Tuesday 31 October 2017
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Sunday 22 October 2017
How To Start A Business With Sea Freight Logistics
Whether you are operating in manufacturing, service delivery, or product development sectors, effective transportation will prove to be a significant part of your job. It is highly imperative to identify the crucial entities involved in a project, thus finding ways and means to serve them. The end-consumers are integral parts of the product manufacturing and development process, and you need to reach out to them. Quite naturally, shipping and transportation emerge as prime requisites in this context.
Logistics is the solution:
Transporting items to targeted consumers happen to be of paramount significance. You have to make sure your products and the manufactured material finds a market, as that is the key to successful business expansion. Logistics is a highly significant part of the entire process, where consumers will gain the opportunity to choose preferred delivery modes. In simple words, they can get their products delivered to the desired locations at affordable rates. If you wish to maximize profits and attain your goals, opting for Sea freight logistics will be the best thing to do.
Ensuring business expansions:
You might be having all the essential resources, products, services, and solutions for clients. In spite of that, the lack of effective shipping modes prevents you from earning huge profits. You must get in touch with the top companies offering professional Sea freight logistics services. They will understand your business needs, tap into the profitable channels, and offer professional shipping solutions.
How to opt for leading service providers?
Are you looking for the leading companies capable of extending professional ocean freight solutions? In that case, here are some tips to help you out:
1. Build reliable networks
Make sure you build strong, effective, and dynamic networks with your chosen shipping partners. Ocean freight demands smooth transportation and shipping. You can choose the network according to specific requirements.
2. Flexibility
Flexible operations are prime requisites in the transportation process. If you are building strong associations with professional shipping partners, make sure develop crystal clear ideas of their business modules and models. Try maintaining a certain level of balance and flexibility throughout the process.
3. Protecting the shipments
While getting transported, shipments are always at the risk of getting lost or damaged. Prompt solutions and attentive care seem to be of paramount significance. Your chosen partners should care for the shipments and protect them from further damage. It's right here that the top service professionals extend comprehensive support.
4. 24*7 services
Pioneering logistics partners can offer a range of solutions to clients. Right from solving the transportation needs to offering 24*7 help, they can provide numerous solutions. With these partners by your side, you will have the opportunity to grow, expand, and promote your business. That's the key to ensuring unmatched business growth.
Final steps
These factors and aspects will give you a complete idea of the project and why you need to build associations with the top service partners. Keep them in mind and build a strong and reliable network with highly proficient shipping partners. Your business will grow and get closer to end-consumers!
Saturday 21 October 2017
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Thursday 19 October 2017
The Quality of Your Life Cannot Be Greater Than the Quality of Your Contacts
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Business has always relied on effective interaction between people to generate opportunities. People acquire a vast amount of their success, breakthroughs, knowledge and resources through other people. Unfortunately, even professionals whose careers and business results are completely dependent on meeting people, managing contacts and building relationships do not seem to appreciate the importance of these critical skills.
You have probably heard stories of men and women, young and old that met complete strangers in the aircraft, buses, churches, mosques, neighborhoods, conferences, parties etc. who opened up to these strangers, introduced themselves, started a conversation; subsequently developed a relationship, managed the contacts and had their lives, businesses, careers, income, etc. turned around for good. It can be that simple. But the key word here is MET! They met the strangers. There was a contact. There was a connection.
Sometimes, these are meetings between lowly placed people and highly influential people. At other times, it can be a meeting between someone who needed information and another person that had information, between someone who needed help and one who had help, between one who needed direction and one who knew the way. There was a contact. There was a meeting. A contact, a meeting with the potentials to change lives.
Talent alone will not save you in today's economy. Oh talent is good and important, but there are many talented musicians wasting in the streets today; there are many footballers talented and good enough to play in the biggest clubs in the world, who are wasting in bad pitches across the country; there are many talented painters, fashion designers, etc. who are living in penury. These people have no challenge with talent. They have a big issue with contacts. They have a big issue with the quality of their contacts.
There are so many talented footballers that are wasting in the rural areas. Austin ''Jay-Jay'' Okocha, the former captain of the Nigerian senior team, was a talented midfielder! But, even in his best days, he was not the most talented midfielder in Nigeria. There were many other talented midfielders playing in local fields in the villages. Nobody discovered them. They had the talent but it was not sufficient to bring them out of obscurity. Oh yes, talent will make room for a man, but you need more than talent to survive.
The traditional advice to get more training and education is fantastic, but insufficient on its own to launch you. Your education and qualifications will not necessarily guarantee you a good job. Of course, I encourage you to get a good education and obtain good qualifications. But I am sure that there were classmates of yours who were head and shoulders more intelligent than you, who made better grades, who have MBA from the best universities in the world but who are earning peanuts. The problem is not with their education, qualification or competence. The problem is with the quality of their contacts.
Your product, price, promotion and place will not on their own guarantee you good sales. You know why? For every product of your company, other companies have similar products - only with a different name. Other companies can give as much discount as you; can make as much noise by way of jingles and adverts as you do; can open as many branches as your company. If you are a sales person, your figures will be a reflection of the number and quality of the contacts that you have.
The government will not save you. No matter how good a government is with policies and programs, you will still find poor people. And no matter how bad a government is, you will still find people who are doing very well. Sure, it's critical that government provides the enabling environment for us to prosper. However, you need more than your talent, you need more than your education, you need more than your product and you need more than the government to save you.
You need quality contacts. You need a good network.
I strongly believe that we should all be passionate about building business and social networks - vertical and horizontal. Of course, the more powerful your network, the more primed you are to maximizing your potentials and achieving your aspirations in life. I strongly believe that the quality of your life cannot be greater than the quality of your contacts and network. If you had better contacts, your life would have been better than it is today. Your business would have been flourishing better. The value of the business you are managing today is a reflection of the quality of your contacts. Put another way, the more and better people you meet and connect with, the higher the quality of your life.
Critical Question: Who Do You Need To Meet?
1. Who do you need to meet to fulfill your purpose, realize your vision and achieve your goals in life?
2. Who do you need to meet to get a good job?
3. Who do you need to meet to get that contract?
4. Who do you need to meet to obtain a scholarship?
5. Who do you need to meet to get grants and donations?
6. Who do you need to meet to get a government appointment?
7. Who do you need to meet to get spiritual counsel for the burden on your soul?
8. Who do you need to meet to get medical help for your health challenges?
9. Who do you need to meet to get admission for yourself or your ward?
10. Who do you need to meet to attract amenities to your community?
11. Who do you need to meet to showcase your talent?
12. Who do you need to meet to win that election?
WHO DO YOU NEED TO MEET? Networking is about answering that question. Who do I need to meet to move my life, my life business and my life career a notch higher? Who do I need to meet to unleash and maximize my potentials? Who do I need to meet to solve the problems that I cannot solve on my own? To deal with the issues I can't handle alone?
I sometimes see and think of wasted lives everywhere. I see people who have wasted or are wasting their lives, not because they don't possess the potential or talents, not because they are not determined and hardworking; but because there is no connection between their talents or potential and the people who can help them. So talent, dreams and huge potential are wasted because of the lack of the 'meet factor". They have not met the right people.
Business and social networking is the bridge between your latent talent or potential and the crystallization of the potential.
You can dramatically improve the quality of your life, business and career by improving the quality of your contacts, connections and network.
Please visit my website: http://www.ferdinandibezim.com to find out how.
You can also order a copy of my bestselling book: The XYZ of Business and Social Networking from Amazon.com
Wednesday 18 October 2017
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Sunday 15 October 2017
Networking Is the Solution for Business Growth
Interacting with influential people in parties, and collecting their visiting cards is just a touch point. Capitalizing your business on this network is totally a different ball game.
It requires due diligence and dedication over the years to build a relationship for a solid network. Once you have done it becomes a derivative to your success.
Networking should not be a temporary activity, it has to be an ongoing process, even when you are not at your desk. Aspiring business leaders have to learn the strategic networking technique for rapid business growth.
Primary reasons for networking
Why is it desirable to build a network with influential people and business groups of your domain?
· Immediate access to all service providers and vendors
· Quick response rate for contract base hiring
· Full extension to peers help
· Never face an issue of work crisis
· Referrals from the third party
· Updates on the latest trends and technology related to your business.
· Share ideas with similar business groups
Common Business Networking Mistakes
If the success of your business depends on networking then why to leave any corner of networking untouched, no matter how small or big your business is.
Unlike your business location, your network is not limited to the physical address. It has to proliferate in all directions. There are tons of way to build the network that is often overlooked.
· Not connecting with other communities
When it comes to pairing with individuals, usually you choose the known path for connection which is social media. It might look promising connecting through it but it limits your network spectrum. You have to explore another dimension for networking as well. Try to connect to lesser known communities like "Quora" or register with a "common platform for service providers". There are other multiple online platforms where you can confluence with same business groups like Tumblr, musical.ly, tinder, etc. depending on your domain expertise.
· Not connecting to Niche forum or group
If you really want to build a close relationship with your clients or domain experts, join a Niche "forum". But joining too many forum sometimes becomes complicated, try to zero in two or three forum of your field. There are big companies that also join this forum to get solutions and you can connect with them instantly.
· Not justifying your acquaintance
Let your client find you with your skills. Networking becomes easy if your clients know your whereabouts. There are very few networking sites that have a portal built especially for employees, where employees can build and upload their portfolio. It helps the employee in two ways, building their own network and establishing themselves as a brand.
· Not Paying heed to referrals
You need to pay attention to referrals coming through the third party or from the vendor's site. Take immediate follow-up and honor these referrals.
· Not using Reviews/Testimonial for networking
This is the most overlooked attribute by vendors. Many of them believe "Reviews and Comments" are solely made for critics. No, that's not true. You can convert those critics to your potential client. Ask for "Reviews and Comments" from them, you can even ask for the area of improvement for better service. It will help you to identify your weak zone, and at the same time, you have the opportunity to build a positive image in front of your clients. So, always be ready to listen to your client and make a bond with them through Reviews/Testimonials.
· Not connecting actively with Co-workers
Connecting with co-workers actively helps you to share ideas and gain knowledge. You develop this special"give and take" relation with co-workers over a period of time. Your equation with them will decide how your network will expand.
· Not connecting to diverse population
Usually, it's a human tendency to connect with like-minded people, which is OK. But if you want to build up a B2B network, then you need to break that cocoon and connect with a diverse population. Diversity gives you the perspective to think out of the box and implement new ideas in your business.
Some Key takeaways for Business Networking
· Make your social networking activity a key part of your daily work.
· Locate and join networking site where other members sell their service or product same as you
· Rather than building numbers focus on people that show interest in your service
· Don't miss out the client by not joining a common networking platform or joining much later than you should be
· Use software tools or plugins to optimize your networking activity
Over to you!
What challenges do you often face when it comes to connecting or finding same business groups?
Monday 9 October 2017
Top 8 Values of Advertising
Advertising on classified ads websites is recommended for people whose purported goals are to generate huge attention to their products and also convert them to potential buyers.
Market opportunities are known to embed on classified websites as thousands of users would love to search for online classified products and easily make payments for delivery.
However, security experts warn buyers on classified ads to always ensure that they patronize reliable websites before making any payment transactions.
Below you can find out the 8 reasons to patronize free websites for easy Advertisement;
1. The target goal for any business dealer is to make sales and grow its business. So, classified postings ensure that online users are attracted to your listings. Thus, it enhances the market capabilities of your services.
2. When a product is being advertised, it reach numerous number of people but there is need to consider targeting particular group of audience. This is proper because your aim is to reach respective users to know more about your products or services.
3. Events planners have found classified advertising sites as a medium to invite targeted people to their events. One way they achieve this is to post their upcoming events on the specified category and sub-categories. More visitors are notified on daily basis about an upcoming event through mail subscription provided by the websites.
4. Cost reduction is a factor people are always eager to hear. Advertising gulps almost 40% of business capital but since the emergence of Online classified ads, it has reduced to a minimal rate as users prefer to register on classified ads websites in other to gain maximum exposure.
5. Online Classified ads has been a threat to many advertising mediums. With the growing popularity of the internet system, physical advertising media platforms such as the radio system, television broadcasts e.t.c are facing rapid extinction because advertisers would want to cut cost and spread nets to millions of people on the bounded on the internet.
6. Boosting market sale is somehow challenging for every business organization, one way to achieve this by allowing startup campaigns, sending out newsletters, and promotions. Good classified ads sites provide these structures for users. Promotions are often done on these sites in the form of a banner impression, static ads and pop-ups on different websites. Although, majority of classified sites charge for the services.
7. Posting business directories is another challenge for business owners. The importance of online business directories is that it provides a clear view of your business location/s for people to easily locate and rely on.
While posting on classified ads sites, dealers should provide accurate details of their business locations in other to enable trust on them.
8. Sites such as Internetaccess.com helps in spreading business postings to numerous sister sites. This helps in easing stress of postings as they take charge of other promotions and listings for you.
Saturday 7 October 2017
Networking for Conferences
Depending on your career, industry or field, it is expected that you will attend a conference for training, development or representing your company or business. Conferences are excellent networking venues. They give you an opportunity to meet people, gain information and resources, market / promote your brand and utilize your skills on a larger scale. It is imperative that you are prepared for this type of function so that you are most efficient in your endeavors and goals. Whether you are an exhibitor, presenter or attendee, the benefits can be enormous.
Listed below are practical tips for making the proper connections and gaining the most from conferences.
Pre-Planning
Do not leave your networking to chance. Make sure that you register ahead of time. First and foremost, it is a courtesy to the organizer of the conference. Also, your correct info is collected so that you can be informed of any changes or future events with the host / sponsor organization. Registering ahead of time, rather than walking in, also gives you access to useful information before the event such as: a detailed agenda / program, the speakers (and their bios / contact info), travel or lodging discounts, tips for a smooth conference experience etc. Definitely take time to read the information provided and plan accordingly.
Fine Tune Your Skills
Before the conference, practice your elevator pitch. Make sure that it is concise, effective and less than 60 seconds. Bring along plenty of updated resources such as: resumes, business cards, marketing / promotional items, etc. Draft questions for creating good dialogue with new people. Be able to answer simple questions such as: What do you do? Why did you attend this event? Who do you want to meet? What do you want to get out of this program? Being properly prepared not only heightens your level of awareness but also shows professionalism and credibility.
Stay Connected
Do your due diligence and be strategic in following up with individuals or companies after the conference. Show that you are serious about business and building quality relationships. Use the follow up process to introduce people to your existing contacts, share information from the conference and meet up at a later time via phone conference, in person or at another event. Value the connections made and be focused on growing your networks.
Use these simple tips to advance in your networking and make the most conferences and similar events. Be purposeful and strategic in your interactions and engagements for building worthwhile connections.
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