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The Secret to Building Your Business from the Inside Out
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The Secret to Building Your Business from the Inside Out
As a woman entrepreneur, have you ever wondered what the secret is for building business success? Sure, it’s important to have a mission statement, a business plan, and a product or service that meets the needs of your niche market. It’s also essential that you have funding to back your venture, a support system in place to guide and mentor you along your journey, and savvy business acumen.
Yet even if you have all these things, you still may not hold the key. What is the key to business success for women? The secret is to build your business from the inside out. From a place inside that you as a woman intuitively know and understand. From your Inner Samurai. If you are an entrepreneurial woman committed to doing work that is meaningful and important if you see your work as a mission, service, or calling if your goal is to help other people transform their lives and make a difference in the world, then the key to making that happen is to connect with your Inner Samurai. Connect with my Inner Samurai? What’s that?
Connecting to your Inner Samurai means connecting to your “inner knower”. This will empower you with the strength you will need on your journey as you build a successful business.
All You Need to Know about Your Inner Samurai
Who? Your Inner Samurai is known by many names. It has been called the voice within, the inner knower, the still small voice, God Self, Soul, God Within, and Spirit, to name a few.
What? Your Inner Samurai is best defined by describing its opposite – the voice inside the head, the monkey mind, the ego. By contrast, your Inner Samurai is the inner voice, the voice within. It is the quiet, sure, confident, strong, vast, and powerful voice of inner knowing. Being able to tell the difference between the rationalizing, explaining, blaming, and chattering voice inside your head and the calm, sure, wise voice of your Inner Samurai will make all the difference to your business success.
Where? Your Inner Samurai is aptly named because it is the voice within. Inner because the voice is deep within your being to distinguish it from the voice inside your head and Samurai because of how strong and powerful it is. Understanding who your Inner Samurai is and knowing where to connect with it are vital for your business success.
Why? Everyone has an inner voice. It is that part of us that is the repository of all our life experiences, hopes, and dreams. It’s so important to get in touch with our Inner Samurai because it is our greatest source of strength and knowing. It is the seat of our wisdom. It is the place of our extraordinary uniqueness. It exists to remind us of who we are. How? The most challenging part of connecting with your Inner Samurai is realizing how it communicates with you. Your Inner Samurai has a gentle, yet very recognizable, way of doing so – I like to call it “pulsing.” When you go inward and ask your Inner Samurai a question, you will feel a pulse answering you. This pulse will have one of two distinct qualities. It will feel like either a yes or a no.
When? Once you know who, what, where, why, and how, the last thing you need to know is when. When is the best time to tune in and feel for the pulse of your Inner Samurai? The answer is always. Make your Inner Samurai the primary voice you listen to. Turn to others for support. Turn inward for guidance. When in doubt between your feelings and thoughts, go with the pulse. Your Inner Samurai will never lead you astray, do you wrong, or leave you hanging. Your Inner Samurai pulse is right 100%25 of the time. So, enjoy writing your mission statement and your business plan. Get creative making your product or service the best it can be. Develop positive relationships with your investors and supporters. And don’t forget the most important relationship of all – the relationship with your Inner Samurai. It’s the key to building your business success from the inside out.
Building Trust is Key to Business Success
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines trust as “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something”. In the real world, trust means different things to different people but it usually boils down to one thing: trust is critical to your success, both personally and professionally.
Our focus here is trust as a key to business success. It takes many forms during your various interactions with others, but it is always there, just under the surface, influencing and affecting your work and your leadership effectiveness. Building and maintaining trust is crucial because when it is there it helps you, but when it is not, it hurts you.
Trust and your employees
Building trust with your employees means demonstrating every day that they can depend on you. It happens in small ways, like supporting a person’s efforts toward professional development or advocating for your department’s ongoing needs. It also happens in big ways, like maintaining employee confidentiality and communicating honestly about company issues. When there is mutual trust between you and your employees, performance improves.
Trust and your peers
Think about your peers. There are a few that you can always trust, but some that are less reliable. You know who they are; they always have an excuse for missing a deadline, or never quite finish tasks completely or without error. Eventually you learn not to trust what they do or what they say because experience has taught you they are not trustworthy.
Are you one of those people? Be brutally honest with yourself. Chances are you already know if your peers view you as trustworthy or not. If the answer is not, then you must correct that facet of yourself to achieve long-term business success.
Trust and your boss
When your boss has trust in you, chances are your career will flourish as long as your performance remains worthy of that trust. He or she is willing to support you, challenge you, and even mentor you, if you demonstrate trustworthy character and reliability. Building that trust with your boss takes time and consistency. You must fulfill your commitments, perform at high levels, and demonstrate your personal character and integrity.
If your boss does not have trust in you, it will translate into lost career opportunities. Perhaps you’ll be given only a minor role in that great new project, or maybe you will not be selected when someone is needed to fill in temporarily because the boss is out of town. Think about the many ways trust from your boss affects your success and start now to make behavioral changes if necessary.
Trust and your customers
This is extremely important, because trust from your customers translates directly into dollars. How does this happen? Think about your own experiences as a customer when you trust a company to send a crucial part, deliver a package on time, or finish a project on time. If the company fulfills its commitment, you learn to trust them and will go back to them in the future. If the company does not fulfill its commitment, however, your trust in them diminishes and you are less likely to go back to them again.
Think carefully. Do you give your customers reason to trust you?
Summary
Trust is an important part of your success. It occurs in many different ways across your professional life, affecting your business relationships and ultimately your business performance. When you pay attention to building trust, as a critical component of your leadership development, through every interaction you become better equipped to achieve whatever goals you set for yourself.
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How To Growth Your Online Business
Posted by: | CommentsIf you have an online business, you conduct your business
through the modern technology of computers. Most of your
business is most likely transacted from your website, email,
or phone.
Since the majority of your business transactions are online,
you’re not out meeting people one-on-one developing business
relationships. As with any online business, you need to
focus on building these relationships via the Internet.
Although this may be somewhat more difficult compared to
meeting a customer in person, you can still accomplish this
by keeping communications open and establishing trust with
your customers, as it is a vital step to your business
success.
Some people will start an online business and only focus on
what services or products they can sell. They are not
concerned about establishing a business relationship or even
a simple “thank you” when they do make a sale.
For those who use this methodology will eventually see a
significant drop in their business over time. Ask yourself,
if you dealt with a company that gave poor customer service,
how quick would you go back to them for future business?
Think of relationship building as the foundation to your
business. It establishes you as a professional, trust worthy
and a reliable source.
With an Internet business, this is your only way to
establish yourself as a reputable company, leaving a
positive impression to all who do business with you.
Relationship Building:
Even if you have great products or services that you offer,
most customers or business associates will rate there
experience by how they were treated while doing business
with you, so it’s important to establish relationships with
your customers at all times.
One form of relationship building that you don’t want to
overlook is being there after you have made a sale (or any
other business transaction). Following up with your
customers after the sale is the most important step to the
sales process, as this instills trust and support.
The logic is pure and simple, provide great customer service
to the people you do business with, and you will get
customers coming back to you.
It’s also important to understand and listen to your viewers
needs by asking for feedback or suggestions you can
implement. This will give you the added insight to better
enhance your services.
You can do this by having a contacts page on your website
with a comments or feedback form. If you publish a
newsletter, you can also accomplish this by asking for
feedback from your subscribers.
This is your way of letting your viewers know you care about
what they have to say and how important they are to you.
When you show interest in your customers you will build
credibility and loyalty.
When you receive a request (whether it is a question,
concern or simply someone looking for more information) by
all means answer them promptly. If all possible, answer
their request within 24 hours.
This shows attentiveness to their concerns and that you are
a reliable source.
If you sell products on your website, sell quality products
that have merit, plus offer a guarantee and stand behind it.
One of the quickest ways to destroy a business relationship
is selling poor quality products and not standing behind
what you offer.
If you are promoting third party affiliate programs from
your website, take the time to research the companies you
recommend. Only represent companies that are of legitimate
nature and have a solid Internet presence. Remember the
companies you recommend will have an impact on your business
reputation.
You can summarize the importance of developing business
relationships in one-sentence…”Building relationships builds
retention, retention builds sales, sales grows your business”.
Keeping staff happy in tough times
Posted by: | CommentsKeeping staff happy in tough times
Nowadays, highly motivated employees are recognised as critical to business success. At a recent conference, senior executives of Berli Jucker, McThai, Mercer, Chevron and True Vision discussed the design and implementation of compensation and reward schemes to motivate employees and drive organisational results. The Nation’s Pichaya Changsorn was with them, at a conference organised by the …
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