Tips for Business Success

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I like the way your tips incorporate action steps and doing what needs to be done to get your first sale. the importance of taking initial action steps and building momentum, towards your goal cannot be underestimated.

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Here4 are more tips....

1. Be Consistent
   Make sure your business has a consistent look and feel. A customer must get the same flavor from everyone within your organization. Always.
2. Smile
   Throw out the reasons you think people buy from you like price, product quality or your warranty. They buy because they like you.
3. Fanatical Optimism
   The glass must always be half full. Attitude will always win out in the end and infect all of those around you.
4. Sell Soft
   Don't ever hard sell. Solve problems. Satisfy wants. Do what is truly best for your customer.
5. Leave Your Comfort Zone
   Never accept the idea that this is the way you've always done it. Never accept that a new idea or technology could never work for you.

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1. Don't let others decide "your" attitude.
2. Always be early to work and always be willing to stay late. Moving up is often measured in �sweat equity�.
3. The best ethics are those that can stand being illuminated in the morning newspaper.
4. A positive attitude will take you further than your technical knowledge.
5. Decision making should always involve identifying the risks and assigning probabilities to possible outcomes.
6. Make an effort to improve your written and oral communication skills. Whatever the sacrifice - make it! -- Very few professionals move up without being good communicators.
7. If you are in a college major and you do not like the topics, homework, tests, teachers, etc., you should change majors. If you do not like this material in college, why do you think you will suddenly fall in love with the subject when you are working? (Note about accounting: The purpose of doing business is to make a profit, and accounting measures profits. All career paths need to understand accounting, and those who don't will remain at the bottom of the corporate ladder.)
8. College is the �real world.� There are obligations, responsibilities, and consequences.
9. Your college grades are a measure of your willingness to sacrifice. Employers want employees willing to sacrifice to improve the company.
10. If you don't like group and team work in class, forget the business world--change majors! You must be able to work as part of a team to survive in the business world.

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1. Be Fast
   Time is the most precious commodity. When delivery is expected Friday, show up Thursday afternoon. Return calls and emails now.
2. Say Thank You
   A lot. Tell your customers and employees how much you appreciate them. Better yet, do it the old fashioned way: take pen to paper and write them a note.
3. Be Consistent
   Make sure your business has a consistent look and feel. A customer must get the same flavor from everyone within your organization. Always.
4. Smile
   Throw out the reasons you think people buy from you like price, product quality or your warranty. They buy because they like you.

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1. Think ahead. Establish policies before you need them. Doing so helps avert crises and awkward situations, and helps solve problems before they arise.
2. Determine what policies you need. Some you’ll want early in your business include a mission statement, as well as compensation, performance evaluation and employee policies.
3. Get input from key employees, as well as from members of your advisory board, your board of directors, and/or your professional advisors and consultants.
4. Communicate policies to everyone in your business.
5. Review policies on a regular basis—once a year, for example—and revise them as necessary.

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All of these business success tips are in the form of brief articles written by Jeff Richards. Many of them have been published. Feel free to use them as long as you give us credit referencing Creative Business Adventures with Jeff Richards as the author and provide a website link back to us. Please drop us an email so we know where and how our business success tips are being used. And if you have interest in a subject you don't see here, let us know. If we can fit it into our busy schedule, we will write a relevant article for what you need.

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Business processes are what organizations do. Whether documented or not, whether designed or not, whether understood or not, nothing gets done until someone (or "the system") does it – that is what business processes are all about. They are a combination of business operating procedures, business rules, business data, and supporting technology. Yet, many business processes are undocumented, misunderstood, not optimized, not followed, error-prone, and inefficient.

The best ethics are those that can stand being illuminated in the morning newspaper. A positive attitude will take you further than your technical knowledge. Decision making should always involve identifying the risks and assigning probabilities to possible outcomes.