Tuesday, August 28, 2012

A Cell Phone Store and Virtual Franchise Opportunities

There's something revolutionary to report in the home business news field. T-Mobile and a company called Liberty International have teamed up to create a home based business in the cell phone market. Competition between wireless carriers is fierce. This has forced some mobile phone companies to become more imaginative in their approaches to attracting new customers. One of those ways is to turn customers into small business owners.
Up until now, the only start up businesses available to consumers in the wireless industry have been via the retail phone stores route. These opportunities are valid in the own right, but few people can afford the investment required or the costs involved in operating one. A virtual franchise opportunity, on the other hand, has access to the same kind of phones, gadgets, and phone service plans as the retail shop and the major carriers themselves.
Entry into the home business opportunity from T-Mobile and Liberty International is done by enrolling in one of their special unlimited wireless plans. From there, if you can refer three people to the same plan you will get your cell phone bill free. Commissions and residual income are earned by building a network of customers and other small business owners. There is no rent to pay, employees to hire, accounting to calculate or paperwork to file. All business transactions are done online. The internet has now become the method of commerce for much of the world's business. Maybe it's time for you to get a piece of the financial action, too.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Apprised of Local Business News

No matter what the nature of your business, you need to be aware of what is going on in your local economy. Even if you are a strictly online business and work with clients all over the globe, the trends of businesses in your community can have drastic effects on your company. Here's a few ways to keep apprised of local business news.
Chamber of Commerce
Join a local chamber of commerce for a direct way to ascertain who your local competition is and what methods they are using to grow their business. It's also a way to observe the local economic climate and find out who the people are that could assist you with various aspects of your business.
Get to know the "who's who" of your Chamber of Commerce and you'll have an in to the business news and information you need to build your business. Most chambers put out regular newsletters highlighting the events, trends and news for both their community and the business members. Leverage this information to keep your company growing.
County or City-Wide Publications
Contact your local businessman's association to see what publications exist for your business type. Make a habit of reading these magazines or journals every day to see what is happening with your market, the local economy and the businesses in your community.
PR Watch
Monitor online PR sources based on keywords that include your geographic location and your industry to see what business news is reported that could affect your company or the industry as a whole. Subscribe to RSS feeds from online press release sites like pr.com, pressrelease.com and 24-7 press release.com where thousands of businesses submit news every day. You'll be among the first to know what the hottest topics are in your industry.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Bringing the Business News For the People, by the People

Business news updates are extremely important and serve as a handy tool that keeps interested persons updated with the latest happenings in the business world at almost every given second. Of course, the significance of staying updated with the latest happenings in the world of finance is something that nobody can deny. However, thanks to the country's pro-active media domain, there has been a flood of channels, Online channels, and daily magazines which primarily look to satisfy the appetite of the news-hungry people almost every second.
Channels like IBN7, CNBC Awaz and IBN Lokmat news channel are leading the league of those media bodies which are competing in this rat race to provide the audience with the best and the latest business news.
Speaking honestly, IBN Lokmat is one of the channel that has been leading this race from quite some time. Needless to say, the quality of news made live by this channel is above excellent. Owing to its sky-rocketing popularity, the channel has now ventured into the virtual world territory where it has added an extra tinge of dynamism to its over-all outlook.
IBN Lokmat is backed by an excellent team of dedicated professionals who slog-out day and night to simplify the very complex term 'finance' for their audience. That's not all, people who can't afford to spent a significant part of their time in front of the idiot boxes owing to their responsibilities both professional and personal, can now watch it from their workplace without letting the viewing alter their professional schedule and hindering their work pace. Moreover, it only value-adds to their work methodology and educates them the entire 360 about the business world.
Be it about stock market, banking world or plain news updates, Lokmat news channel is something that people can bank upon at any point of time. What more, the quality of news is authentic, be it On-TV or Online (where quotient of unpredictability increases manifold) thus, making it extremely dependable.
The Online platform of Lokmat news frequently invites experts and analysts well-versed with the given situation who in turn hand-out potent solutions to the audience. This help them cope with the present situation in an extremely easy way and cash on to these easy situations.
Finance has already been a trouble-maker for the laymen but with the inception of Lokmat news in the news portal scene, people have started to believe that there actually exists a portal that broadcasts news of substance and that too in the due time.
What more several finance portals provide the live streaming of channels like these, thus, making sure that viewers do watch them but at their own convenience. This streaming is a kind of deferred live signal that is received by viewers through the means of Internet. Quality-wise, the picture clarity is crystal-clear while the sound and other viewing aspects are also on place thus, making the Lokmat news viewing, a truly mesmerising experience on Internet.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

A Speech That Speakers Need To Be Able To Give

Being asked to give a speech is a great honor. Being asked to give a speech that is going to deliver bad news to part or all of business is not such an honor. However, in order to be a truly good speaker, this is exactly the type of speech that you need to be able to step up and give. The keys are knowing how to organize this type of speech and what not to say...
How To Organize Bad News
When you've been asked to give bad news to people who work for a business, how you organize the information that you are going to be delivering is very important. Your audience is going to know why you are there so you are going to want to get to the main point of your speech as quickly as possible.
Kathy Berger has looked into how bad business news can be structured when it is delivered. She's come up with four pillars of information that always need to be included in this type of presentation:
  1. Neutral Statement: Before you launch into delivering bad news to your audience, you'll want to take steps to get them to see the world the way that you currently see it. The best way to make this happen is to start your speech off with a neutral statement that everyone can agree with. This can be a simple observation of how things currently stand.

  2. Bad News: Now is the time to deliver the bad news. You don't want to put this off because your audience is expecting and anticipating this news and if you delay giving it to them, then they won't be able to focus on anything else that you say until you do. You need to keep this very short - strip out all unnecessary words and simply focus on saying the bad thing that is going to happen.

  3. Impact: Bad news is just bad news. What's really important to your audience is what this news means for them. If you don't tell them, they'll make it up on their own. This is why after you relay the bad news to them you need to quickly follow this up with clear statements that let your audience know how their world is going to change because of the bad news.

  4. Details: When we receive bad news a 1,000 questions start to run through our minds. We're not happy and we want to see if perhaps some sort of mistake has been made, maybe something has been overlooked. That's why it is so important that you include the details that will provide answers to these questions in your speech. By tackling them in your speech, you improve the state of mind that your audience will end up leaving your speech in.
What Not To Do When You Are Delivering Bad News
So now that you know how to organize the bad business news that you are delivering, now we need to make sure that we know what not to do while delivering this information.
Don't lie. Although this seems like some basic advice, the desire to lie or even just stretch the truth a bit can be a powerful motivator when you are delivering bad news. Don't do it. Anytime that you try to tone down the bad news by saying something that is untrue it will always come back to bite you.
Don't be unclear. When what we have to say is difficult or painful to say, we often like to wrap it in a lot of words that we think will soften the blow. Don't do this. Your audience will have to work that much harder to understand what you are trying to say and they may even end up being confused.
Don't be insensitive. Bad business news will cause an emotional reaction in your audience. As a speaker you need to realize this and be tuned in to understanding how your audience is reacting to what you are saying. During this speech you are going to have to acknowledge this and show your audience that you understand how they are feeling.
Don't talk about you. In order to shield yourself from having to think about how this bad business news is going to be affecting your audience, we sometimes tend to make our speech all about us: how we feel about the news, what we are thinking, etc. Don't do this - your audience really doesn't care about you, they want to hear what all of this means for them.
What All Of This Means For You
Not all speeches are inspirational speeches - sometimes bad news has to be delivered. Giving this type of speech is never easy and that's why it's so important that we learn to do it the right way.
Organizing the speech correctly is the first step in effectively delivering bad news. Clearly telling your audience what the bad news is and then immediately following that up with words that will tell them what the impact of this information on them will be is the key to doing a good job. In this type of speech, how you say it can be as important as what you say. We've covered several things that you'll need to avoid.
Speakers who master the art of delivering bad business news will find that they have become more valuable. This type of speech will never be easy to give, but learn to do a good job of it and you'll always be in demand...