Photo from Mikael Blomkvist (Pexels) As reported by Bloomberg, 97% of decisions taken by businesses are devoid of data. What this means is that rather than making important business decisions based on facts and performance, they are made based on assumptions. A prominent reason for this drawback is the lack of easy and quick access to data among employees across organizations. The lack of data-driven decisions can lead to financial losses, ineffective use of resources, and the downfall of a company.  To help you overcome these challenges, it’s important for businesses to analyze data so they run more efficiently. Business

The concept of minding your own business means that while you are grinding away at your day job you need to be investing in your future and minding your own business. Pretty soon you’ll be able to walk away from that day job and mind your own business full time. The best way to do this is through the acquisition of real estate.  Let’s take a quick look at where you are losing all your money-taxes. Taxes have been around since 1913 in the U.S. (earlier in England). While the original intention was to only tax the wealthiest of the

We’ve all worked jobs we hated. We were underpaid, underappreciated and bored out of our minds. We either quit these jobs or were fired for poor performance because we just gave up. Instead of taking that approach you need to consider every job an opportunity to learn something new that you can apply down the line to find success. When you give people the tools they need to come up with unordinary solutions, you are enhancing their lives for the long run. You need to take this approach. What if one of your terrible jobs had been one with no

Last time I gave you a laundry list of tips and tricks you can use to make your word of mouth program work for you. Hopefully you’ve taken a look and decided which ones are the best fit for your company, products, services and target customers, so you can put them to work in your word of mouth campaign. We are going to wrap up this series on word of mouth where we give you the specific steps to create a word of mouth campaign.  Now, let’s take a look at those steps: Seed the market. Find some way to

In the last post we talked about how to conduct word of mouth research and then put that research to work. Today we’re going to give you some great tried and true ways to use word of mouth when building and executing your campaign. We’ve done it in a list form, so you can go through and highlight the ones you want to put into action. These are offered by George Silverman which you can find in his amazing book The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing. Here they are: Give them something worth talking about Cater to your initial