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Labels Can Help You Get More Engagement From Customers

12th December 2016 – 3:14 pm

Get More Engagement From Customers

When we think about labels we tend to think about brand labels. However , More Engagement From Customers can be achieved by labelling them – although it More Engagement From Customerssounds odd – can have hugely positive results. Not only can it get them to engage with you more , but chances are they’ll also spend more money with you.  So, if you’re not labelling your customers you really are missing a trick.

In fact, research has shown that people who are labelled not only like it, but are more inclined to engage with the group they are labelled with.

To demonstrate this, a study was carried out (Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self, Stanford University) to see if labelling people as politically active voters would influence their turnout at the polls .  People were questioned about their political habits with half of this group subsequently told that the researchers had deemed them more politically active based on their answers (which wasn’t true as the y’d been selected at random) .  The other half of the group wasn’t told anything.

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Its Not How You Get Customers, It’s The Why That Counts

8th August 2016 – 2:26 pm

How You Get Customers

There’s a brilliant TED, that really covers how you get customers, by Simon Sinek called “Why Great Leaders How you get customersInspire Action”. If you’ve never seen TED it’s a great resource of snappy 18 minute or so talks about pretty much any inspiring and educational topics you can think of. Their tag line is “ideas worth spreading” and it’s definitely worth a look, no matter what your interests are. Anyway, we’re going to cover in a later chapter the importance of your clinic’s vision, mission, and culture, but understanding these things along with why you’re in business can have a huge impact on your marketing.

Knowing Your Why is How You Get Customers

In Simon’s talk he talks about the Golden Circle in which you have three concentric circles, the centre, the middle and the outside. On the outside you have ‘what you do’, in the middle ‘how you do it’, and finally ‘why you do it’ in the inner circle which is your core purpose or belief as a business. Simon explained that all really inspired companies work from the inside out, rather than the traditional model where they work from the outside in, and he gave Apple as a great example.

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Multitasking is a Lie

23rd March 2016 – 8:56 am

Multitasking is a Lie

I read an article recently that proves that multitasking is a lie, it said office workers, because of an array of social media available, including Twitter, Multitasking is a LieFacebook, Pinterest, Google Plus, and YouTube – to name just a few – plus texts, phone calls, and people popping in or asking questions, the average person is interrupted once every 11 minutes. This is shocking enough, but when you consider that getting focused on what you’re doing can take around 25 minutes before you’re in the zone, many office workers can spend their days without ever really being able to focus on anything that their doing

Can you imagine how that can impact on any creative agency output, and now that the idea of being able to multi task and switch between jobs to do more things has been debunked, with recent studies showing that your IQ drops by ten points each time you try, compared to smoking marijuana which only sees it drop by five points, that’s right, you’re better off smoking a joint at work than trying to multi task.

Do You Believe Multitasking is a Lie Now?

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How to Get Big Results in Business

3rd February 2016 – 11:44 am

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy Gets you Big Results in Business Big Results in Business

If your are really looking for big results in business, this is the book for you, focused on the power of small change, Darren Hardy takes readers through how to achieve very real and tangible success in all and any areas of their lives. He looks at the principles that drive success and focuses on how to free yourself from bad habits and install a few key disciplines that are core to achieving what you want.

Its the Small Actions That Lead to Big Results in Business

Momentum features heavily throughout the book, or ‘mo’ as Darren calls it, and he uses the analogy of pumping water from a well – tough to start with and many people will stop before a single drop comes through, while many more will see the first few drops and give up thinking that they’ve put too much effort in for too little reward. Keep going through and you get floods of water with just a small amount of effort to maintain the flow (and maintain you must or start all over again). More than anything, Darren focuses on the power of small changes, done regularly, and all evidenced brilliantly by the penny analogy – choose $3million now, or £0.1 today, which doubles every day for 30 days. The moral? Pick the latter and you end up with over $10 million dollars but the magic only starts to happen in 29th and 30th day.

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How to be More Productive in Business

29th January 2016 – 3:16 pm

Become More Productive In Business More productive in business

A lot of people just aren’t aware of how they spend their time, to be more productive in business, you have to work at it, there a study that shows office workers are interruption every 11 minutes by technology (think emails text social media) or people (just popping in to ask a question)

To be productive you have to manage these distraction, if you have staff get them use to working problems out without your input, when they ask a question, ask “how do you think I’d deal with that” then shut up and if there struggling let them, its the only way they’ll learn

Saying Yes will not Help You be More Productive in Business

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How to Develop Your Own Sales Script

1st December 2015 – 4:21 pm

How to Build a Sales Script

You might have seen this equation but it makes it really easy to develop your own sales script: D x V + FS >R = Sales Scripts SellSale. The D is the dissatisfaction or pain the customer has, V is the vision of what they want,  FS is the first steps to get them to buy and R is resistance.

It’s actually started of as a change formula from the 60’s used when management wanted to change companies in some way but was adapted for sales in the 80’s

The idea is that you talk to the customer about their dissatisfaction, make that D as big as possible, really dig around to find out what it is that’s paining them, get as much detail as possible, and ask them how it feels to be in that situation.

Having a Sales Script will Increase Your Conversion

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Best Time to Post on Social Media with Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and Pinterest

8th November 2015 – 11:13 pm

Best Time to Post on Social MediaBest Time to Post on Social Media

Some people spend a lot of time trying to decide the Best Time to Post on Social Media, this really depends on who you are wanting to talk to, Neil Patel of quicksprout posted and infographic on the best times to post, this is mainly US data but should apply to UK as well and should give you a better feel of when to post depending on the platform you’re using.

Facebook

  • Greatest engagement occurs towards the end of the week on a Thursday and Friday.
  • Engagement is 3.5% lower than average for posts at the start of the week, Monday to Wednesday.
  • 1pm gets most shares, 3pm most clicks
  • Broader suggestions say 7pm till 9pm seems pretty good time
  • Use Fanpage Karma to find the optimal time to post to your audience

This Will Help You Decide Best Time to Post on Social Media

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Questions to Ask a PR Agency Before you Engage Them

7th October 2015 – 2:02 pm

Questions to Ask A PR Agency to Make Sure you get the Right One for YouQuestions to ask a PR

Hiring a PR agency can be a particularly difficult task. But knowing what questions to ask a PR agency is critical. Not only are you taking on a firm that quickly have to become a natural extension of your own team, but they must be true champions of your brand and everything it represents.

Whether you’ve worked with lots of PR agencies in the past, or you’re brand new to the whole sector, there are some questions that you should ask any PR agency before you engage them. And if they can answer all of the questions below to your satisfaction, then we say, snap them up!

1. What do you need to know about my business before you can get started?

2. Are you a Member of the PRCA or the CIPR?

3. What if it all goes wrong? Do you have the experience to manage negative news?

4. What experience and media contacts do you have in my sector?

5. How will you measure success with my account?

6. Do you work for anyone else in my sector?

7. How many people will be working on my account and when will they be available to me?

8. Who would be leading my account and how much PR experience have they got?

9. How long has the agency been going and what clients do you work for?

10. Do you have appropriate professional indemnity insurance?

Not Asking the Right Questions to Ask a PR Agency Can be Costly

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Does A Happier Workforce Mean More Money on the Bottom Line?

15th August 2015 – 11:14 am

The Happiness Advantage for Businesses Means More Money in the Bank

The Happiness Advantage: Shaun AchorHappy People Make More Money

Overview

We’ve been brought up to believe that if we’re successful then we’ll be happy – and that success could be losing weight, securing a promotion, buying a house… In fact, as Shaun Achor proves, it’s actually happiness which fuels success (think the sun moving around the Earth and not the other way around). When we’re positive, we’re more creative, more motivated and more resilient. We have more energy and we get on better in all areas of our life. This book is the result of Shaun’s studies over 10 years at Harvard University, plus lots of his own research with the likes of KPMG and UPS. The Happiness Advantage can be yours he tells us, and can help you gain a competitive advantage…

a recent Guardian article reported that “people who are happier at work are more productive – they are more engaged, more creative, and have better concentration. The difference in productivity between happy and unhappy people at work can range between 10-50%. That’s 10% for non-complex repetitive tasks, or up to 40-50% in service and creative industries.” And that’s an awful lot in terms of business revenue.

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Tips on How to Manage People

3rd June 2015 – 9:58 am

How to Manage People from the One Minutemanage people Manager

The One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

Overview | The One Minute Manager demonstrates three practical management techniques and how to manage people and best to apply them to get the best out of those you manage. These include:

One Minute Goal Setting
The authors advocate the 80-20 goal-setting rule: that 80% of your really important results will come from 20% of your goals.

  1. Agree on your goals
  2. See what good behaviour looks like
  3. Write out each of your goals on a single sheet of paper using less than 250 words
  4. Read and re-read each goal, which requires only a minute or so each time you do it
  5. Take a minute every once in a while out of your day to look at your performance, and
  6. See whether or not your behaviour matches your goal

Manage People by Telling Them How Good They are

One Minute Praisings
The authors suggest that effective managers help people reach their full potential by catching them doing something right. “People who feel good about themselves produce good results.”

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