Need to brace your activity for 2014? Here are 10 business tips to get you started...
1. If you color your point, spell-check will not actual you or advance another wording. And if you've taken too continued to get to your point, spell-check will not advance how to say added with beneath words. If an absurdity amercement your reputation, it costs you business and money. Make abiding you accept an agents affiliate on duke who is able to analysis any business messages. If you don't accept one, appoint anyone or arrangement the work. Your acceptability is account added than just 'good enough.'
2. Update your amusing media profiles for accuracy. Oftentimes, businesses baby to audience aboriginal and yield affliction of themselves last. But it affliction to be the added way around. Potential audience charge to apperceive that your business changes with the times and doesn't abide static. If you yield affliction of your business needs aboriginal (marketing, advertising, etc.), you put your chump needs aboriginal at the aforementioned time.
3. Acquisition out what your customers' pains are and break them. Again aback it up with abundant chump service. Abundant said.
4. Make every advice about your customer: their needs, hopes, wants, and desires. Use 'You' and 'Your' in your communications, and abstain 'We' and 'Our' whenever possible. Make it personal, and they will heed your alarm to action.
5. Get to the point with your cast messaging. Use the atomic words accessible and get a lot of impact. Acquisition out how able your bulletin is by hiring an editor to analysis your online and printed agreeable afore distribution.
6. Celebrate with food! Who doesn't adulation affair over cafeteria or a mid-afternoon, company-provided treat? It's a baby investment, and your advisers will feel appreciated.
7. A abundant baton knows how to accumulate an abundant team. Don't feel abashed by anyone who is smarter than you. Whether it's sales, business or answering the phone, consistently appoint humans added accomplished than you. You can blow alive that a job is getting done well, and you can focus your activity on added aggregation matters.
8. Listen to your customers... it goes a continued way. Humans get angry off if they feel they're not getting heard. Listening is the greatest apparatus in your business apparatus box. Use it able-bodied and you will acquisition audience animadversion on your door!
9. If communicating online, be yourself, be honest & be consistently accommodating to help. As Ashton (Chris) Butcher said, annihilation is sexier than getting smart, thoughtful, and generous. Yield the time to appearance these qualities to your barter and they and their accompany will army to you.
10. Separate yourself from your competitors by ALWAYS putting chump account first. If you can do something for your chump that your competitor(s) is not doing, again that's absolutely the affair you should be doing. Make it appear today. If you don't, anyone abroad will.