“If you saw a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk would you leave it there?”
At this point many sales people think their job is done once they have closed the sale, particularly in a retail environment.
Saying No to Good Opportunities?
Tracey started her video production company 2 years ago, and after struggling through the start-up phase, she was finally reaping the fruits of her labor. When we talked, it was clear that she was ready to move onward and upward but didn’t know how to go about doing it.
Opportunities are Shouting — Are You Listening?
One of my cousins’ sister is a student of archaeology. She’s got a passion for it. A couple of days back she invaded our house and dragged me to one of her friend’s beautiful house backyard where I had some weird but useful discussion with her friend.
eCommerce: Your Opportunities are Unlimited
Peter Drucker believes ecommerce will be to the Information Revolution what the railroads were to the Industrial Revolution.* To oversimplify, the Industrial Revolution was a time in which tools were produced that replaced people in the manufacture of goods. In the first thirty years, all was devoted to producing known products with machines.
Marketing Opportunities at New Year’s
It’s important to market yourself (your services and your products) all the time, and the New Year presents another great opportunity to do this. It can also help if you’re unemployed and looking for a position. Keeping your name in front of people, and constantly networking are vital to your career, especially in today’s market, where the average job lasts 18 months.
To brand yourself, you need to be authentic, differentiated and conceptually consistent. Think of a tagline for yourself, just like businesses and corporations so, and build on this. Being authentic means knowing who you are, but being differentiated means knowing who others are.
Daily Opportunities
Every day you have the opportunity to do things differently. Every day you have the opportunity to change and grow. You can find comfort in knowing that you can reorient yourself in the direction of you goals instantly by reading them and recommitting, sometimes more than once a day! No matter what you did yesterday, you can choose again today. Are you using that opportunity?