As I told you previously, in any business they key for success is the numbers. Business owners try to reach high income, cash-flow or profit.
There is one way to achieve that : use the numbers. If you reach 1000 potential customers, you possibly can have at least 2-3% orders. If you have the right customers, you can have 20-30 % closed deals.
Chose only the most responsive clients because they show they are interested in your products or offers. This requires from your part to have a 2-3 people marketing team.
If you are a single business owner I can show you tomorrow how to do that with less effort or less money. For this case, you must be the lonely bird that wake up early.
You have two ways : follow the trend of the industry, or create your own trend. The last one is better for you.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time is right
Leonardo da Vinci said this : "The time is always enough for those that use it".
I couldn't say it better.
For that, it is requested something important though : to provide value to the others. If one can become enough significant to the others, his time will become significant, too.
In politics or business, it is like a pyramid. Those from the top send value and receive in exchange power. In politics, sending value is sending ideas to the others. In exchange you receive votes.
In business, send value (products or services) and receive money instead.
Our voters or our customers push us on the top. They give us the power.
So, the time is right.
I couldn't say it better.
For that, it is requested something important though : to provide value to the others. If one can become enough significant to the others, his time will become significant, too.
In politics or business, it is like a pyramid. Those from the top send value and receive in exchange power. In politics, sending value is sending ideas to the others. In exchange you receive votes.
In business, send value (products or services) and receive money instead.
Our voters or our customers push us on the top. They give us the power.
So, the time is right.
Your real asset
Your real asset is yourself. If you cannot "sell your self", you cannot sell anything. If you improve that "product" you can have a chance to make it.
One friend of me told me once : "If I would knew from the beginning who would be my best clients I would approach them from the first day."
Of course, that is not enough : you have to know who to approach, what to ask him and how to ask him. That makes sense if you have something to offer instead. Nice birds attract other birds for mating by using beautiful feathers and colors. Never black ugly and arrogant birds attract companions.
This is also happening in business world, too.
One friend of me told me once : "If I would knew from the beginning who would be my best clients I would approach them from the first day."
Of course, that is not enough : you have to know who to approach, what to ask him and how to ask him. That makes sense if you have something to offer instead. Nice birds attract other birds for mating by using beautiful feathers and colors. Never black ugly and arrogant birds attract companions.
This is also happening in business world, too.
Laziness
If one would ask me why many buyers prefer to ask intermediaries to source them anything instead of going to a Chamber of Commerce and receiving from there a list of real suppliers, what should I answer?
What is more costly? To pay for a list with 100 best producers of some product, or to pay a handsome cheque to an intermediary?
The answer is in the middle : if the price is right, that man deserves a fair compensation for his trading skills used in the benefit of the buyer.
What is your opinion, though ?
What is more costly? To pay for a list with 100 best producers of some product, or to pay a handsome cheque to an intermediary?
The answer is in the middle : if the price is right, that man deserves a fair compensation for his trading skills used in the benefit of the buyer.
What is your opinion, though ?
Strategy or opportunities
Many business people struggle to earn a serious flow of income during hard times of today.
Many of them lacks though the basic understanding of the business world : if you are an employee, you have an exclusive "client" (who is your employer) and not many, as have any usual successful business. If you are the owner, you can have a lot of real clients, on which you must focus to fulfill their orders and receive their business.
What fail to understand the brokers and intermediaries of today is that they must earn the attention and trust of the clients, not of the competition. They just try to convince the others how reliable are they, how serious and trustworthy. Which is a mistake, because is like trying to convince anyone on a street that you are a serious people. Most often "sober" is mistaken by "serious" and noone ask if you are indeed professional or not. Simply because most of them are not, too, and they cannot check that by themselves. In a street you meet daily new people that come and go away. They are though NOT YOUR CLIENTS !!!
If you chase opportunities, you can never succeed. If you have a strategy, you can. "Yes, you can !"
Many of them lacks though the basic understanding of the business world : if you are an employee, you have an exclusive "client" (who is your employer) and not many, as have any usual successful business. If you are the owner, you can have a lot of real clients, on which you must focus to fulfill their orders and receive their business.
What fail to understand the brokers and intermediaries of today is that they must earn the attention and trust of the clients, not of the competition. They just try to convince the others how reliable are they, how serious and trustworthy. Which is a mistake, because is like trying to convince anyone on a street that you are a serious people. Most often "sober" is mistaken by "serious" and noone ask if you are indeed professional or not. Simply because most of them are not, too, and they cannot check that by themselves. In a street you meet daily new people that come and go away. They are though NOT YOUR CLIENTS !!!
If you chase opportunities, you can never succeed. If you have a strategy, you can. "Yes, you can !"
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
What do you want ?
What do you want to read here ?
Say it and it happens.
If you want to know how to sell petroleum products or sugar, yes, we can help you. If you want to know how to source good products, yes, we can help you.
If you want back your time and life, yes, we can help you.
So please comment and post your thoughts here, of course.
Come on board. We wait you.
Say it and it happens.
If you want to know how to sell petroleum products or sugar, yes, we can help you. If you want to know how to source good products, yes, we can help you.
If you want back your time and life, yes, we can help you.
So please comment and post your thoughts here, of course.
Come on board. We wait you.
What is Business Pill ?
Business Pill is my page. I write here advices for those wanting to make business online.
Don't search here informations on how to build a website - there are plenty of websites showing you all details about that topic.
Here I show you some basics about how to make a successful business using the media called "internet", as if you were a bird wanting to fly through the air. The internet is like the air, it is thin and invisible. One that does not move in a speedy way through the air, will eventually end by falling on the ground. The air does not like lazy objects, it does not like solid objects either.
So, take this pill and start flying.
Thank you.
Don't search here informations on how to build a website - there are plenty of websites showing you all details about that topic.
Here I show you some basics about how to make a successful business using the media called "internet", as if you were a bird wanting to fly through the air. The internet is like the air, it is thin and invisible. One that does not move in a speedy way through the air, will eventually end by falling on the ground. The air does not like lazy objects, it does not like solid objects either.
So, take this pill and start flying.
Thank you.
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