Posted on November 7, 2009 in Business, Featured | No Comments
Remember, before you read on, that everything I am writing here on this blog is meant to get you started earning money , managing it and increasing your networth with lots of commonsense.
The articles might be down-to-earth but that’s what you will need if you hope to get onto the lane of big-earning business people. [...]
Posted on August 21, 2009 in Featured, Marketing & Business | No Comments
Today we are revealing to business men one of the greatest strategies ever to apply in the emancipation of their business no matter how small or big it might be. Everybody hears about marketing these days but still so many don’t understand how best to use the various marketing mix to push up their company [...]
Posted on August 21, 2009 in Featured, Motivational & Business | 4 Comments
Many people hide their inability to start something ambitious such as a new business the farce of planning. Several years down the line after saying they would start something you ask them “How come you are yet to start ” they say they are still planning. They plan and plan but still dodge from actually [...]
Most Business owners sadly do seem to forget what they ought to be doing most of the time;
1) Refining the business system to continually become more efficient.
2) Increasing sales of goods and services.
3) Networking and letting as many people as possible, influential or not to know about the business.
And that last responsibility of the entrepreneurs is what I am going to be writing on.
Incidentally, business networking is not the space science or utterly technical stuff that most people think it is. Unlike what many business writers want us to believe. Business networking, infact many business issues require only commonsense to learn and apply. Business shouldn’t be so abstract and business advice also shouldn’t be such as to put the average businessman or woman into confusion.To effectively network requires only simplicity and total discard of ego.
One of my mentors in the business world would always give his story as an advice on the best ways to network in business. Hear him;
“I never thought of networking as something too complex to know and practice rather I saw it as what it really is; getting to know people and making them aware that your business exists. So when I was starting out as the managing director of my own small but modern furniture and upholstery manufacturing business I always made it a point of duty to greet anybody I met, introduce myself and handover my business card. I did that in buses, taxis, trains and later airplanes. I was persistent but I was humble and civil in my approach. I would introduce myself and exchange little pleasantries with anybody I happened to meet before handing my card. It’s pretty simple and unsophisticated.”
This simple way of networking helped my mentor land his first big contract, to manufacture and supply over 3000 pieces of university classroom seats. Since then he has never looked back.
Follow his advice, any other thing is mere confusion and over complication of what should be a simple art to help you increase the awareness about your business and subsequently increase the volume of business you do.
