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How to unlock your team potential?
Good day have you time for a business book review? ‘Unlocking Potential’ written by Michael Simpson, suggests you should be more of a coach to your team members, rather than a manager. Simpson believes, no matter who you are coaching, high flying executives or 5-year-old footballers, you need to focus on seven key areas: Build
top management
What’s a top management candidate?
If you ask a team member “what do you do that justifies your being on the payroll?” Would they say: “I run the accounting department”. Or “I’m in charge of the sales force”. Or would they say: “It’s my job to give our managers the information they need to make the right decisions”. Or “I’m
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Printer help results in 36 trees planted
Lock-down leads to a flurry of home workers and schoolers needing our help… In January, 27 people working or schooling at home, took a Home Infinity, our entry level monthly subscription printer technology solution. We provide a home rated wireless multi-function printer with free unlimited replacement cartridges for just £11.99 a month, complete with a
social media strategy
Social media strategy unpacked…
Developing a social media strategy to promote your business can seem daunting… In reality, it’s not that difficult, although to do it right, it is a little time consuming. We developed our first social media strategy to promote our office technology solutions business. Having since used the same template to develop another social media strategy
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Quality, price and ethical value…
Quality is ‘the standard of something as measured against other things’ or basically, how good something is… Whilst I’m sure the word ‘price’ is rather self-explanatory to many of you, ‘value’ is often confused and conflated with price, when it in fact refers to the worth of usefulness that something has. Quality oftentimes determines the
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How to unlock your hidden expert secrets?
We all have something special inside us, if we use it right, we can change the world… Information is a powerful tool. It can be used to attract interest, increase desire, demand attention, and to sell. But information alone isn’t enough. It’s the skill-full application of the right information at the right time that can
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Does a Porsche Taycan elevate status?
Did you know status is a big reason which causes people to move toward you? When presented with your opportunity their subconscious mind is working out if this thing is going to improve or decrease their status. This status we’re talking about has nothing to do with how others perceive you, rather how you perceive
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How you can become an expert?
Can you be an expert in your field? What do I mean? Take our 2 companies as examples: MY Total Office Solutions are experts in providing office technology solutions in simple to understand short term monthly agreements with guaranteed fixed prices. Positioning ourselves in the market as experts in printer technology, internet phones and laptop bundles,
The customer centric playbook
The customer centric playbook…
You probably already know great customer service is one of my drivers… So, when I came across ‘The Customer Centric Playbook’ I just had to read and review it for you. It’s written by Peter Fader and Sarah Toms both of whom have founded multiple organisations. Between them they discovered a simple truth, that not
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Customer centric approach to business
Many organisations still take a product centric approach to business… This strategy is basically selling as many products and services to as many faceless nameless customers as possible. When organisations ignore customer value in favour of being product obsessed, they spend their time and money on product expertise, rather than acquiring and developing high value
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Wouldn’t you expect a supplier to be honest?
Why can’t people just provide simple honest service? Surely, it’s not new radical thinking to expect a supplier to be honest with you and not over complicate the service they provide, is it? What am I talking about? Well, at the end of last week we had a company ask us for some help with
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Lord Sugar risked £100,000 on a gut feel…
Imagine the scene. Amstrad owner Lord Sugar sat in a Hong Kong hotel room with Dixon’s Chairman Stanley Kalms… Kalms had just told Lord Sugar, he’s computer arch-rival and Sinclair C5 inventor Clive Sinclair, was about to go bankrupt and there was a small opportunity Amstrad could buy the Sinclair brand. Price Waterhouse had asked
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How did Best Buy re-invent themselves?
How did Best Buy recover from near bankruptcy to 7X their share price in 4 years? In December 2013, Best Buy shares were $10. But, by the close of 2017 they had skyrocketed to $70. Just for clarity, Best Buy is an American multi-national consumer electronics retailer. Their new CEO (Hubert Joly) had no retail
The Third Wave
Are you ready for the third wave?
Good day. Ready for a business book review? ‘The Third Wave’ written by AOL founder and former CEO Steve Case is 3 books in one. It’s kind of like Case’s autobiography, the story of AOL’s rise & demise, and about entrepreneurship in the future. It appealed to me because I love to understand the back
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Has Primark got the wrong strategy?
Back in July 2019 we wrote a post about the passing of Primark founder Arthur Ryan, who was a legend and true retail pioneer. Ryan had done an amazing feat, taking Primark (then Penny’s) from a single Dublin store to 370 stores across 12 countries, with £7.8 billion revenues & nearly £1 billion in profit
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