Hiring new employees is always a serious decision and process.
It involves articulating everything you do, your company does, your customers needs and wants...
Once you've established that, then the question becomes where to find these prospective employees? After that, how to determine the best match for what you are looking for.
One thing is for sure, if there are holes in your business or operations plan at this point....you will discover them!
A business is not a business until you can take a vacation from it. Baptism by fire, here we come!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Marketing
Starting a business means being aware of your audience....leave your feelings at the door. Marketing that may have taken hours, weeks and sometimes months can get torn to shreds constantly.
Everyone from the outside thinks it's easy and simple. All have advice and think it's innovative. Remembering to look for where they are right and let the rest roll off is imperative. I look for concensus.
Sometimes opening up again is exhausting. Businesses fail often because their creators quit this very process. Remain as open and flexible as poosible.
Ups, google, Twitter and facebook all seemed goofy.
Support must come from real solid source. Selfishness will not suffice for Success
Everyone from the outside thinks it's easy and simple. All have advice and think it's innovative. Remembering to look for where they are right and let the rest roll off is imperative. I look for concensus.
Sometimes opening up again is exhausting. Businesses fail often because their creators quit this very process. Remain as open and flexible as poosible.
Ups, google, Twitter and facebook all seemed goofy.
Support must come from real solid source. Selfishness will not suffice for Success
Monday, January 11, 2010
Networking and Fellowship
So the idea of networking has been on my mind for 6 months now. I have attended networking events, socials, net weaving, business support groups, luncheons, breakfasts, chamber events, mixers, holiday parties……you name it and I’ve tried it.
Common themes:
1. Not very many people like them
2. The lack of genuineness
3. The lack of real substance
4. Lack of clarity of purpose
5. Costly
Fellowship exists in churches, recovery groups, sports, alumni societies, community organizations, and politics. It exists everywhere that people really believe and like what they do.
Networking exists in jobs, work, business and shallow socializing.
So is there a way to cross fellowship and networking? I believe the opportunity exists for entrepreneurs.
There is a different motivation for those who are present and future depends upon their profession. Entrepreneurs develop their businesses most times from the fellowships they associate with.
Church is an example. Entrepreneurs highly connected within church grass root fellowships have a much higher success rate. There perceived value is increased because they are attached to the highest value offered….God.
Entrepreneurs connected with fellowships also enjoy the perceptions of:
Accountability
Consistency
Morals
Integrity
Community
Politics
Dues paid
These may or may not be true but it definitely helps get their foot in the door. Fellowships act as a screening process in people’s minds.
I am not interested in using any of my current fellowships as avenues for growing my business. My desire is to create a “working fellowship of entrepreneurs”.
Business is built on relationships and networking is limited when no fellowship exists.
The successful networking I have witnessed centered on a really enthusiastic person. The attendees felt as though they were in fellowship with that person rather than each other’s pitches.
Entrepreneurs have a common fellowship. It is an old, proven and solid basis we can rely on and a platform for us to build a working fellowship.
©2009-2010 The Austin Answer Company
Common themes:
1. Not very many people like them
2. The lack of genuineness
3. The lack of real substance
4. Lack of clarity of purpose
5. Costly
Fellowship exists in churches, recovery groups, sports, alumni societies, community organizations, and politics. It exists everywhere that people really believe and like what they do.
Networking exists in jobs, work, business and shallow socializing.
So is there a way to cross fellowship and networking? I believe the opportunity exists for entrepreneurs.
There is a different motivation for those who are present and future depends upon their profession. Entrepreneurs develop their businesses most times from the fellowships they associate with.
Church is an example. Entrepreneurs highly connected within church grass root fellowships have a much higher success rate. There perceived value is increased because they are attached to the highest value offered….God.
Entrepreneurs connected with fellowships also enjoy the perceptions of:
Accountability
Consistency
Morals
Integrity
Community
Politics
Dues paid
These may or may not be true but it definitely helps get their foot in the door. Fellowships act as a screening process in people’s minds.
I am not interested in using any of my current fellowships as avenues for growing my business. My desire is to create a “working fellowship of entrepreneurs”.
Business is built on relationships and networking is limited when no fellowship exists.
The successful networking I have witnessed centered on a really enthusiastic person. The attendees felt as though they were in fellowship with that person rather than each other’s pitches.
Entrepreneurs have a common fellowship. It is an old, proven and solid basis we can rely on and a platform for us to build a working fellowship.
©2009-2010 The Austin Answer Company
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