Do you use LinkedIn to network with colleagues, business professionals, and potential customers? If so, you’re probably somewhat familiar with the Search function that exists within the site. In fact, you probably use the standard People Search option most often. It’s supposed to be the simplest way to find a connection you are looking for. Here’s a brief description from the site:
“People Search in the search box lets you quickly find the person you are looking for by title,company, school, name, or other characteristics. Don’t worry about knowing the full name or exact search term. Just type in the relevant keywords and hit search. You can also quickly find one of your connections by typing their name and clicking on the suggestions that will be automatically generated” (Source).
Here’s the problem with the Search system within LinkedIn: it’s extremely (more…)
According to Google, 82.6% of internet users use search. Have you thought about creating a blog for your business or company to help increase your likelihood of appearing in search results related to your industry? Creating a blog for your business can help with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), because blogs are usually updated with fresh content a lot more frequently than your website probably is.
In addition to boosts in SEO, your blog can also act as a place to get the word out, or even sell, your products and services. Most blogging platforms offer a way for you to add a shopping cart, use a service like PayPal, or take advantage of other useful plugins that will allow your customers to (more…)
If you’re a business owner or an entrepreneur, chances are you’ve had to deal with an unhappy customer every so often. I have a video below that will help you understand how to effectively learn from unhappy customers, which will ultimately help boost your productivity. I don’t want to give too much away, so take some time to watch the entire video now:
How do you deal with unhappy customers? I’d love to start a conversation here on this post that will help other entrepreneurs and business owners learn from your experiences. Leave your comments in the Facebook Comments section below. Thanks!
I’d like to personally invite you to join me for my upcoming tele-webcast with Dr. Ivan Misner. We’ll be discussing his new book, .
Here’s a brief summary of what the book is all about:
“Are men and women really so different or do we have a tendency to just focus on what makes us different instead of how we are similar? It is important in the world of business to understand both the similarities as well as the differences. Understanding that we all want the same outcome, we just have different ways of getting there.
We are more alike than we are different when it comes to business, with some simple understanding we can be more successful when networking and referring the opposite sex” (Source).
Here’s a quick preview from (more…)
Making time for critical thinking helps entrepreneurs achieve and maintain business success, faster, better and easier. Are you making time for it? Watch my video below to find out why it’s so important, and what you can do to start allocating time in your schedule for critical thinking:
How many times have you gone in the wrong direction enthusiastically as an entrepreneur? It’s because you haven’t set the time aside to think about it.
If you don’t already, set aside some time starting today for critical thinking.
Please provide your input: Can you think of a time when you used critical thinking to make a decision that ended up benefitting you greatly in time? I would love to read about it. Share your stories in the Facebook Comments section below.
Boosting productivity with conversion involves three incredible and uniquely simple questions, which make good websites great.
You may have seen this e-book before, but if not, I encourage you to print it out and study it closely.
What is conversion? Conversion to me means turning prospects into customers and customers into evangelists or raving fans.
To turn a suspect into a prospect means to get an opt-in. This is when someone gives you their name and email address.
Turning a prospect into a customer means they’re buying something from you.
Then to turn them into a raving fan means (more…)
If you’re like me, you’re always looking for ways to be more productive each day. Your daily tasks can take up a lot of your time. How efficient are you at completing daily tasks?
In the video below, I offer three tips that will help you become more productive with completing daily tasks. Take a look at the video:
Which tip did you find most helpful? Leave a comment for me in the Facebook Comments section below! Do you have another tip that wasn’t mentioned in the video? Tell me about it below!
Do you write marketing plans? Anyone can write one—as long as you use the executive summary format. Here are the five questions you need to ask yourself and your team in order to design it:
1. What’s the urgent problem?
2. What’s the unique solution?
3. Why am I stuck? Why are we stuck?
4. What’s the process?
5. What’s the first physical action we’re going to take to get from problem to solution?
To learn more about the process and each question, (more…)
Having great talent on your team can really make a big difference in your company. Most entrepreneurs don’t spend enough time on the single, most important activity that can boost the overall productivity of the company: having a strong hiring process.
I don’t have an HR department, and I have very little time to interview. If you’re like me, you can follow the following three tips:
Tip #1: Prequalify 80% of the time. Promote 20% of the time. The nice thing about this method is that it’s nearly automatic. I don’t have to spend a lot of the time narrowing the initial list down.
Tip #2:Send interested candidates to a 24-hour recorded message of yourself speaking. it’s another filter that you can use to narrow down the candidates. I want absolute certainty that this job is the right fit for them before they even talk to me.
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Are you using Twitter for your business? If not, why not? It’s an extremely beneficial tool that you can use to spark conversation, get the word out about your business and products, ask for testimonials, share original content, and much more. Here are a few statistics from Twitter that were published back in March of last year:
As Twitter continues to grow each day, it’s important that you as a business owner start (or continue) developing marketing strategies for your business that incorporate this powerful social media site. The opportunities are endless.
In order to get your mind churning about how you could (and should) be using Twitter for your business, I wanted to (more…)