From Teacher to Learner

I just read this quote and it resonated with me when I applied it to business.

Anything that turns your expectations of yourself upside down and flip-flops the teacher into a student again is a salutary experience that will force you to reconsider how learning works.

I have recently had this experience of flipping from teacher to pupil when I took an online course run by a new program I have invested in. It was great to be the learner with the usual information asymmetry reversed. I learned heaps and the 21 step course was paced exactly right for maximum information uptake. I will write more about this new program once I have got my first payments through.

DK

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Empire Avenue - Must Join Business Social Network

I have been using Empire Avenue for well over a year now. This is like a Business "Facebook" which tracks your worth via a share value that reflects your social network scores across many social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Four Square, Google Plus and of course Empire Avenue itself.

My EA share value has gone up from 70 to 102 EA in the last 6 months. The top networkers are worth in excess of 1200 EA per share

Click the link below to check out the site.

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DK

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Perseverance and the Lag factor

When you are new to web business it is often a while before you see results. This is caused by the lag factor. I notice this when I change the program I am leading my promotions with.

I often advertise for 2 weeks or so before the sign ups come. At the moment I am promoting Force Hits and I got my first referral after advertising the link for over 2 weeks.

I know this pattern now as I have seen it hundreds of times in the past. So what causes this lag factor?

The main thing is exposure. The first thing is awareness, people become aware that your homepage has changed. They may see your page 30 times before it really registers. This is where perseverance comes in. I know that I need about 10,000 views of my advertisement to gain one upgraded member.

I track my hits via Trck.me (see under Top Tools link) so I know where my traffic comes from.

Don't give up, give an ad time to get awareness and exposure. Some people change ads every few days if they don't get results - this is a mistake.

Good luck

Check out my website today at http://drkelp.co.uk - Force Hits (homepage) and NerdBux (PTC tab) are my top 2 sites at the moment.

Ciao

Grant aka Dr Kelp

What is the Purpose of business?

There are two points of view on the purpose of business.

The most commonly mentioned one is "to make money". Increasing wealth for the stakeholders is the driving force.

Opposed to this view is the one that posits that business leaders need a sense of being called upon to seek the common good, to make a difference, to make the world a better place for their having been there.

This wider view shares benefits across society rather than the benefits going to a small elite of shareholders and owners.

It is very encouraging to see billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett using considerable amounts of their substantial fortunes to reach out and help others. This is ethical business behavior that should be applauded.

DK

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Business - Dealing with the Future

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry R. Luce

How true that saying is. Our survival depends on how we handle the future. Unfortunately many business people and politicians ignore this valuable lesson. We only have to look at the end result of the MBA explosion in the 1980's to realise this. The living out of a short term strategy and maximisation of short term profit led directly to the Great Financial Crisis that hit us in the late 2010's and is still with us today.
DK

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Talent Acquisition and Retention

Have you heard the Human Resources mantra, "Recruit and retain"?

It is a cornerstone of talent acquisition and development. Get the best people possible and keep them. A number of recent studies by McKinsey, The EIA and PMI have identified the key need for agile and talented staff to meet the challenges of the global marketplace in a rapidly changing environment. In the past businesses looked for long term and steady strategies to build their businesses. This is no longer good enough.

If you stand still, you will stagnate, innovation and agility are the new prerequisites for top performance.

There is a challenge today around the the 'recruit and retain' ideology. Many of the brightest and best do not want career security in one company. They want skills portability and a number of jobs in different companies, often globally, and their focus is Me Inc. not Your Company Inc.

I recently heard a great strategy to recruit and retain that took account of Gen Y mobility. Many companies are letting talented people go with their best wishes and an open ended offer to come back when they feel the time is right. By all accounts this is working well for many big consultancies and global companies.

Another option is to give talented staff a slice of the action, whether via share ownership or profit sharing. This works well for some people but not for others.

I think one thing is clear, and that is that market dominance will change quickly as talented people move around to maiximise their personal gain. Companies will need strategic human resource management in place to meet this threat.

DK

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Start Small and Persist

Today on the Internet there is no shortage of people who will, supposedly, tell you how to make great profits, with no effort. My advice is to ignore them.

I suggest to people to join a great little program where you start off making a few cents a day and can grow to make a decent amount of dollars per day. The hardest thing about making a thousand dollars on the Net, is making the first dollar. The program allows you to make cash from clicking links, filling out offers and doing tasks. Not glamorous, maybe even a little bit boring, but I make money from spending less than 10 minutes a day on the site.

Over time I have got hundreds of others into this program and they are the source of the dollars compared to the cents I make by myself.

I can always tell who the success stories will be. They have two characteristics:

1. They take action, join up and make those first few cents on day one and then consistently earn daily afterwards

2. They sell on to others consistently.

So what is the program?

It is called Clixsense.

Take action and Join Now by clicking the link below:

http://www.clixsense.com/?2125710

When you have surfed for a month contact me and I will give you a surprise bonus.

Happy Earning