All Posts Tagged With: "company"

High achievers, or rock stars as they’re so often called, are the best thing that will ever happen to your business … trust me!

Did you hear that, new business owners and entrepreneurs? If not, listen to me again … high achievers will always take responsibility for their actions and behaviors … perhaps that’s why they are the people we all want to be around like all the time; why we want to help them succeed and why they garner so much influence over everyone else. These successful people actually create their own reality … one that works for both themselves AND for others around them (including you, if you’ve hired them) and above all else, they will make you filthy rich if you let them. So, whether your place has one employee or 100, recruiting and retaining these special kinds of people certainly equals profitability (you love that word, don’t you? Yea, I thought so!)! Continued

Somewhere in the middle of the 1990’s (sorry, I can’t pinpoint the year, as I used to live a very hectic lifestyle. God, I miss those days!) I purchased an AB 30 vs travel alarm clock from Braun.

This little puppy woke me up, just like it was intended to do, like clockwork all over this world, and on all types of mornings — whether they were the rainy days that made me want to throw the covers over my head and ignore the outside world, or the sun-filled ones that made it very easy on my alarm clock to get me out of bed! I would have never gotten rid of this “Made in Germany” gem, but it just stopped working for me the other month, and as I found out later: this model is no longer produced — it was upgraded to a newer one with much more bells and whistles (not to mention double the price). Continued

Mission statements are pure bulls@#t!

They’re actually only for complete corporate morons, who couldn’t tell their asses from a hole in the ground. Don’t be like one of these blithering idiots … use a mantra to grow your company instead! Really … if your start-up business isn’t standing out it’s already fading away, and all that dough you’re throwing into advertising will be lost if its messages aren’t unique, concise and compelling. So you better be simplifying them with great content that people will always want more of. Here’s a news flash: big business has the cash to pay expensive ad agencies top dollar to do this for them, but you don’t … so save the cash and create a much more personal mantra that pops instead … one that is rich with relevance, proof and value for your customers. Continued

Do you give a flying turd about your reputation?

If so, then you’re like most people in that you want to be known for something good, like honesty, fairness, strength, integrity and kindness (unless you are a loser, of course). Now, let’s follow that up with the sad news: no matter how hard you work at living a good life, if you associate yourself with freeloaders, the week-willed, the “going-no-where” bunch, criminal types and anyone else who could care less about what other people think about them then your reputation is going to turn to s@#t!

I’m not saying it’s right, but most people tend to judge someone with easy to comprehend indicators of who they think you are, which certainly includes the company you keep. All I’m trying to say is be careful with whom you associate yourself with. Hey, I know it’s only human to imitate the habits of those we come in contact with on a daily basis, believe me. We ALL inadvertently adopt our friends’ interests, opinions, values and habits (each and every one of do this). Now, although these same friends and associates may mean well, they may also be negatively influencing you at the same time … so be careful! Continued

In sales (which mostly everything in this world is in) the man, the myth and the legend has always been the Closer!

Sure, companies need a few half-wits to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, answering all the stupid little questions that most customers who are only window shopping are going to ask! And yes, you need someone to keep the place neat and tidy … that’s why they promote the bores to management (these guys can’t sell their way out of a paper bag, to be quite honest with you)! However, without a Closer your place of employment wouldn’t be standing where it is … it’s true (you’d actually be standing in either a grass field or a Wal-Mart parking lot right now)!

One of the most important figures in a company are the Closers, and they are certainly cut from a different cloth (they’re either born with it or they’re not)! Sure these guys smoke like two packs of cigarettes a day, and get sloppy drunk in their off hours, but when they are out on that floor (which coincidentally is their Nirvana) they are gods amongst men, and nothing stands in their way of making that next sale … nothing! They know every little trick in the book when it comes to getting the job done, too! The rest of this article is a “tip of the iceberg” view of the magical powers that these lucky individuals naturally possess … Continued