Business Booster Tips: Recent Episodes
Business Booster Tips
Free weekly podcast aimed to help Start Up and existing businesses thrive and grow. We will help you market your business through social Media as well as help you look deeper into your business, often asking the questions you dont usually hear but will help you maximise your profits
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There is no doubt that to be successful in sales, you need a tremendous amount of confidence. You have to believe that you can MAKE things happen. You have to believe that you can control destiny. In short, you have to believe that you can do the impossible.
Part 1 – How To Exude Confidence Without Being Arrogant
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Part 2 – 3 Mistakes The Best Sales People Make On The Telephone
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Communication, communication and more communication. No pun intended here,
but for some sales managers, communication is just talk.
Effective and proactive communication is as integral to your sales team as
professional training, solid sales support and even good sales people. In
fact, communication is the glue that holds all of the pieces of the
team’s puzzle together.
Part 1 – How to get your sales team to believe in you
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In recent years I have been looking to fill a number of positions and each advert has attracted 100’s of applications. Filtering out unqualified candidates became a huge task. But I’ve learned along the way that long before you can locate the best employee for an open position, you’ve got to identify what exactly it is that would make someone a top contender, and then craft a job description that will attract people like that.
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If you are thinking ahead to the day when you will no longer run your business, think about these five exit strategies now so you are prepared for the future.
Exit strategies are something that every investor in a business looks for and before they invest they work out their exit strategy. But even if you are a sole trader, you need an exit strategy. For you, as for any investor in a business, the questions are the same when it is time to move on. How are you going to get your money out of the business? And how much are you going to get?
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How much are you going to charge your customers for your product or service?
Getting the price right could double your profits at a stroke.
Many business owners work out a cost figure for each product and add a modest mark-up known as “Cost-plus” pricing. While this method is common, it is not the only way to arrive at a price. Invest serious thought into the pricing method from the start – it can pay big dividends later.
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Exit strategies are something that every investor in a business looks for and before they invest they work out their exit strategy. But even if you are a sole trader, you need an exit strategy. For you, as for any investor in a business, the questions are the same when it is time to move on. How are you going to get your money out of the business? And how much are you going to get?
Having an exit strategy worked out in advance helps ensure that you like the answers to those questions and gives you some control over your business’s future
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Decisions are not just related to business; they will become your philosophy for life. Every decision you make leads ultimately to success as you reach your goal or disappointment and review as you reach a place where you goal can no longer be achieved. Step 8 is about taking stock, deciding whether to make ongoing plans, to adjust your strategy or draw a line under it, it is about maintaining growth, planning to expand or changing track. The decision and the choice is yours.
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Focuses on management decision-making. The ongoing process of daily prioritisation is where the true success of a business takes place. After all the excitement of big-picture planning, the tasks of maintaining enthusiasm for the daily detail and the smaller decisions can be challenging.
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The financial element is crucial to your business. Set long term financial goals and short term controls. Make sure your business plan is built on solid financial foundations. Plan for profit, account for overheads, control costs and understand finance.
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Uses the DO IT or DUMP IT techniques to improve sales and marketing, helping you turn your customers’ needs into those all-important wants. Sales and Marketing are the how of business decision-making. They are the route to your customers, who determine the profitability of your business.The good thing about running a small business is the level of flexibility that you have and the speed at which you can respond and make decisions.
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Considers the decisions we make that involve other people. Your business network ultimately determines your net worth. Who can help you turn your idea into action? How can you find people who are team players, who can act on their own initiative and who are team players and who take a pride in the work they deliver.
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Focusses on the importance of planning and prioritising and how to use your time wisely to implement your plans. It is important to look before you leap. Have you decided on a short – medium and long term goals for your business? Do make planning a daily management habit. Dump terminal drift.
Includes essentials for success in business
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Focuses on personal motivation, it will help you to recognise why some ideas fire your enthusiasm, while others leave you cold. The choices you make each day to either DO IT or DUMP an idea, a behaviour or a decision knowing ‘why’ you feel motivated to take action will help you to build a business that you want to succeed, resulting in positive outcomes.
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This Podcast focuses on the decisions you make during the evaluation stage assessing and deciding which ideas to develop and which to walk away from (Do It or Dump It) In theory there is no such thing as a bad idea, just an idea whose time is not yet ready to be explored. Nevertheless, not every idea is commercially viable and few are completely original. Most “new” ideas will improve on an existing idea or service, which means there will be plenty of research and experience to call upon when testing your concept. You will also get 10 tips for evaluating your business idea
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