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Friday, 21 March 2014
URGENT ITIL FOUNDATION TRAINING
25 Indicators that your Start Up will get stuck.
Based on his Experience with Entrepreneurs he has worked with, he shares
25 Indicators that your Start up will get Stuck.
- You have built a product and you are now looking for the problem it could solve.
- You cannot contact right now 10 potential customers.
- You are not able to find a niche market to start your project.
- You do not want to talk to customers because you are afraid of being wrong.
- You think you cannot talk to customers until the first version of your product is finished.
- You know it is important to have face-to-face conversations with customers, but you find other ways to understand their needs.
- You pitch your idea and ask for feedback about it, instead of asking for feedback about the problem you are supposed to solve.
- You delegate the customer development process or your market study to someone else.
- You do not ask open questions to your potential customers.
- You are not able to write a dozen lines about the actual problem your customers have.
- You talk more about the product features than the benefits for customers.
- Your product’s competitors are only solutions with similar features.
- You do not have any marketing strategy yet.
- You do not know what to blog about.
- You talk about growth hacking but you have not built a single happy customer yet.
- You face the “chicken – egg problem”.
- You think your product alone is going to solve your customers’ problem. You do not have any content strategyto help customers reach their goal.
- You do not have any idea about how to design a “concierge MVP” (aka: a simple service to validate that you can produce a happy customer).
- You do not have any expertise in your industry.
- You do not participate in meetups and events related to your industry.
- You are thinking about seed funding while you have not produced any happy customers yet.
- You have not taken the time to define your startup’s mission, vision and values.
- You do not know how to delegate simple tasks.
- You work everyday from 6am to… 2am.
- You sacrifice what you love and who you love for your startup.
To get one on one help from Thomas you can contact him directly
Email:thomas@thecollaborativestartup.com
Twitter: @thomaspichon
We keep moving Forward
EntrepreYOU INC!!!
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
How to increase SALES in Business
The Marketing Concept is an effective way to increase sale and profits in any Business.
What is the Marketing concept?
This is when you achieve cooperate goals by MEETING and EXCEEDING customer needs better than the Competition.
Applying the marketing concept in reality has to do with knowing what your customer needs, fulfilling their needs and adding something extra into filling those needs. This will make and keep your customers happy, thus giving you competitive advantage over your competitors.
The Key components of Marketing concept are:
Customer orientation.
Integrated effort.
Achieving goals.
All three components go hand in hand to create CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. Every Business activity whether it is a Product or Service should focus on providing customer satisfaction. Why is customer satisfaction essential? It is simple, if a customer is Happy with Services you rendered, they will always come back. For example you go to a saloon to braid or cut your hair, you had it done nicely and on top of that you were offered a cold drink. More likely than not, you will go back to that Saloon to have your hair done again. Why? Because they were able to meet and exceeded your needs.
Customer loyalty cannot be earned by Advertising or aggressive sale effort. The Marketing concept is how customer loyalty is earned. Customers are so satisfied that they come back and even refer you to friends and as most of us know word of mouth is one of the best form of Product and Service Promotion.
How to apply the Marketing Concept to your Business:
Customer Orientation: Cooperate activities should be focused on providing customer satisfaction.
Integrated Effort: All staffs in an Organization take responsibility for creating customer satisfaction.
Goal achievement: The belief that Cooperate goals can be achieved through customer satisfaction.
In Essenes the marketing concept is placing the customer and customer satisfaction at the centre of your Business. All activities of a company should be focused on meeting and exceeding customer needs. If you make your customer happy, they will grow your sale numbers, which pushes your Business in the right direction towards achieving its Cooperate goal.
Advertising will grow your BRAND, no doubt but the marketing concept however will increase your SALES. So don't just produce and advertise your Product or Services, apply the Marketing concept as well to achieve your cooperate goals.
Quote
"Your Business is not a Product or Services but your Customers".
We keep moving forward
EntrepreYOU INC!!!
Sunday, 16 March 2014
IsDB 1st Business Plan Competition.
Thursday, 6 March 2014
National Recruitment Fair 2014
- The fair will be widely promoted to universities, colleges & schools.
- Professional PR & Marketing campaign
- Extensive advertising on television, radio, press & social media
- Massive direct mail & email marketing campaign
- Top quality exhibitor packages, including shell stand, electrics & furniture
- Free website link and listing in the Fair Guide
- Featuring a programme of interactive career related seminars
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Publish you Books with e-publishers.
e-publisher’s
The e-book
conversion distribution Promotion
Company...
e-publishers is a Publishing company focused on converting,distributing and Promoting hard copy books into e-books and Mobiles books. Our aim to get hardcopy books published in Nigeria, available for purchase on international digital bookstores, thereby making them available and accessible on mobiles devices in territories around the world.
why should you e-publish
your Book???
The Electronic(e) industry is a fast developing industry, the ability to do everything on the Go e.g E-banking, E-shopping,E-reading e.t.c are all here to stay. And any business/Company that fails to hop on this fast moving train would be left behind by competitors. So for instance you wrote, published and distributed your book in hardcopy in Nigeria, the fact is only people who come across your book physically will contemplate the possibilities of purchasing your book. And out of the 50%, only a 25% of such peoples will actually purchase your book. Why is this? Your book is a product, and customers will not purchase a product they cannot see or have immediate access to. This limits your book to Nigerian readers. E-publishing however, makes your book available and accessible to more readers in different territories. This means your books is available for purchase by more people in different countries. How? ePublisher’s converts your book, summit for distributions on digital bookstores, ibook for example is the digital bookstores for iphones and ipads, thus everyone using an iphone or an Ipad can search, find and purchase your book on the ibook platform. Same goes for the Kindle and so many others like Nook, Barnes and Nobles.
Why you should publish with
e-Publisher's???
e-publishers handles all the process with regards to e-publishing your book. All you would need to provide is the final manuscript of your book, a signed agreement giving us permission to copyright your book in e-format and we will carry on from there.
We promise to offer each of our customers, a personalized service depending on your needs and available resources for your ebook.You will be updated on the progress of the process, so all you have to do is sit down, relax, and focus on writing your Next book. We will provide you with access to a dashboards that will help monitor your book sales. The Processes your book will need to go through to be e-published are:
Conversion has to do with converting the manuscript to the format acceptable by our Digital retailers,for example Apple ibook store only accepts e-books in e-pub format.
Distribution is summiting the ebook to our various digital retailers. If the book is accepted by our retailers, it would be enlisted and available for purchase on their bookstores.Here is a list of some of the Digital retailer we will be distributing your ebook with:
Apple
Amazon
Barnes & Nobles
Sony Reader Store
Kobo
Gardners
Bakers & Taylor
eSentral
Scribd
Pagepusher
And lastly, Promoting the ebook has to do with creating awareness of the availability of the book on digital bookstores they could be purchased from. This will arise curiosity and generate interest of the book among readers, which would result in purchase and increase sale of the book.
Services e-pusblisher’s Offer
We cannot guarantee a certain amount of book sale, but what we can guarantee you is Trust, productivity and the availability of your book for purchase on digital bookstores by readers in different territories in the World. For information on pricing quotes, digital retailers and their service percentage, do contact us directly by Phone on 08052645837 or mail onepublishers@icloud.com
We keep Moving Forward
EntrepreYOU INC!!!