One-Minute Business Tips
Welcome to a selection of nearly 150 practical business tips each of which contain powerful sales, profits and cash generating ideas that can be easily implemented.
Pick out the ones that appeal to you directly, or alternatively, read them all at your leisure. Either way, understand this: the real value is to be found in the implementation of the idea and not the idea itself.
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6 Reasons WHY People Don’t Buy
10 ‘Off the Cuff’ Ways to Cut Overhead Expenses
10 Habits of Highly Successful People
12 Costly False Assumptions about Your Customer to Avoid!
A Monthly Report on Inactive Customers
A Nifty Way to Advise Staff on Expected Times for Each Job
A Quiz to See How You Handle Conflict
A Simple Trick to Remember PIN Numbers
Always Explain the WHY Behind Any Apparent Bargain Offer
An Easy Way to Size-Up Procrastination
An Important Addition to Your Job Description Forms
Another Smart Way To Get Referrals
Are You Delivering What The Customers Say They Want
Assessing the Interest Factor of Your Prospects
Avoid Gift-Wrapping the Garbage!
Be Aware of the HUGE Costs of Poor Communication
Boost Productivity by Boosting the Staff W-I-I-F-M
Conducting a Basic Competitor Espionage System
Creating the Team That No One Can Beat
Critical Questions That Will Generate More Sales
Cut It Out & Send It On
Determination vs Brains – You Be the Judge!
Do Staff Really Understand The PURPOSE Of Your Business
Don’t Get Suckered Into Believing These Marketing Myths
Don’t Waste The Opinion Of Customers
Drive Your Points of Difference
EVERYTHING That Leaves Your Business Should Contain Contact Details
Eliminating the Signage Confusion at Your Business
Exchanging a Discount for an Advantage
From Worst to Best in Six Steps
Get Your Priorities Straight
Get Your Staff to Give Their Work a Personal Stamp of Approval
Getting A Prospect To Nominate Their Thoughts On Price
Getting Staff to Reduce the Costs of “Doing Business”
Getting Your Existing Staff To Introduce Prospective New Staff
Getting the Edge Over Competitors When Submitting Quotes
Holding a “Clean Out the Clutter” Day at Your Business
How A $2.35 Biro Can Cost $540!
How Perfectionists Can Avoid the Temptation to Criticize
How Retailers Can Get More Bang for Their Advertising Buck
How To Differentiate Yourself In A Commodity World
How to Avoid YES-NO Answers
How to Boost Your Sales By 20%…With Just Two Words
How to Cater for Shorter Attention Spans
How to Get People to be More Detailed
How to Promote Your Family Focused Business
How to Push Yourself to Achieve More
How to Stop the “I Can Never See Him to Get an Answer” Scenario
How to Work With Your Competition
Insights into Business To Business Marketing
Is This The Best Rate You Can Give Me
It Isn’t What You Say…It’s How You Say It
Keep a Record of Why the Sale Didn’t Happen
Know Your Problem … And How You Want It Solved
Learn By Listening To These People
Leveraging Yourself
Live by These Principles of Trust
Make All Staff Responsible for Customer Complaints
Managers – Stand Back & Think About This Moment of Truth
Managers, Think About “Job Switching” with Staff Once a Month
Matters of Importance to Your Customers – Key Survey Insights
More Proof as to Why You Simply Must Look After Existing Customers
Negotiate Better & Profit All The Way To The Bank
Negotiate Better Using This Simple Three Point Formula
Never Miss an Opportunity to Get Customer Feedback
No One Ever Leaves a Job…They Leave a Boss
Persuasive Communication Tips to Get a Decision
Polite – Or Semi Polite
Protecting the Mission Critical People at Your Business
Reducing Vehicle Costs by 5% & More
Rudeness in the Workplace is Costly
Secrets of Successful Incentive Plans
Sell More by Using the Word ‘Own’ Instead Of ‘Buy’
Seven Critical Seconds!
Six Easy-to-Implement Cost Reduction Strategies
Smart Purchasing Tactics
Some More Smart Management Questions to Ask
Staff Remember 100% of Your Promises about Remuneration
Staff Work Better In Close Quarters
Take A Minute To Think About PASSION, FOCUS & COMMITMENT
Tell Them WHAT & Explain the WHY
The ‘Five Breath’ Method of Defusing Customer Fury
The (Very) Simple Solution to EXTRA Productivity
The 10 Most Common Complaints by White Collar Workers
The Art of the Non-Answer…as Refined by Politician’s
The Attributes of Self-Made Millionaires
The Half Yearly Attitude Check-Up
The Importance of Visuals In The Selling Situation
The Issue of Staff Honesty
The Management Time Wasting Moment of Truth!
The Power of Daily Improvements!
The Power of E-n-t-h-u-s-i-a-s-m in the Workplace
The Power of Staff Input
The Real Job of Salesmanship
The Science of Colours
The Secrets of a Successful Sales Team
The Slackers Code of Ethics…to be Avoided at All Costs
Think About This “Reflection Moment” Every so Often at Work
Time For A Personal Medical Check-Up
Time Your Mail (or email) Delivery For Maximum Effect
Time to Check Your Promotional Materials
To Change Other People, Start By Changing Yourself
Training Is An Investment – Not An Expense!
Two Low Cost Ways to Increase Revenue
Want to Reduce Sick Leave by 20% or More
What Drove You Nuts Today
What Ranks Highest in Creating Job Satisfaction
Who Do You Really Work For
Why Do People Buy
Why The DIY Mentality Is Wrong!
Why You MUST Take a Lunch Break
Why You Must Conduct Regular File Inspection & Clean-Out Days
Why You Should Regularly Review Your KASH
Why You Shouldn’t Cross Your Legs When Negotiating