there you are, in a boardroom meeting with a few of your business colleagues, and in walks a woman. As you observe her, you think to yourself, " Now she's really got it together. This woman has got it all figured out. She's got this one nailed to the floor." What do you see?
As you know a businesswoman's appearance is her business card; only much larger in size. It's also a part of the first impression package. Without even actually knowing someone, you can gather a great deal of information about them: whether they're confident or not, if they take themselves seriously, if they know what they want, if they are responsible, or whether they're happy. Of course, appearance says a lot, but it's not just about what's on the surface of an individual that matters. It's about what lies beneath, and body language says plenty. Now if you have your superficial act together, then your body language should match. For instance, would you take someone seriously that has all the confidence in the world, but looks like a bum? Not on your life.
In the business world, body language is tantamount to your success. What you are saying must be congruent with the picture you are showing, and role you are playing. Many of us forget, potential clients and business partners are looking for this. So therefore you must be congruent, that is you must know what you want, be confident in yourself and what you do, as well as take yourself seriously. This includes looking your best, and staying fit as it exhibits that you care about your well being. This is translated as being concerned about the welfare of others. Clients tend to think, "If they care about their well-being, then they must care about their business." This means clients and customers. It is important to realize that your clients and business partners are always making connections about you. They are attempting to draw logical conclusions regarding doing business with you.
The brain is our internal switchboard; it's also our central control. It sorts and applies information about incoming stimuli to decision-making. In many instances, people don't have any memory to recall upon when making decisions about others. By and largely, the client/professional relationship is very much this way, especially in the beginning. The brain works almost frantically sizing up people and situations from a very small amount of information. Although this prospect seems daunting from an entrepreneurial aspect, it's actually just the opposite. This is your time to shine for the spotlight is upon you.
Three Important Pointers:
1. Eye Contact is Essential: Look at whomever you are addressing square in the eye. This is how you are connecting from a visual standpoint. But most essentially, this says you are solid in your position, are being forthcoming and authentic. "I'm an open book." It also is an indicator that you are paying attention to what someone is saying to you.
2. Smile. Be Energetic and Upbeat. This says that you are happy with what you do. It also says, "If you find out more about me, you will be happy too." Yes, people are firm believers that happiness is catching.
3. Don't Slouch. How many times have you heard this growing up? This says you are confident and proficient. Slouching and poor posture is often associated with laziness and irresponsibility.
Being your own boss, and the queen of your empire requires you to think as your clients and business partners do. In other words, instead of looking at yourself face on as in a mirror, view yourself from another perspective---from over there.
Copyright (c) 2008 Aunice Reed
Visit: www.myunlimitedsuccess.com to Learn How to Increase Your Entrepreneurial Success. Aunice Reed is a Professional Success Coach & NLP Master for Women. Visit Her Blog: www.womensspecialtygroup.typepad.com
April 19, 2008
Communication Skills in Business
Communication skills are an absolute must for any business. It is not only necessary for senior executives but also essential for middle level and lower level management executives.
A senior level executive has to communicate with investors and managers. At the lower levels one has to communicate effectively with their peers.
For selling any product or services good communication skills are a must. It is not the most intelligent and capable people who succeed in business. People who can communicate and make good impression are the one's to succeed.
Good communication skills are not just considered an additional weapon in your armory, but they are absolutely essential to succeed.
To negotiate any deal, to meet the suppliers and get the best terms and conditions or to meet your own teams to generate ideas for the next quarter, good communication skills come in very handy.
In business people generally have a quite a few issues to sort out with their clients, government agencies and suppliers etc. Good communication skills are required to resolve any of these issues successfully.
If your communication skills are inadequate it would be hinder your ability to resolve these issues successfully
Communication skills require listening capabilities. So is the ability to speak skillfully is not very easy. Particularly talking to an angry set of people or frustrated people could be far more difficult.
Communication skills have to be developed and honed over a period of time. Even though most people in business think that they are good communicators, this does not have to be necessarily true.
You have to identify the defects in your communication skills and modify it, while retaining the good parts.
If you are a good communicator people will listen to you and engage you in a dialogue. It means that you will be confident of facing any situation.
The author has a master's degree in science. Blogs at wilybusiness.blogspot.com/ bnsridhar.blogspot.com/
A senior level executive has to communicate with investors and managers. At the lower levels one has to communicate effectively with their peers.
For selling any product or services good communication skills are a must. It is not the most intelligent and capable people who succeed in business. People who can communicate and make good impression are the one's to succeed.
Good communication skills are not just considered an additional weapon in your armory, but they are absolutely essential to succeed.
To negotiate any deal, to meet the suppliers and get the best terms and conditions or to meet your own teams to generate ideas for the next quarter, good communication skills come in very handy.
In business people generally have a quite a few issues to sort out with their clients, government agencies and suppliers etc. Good communication skills are required to resolve any of these issues successfully.
If your communication skills are inadequate it would be hinder your ability to resolve these issues successfully
Communication skills require listening capabilities. So is the ability to speak skillfully is not very easy. Particularly talking to an angry set of people or frustrated people could be far more difficult.
Communication skills have to be developed and honed over a period of time. Even though most people in business think that they are good communicators, this does not have to be necessarily true.
You have to identify the defects in your communication skills and modify it, while retaining the good parts.
If you are a good communicator people will listen to you and engage you in a dialogue. It means that you will be confident of facing any situation.
The author has a master's degree in science. Blogs at wilybusiness.blogspot.com/ bnsridhar.blogspot.com/
April 17, 2008
China Sourcing, Keep An Online Record Of Ideas
Finding it hard sourcing goods from China? Are there so many Chinese wholesale dropship companies that sourcing new product leaves you drained. The solution may be boxedup the web 2.0 wishlist that is taking the social networking world by storm.
So your China product sourcing mission is turning into a disaster... There seems to be double the number of companies out there to source from and triple the number of products. You're pretty sure you've 'found' and noted down the same product three times, and you have no idea which company several of the products you have decided to take a closer look at came from.
One option you could consider is Boxedup.com a 2.0 website designed to help people shop on the internet.
While it is primarily aimed at the end user market Boxedup.com presents some pretty powerful functions that could benefit eBay traders and online shop vendors who do China sourcing, particularly when it comes to sourcing and marketing.
So what is boxedup anyway and what does it have to do with product sourcing?
Boxedup is an internet service which makes it easy for users to make lists of the things they want to get online. There is also a social element added in with users being able to see what each person wants and has, as well as making friends and sending messages.
Initially being formed as gifttagging.com, before being changed to Boxedup.com at the start of this year, the site's ease of use and intuitive usability have made this website popular with the web 2.0 crowd who are more than interested in keeping everybody up to date about everything that is happening in their lives. However, the program's ability to easily lift pictures, the product location and product name off the website make it a potentially valuable tool for people sourcing Chinese products, especially as the person making the list can state how many, or how few, people see the lists.
Like any web 2.0 application designed for general use the program takes very little to install.
It simply requires you to sign up to the service, after which you will be taken to a page where you are given the option of downloading the buttons for Internet Explorer or dragging buttons up to your shortcut bar if you are using Firefox. Once you have signed onto the service and installed the buttons you should have no problems adding products to your list.
The next step, if you are using Boxedup to source products, is to go into your profile and ensure that your list isn't visible to anybody but yourself. This way you can be sure that you won't tip off competitors or potential customers about an item you intend to source from China.
When you find a product you just click on the 'add to Boxedup' button. The application will then scrape the website address, product photos and product name of the page and take you to another page where you enter in a description, some tags to remind you why you think you liked it and the products price.
Once this is done all you need to do is click the submit button and your product ideas will be stored in a list which will show you the price, the website it came from, a photo and a description at the touch of a button.
Another powerful function Boxedup could play is in site and marketing promotion due to its function as a social networking site.
One of the functions of Boxedup is as a social networking site where people often make purchase decisions on items other people have, so toget program users buying your products and visiting your page all you need to do is to put several items that you have that you want to market onto the 'things I want' category.
This can then be displayed on your site as a flash widget to act as a'staff pick' promotion while also been left in the public eye on the main site, which essentially works as free targeted advertising, drawing people you your website that you know are more likely to buy.
Don't delay. The China sourcing and marketing opportunities combined wishlistComputer Technology Articles, social networking sites like Boxedup offer are huge and worth exploring today.
Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com
Rose Li is the PR Manager for Chinavasion.com. Chinavasion.com is the world's leading online drop ship wholesaler for MP4 players and other consumer electronics. Accredited by Validated Site, ScanAlert, and Verisign, and listed in all the leading B2B directories, Chinavasion.com is the market leading online wholesale electronics shop for eBay dropship sellers and importers worldwide. For more details visit: http://www.chinavasion.com/ or see what products Chinavasion staff think are worthwhile at http://www.boxedup.com/chinavasion
So your China product sourcing mission is turning into a disaster... There seems to be double the number of companies out there to source from and triple the number of products. You're pretty sure you've 'found' and noted down the same product three times, and you have no idea which company several of the products you have decided to take a closer look at came from.
One option you could consider is Boxedup.com a 2.0 website designed to help people shop on the internet.
While it is primarily aimed at the end user market Boxedup.com presents some pretty powerful functions that could benefit eBay traders and online shop vendors who do China sourcing, particularly when it comes to sourcing and marketing.
So what is boxedup anyway and what does it have to do with product sourcing?
Boxedup is an internet service which makes it easy for users to make lists of the things they want to get online. There is also a social element added in with users being able to see what each person wants and has, as well as making friends and sending messages.
Initially being formed as gifttagging.com, before being changed to Boxedup.com at the start of this year, the site's ease of use and intuitive usability have made this website popular with the web 2.0 crowd who are more than interested in keeping everybody up to date about everything that is happening in their lives. However, the program's ability to easily lift pictures, the product location and product name off the website make it a potentially valuable tool for people sourcing Chinese products, especially as the person making the list can state how many, or how few, people see the lists.
Like any web 2.0 application designed for general use the program takes very little to install.
It simply requires you to sign up to the service, after which you will be taken to a page where you are given the option of downloading the buttons for Internet Explorer or dragging buttons up to your shortcut bar if you are using Firefox. Once you have signed onto the service and installed the buttons you should have no problems adding products to your list.
The next step, if you are using Boxedup to source products, is to go into your profile and ensure that your list isn't visible to anybody but yourself. This way you can be sure that you won't tip off competitors or potential customers about an item you intend to source from China.
When you find a product you just click on the 'add to Boxedup' button. The application will then scrape the website address, product photos and product name of the page and take you to another page where you enter in a description, some tags to remind you why you think you liked it and the products price.
Once this is done all you need to do is click the submit button and your product ideas will be stored in a list which will show you the price, the website it came from, a photo and a description at the touch of a button.
Another powerful function Boxedup could play is in site and marketing promotion due to its function as a social networking site.
One of the functions of Boxedup is as a social networking site where people often make purchase decisions on items other people have, so toget program users buying your products and visiting your page all you need to do is to put several items that you have that you want to market onto the 'things I want' category.
This can then be displayed on your site as a flash widget to act as a'staff pick' promotion while also been left in the public eye on the main site, which essentially works as free targeted advertising, drawing people you your website that you know are more likely to buy.
Don't delay. The China sourcing and marketing opportunities combined wishlistComputer Technology Articles, social networking sites like Boxedup offer are huge and worth exploring today.
Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com
Rose Li is the PR Manager for Chinavasion.com. Chinavasion.com is the world's leading online drop ship wholesaler for MP4 players and other consumer electronics. Accredited by Validated Site, ScanAlert, and Verisign, and listed in all the leading B2B directories, Chinavasion.com is the market leading online wholesale electronics shop for eBay dropship sellers and importers worldwide. For more details visit: http://www.chinavasion.com/ or see what products Chinavasion staff think are worthwhile at http://www.boxedup.com/chinavasion
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