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Actual for You - The Jigsaw Virus
When you surf the Internet, your IP address and your location can be found. These are some of the most important data, through which other valuable information can be also discovered: name, address and even your social security number. This exposes you to hackers and you can also be a target of many advertising agencies. These are some of the many reasons why free anonymous web surfing proxy sites have been created.Furthermore, when a person surfs the web, his/ her habits of surfing can also be monitored and marketing agencies can then send you a lot of junk mail, spams. There are also many sites that actually promote themselves using spy ware, junk advertising or spams and you will be t
Prevention is the best cure.
Your Jigsaw Puzzle should start with the simplest of forms…. 2 pieces (remember the 2 parts to basic business? Supply & Demand - have a product or service which people want or need, and give it to them (well…. Sell it!).
Make sure the first two pieces of your puzzle fit together perfectly, before you even think about adding pieces.
Once the first 2 are set, then perhaps consider expanding your jigsaw puzzle but ONLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
Once that third piece fits, then move on. Don’t try adding multiple pieces all at the same time, and trying to fit them altogether in one go.
If you’re first few (2, 3 or 4) pieces of your puzzle don’t fit, then STOP.
Stop right there. Reassess the situation.
If you cannot get the pieces to fit correctly before moving on, then perhaps that piece of the jigsaw, doesn’t belong to your puzzl
Companies often seek cost-effective, high-return marketing strategies. They may be as close as your wallet or the business next door. Below are seven easy to apply strategies for virtually any business.1. Business cardsBusiness cards are often one of the most underutilized tools in marketing. Use the front and back of your business card to gain full benefit. You can put valuable information on the back such as a sports schedule, emergency numbers, or special dates people want to remember.Creatively distribute your card. When you eat out, leave one with the tip. If you borrow a library book, use one as a bookmark. Hand them to clerks in stores who may know other people who c
Target - in very general terms, this article is targeted at anyone involved in business, whether it be offline ‘real-world’ business, or online ‘cyber’ e-business.
Let’s define the title.
“jigsaw” - a puzzle with multiple parts which requires some element of skill to correctly piece them all together in the right way, making one complete ‘picture’.
“virus” - an infection which grows, replicates and spreads.
Make sense yet? No!
One of the key fundamental basics in business starts with this. Business is based on the law of ’Supply and Demand’.
In simple terms, this means that if people have a demand (need or want) for something, then someone (perhaps you, or other businesses) supply them.
In simpler terms…. Have a product or service that customers want, then provide them with it.
JIGSAW…. Now has 2 parts / pieces…. Product (or service) and customers (people who want / need it).
If YOU are the business supplying customers with what they want, you may look at other products which complement or contrast. You may also look at adding new ways to deliver your product or service, perhaps new markets / countries / demographics…..
You may also want to have different versions / types of your product…. Plus you may want to promote / market your company in new / additional ways.
Also, you may want to have added computer systems, take payments in different forms, different currencies….. translation (remember - stay with me on this!)
You have seen competitors using ‘800’ Freephone numbers….. You’ve read about fax-back services, call-centers, fulfillment services….. You want to get involved in these.
JIGSAW….. From the original (and simple) 2 parts / pieces….. Your jigsaw now has many more, even dozens (or more) of pieces. The simple puzzle is infected. It’s spreading and growing. .. It’s out of control.
The original focus you had, is now a distant blur. Even if you had as many arms as an octopus, you still wouldn’t piece together THIS puzzle.
Let’s take just one piece of a small, simple jigsaw puzzle, and call it “Advertising, Marketing, Promotion”. They all mean the same…. ‘spreading the word’.
This single piece can start like this. Put a simply poster in the back of your car, on a notice board, in a shop window.
Then, get business cards, then marketing ‘postcards’…….then leaflets, a brochure, a full-color glossy brochure….a catalogue…..CD Rom business cards, interactive multi-media…
Advertise in the local ‘free papers’, then a small ad in the town newspaper, then a half-page….full-page ad…. Full color……. Then a 10 second ad on radio….. Then 30 seconds…..
Then 20 seconds on local / cable TV….. Then 60 seconds….. And on…and on.
Get a domain name, a website, software, design, hosting, auto responders, mailing list, Flash, Audio, Video, Keywords, Meta Tags, Keyword Density, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization…
Ask a few friends to hand out some leaflets for you, create a reseller program, an affiliate program, an introducer scheme, get the software, the systems, Advertising Agencies, Copywriters, Professional Marketers, International Business Promoters…..
Where will it all end? With an army of Armani suited Harvard Graduates jet-setting all over the planet, trying to sell your widget?
Once the virus infects, it spreads, it grows and it can get out of hand very quickly.
Your ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ is infected, the infection has spread, and grown and replicated the couple of pieces you originally started with, and turned into something unmanageable.
Just as you cannot take antibiotics to cure a virus in health, there is no simple cure in business.
Prevention is the best cure.
Your Jigsaw Puzzle should start with the simplest of forms…. 2 pieces (remember the 2 parts to basic business? Supply & Demand - have a product or service which people want or need, and give it to them (well…. Sell it!).
Make sure the first two pieces of your puzzle fit together perfectly, before you even think about adding pieces.
Once the first 2 are set, then perhaps consider expanding your jigsaw puzzle but ONLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
Once that third piece fits, then move on. Don’t try adding multiple pieces all at the same time, and trying to fit them altogether in one go.
If you’re first few (2, 3 or 4) pieces of your puzzle don’t fit, then STOP.
Stop right there. Reassess the situation.
If you cannot get the pieces to fit correctly before moving on, then perhaps that piece of the jigsaw, doesn’t belong to your puzzle
Looking at today’s businesses, the business owner and their management team, I see many challenges, issues and opportunities they face every day. In fact, I help the owners and their management teams deal with business challenges, issues and opportunities, as a strategic thinking business coach. Let’s see if you are dealing with any of these challenges, issues or opportunities by answering the following questions:Are you dealing with any of these business challenges, issues or opportunities?1. Would you like to work “ON” your business, instead of only working "IN" YOUR business so that you can run your business on a “hands free” approach and gaining more personal time? 2.
If YOU are the business supplying customers with what they want, you may look at other products which complement or contrast. You may also look at adding new ways to deliver your product or service, perhaps new markets / countries / demographics…..
You may also want to have different versions / types of your product…. Plus you may want to promote / market your company in new / additional ways.
Also, you may want to have added computer systems, take payments in different forms, different currencies….. translation (remember - stay with me on this!)
You have seen competitors using ‘800’ Freephone numbers….. You’ve read about fax-back services, call-centers, fulfillment services….. You want to get involved in these.
JIGSAW….. From the original (and simple) 2 parts / pieces….. Your jigsaw now has many more, even dozens (or more) of pieces. The simple puzzle is infected. It’s spreading and growing. .. It’s out of control.
The original focus you had, is now a distant blur. Even if you had as many arms as an octopus, you still wouldn’t piece together THIS puzzle.
Let’s take just one piece of a small, simple jigsaw puzzle, and call it “Advertising, Marketing, Promotion”. They all mean the same…. ‘spreading the word’.
This single piece can start like this. Put a simply poster in the back of your car, on a notice board, in a shop window.
Then, get business cards, then marketing ‘postcards’…….then leaflets, a brochure, a full-color glossy brochure….a catalogue…..CD Rom business cards, interactive multi-media…
Advertise in the local ‘free papers’, then a small ad in the town newspaper, then a half-page….full-page ad…. Full color……. Then a 10 second ad on radio….. Then 30 seconds…..
Then 20 seconds on local / cable TV….. Then 60 seconds….. And on…and on.
Get a domain name, a website, software, design, hosting, auto responders, mailing list, Flash, Audio, Video, Keywords, Meta Tags, Keyword Density, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization…
Ask a few friends to hand out some leaflets for you, create a reseller program, an affiliate program, an introducer scheme, get the software, the systems, Advertising Agencies, Copywriters, Professional Marketers, International Business Promoters…..
Where will it all end? With an army of Armani suited Harvard Graduates jet-setting all over the planet, trying to sell your widget?
Once the virus infects, it spreads, it grows and it can get out of hand very quickly.
Your ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ is infected, the infection has spread, and grown and replicated the couple of pieces you originally started with, and turned into something unmanageable.
Just as you cannot take antibiotics to cure a virus in health, there is no simple cure in business.
Prevention is the best cure.
Your Jigsaw Puzzle should start with the simplest of forms…. 2 pieces (remember the 2 parts to basic business? Supply & Demand - have a product or service which people want or need, and give it to them (well…. Sell it!).
Make sure the first two pieces of your puzzle fit together perfectly, before you even think about adding pieces.
Once the first 2 are set, then perhaps consider expanding your jigsaw puzzle but ONLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
Once that third piece fits, then move on. Don’t try adding multiple pieces all at the same time, and trying to fit them altogether in one go.
If you’re first few (2, 3 or 4) pieces of your puzzle don’t fit, then STOP.
Stop right there. Reassess the situation.
If you cannot get the pieces to fit correctly before moving on, then perhaps that piece of the jigsaw, doesn’t belong to your puzzl
If medical billing software companies let the inmates run the asylum, nothing would get done. Total chaos would be the least of your problems. So in order for a medical billing software company to run properly, you need a few department heads to keep the inmates in line. What follows is a review of the key people you will need, why and what they must be able to do.To start off with, you're going to need an overall manager to look over the whole company. The reason is because there must be a coordinated effort between programming, QA and support, otherwise there is a strong potential that the three departments will go off in different directions. If this happens, the end product, plu
The original focus you had, is now a distant blur. Even if you had as many arms as an octopus, you still wouldn’t piece together THIS puzzle.
Let’s take just one piece of a small, simple jigsaw puzzle, and call it “Advertising, Marketing, Promotion”. They all mean the same…. ‘spreading the word’.
This single piece can start like this. Put a simply poster in the back of your car, on a notice board, in a shop window.
Then, get business cards, then marketing ‘postcards’…….then leaflets, a brochure, a full-color glossy brochure….a catalogue…..CD Rom business cards, interactive multi-media…
Advertise in the local ‘free papers’, then a small ad in the town newspaper, then a half-page….full-page ad…. Full color……. Then a 10 second ad on radio….. Then 30 seconds…..
Then 20 seconds on local / cable TV….. Then 60 seconds….. And on…and on.
Get a domain name, a website, software, design, hosting, auto responders, mailing list, Flash, Audio, Video, Keywords, Meta Tags, Keyword Density, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization…
Ask a few friends to hand out some leaflets for you, create a reseller program, an affiliate program, an introducer scheme, get the software, the systems, Advertising Agencies, Copywriters, Professional Marketers, International Business Promoters…..
Where will it all end? With an army of Armani suited Harvard Graduates jet-setting all over the planet, trying to sell your widget?
Once the virus infects, it spreads, it grows and it can get out of hand very quickly.
Your ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ is infected, the infection has spread, and grown and replicated the couple of pieces you originally started with, and turned into something unmanageable.
Just as you cannot take antibiotics to cure a virus in health, there is no simple cure in business.
Prevention is the best cure.
Your Jigsaw Puzzle should start with the simplest of forms…. 2 pieces (remember the 2 parts to basic business? Supply & Demand - have a product or service which people want or need, and give it to them (well…. Sell it!).
Make sure the first two pieces of your puzzle fit together perfectly, before you even think about adding pieces.
Once the first 2 are set, then perhaps consider expanding your jigsaw puzzle but ONLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
Once that third piece fits, then move on. Don’t try adding multiple pieces all at the same time, and trying to fit them altogether in one go.
If you’re first few (2, 3 or 4) pieces of your puzzle don’t fit, then STOP.
Stop right there. Reassess the situation.
If you cannot get the pieces to fit correctly before moving on, then perhaps that piece of the jigsaw, doesn’t belong to your puzzl
IN PART 1 of this two part article, we looked at Quality of the Product and Friendliness of the Service. In Part 2 we will consider alignment to particular requirements, responsiveness to needs, ability to deliver to schedule, and cost to the purchaser. Let’s get started.ALIGNMENT TO REQUIREMENTSA big part of competitiveness is found in the alignment of the product to the customer’s requirements -- if it does what it’s supposed to do, they’re gonna consider buying it. This was discussed back in Quality of the Product, but it also means that you, as the producer, have to consider needs that the customer has in keeping his/her own costs down. You will have done that, of course,
Get a domain name, a website, software, design, hosting, auto responders, mailing list, Flash, Audio, Video, Keywords, Meta Tags, Keyword Density, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization…
Ask a few friends to hand out some leaflets for you, create a reseller program, an affiliate program, an introducer scheme, get the software, the systems, Advertising Agencies, Copywriters, Professional Marketers, International Business Promoters…..
Where will it all end? With an army of Armani suited Harvard Graduates jet-setting all over the planet, trying to sell your widget?
Once the virus infects, it spreads, it grows and it can get out of hand very quickly.
Your ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ is infected, the infection has spread, and grown and replicated the couple of pieces you originally started with, and turned into something unmanageable.
Just as you cannot take antibiotics to cure a virus in health, there is no simple cure in business.
Prevention is the best cure.
Your Jigsaw Puzzle should start with the simplest of forms…. 2 pieces (remember the 2 parts to basic business? Supply & Demand - have a product or service which people want or need, and give it to them (well…. Sell it!).
Make sure the first two pieces of your puzzle fit together perfectly, before you even think about adding pieces.
Once the first 2 are set, then perhaps consider expanding your jigsaw puzzle but ONLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
Once that third piece fits, then move on. Don’t try adding multiple pieces all at the same time, and trying to fit them altogether in one go.
If you’re first few (2, 3 or 4) pieces of your puzzle don’t fit, then STOP.
Stop right there. Reassess the situation.
If you cannot get the pieces to fit correctly before moving on, then perhaps that piece of the jigsaw, doesn’t belong to your puzzl
An original equipment manufacturer or OEM is a company that manufactures goods or gadgets, which are utilized in products sold by another company. These companies are usually termed as a Value Added Resellers or VARs. An OEM usually builds to order, on the basis of the designs provided by the VAR. There are various categories of equipment manufacturing suppliers, such as electrical and electronic test equipment, equipment rental and leasing services, separation equipment and filtration equipment, sprayers and spray coating equipment. The equipment also includes automated test equipment, powder compacting equipment, network test equipment, battery testers and fuel cell test equipment, powder coa
Prevention is the best cure.
Your Jigsaw Puzzle should start with the simplest of forms…. 2 pieces (remember the 2 parts to basic business? Supply & Demand - have a product or service which people want or need, and give it to them (well…. Sell it!).
Make sure the first two pieces of your puzzle fit together perfectly, before you even think about adding pieces.
Once the first 2 are set, then perhaps consider expanding your jigsaw puzzle but ONLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
Once that third piece fits, then move on. Don’t try adding multiple pieces all at the same time, and trying to fit them altogether in one go.
If you’re first few (2, 3 or 4) pieces of your puzzle don’t fit, then STOP.
Stop right there. Reassess the situation.
If you cannot get the pieces to fit correctly before moving on, then perhaps that piece of the jigsaw, doesn’t belong to your puzzle.
Many people fall flat on their face by ignoring this point.
If they cannot fit the pieces, they put them to one side, and get more pieces to try….. And some of them won’t fit, put them aside…. Get some others…
INFECTED!!!
The final part of the article goes back to our army of Armani Suited Harvard Graduates… remember them?
The point of that paragraph was to illustrate how the ’infection’, if unchecked, will go on and on… where will it end?
Is your Jigsaw Puzzle ’infinite’? How far will you push your business? Is there a point where it’s just too much?
You may have carefully put together your jigsaw puzzle - completed - finished….. And you may not even realize it!
Know when and where to STOP… and BLOCK the Virus.
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