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To undertake a successful business with good intentions is not enough, we must have a professional guide, or a good business plan.
“One of the most common mistakes of entrepreneurs to start their business is that they have written about their objectives, what the company and not seeing results achievable,” said certified public accountant from the Universidad National Autonomy de Mexico (UNAM), Gregorio Perez.
This tool is not a simple document, is to translate the project itself on paper to identify strengths, needs and above all, to stand in case you need advice or funding.
Among the advantages of developing a business plan is to avoid wasting resources on payment of rent, wages and raw materials are purchased ‘by intuition’: “The plan also provides performance indicators for course correction or, at worst cases, cancel the project in time to avoid losing more money, “Perez said.
Hence the need for micro and small entrepreneurs has basic plan and an investment project.
UNAM counter proposes 5 steps to do so, although they may be adjusted depending on the complexity of each business unit.

1. Business Description
It is the basic company information and includes your corporate vision, which is you, what you shall offer, which will try to meet market needs and why your business idea is viable.

2. Desired Niche marketing
it is one of the most important and should take into account the current size and market trends. Once the niche is defined, describe by geography, company size, business organization, lifestyle, gender, age, occupation and other characteristics necessary to portray the companies or consumers likely buy your product or use your service. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you heard of it? You did not know quite what it was and you informed. Someone also said that you can use it to support your business. Yet it is not enough to have a Twitter account, you need a strategy.
Here are five rules to keep in mind to make a Twitter tool.
Rule one: Choose the target

Those who want to get on Twitter? You must be precise and to limit the target “population” that really interests you, try to reach everyone is not a strategy. If you have a company such as B2B, you will want to pursue the matter at other companies and individuals that represent them.
Here’s a quick example: look at least ten of your consumers on Twitter and once you found them, look who “follow” and who “speak”. These people can become part of your own target. Looks like you describe and in that way, then use these keywords and the language to find people with similar tastes.
The goal here is not to find all the people you’d like to interact (which might be quite impossible) but to find people that can be adapted to become part of your target. Pay attention to those who have power and influence. For example, people who speak or what issues are “rewet”? To those who ask for advice? Once assembled a first result, go to the next step.
Rule two: Understand how to speak

Listening is part of a sound strategy, as well as learns how to speak your target and what to share. Here are some tips:

• Look for what people say about your business. They talk about good or bad? They ask for advice on which product or brand to choose? Leave feedback after the experience they have lived?
• Do the same for your competition. See if your competitors are taking part in a conversation or if they are influencing or driving in some direction.
• Pay attention to your audience as he speaks. Use a formal or informal language? What ideas and what inspires them boring?
• Pay attention to any tags or other ways in which your audience relates. Verify that the tags are real and not spam.

Name of the product is a key aspect of the brand. The name that will be reflected in the final analysis, choose who you are, your company’s personality and vision. But more importantly, it must unforgettably embody the promise of its main product benefit to your potential customers. It may generally coincide with the competition, but ideally should be distinguished from the crowd. Where to start? Here are some basic guidelines.

If the field is too crowded, be unique
MSN Search, Netscape Search, AOL Search, all remained in the same category, so you can play it safe and go with the amazing Super Duper Search or Find. This works for some time, but once the field becomes too crowded, you’ll be lost in the mush of sameness with ever diminishing name recognition. If you’re in it for the long haul, best to leave the crowd with a name like Google, Yahoo, or even Dogpile (but I’m not a fan going in category scat only to be unique). Even the founder of Kinkos-nickname (nasty, who had red hair at school)-is quite different from memorable.

Do tongue twisters
There is a small part in everyone that hates to be embarrassed. When we ask for a product or talk with friends, we want to sound literate and not fumble over pronunciations. So is your kind of potential customers and to avoid tongue twisters, or any other name is unusually long or sound foreign. If you can not find a single word name, no more than two or three syllables.

Alliteration can help with more names
Okay, the company president, as all the more names on the list. ? can be made more memorable and / or easier to pronounce with alliteration. Consider Circuit City (initially, the incredibly bland, monosyllabic, Wards). Or Downtown Disney, or the world famous brand, Coca-Cola. All four syllables, still roll off the tongue with surprising ease. Read the rest of this entry »

You’re excited. You have a great idea for a new income opportunities online. Maybe it’s an original idea that has not been marketed the first line. Perhaps you have come up a new angle on the traditional concept. Whatever it is that has influenced you to start your online business, make sure you have a plan before you start. This is not the time to ‘pick it up as you go’. These are some basic things that should be included in your new income opportunities online business plan.

First of all you should have a brief description (mission) of all the activity as part of the overall business plan. After completing the summary you should begin to list the aims and objectives that you want your new online income opportunity to achieve. Next and perhaps most important, you should develop your marketing plan.
The plan will cover all the details of your new business. When the strategy is developing should consider the following:

The target market. The target market is that customers expect to see visiting your site. For example, the product more attractive for mothers at home or business leaders?

Now you need to make careful consideration about the competition. Choose a service or product that will be seen as different and useful. Visit sites that have identical or similar products. Analyze the costs and marketing strategy. Find which the positive and negative elements of their business and try to improve the product based on their weaknesses. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Increased traffic – Introduce your business to new customers and send a reminder to your existing customers, drive traffic to your store, office or website. Offer your customers and potential customers a reason to choose your company over the competition by offering exclusive coupons and discounts.

2. A larger list of Email Marketing – Make your customers or visitors to sign up for your e-mail newsletter, before being able to receive your coupon. This will give you the opportunity to follow up with them to resell.

3. Repeat the increase in sales and Sales – Remember, when customers visit your shop, office or site to use a coupon, which will probably buy more than just the element it promoted. Same goes for a discount. Both new and existing customers can be motivated to try a new product or service that would not otherwise be considered.

4. Viral Marketing – Take advantage of word of mouth referrals by encouraging customers to forward your coupons to interested friends or family. It ‘s the oldest and least expensive form of advertising.

5. Increased customer loyalty – Developing relationships with customers by offering value added, letting them know how much you appreciate their business. Keep your mind on you, and you forget the competition.

6. Accessibility – Save your marketing dollars. Online coupons are less expensive than traditional coupon advertising, because they do not require production or shipping costs.

7. Targeting – Reach the right customers. Companies such as its objective and fair-mail where your customers live, where as the store and buy what they want, making the coupon of great importance and therefore more effective.

8. Your best coupons, the better your response-Use online coupons offer savings of money (a dollar amount or percentage off), time (free pickup / delivery or gift) or to promote any aspect of your business. For example, a restaurant can offer a ‘buy one entree and get second half price’. A landscaper can offer a ‘free crabgrass application eater’, with an annual contract, a movie rental shop that can offer a midweek ’2 for 1 ‘hire and a retail store or website can offer’ off $ 20.00 any purchase of $ 100.00 or more. ‘

EU Commission threatens action before the European Court of Justice
EU Competition Commissioner Viviane Redding has announced opposition to the fiber expansion plans of Deutsche Telecom. The Magenta group they did not believe that it was in the project to a new market. “New infrastructure, the existing products and services are offered, no new market,” Redding made it clear. A preferential treatment of an amendment to the telecom Telekomunikationsgesetzes would not accept the EU Commission. Redding threatens in this case with a case before the European Court of Justice.

Khorshed Omar, CEO of the Düsseldorf payroll service provider, sees the approach of the Telecom so far usual business strategy: “Either the products are made of telecom competitors for not available or the Group increased the prices of wholesale products,” said Khorshed. The addition of fiber optic telecom had monopoly policy known to requesting a new fee for interconnection services.

decide “By mid-April, the Federal Network Agency, whether for local calls, in which T-Comb’s customers to call from other networks, have to pay .66 cents instead of 0.5 cents per minute. The new T-Com, however, prices would affect competition strong, and made net investments of competitors devalue. Most major operators are interconnected already with all 474 local distributors of the telecom and may waive the main node of the Bonn incumbents. Telecom but wants a significant way only for the services increase the shipping cost me.

These are precisely the local connections to which all telecom competitors are instructed, “says Khorshed. Also the investment and employment argument of the Telecom in fiber involvement is transparent.” In truth, the competitors in recent years, according to the Federal Network Agency considerably more in the telecommunications infrastructure investment than the Deutsche Telecom “said Khorshed.

Even the Federation of regional and local telecommunications companies (BREKO) complains broadband competition in Germany. The evidence of the current implementation report of the EU Commission. The document reveals the negative consequences of the slow pace of regulation in Germany. “While the EU average, thanks to the competition of the DSL market share of the incumbent declined to 61 percent, dominated the German Telecom is still 67 percent of the market in the DSL fixed network,” criticizes BREKO CEO Rainer Letterman. The significant decrease from the previous year (83 percent) were granted not benefit the telecommunications companies with its own network.

On NLP I always liked the structural thinking, which distinguish between form and content. This allows a more efficient perception and information gathering. The subject (business) strategy and NLP fit it in a good combination. Personally, I like it here the EKS strategy for Wolfgang Mewes very well, so I made here also an education. Someone has made an NLP training, as an additive or main focus, a strategy needs to assert itself in the market. This introduction of strategic thinking is similar to the EKS.

What is strategy?
A strategy is about the effective use of skills, powers and resources of an entrepreneur or a company.
Strategic thinking is now a “key technology”, because the strategy determines how you use your powers and resources. They are thus the competitors who have yet to consider thinking in purely economic and technical categories. Each company has initially limited resources it can use more or less great effect. The main question is always: How can I use these forces most effectively to the most effective point.

Concentration
1st By specializing to excellence. Those who pointed his forces concentrated instead scattered wide, relatively easy to overcome resistance

2nd Only the specialist who uses his strength fully, can offer top performance. Concentration on what you do best and what you can offer your customers the most benefit. Instead of a broad diversified offer, you have to sharp focus on a niche market.

3.Wer remains bogged down, on average. Failure and competition are often the result of a crucial strategic error: the dispersion of forces. After all, who in many markets offering a range of benefits can be at best average. The more you fritter your energies, the more difficult it is to do something very special. Read the rest of this entry »

The business leaders and technology executives are facing many new and very different challenges. The dynamics in the business has changed: The time for decision making has been reduced dramatically, the competition is aggressive and takes place on all fronts. At the same time innovations are always faster. To secure in this environment, their own competitive advantage, managers must give their employees better tools to hand – instruments, by their use more time for decision-making remains and give employees the confidence to make the right decisions. Previously it may have been sufficient to provide the jobs of employees with hardware and software. Today, however, employees must at all times and in a simple way to access reliable information. And if they are needed for the task and relevant.

New technological developments have kept in our industry source. If we consider the opportunities and challenges for 2004 in more detail, there are five factors driving the innovation, but may also hamper can:

1st The economy
Currently we are – as we hope – in the final phase of a global recession. This is accompanied by a much more critical assessment and review of investment decisions: How profitable is the investment? How can we measure success? What is the productivity growth? What are the tangible financial benefits this investment is concerned? The value of each investment must be measured by objective criteria.

2nd The resources
Management’s expectations remain high. It is expected that the same or even more for less service is provided. Or in other words: Fewer people are working on more tasks within a narrow time frame with clear definitions of objectives. This tension characterizes and defines the way you work today. Creative solutions are indispensable in a work environment in which less time remains for decision making and for reflection or strategic thinking: How should people come to the necessary information? How to optimally integrate these in the respective workflow? Read the rest of this entry »