opportunity to grow your business.A website that is nothing more than an electronic brochure is not going to help you attract more clients and be more profitable.Did you know that the first time someone visits your website that it is most likely the last time they will visit?If mo

you may not get the real truth. Often people will not voice how they really feel for fear of repercussions or because they know that whatever they say will fall on deaf ears!

Get coached

Be Aware

Take a look around you. Are your people happy? Do they enjoy coming to work? When you speak to them are they generally positive or negative in their responses? Is there a high turnover of staff or is your team stable? Consider the absenteeism rate. Are your people often away from work? These are a few questions to ask yourself.

Encourage regular feedback from your people. Ask them individually and as a group what they think & how can you be a better manager? What can be improved? What do they like about their work, the people, the industry, the management etc.

You can also choose to do nothing, which is not a good option. Don't wait until a crisis occurs.

A business owner I know said everything was fine. He said his staff were happy although he never did anything to pro-actively ensure they were. His perception was that he believed all was well because no-one complained. He only acted if a problem was brought to his attention. One week, three of his key people resigned. They had enough of the owner's poor leadership skills. The loss of those people nearly brought the business down.

So stay on top of things, be proactive, ask questions and take nothing for granted.

The success of any business is a reflection of its leadership. Lead from the top.

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