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Did You Just Say Yes?

The answer you give to other people’s questions will make a significant difference to your own success in life.

In our world the word no is used too much and the more positive yes is less seldom heard. Why is that, when the more positive you can be then the more successful you will be.

If, for example, you start out with the basic premise that yes is the only answer to what ever question your life partner may ask you, then you can only finish up with a positive result.

But don’t stop there with only your closest family, what about all your friends, or your neighbours, or all of the people at your work, or even those in your wider community.

If you are really looking for positive results, then use the basic premise that yes is the answer as much as you can.

Success in life is not built around the word no, in fact a no answer will often mean delay, interruptions and an ultimate failure for you.

If you are presented with the answer no, then go around that person that has given you that no answer until you find the person that will give you a yes answer.

Those positive people are in all walks of life and are also looking to find other positive people and create more success for you and them.

Never accept no as an answer and you will very quickly discover that many things will happen differently for you; people start to do more things for you.

Next time someone expresses their response to your question with a no, then inform them that no is only one letter away from now, which shows a much more positive response.

You will be pleasantly surprised by their attitude change and the smile that you get, because most people actually want to be positive, but a no means that they can put off making any effort and not be disturbed from what they were doing before you asked the question.

Successful people have learnt from experience that yes is the answer that makes them even more successful.

Make it your basic premise and yes will be the answer to your success.

The 5 Secrets of Successful Businesses

Constantly ‘Market Up’

Within every target market, there is a high end and a low end market and everything in between. Large enterprises will constantly stretch their marketing sights and target prospects that most businesses would think impossible to acquire as clients. They constantly ‘market up’ to high end prospects, a strategy that catalyses their business to a much bigger game.

What specific prospects, or kinds of prospects, would you love to have as clients or customers but think it is impossible? Think outside the box and think big. It could be celebrities, politicians, admired companies, leaders in your community, role models, etc.

Pick one high end prospect to start. Build a marketing campaign to reach that person or company. This strategy requires persistence, yet is well worth it. ‘Marketing up’ can increase your revenues and business exposure instantly and multiply your profits for years to come.

Adding Value, Your Top Priority

Successful enterprises are in the business of creating value. They have a strong conviction to contribute more and more richness to their clients’ lives and businesses. In everything they say and do, they let clients know ‘you matter’. Your well-being and success is important to us. They focus on, what do I have to give, not what do I have to do to get a sale?

Where is your focus right now, on adding value, or making the sale? Make a list of at least ten ways you can increase the value of your products and services. Implement the easiest ideas, starting now. Make ‘adding value’ a routine business priority. When you do, your products and services will sell themselves.

Maximise Performance

Successful enterprises are masters at achieving the greatest return at the lowest possible risk. They constantly look for ways to reduce the amount of time, money and energy to achieve their ultimate goals. They take what works and see if they can make it better, faster, cheaper. They know the ‘what if’ implications of every new strategy, goal, product or service. They are pros at maximising performance tradeoffs.

Do you know the profitability of each product or service you offer? Do you know which client is the most expensive, demanding or time consuming to serve? If you doubled your client base, do you know the implications on costs, revenues and the operations of your business?
To optimise your business results, think highest and best use of your time, energy and money.

The Power of Leverage

Most businesses build their enterprises in a haphazard way. Successful businesses grow their businesses from a place of leverage. They look for new ways to convert their current assets, strengths and opportunities into new revenue streams. They constantly take inventory and seek ways to profit from untapped capabilities and underutilised resources. They integrate marketing activities into a single business strategy to maximise results.

How can you leverage your current assets, (your client base, employees), your current strengths, (your knowledge base, processes), your current resources, (your business network, capital), to quickly grow your business?

How can you revamp your marketing activities so that your products and services sell each other? Leverage is one of the most underutilised principles for multiplying profits in business.

Develop Your Bias Towards Action

Successful enterprises understand that, in today’s economy, windows of opportunity are often measured in months, not years and decades. They know they cannot wait for the perfect strategy, the perfect solution to capitalise on these opportunities. They must act quickly if they want to thrive in these highly changing times.

What new projects, strategies or opportunities are you stalling in order to achieve perfection? What new practices, support structures or habits will accelerate your bias toward action?

The Fundamentals of Business

For many people, business success is an elusive dream, that they wish to aspire to, but never seem to achieve.

They try every possible way to comprehend the true fundamentals of business and think that it is only a matter of time and success will come their way.

Surely, it is only necessary to put in the right amount of effort and the resulting business rewards will be seen immediately.

If they constantly show endeavour and wait patiently, then the final outcome can only be a successful business that grows and grows.

By getting the marketing message right and giving confidence to your customers that you can be trusted, then the sales should come in, along with the profits and obvious business success.

Other business owners that you know are in the same situation as you, so there cannot be anything wrong with your approach to business, it is just that some businesses are more successful than others.

Or maybe you are satisfied with what you are achieving within your company and feel that it would be too much effort to do more business. People who think like this are not really in business, but just treating each day in business like it is a hobby, instead of a serious endeavour.

Is it not about time you swallowed your pride and sort the advice of a business expert, who has had to face up to all of the same business adversities that are affecting your business and has repeatedly been able to overcome them and be successful.

You can learn from the experience of the business expert and put right in your business the things that are stopping you from being more successful.

The business expert will support you in setting appropriate goals and methods of assessing progress in relation to these goals. And will encourage a commitment to the development of lasting growth in your business.

The business expert will help you to face challenges and to take actions so that you can create a more successful business.

In all aspects of life, we seek the knowledge and experience of others to advance ourselves in the things we wish to do, so why should it be any different in business life.

The knowledge and experience that a business expert has, would have taken many years to accumulate and along the way they would have been able to see what works and what doesn’t work, when it comes to making a business successful.

Learn from experience and then apply it to your business, let it become a natural way of business life for you and then you can reap the rewards of the business success that you so richly deserve.

Tomorrow Never Comes

For many of you in your businesses, the pace of the working day leaves little time for you, as the business leader, to do the essential necessary work to complete your company’s business plan.

So, like most of your peers you finish up only producing a set of short term plans, with the hope that you will get the opportunity to produce a more complete business plan at another time.

But that other time never comes, because your short term plans have not solved anything within your business to make it run more smoothly, instead it is still running at the same chaotic pace as before, but now the short term plans have expired and a new set are needed.

Here you go again, on the same old treadmill as you have always found yourself, setting short term plans to run your business, but finding that you are going nowhere.

When are you going to realize that short term has no future and that the only way you are ever going to have your business running the way you want, is for you to take the serious time necessary to make a realistic business plan for your company?

Stop putting it off until tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes and start from today with the determination to produce the business plan that you and your company, so desperately need.

Your business plan will lay out the details for all of the tasks or projects that are needed to be achieved within your business, a more accurate assessment of the resources that are required to complete those tasks and the expected effects on your business.

The business plan should also include the assets and stocks of your business, the financial capital held, and the gross running costs of your business, a projection of the cash flow potential and the measurable profitability of your company.

You will find that, immediately you have completed the production of your business plan, you will feel enormously motivated about your business and some what relieved.

Because now you can focus on the things that really matter, respecting your people, looking after your customers, making extraordinary sales and running your successful and more profitable business.

Successful business leaders always have a fully completed business plan, usually before they start the operation of their businesses.