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Hi,
I am very
creative in helping you expand the opportunities you have to make money by being in your business. I am
sometimes referred to as a Entrepreneur
Mentor, a Business Coach or even a
Business Critic. On other occasions I am
considered as a marketing or a motivational consultant. In any event, I don't
have fixed answers to your business situations. I look at your business
with an extra set of new eyes encouraging you to make changes to move on to
success without worrying about the things that most people worry about.
There are many things
that anyone can do to improve on what is being done. Most of the time I think OTB ("Outside the Box").
I feel we should always think OTB. Look at your environment and look
at the list of invented products on the right side of this page. Most of
the products and services were not there a few years ago. Someone had to develop
something different and convince others that it was a good idea to make it
succeed. Most inventors of the items in
the right column were rather bizarre when they were first introduced. They were
all entrepreneurs. They all probably had someone who was their mentor, business
coach or friendly business friend who started to become a critic. In any
event they went against all odds and succeeded because they firmly believed in
what they were doing.
You have ideas which could become very profitable to you. There are certain
steps that you have to follow to proceed with before you get to the success
level. It could take years. The important thing is to begin to take the
first step. If you have someone to test ideas with who is a good listener
it can be very motivating.
If Abraham Lincoln came to live
with you for a month think
of all the inventions listed on the right that we now have have and
use that were not available in 1861 when he became President. Think how
long it would take you to explain exactly what these items did and how they
work. Most likely it will be linked to many other new idea/
inventions that also where invented since he died. They would
have to be explained before he could totally understand it.
Stop here for a minute. CLICK on
some things on the right. Learn a little about them. Think of the conversation
you would have reading the owners manual to Honest Abe so he would
know how to use them. Try to describe what each invention is for with out using
any the word that is on the list because those items were not have been invented
when Abe was trying to end the Civil War.
Now is the time for
you to use your ideas to make a difference. You can get your idea to move
forward faster when you stand on the shoulders of giants. Ask others
around you to help you or you can me at 713-467-3025. I can be
inspirational to you to bring your ideas to a new level. My entrepreneur
mentoring fee is $ 1,000. This fee covers a rather long period of time. I can
not say exactly. I encourage you to call me every day to tell me what you have
done and how you are progressing. I will become your accountability group. I
seldom watch the clock. My interest is in your being happy that you are
succeeding and that you are making progress. If you don't call me regularly I
will assume you feel that I have done all I can to help you and of course then
the mentoring job is complete.
I am sure you are concerned with the
various ways that I will be involved in what you are doing.
Here are some items that you I want
to look at.
Your already developed business
plan.
The name of your business.
The domain name you want to use.
Your Website purpose and structure.
Your Business Card Wording, Style and Layout.
Your Letterhead.
Your Financial Structure.
Your DBA Name.
Your Marketing Flyers.
Your Letterhead.
Your Answering Machine wording and voice inflections.
Your advertising.
Your employment plan.
Your legal business Structure.
Your Employees.
Your Partners.
Your Internet use.
Your e-mail name.
Your physical location.
Your leasing contract.
Your sales tax registration.
Your plan for public relations.
Your products.
Your product description.
Your customer studies.
You competitor studies.
Your self observation.
Your Sales Tax Registration
Your Credit Card Set up.
Your Applications for Credit.
Your Applications for a business loan.
At some point when you are well along on your project I will advise you that
your initial retainer fee is about to be totally consumed. We can then talk
about the value of continuing to mentor you on some agreed financial basis. If I don't help you progress in
your venture then you don't pay me. The important
thing we need to do at first is to start a conversation. It is your call. You
have to become pro-active. Let me hear from you.
Brian Nelson
Internet Marketing
Sales Strategies
31 Gessner Rd.,
Houston, TX 77024
713-467-3025 Fax
713-467-3192
bnelson@PartyTentCity.com
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Creating Customer Experiences so They Will Come Back Again and
Aga
There is a unique and overriding importance for
giving exceptional customer care. You should focus on today's business
imperative. Look at the essentials in a no nonsense way. Use outlines and
details strategies for gaining the ultimate competitive advantage of loyal
customers.
It usually costs more to attract a new
customer than to keep a previous customer coming back, Established customers
are more likely to buy more expensive or "more profitable") goods and services.
Develop a clear guidelines on setting high customer care standards,
communicating them to an em-powered sales and service team, exceeding the
customer's expectations, and following up on sales transactions to ensure
satisfaction is most valuable.
Sometimes it is necessary to start
"shopping" one's own business to see it from the customer's point of view.
Customer Care can help make any business person a winner.
It is not always necessary to dominate the competition. Customer
CARE, rather than the customary use of the word SERVICE can help grow your
business to new levels. Recognize the relationship between taking care of the
customer and taking care of the bottom line.
The One Critical Factor for Success in the 21st Century is to
have a business coach who will stimulate and remind you of things that must be
done, and will guide you to practical tactics.
Today service is more transaction-oriented, compared to customer
care that implies a long-term relationship. Each customer may have specific
needs. Consider them and don’t just think what is only important to most of your
other customers. Your customer will appreciate it.
Seeking approaches to building long-term relationships with
customers is valuable. Customer care can establish and sustain lifetime-value
loyalty. Set the Example your self. It will also be valuable for managers of
franchises, dealerships, and branch locations of larger companies. It portrays
the role of how to support your thought and will equip managers to carry the
message to their people.
Knowledge of business as its conducted in the real world is far more valuable
than what you will find on line or read in a book. Talk to business executives
and learn from the horse’s mouth what works best for them. Then apply those
traits to your day to day operation. The ideas you develop and use your self
should be recorded in a personal progress journal just as though you were
writing a book for a college Business 101 class that you may teach one day or
for building a another division of your company as your business grows as a
company. Too many owners and managers neglect the basics of true business until
it's too late. Taking orders is not what makes a true entrepreneur.
Understanding buyers is an important part of what you will be doing as a new
business developer. But if you want to build a genuine long-term business
relationship with good customers these lessons will be useful every step of the
way.
Try concepts and tactics that really work for you in your area. Not all ideas
work in all geographic locations. Understanding the consumer is critical. By
taking time to have interaction with your existing and potential customers you
can take bits and pieces of the ideas integrating them into your business right
now Worth the time you'll invest in studying what you have to offer and what is
needed.
Ideas have to be tested for true, clear, direct, concise, easily improvable
results. The street smarts of your product or service are very important.
Remember that that the basis of common sense is clear and logical information
about busy people who are your potential customers who become your customer and
continue to be your customers in the future. Try it... it works!
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For internet surfing fun with an opportunity to learn a lot, click below on
any subject that is underlined. It should be hyperlinked to a full page on the
subject. These are inventions from
1850 to 1975. See how others have taken an idea and turned it into
something most valuable.
Sewing
machine,
gyroscope.airship,
glider.
fiber optics.fiber
optics,
1854,
rayon.
1856,pasteurisation,
Pullman Sleeping Car,
washing machine.
internal
combustion engine.elevator.bicycle.
cylinder lock
machine
gun.
plastic.
dynamite.
tin
can,
torpedo,
typewriter.
1867,
air
brakes,
tungsten steel.
traffic lights,
metal windmill.
mail-order catalog.
barbed wire.
shoe welt sticher,
telephone,
internal combustion engine.
carpet sweeper.
cylinder phonograph,
moving
pictures.
lightbulb
1878,
toilet paper,
seismograph.
metal detector.
automatic player piano,
rayon.
fountain pen.
cash register.
steam turbine.
machine
gun.
automobile
,
motorcycle.
dishwasher.
CocaCola.
radar.
gramophone.
contact
lenses.
drinking straws.
pneumatic tire.
matchbook.
Cordite
Gunpowder,
escalator.
diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.vacuum
flask.
zipper,
1893,
carborundum.
oller
coaster.
vacuum cleaner.
zeppelin,escalator.
safety razor.
radio receiver,
vacuum
cleaner.
air conditioner,
neon light.
lie
detector,
Teddy Bear,
neon light,
crayons
,
airplane,
windshield
wipers,
windshield
wipers,
ductile tungsten ,
Teabags
,
tractor.
vacuum diode ,
E =mc2,
Cornflakes.
sonar
electronic,
amplifying tube
Bakelite.
Color photography,
1907,
piloted helicopter,
gyrocompass,
Cellophane,
Model T,
geiger counter.
Instant
coffee,
talking motion picture,
neon light,
ignition system.
Life Savers,
crossword
puzzle,
bra,
zipper,
gas mask.
Pyrex,
Radios,
stainless steel
superheterodyne
radio circuit,
fortune cookies.
pop-up toaster,
1919, Short-wave radio,
arc welder,
tommy gun,
Band-Aid,robot,
lie detector.
Insulin,
3-D movie,
traffic
signal,
iconoscope
,
self winding watch,
frozen food,
dynamic loudspeaker,
spiral bindings,
mechanical television
1925,
liquid-fueled rockets,
PEZ
candy.
quartz
crystal watch.
TV
system,
Technicolor,
aerosol can.
quartz
clock
iron
lung.
penicillin.
Bubble
gum
electric
shaver.,
car
radio.,
Yo-Yo,
1929
Scotch tape
frozen
food,
neoprene.
computer,
jet engine,
stop-action
photography.
electron
microscope,
Polaroid photography ,
parking
meter.
1932,radio telescope.
zoom
lens,
light meter,
radio telescope,
Frequency modulation (FM
radio),
Stereo records,
drive-in
movie theater,
cat eyes,
Monopoly.,
broadcasting
first magnetic recording.
nylon,
canned beer,
radar,
voice
recognition machine,
Colt revolver.
photocopier.,
jet
engine,
ballpoint pen,
Strobe lighting ,
1938,
Teflon.
freeze-dried coffee,
helicopter.
electron
microscope,
orgone accumulator.
jeep.
computer
controlled by software.
Aerosol
spray cans ,
neutronic
reactor.
electronic digital
computer.
turboprop
engine.
Synthetic
rubber ,
slinky.
silly
putty.
aqualung.,
kidney
dialysis machine,
Synthetic cortisone ,
hypertext.
atomic
bomb,
microwave
oven,
holography.,
Mobile
phones ,
1947,transistor.
Frisbee®,
Velcro
® ,
Wurlitzer
jukebox.,
Cake mix,
credit card
,
1950
Super
glue,
Power
steering,
videotape recorder,
Mr. Potato Head ,
bar
code,
diet
soft drink,
hydrogen
bomb,
Radial tires
synthesizer,
black box - flight
recorder.
Transistor radio,
Oral
contraceptives,
nonstick
pan,
solar
cell,
Tetracycline
Optic
fiber ,
computer
hard disk,
Tetracycline
,
1955 Optic
fiber ,
hovercraft,
Liquid
Paper,
Fortran
(computer language) ,
modem,
laser.
Hula
Hoop,
integrated circuit internal
pacemaker,
Barbie
Doll ,microchip.
1960
halogen lamp
Valium,
nondairy creamer,
audio cassette,
fiber-tip pen,
Spacewar,
First
computer video game,
videodisc,
Acrylic paint,
Permanent-press
fabric BASIC
(an early computer language)
Astroturf
,
Soft
contact lenses NutraSweet,compact
disk,Kevlar
1966 Electronic Fuel injection
handheld
calculator,
computer mouse,
computer with integrated
circuits,
RAM
(random access memory).
1969
arpanet (first
internet)
artificial
heart,
ATM,bar-code
scanner,
daisy-wheel printer
floppy
disk,
dot-matrix printer,
food processor,
liquid-crystal display
(LCD),
Hacky
Sack®,
Gene splicing,
ethernet
(local computer network),
disposable lighter.
post-it
note,
iposuction,
laser printer,
1975
push-through
tab on a drink can,
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