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Joint Venture for Increasing Sales

March 30th, 2011

Joint Venture for Increasing Sales PhotoTo increase sales, a business can apply some simple low cost to free cost marketing methods. It is pity that many businesses do not recognize these methods or even do not use them. One of the marketing methods is joint venture. Joint venture marketing involves one company endorsing another’s products or both companies endorsing to each others products. The endorsing company promotes the endorsed company by submitting mails or emails to every customer that are listed. The endorsed company will get benefits as they are leveraging off to the endorsed company who has its own customers.

The cost of this endorsement can be zero as it is simply an arrangement of the companies for endorsing to each other.  Or else, the endorsing company gets a percentage of sales resulting of the endorsement.

Unlike the traditional advertising, the interesting thing of this arrangement is that the endorsed company only needs to pay for the resulting sales.

If you have a company and need the sales, you can apply this joint venture marketing methods and it will work for you.

7 Questions to Improve Your Career

March 21st, 2011

7 Questions to Improve Your Career PhotoTo improving your career, it is the best that you are upgrading the results for the jobs that become your responsibility. Anyway, it is not enough if you just focus only on the results. The main key is to point out the cause of the results that has been achieved, the learning process of the experience, and the setting up that can advance the result in the next projects.

There is an proven method that can lead you to better performance that is asking yourself or as a team the 7 questions after completing each project, whether it succeed or not. Through this way, you can improve the performance on the next projects. It is important that we understand that everyone will use the same method to measure the success or failure. This method is worth doing after accomplishing each project and it will require not a long hour to complete it.

The 7 questions are as follow:

  • What was the objective?
  • What was the accomplished?
  • What was the action to accomplish the objective?
  • What have been succeeded?
  • What have not been succeeded?
  • What were the points that can be learnt?
  • What was the same and different action that can be done for next project? You should stay reasonable instead of getting emotional.

By following these steps for accomplishing ever projects that need your involvement, you can be sure that your career will improve incomparably.