Business tips for week of October 5, 2009
Monday Morning Motivators is a short burst of business tips you can use today and through out the week. Our reporters, authors and correspondents strive to bring you tips and insights to make your business shine.
"In the absence of communication there can be no business" --Diane DiResta
Your authors are:
Linda Fayerweather of Changing Lanes LLC
Rebecca Booth of Imagine That
Pat Altvater of Transformations Institute
Paula Frazier of BNI of West Virginia
It is the 21st Century
Business practices that match the century are going to be key to making your business thrive. If you are reading this email, you are savvy on the Internet - great! What other things can you do? Well, I'm reminded every time I hear someone say "green business" that "lean businesses" have been the leading the way for years.
Yes, I am one of those green people that takes my own bags to the grocery store which does seem to perplex many a cashier. Now, all the places I shop SELL reusable bags yet, I'm still I'm the oddball. This is clearly a green thing on my part - 5 less bags in the land fill each week. Now take a look at the Lean side of this. I usually choose to bag myself - saving the cashier time and me on the unloading end as I bag by where the supplies are shelved in my home. Two stores actually give me $.05 for each bag I use - a little change never hurts.
Lean businesses are always looking for ways to do more with less.
Green businesses are looking for ways to have less impact on the environment.
Together they are a team that will be thriving in this century.
Copyright 2009 Linda Fayerweather
What's working in your Business?
Changing Lanes LLC
www.ChangingLanes.biz
The Future of Sales: On-Demand Customization
Check out this website: Zazzle.com. It's been allowing consumers to customize their own t-shirts, shoes, mug, business cards and the like since 2005.
Zazzle CEO Robert Beaver notes, "The competitive mentality is, 'If I help someone else, that's going to take dollars out of my pocket.' But that isn't the way our sellers are thinking. More sellers enhance the overall quality of the marketplace." Test drive the model for yourself. You'll find there's an idea incubator, access to artists' creations as well as a trend indicator. Create a few shirts for a company event or birthday party, then consider creating your own personalized line of marketed goods to be sold on zazzle.com. Remember, customization is the future.
Copyright 2009 Rebecca Booth
Marketing Goddess
Imagine That!
419.855.3399
Celebrating 10 years of delivering results for our clients.
www.rebeccaboothmarketinggoddess.com
www.marketinginabox.biz
Links of Interest
If you are a parent interested in raising healthy children, check out: http://www.healthytalksformoms.com Pat Altvater is launching a Telesummit with 7 experts discussing raising healthy children - this is a free program, but you must register.
Need help with your business books? If you are in Northwest Ohio, this upcoming seminar is for you. Check it out at Minding Your Money sponsored by the Women's Entrepreneurial Network.
Rebecca Booth is working to help the Toledo Crystal Awards be awesome - she will keep us posted about her enteries. Details about the Gala
The Ultimate Lean and Green man of New York City: No Impact Man
