Casual Articles
#1 in Business Subscribe Email Print

You are here: Home > Business > Marketing > How to Work Smarter - Catch a School of Fish

Tags

  • experience
  • onanother
  • successfulmost likely
  • florists really
  • think about

  • Links

  • Customer Support Services Call Centers
  • That Annoying Guy With Top Rankings
  • Common Business Myth- You Must Sell Features And Benefits Immediately
  • Casual Articles - How to Work Smarter - Catch a School of Fish

    Branding Fiasco -- Better Be Who You Say You Are!
    Our experience as customers offers great instruction into the concept of branding. Come with me on a recent “experience” and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s the situation:I want to order an 800 number. On my AT&T bill is a customer ser
    and there, but it wasn’t particularly successful (well, of course not – he was a fisherman throwing out a line and waiting to get lucky.)

    However, if he made an effort at getting to know 50 florists really well.
    If he got to know wedding planners really well.
    If he got to kn

    Literature With No Display Is Literature With Hindered Effect
    Your company's literature is more than just a set of informative words on paper - it's a first impression for potential customers. So why wouldn't you display it with the same level of quality and prominence that you would write it?With
    Working Smarter – we’re forever being told to work smarter.

    Yet – so many people have no idea how to stop working harder and how to start working smarter.

    Here is a simple concept to help you work smarter:

    A fisherman goes out to sea and throws out his line.
    He waits for a while to catch a fish.
    Eventually a fish bites, he pulls the fish out of the water and throws his line back in again.
    Then he waits for a while to catch a fish.
    Eventually…
    And so it carries on.

    Another fisherman goes out to sea and follows a different strategy.
    He spends time looking for a school of fish.
    When he eventually finds a school of fish, he throws out a net and pulls in hundreds of fish.

    Which fisherman do you think is more successful?

    Most likely, the one who goes after the school of fish.

    When you think about your business - where are your schools of fish?
    Where do a lot of people who make use of your service get together?

    A few weeks ago I met a wedding photographer at a networking event.
    He admitted that at networking events he did pick up some business here and there, but it wasn’t particularly successful (well, of course not – he was a fisherman throwing out a line and waiting to get lucky.)

    However, if he made an effort at getting to know 50 florists really well.
    If he got to know wedding planners really well.
    If he got to kno

    Turnarounds: From the Oval Office to the Corner Office
    The headlines recently have focused on how the replacement of President George W. Bush’s chief of staff may serve to salvage the President’s second term. His new chief of staff has set an agenda, made announcements and started lopping off hea
    or a while to catch a fish.
    Eventually a fish bites, he pulls the fish out of the water and throws his line back in again.
    Then he waits for a while to catch a fish.
    Eventually…
    And so it carries on.

    Another fisherman goes out to sea and follows a different strategy.
    He spends time looking for a school of fish.
    When he eventually finds a school of fish, he throws out a net and pulls in hundreds of fish.

    Which fisherman do you think is more successful?

    Most likely, the one who goes after the school of fish.

    When you think about your business - where are your schools of fish?
    Where do a lot of people who make use of your service get together?

    A few weeks ago I met a wedding photographer at a networking event.
    He admitted that at networking events he did pick up some business here and there, but it wasn’t particularly successful (well, of course not – he was a fisherman throwing out a line and waiting to get lucky.)

    However, if he made an effort at getting to know 50 florists really well.
    If he got to know wedding planners really well.
    If he got to kn

    Project Management - Begin With the End in Mind
    As with any goal or activity to get any percentage chance of success, you need to know what success is.What are you aiming for? What is the purpose of beginning the activity? The same applies with projects.A project, be it a mul
    tegy.
    He spends time looking for a school of fish.
    When he eventually finds a school of fish, he throws out a net and pulls in hundreds of fish.

    Which fisherman do you think is more successful?

    Most likely, the one who goes after the school of fish.

    When you think about your business - where are your schools of fish?
    Where do a lot of people who make use of your service get together?

    A few weeks ago I met a wedding photographer at a networking event.
    He admitted that at networking events he did pick up some business here and there, but it wasn’t particularly successful (well, of course not – he was a fisherman throwing out a line and waiting to get lucky.)

    However, if he made an effort at getting to know 50 florists really well.
    If he got to know wedding planners really well.
    If he got to kn

    What is Great Customer Service
    In almost all cases customers come to your business because they have a problem and believe that you may have the solution. Whether you do, or whether you can build enough trust with the customer to let them solve their problem is up to you.n you think about your business - where are your schools of fish?
    Where do a lot of people who make use of your service get together?

    A few weeks ago I met a wedding photographer at a networking event.
    He admitted that at networking events he did pick up some business here and there, but it wasn’t particularly successful (well, of course not – he was a fisherman throwing out a line and waiting to get lucky.)

    However, if he made an effort at getting to know 50 florists really well.
    If he got to know wedding planners really well.
    If he got to kn

    Balloon Your Profits
    Balloons have a universal appeal that charm across all ages, income brackets, and race. I don't think there is another object of such simple joy that can elicit the same response from such a diverse group of people.Whenever we see ballo
    and there, but it wasn’t particularly successful (well, of course not – he was a fisherman throwing out a line and waiting to get lucky.)

    However, if he made an effort at getting to know 50 florists really well.
    If he got to know wedding planners really well.
    If he got to know wedding shops really well…

    By taking the same hours that he would have spent at a networking event and rather spend that time working on/ with his schools of fish – he is much more likely to get his effort rewarded in a much better way.

    Stop wasting your time – make sure that you are in fact chasing after schools of fish as opposed to single fish.

    You’ll turn your business and your cash in-flow around in no time.
    Guaranteed.

    Happy Fishing.

    HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
    <a href="http://www.casualarticles.com/article/28514/casualarticles-How-to-Work-Smarter--Catch-a-School-of-Fish.html">How to Work Smarter - Catch a School of Fish</a>

    BB link (for phorums):
    [url=http://www.casualarticles.com/article/28514/casualarticles-How-to-Work-Smarter--Catch-a-School-of-Fish.html]How to Work Smarter - Catch a School of Fish[/url]

    Related Articles:

    100 Excellent Words and 70 Action Getting Phrases for Ad Writing

    Diversify - Diversify - Diversify

    3 Essential Boundaries for Mom Entrepreneurs and Their Husbands

    Bookmark it: del.icio.us digg.com reddit.com netvouz.com google.com yahoo.com technorati.com furl.net bloglines.com socialdust.com ma.gnolia.com newsvine.com slashdot.org simpy.com shadows.com blinklist.com