Biz Tip of The Day: The Number One Benefit of Information Technology

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so n a sense it is all about potential.”

Steve Balmer, Microsoft

We can constantly learn from from successful business men and woman. That is why we share so many of their quotes with you. 

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Biz Tip of The Day: Stats Equal Opportunity for More Business

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

Zig Ziglar, Sales and motivational speaker and author

Biz Tip of The Day: Address the Customer's Problem

“Even if you have the empathy and the passion and you address the customer's problem, you haven't really given good customer service in total. You haven't done that until you have eliminated the problem that caused her to call in the first place.”

Charles Fishman, Fast Company

Biz Tip of The Day: The Essence of Conpetitiveness

“The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important – and then get out of their way while they do it.”

Jack Welch, General Electric

Biz Tip of The Day: The Most Important Words in the English Language?

The most important words in the English Language?

I saw this posted in a successful businesswoman's office. It was:

The Most Important Words in the English Language:

5 Most Important Words: I am proud of you!

4 Most Important Words: What is your opinion?

3 Most Important Words: If you please.

2 Most Important Words: Thank you.

1 Most Important Word: You.

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“Feeling appreciated is one of the most important needs that people have. When you share with someone your appreciation and gratitude, they will not forget you. Appreciation will return to you many times.”

Steve Brunkhorst

Biz Tip of The Day: Know Strengths and Weaknesses

Know strengths and weaknesses of each of your team members, including your own. This is the best way to delegate to the ones you know can best handle each separate task with the uppermost result. Try to steer them away from dwelling on their weaknesses, but improving upon their natural talents. You and your company may even pay for classes to enhance such skills among employees. It is unlimited, sometimes, what people can do when they are encouraged to follow their bliss.

It is a little like teaching a left-handed person to write with his right hand when you force someone to learn to do something they really aren't good at and really don't want to do. Make an effort to concentrate on strengths instead of weaknesses and you will be surprised at the results.You may even get some unintended consequences – but in this case, they often turn out to be good surprise consequences.

“The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.”

John Adair

Biz Tip of The Day: Focus on Results not Excuses

Focus on results not excuses. Set clear goals, have mutual discussion among the team members. Talk about why you want to achieve certain plateaus – then discuss the how. Hire people who are ambitious and want to succeed. The negative mind full of excuses has no place, certainly in sales. You will need to motivate and reward your people as they reach each new goal.

“The customer comes second: Put your people first and watch 'em kick butt!"

Hal Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth International

Biz Tip of The Day: Stop Criticizing Upper Management

Stop criticizing upper management. This applies to managers as well as employees. You are not building camaraderie by criticizing them together; you are destroying a much needed trust and respect, the same kind you expect in return. One bad habit I have witnessed among employees is to make fun of and belittle customers as a rule, behind their backs, of course. This sets a tone of arrogance which is not conducive to good relations with customers.

A little humor from Casey Stengel: “The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.”

Biz Tip of The Day: Set a Good Example for Employees

Set a good example for your employees. If you stress for everyone to be on time for work and for meetings than you should also be on time, for example. Build trust with your employees by keeping all your promises no matter how small. It is no different than when dealing with clients. You need employees to sincerely promote you and your business at all times. You also need clients who will keep coming back and who will give the same promotion to send referrals your way.

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”

Albert Einstein

Biz Tip of The Day: Let's Not Agree to Disagree

Let's not agree to disagree.Whether In a meeting in a group or one-on-one with an employee (or employees) it is better to listen to an entire suggestion/idea without disagreeing. Do jot down notes seen only by you for later reference. Should you disagree with the presentation, instead of disagreeing you should say something such as, “Thank you for your input. I have made a note of it to go over and discuss with others, my partner and our management, and will get back to you.”

You may even be able to tweek what is initially a not so good idea into a better one to come back to the person with. Discuss it and ask for their opinion. You will gain the respect of your employees and make them feel better and a part of the business process. No 0ne likes to be humiliated or belittled by the boss in front of others or one-on-one. When you handle it in this manner, employees will be much more open to sharing what could turn out to be some outstanding pluses toward the success of the business.Employees who actually do the work can often come up with ideas and solution you may have never though of.

"Employees will only complain or make suggestions three times on the average without a response. After that they conclude that if they don't keep quiet, they will be thought of to be troublemakers or that management doesn't care." 

Peter Drucker, Business Guru, Author, Professor of Business

Biz Tip of The Day: A capital Idea for the Entrepreneurs of America

Biz tip of the day: A capital idea for the entrepreneurs of America to dwell upon for you are the ones who will bring back economic prosperity:

“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much':” Thomas Sowell

Remember, being an author is being an entrepreneur along with the thousands of others fields contributing to our success as a country.

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Biz Tip of The Day: What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur?

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? Mark Cuban: "Willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24 x 7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.” Mark Cuban is the founder of Broadcast.com.

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Biz Tip: That Someday is today!

 Biz tip: That someday is today!

“I’ve seen again a lot of people go through this life, who are working so hard, they wake up one day and realize that those things that they said, ‘I’ll do that someday, I’ll do that someday’, well, that someday is today.”  This statement was made by George Lucas.

George Lucas' primary areas of expertise include business-to-business negotiation skills, sales and business development, marketing strategy, and leadership skills.

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Biz Tip of The Day: Insight from Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist

Biz tip of the day: "Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally indeed neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends tonly his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."  This insight is From Adam Smith.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics, governments, and business leaders ever since. But it's the insights from one of Smith's earlier works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that caught the attention of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf and coauthors Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein.
In "Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist," published in the summer 2005 edition of The Journal of Economic Perspectives, the authors find that Smith's insights from 1759 can contribute to modern thinking on everything from our fascination with celebrity to the theory of loss aversion. In fact, says Ashraf, Moral Sentiments presages the emerging field of behavioral economics.

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Biz Tip of The Day: Go From Writing Your Book to Thriving as an Author

Biz Tip of The Day: Go from writing your book to thriving as an author, first let me explain the difference between a writer, and an author. A writer is someone who writes, whether it is articles, a blog, or a manuscript. An author is a writer who has had their manuscript published. An author has a book that can be bought from a bookseller or from themselves. An author is able to hold their published book in their hands, and has the satisfaction of knowing that their work has been published. An author is considered an authority on their topic. By the way, do you know that the first six letters in authority, spells author?

The following is an account of what it felt like for an author friend of mine to see her name on the cover of her book for the first time on a Barnes and Noble shelf.

"The feeling I experienced was the second greatest joy in my life – the first was becoming a Mother. Suddenly my book title and my name seemed to jump off the shelf when I first saw it. I leaped up and down with joy, when a man rounded the corner. He chuckled, as I tried to walk away, but he said I would have to explain that.

I explained it was all about seeing my very first book for sale. He started jumping up and down with me, and around the corner came his wife. She just shook her head, and said she didn't even want to know what that was all about. He grabbed her by her arm and told her what was going on. They wound up buying the book, and I signed it for them. What a great experience that was for me."

I asked my friend, if it’s such a joy, what in the world keeps a writer from taking that first step to becoming an author?She told me the biggest obstacle many writers face is fear. Some are afraid of failure, some are afraid of success, but most are afraid that they won’t be able to write a book properly. Most are familiar with the fear of failure, but the fear of success often goes unrecognized. When you succeed, your life changes, and that can be scary to deal with. As a coach, she often works with clients who have become so comfortable in their daily routine, that the slightest change unnerves them. Once they learn how to overcome that false premise it is amazing to watch them grow personally, and professionally.

There are many good potential authors out there who need a nudge in the right direction to the road to success. You can get started by following the Business Owners Writing System™ Home Study Program.

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Biz Tip of The Day: Why Miss the Mark -- Write a Better Book, Part 3

Why Miss the Mark -- Write a Better Book, Part 3

For unpublished non-fiction writers, or authors who want to improve

There’s more in this last part of Why Miss the Mark. Remove all distractions, or remove yourself from them. You will know what they are. Enlist a friend, family member, or a colleague to keep reminding you about your work, by asking new questions, or adding something of interest to your research.

Remove the negatives from your mind, and from your workplace. John C. Maxwell, in his book, “How Successful People Think,” writes some phrases which almost guarantee killing creative thinking, anytime you think them, or hear them. Here are 11 of the ones he listed. (It's a great little book):

1: I’m Not a Creative Person

2: Don’t Ask Questions

3: Don’t Be Different

4: Stay Within the Lines

5: There is Only One Way

6: It’s Never Been Done

7: Be Practical

8: It Can’t Be Done

9: It’s Too Much Work

10: Yes, But …

11: Failure is Final

Invest within your resources but bear in mind that some investments are usually necessary to end up with the best product. Producing a finished book ready for publication is no different. In all three of our Author Success Programs we include the compete “Business Owner’s Writing System.” When you chose the Leader Program, or the Visionary Program we guarantee publication of your book, or we refund your money. Check out all of the many perks given in these two programs and the Executive Program at . Choose the one that fits your needs, and let’s get started. Also consider the Home Study Program -- check it out.

You can accomplish so much more when Author Success International teaches and guides you through some of the most proven basics, and some of the most difficult proven processes that work. Most of the work, though, is ultimately yours, and will spur you on with a feeling of accomplishment. Your book is from you. When you mold, and shape a thought, you interject your beliefs, backed up by researched facts.

Author Success International author coaches will help you set goals, and objectives when you are part of one of our offered, or tailor made programs. They check your progress, your vision, lay down parameters, suggest resources, and give you encouragement. Most of the work is your responsibility. Your finished book will have your name on the cover, and we will be proud of your accomplishment.

Please go to www.AuthorSuccessInternational.com to find a program right for you, not only to write your non-fiction book, but a better book. You can create your own success promoting yourself, your business, or both. You'll be surprised how little the investment is to you or your company for such a long-term gain.

Biz Tip of The Day: Why Miss the Mark -- Write a Better Book Part 2

Why Miss the Mark -- Write a Better Book, Part 2

 For unpublished non-fiction writers, or authors who want to improve

Capture ideas on paper as soon as they appear. Jot down one-liners, or outlines to sit down and build on, later. Waiting for the right feeling to write is always a bad plan. You want to stay on target by staying focused. The more you practice discipline, the better you get at it.

Continually ask yourself questions about your subject, and find the answers. Focus without interruption, and put it into writing.

Bounce ideas, and verbiage off others, and ask them to verify the clarity of your message. You may want to limit this exercise to those most trusted friends, family, and colleagues. Also gain insight from a variety of people familiar in the field. Be bold. Tell them are you are writing a book, and ask for an interview. Obtain permission to quote them in your book. Believe me, they will like the possibility of having their name, and quote in a published book.

Think, stay focused, while using your creative thinking abilities. You can go a little crazy with your ideas, but always come back to reality. Always come back to the bottom line. Strive for perfection, but don’t get hung up on it. Leave in tact what is inevitably ambiguous about your topic. Every topic has gray areas. You should write about any contradictions in the field, as well as proven theories.

Never stop learning, and growing as you write. If you cannot seem to develop an idea, leave it, and go on to something else. You can always come back to it, or discard the idea, altogether.

List your priorities. Know yours talents, weaknesses, strengths, and knowledge. Fill in the rest with footnoted materials. We are revealing so much valuable information for you, right here on this page.

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Biz Tip of The Day: Why Miss the Mark -- Write a Better Book Part 1

Why Miss the Mark -- Write a Better Book, Part 1

 For unpublished non-fiction writers, or authors who want to improve

Good planning, and good positive thinking can do many things for your non-fiction book: It creates opportunity, solves problems, provides valuable information, makes you and/or your business known, and generates revenue.

Do you want to have to tools to help you master the process of good writing? Do you want to improve your writing, everyday? If the answer is yes, and yes, then you need to engage in a process that will improve your writing skills.

What you put into your research impacts the results of your finished book. Read magazines, and books, view videos, and listen to tapes esoteric to your topic. Interview professionals, who know more than you do, in the field of your subject.

Locate a place which you find comfortable, as far as lighting, and sound, with appealing surroundings, a place where you can research, and explore your ideas, and put them into words.

Set a time and the number of hours you will work on your book each day. Do take the necessary breaks of eating, etc., and breaks to refresh yourself. Remember, revising over and over doesn’t improve your output, and is a frustrating waste of valuable time. Constantly doing revisions is a major reason many writers never finish their books; avoid revisions.

Biz Tip of The Day: What it Takes to get on the Author's Path to Success not Always Easy

Biz Tip: What it takes to get on the author's path to success is not always easy to solve, alone. Here are some questions that for writers, and authors, alike. Why is it, when an individual has an idea, and wants to develop, or market a new product, it is commonplace, and expected that they invest in hiring one or more consultants in that field, to do research and development (R & D)? Why is it that they will go on to do the same thing later, with a marketing consultant, in order to sell that developed product -- and yet, why is it a writer rarely applies those same business tools in the molding, and shaping of, production of, or promotion of developing an such an appealing product as a book?

 

There are many reasons are for this kind of mindset. You may be surprised at some of the following five reasons many would be authors get stuck, don't seek outside help, or don't see fit to apply effective business tools:

First, is not realizing that similar tried and true business techniques also work with something as creative as writing. There are no tool dies, or actual parts that you can hold in your hands to fit together, but, in reality, a writer's words do have to come together enticingly, have substance, and work for the reader, all at the same time.

Secondly, like inventors, some are better at producing a product, while others are better at marketing a product. Some writers, much like inventors, need outside help for them to see the light to get past some huge stumbling block. Many authors have said that they wish they had invested early on in their careers, in order to excel sooner, without so much frustration.

For example, bouncing ideas off colleagues, and experts in the field of writing often spurs a writer on to explore new ideas, or to better some good ideas. Realistically, writers don't have access to colleagues, and experts at will, and since they don't have a vested interest in your work, it is always better to seek an expert consultant for guidance.

The thing that is so great about the Author Success Programs, offered by Author Success International, is that each of these stumbling blocks, or areas of concern are dealt with between each writer client, and his/her Author Coach.

More to come on how you can overcome more stumbling blocks to clear the way for your success. You won’t find a better offer than the Business Owners Writing System Home Study Program at:

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Biz Tip of The Day: It is Hard to Fail With an Attitude like Anita Roddick's

It is hard to fail with an attitude like that of Anita Roddick:

“If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension – you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.”

Or

"It’s not really work for me because I have no idea what work is anymore. It is so much a part of my life."