#business lessons

[businessmemes]

Gordon was overwhelmed with the power and it eventually led to his burnout and subsequent demotion to a single business screen.

[edilylearning]

If you love Shadow and Bone and are part of the Grishaverse this is a video you will enjoy:

We promise it’s good🥲

[dreamcolorscheme]

“It’s human nature to associate current profit with recent actions, even though it should be evident that current plenty is the harvest of planting seasons long past.”

— Richard P. Rumelt in Good Strategy / Bad Strategy

[khaled-red-blog]

4 steps my startup took to get a Fortune 100 client in 3 years

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When starting a business, it’s natural to look for small customers: it generates revenue, enhances your offering, and allows you to make mistakes on a smaller scale. But it is not the only way to grow. My company was three years old when we landed our first multi-million dollar contract with a US telecommunications company, at that…

[kayodekolade]

Be willing to take that step unsure and afraid.

#quoteoftheday #motivation #businesslessonsfromtonyelumelu #tonyelumelu #entrepreneurmindset

[notdonner]

Ask the Chief: an entrepreneur's approach to social media

As my wife and ISIC (Immediate Superior In Command), reminds me, opining, responding to, or worse, instigating a diatribe via social media is bad for business. In the last century, word of mouth, newspaper, radio and television advertising, storefronts and mail order were means to get products and services to consumers. Developing repeat business from clients was more easily obtained and was…

[tonysamia]

A few business ethics/tips

A few business ethics i have learned in my career, you might agree with me on some of them:

While you are trying to explain to someone about you product or service to convince them to use it, be realistic and do not exaggerate

Try to use business stories in your meetings as much as you can, even short but interesting ones, they will memorized after the meeting

If you found out that your service or product is not beneficial for your prospect, inform them, even if you will loose this deal, you will gain their trust and this will bring more deals in the future, believe me...

The follow-up with your prospects is very important by avoid pushiness and allow a good time span between follow-up attempts

If you failed to deliver something on time, be honest, apology and give a valid reason with a gesture in return maybe

Don’t discuss something that you don’t have enough info about with your client, just refer it to the right person

Don’t leave any client’s email more than 24 hours without a reply, even if the reply will be "I need more time to get back to you with the proper answer"

Start your calls with “Is it a good time to talk or should i call later?

Write “Thank you“ at the bottom of any email you sent in appreciation for giving time to read it...

Thank you, Tony Samia

[twinkle-art]

oh, my daddy said shoot

[reportwire]

5 Lessons I Learned From Starting a Company at 19 Years Old

5 Lessons I Learned From Starting a Company at 19 Years Old

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I had no intention of creating my own software company. I was kind of forced into it. You see, a few years ago, I was a full-time YouTuber. All was well until my channel got demonetized. This means that I was making $0 from the ads being placed on my videos. There was a point where I was getting 2-3 million views a month on my…

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: 15 Essential Business Skills Everyone Should Master

Articulate, confident communication

Crafting effective, compelling pitches

Operating and communicating through a solution-oriented framework

Research of all types (Google, market research, studies, polls, interpersonal conversations, etc.)

Learning how to streamline, edit, and organize information in a clear and logical way

Accumulating high-level working knowledge/proficiency in all tools and programs directly related to your type of work/industry

Budgeting and financial optimization (investment, tax benefits, etc.)

Reading and interpreting legal contracts/documents

Setting rates, boundaries, and learning when/how to delegate

Good posture, direct eye contact, and a firm handshake

Building streamlined systems for onboarding, different repeat project scopes/workflows, and KPI measuring

The art of following up, listening to (potential) clients' needs, asking thoughtful questions, and benefit-oriented salesmanship

Consistently reading, learning, and studying current events/cultural platforms/industry and field-related knowledge

How to spot customer/client/business partner red flags

Self-management, task/project prioritization, and optimization of your personal energy clock + levels

[chaiichait]

Jude in TCP was something else. Imagine poisoning yourself on the daily, still doing physically challenging missions while balancing the mental load of being bullied and harboring a secret life, sleep depriving yourself and STILL attending daily family dinners and classes.

[palatinewolfsblog]

Be awake!

(A short story about common sense and civil courage.)

Young law students are gathered in a lecture room of their university.

Ready to learn their first lesson - and it's gonna be a true life lesson.

The professor enters and takes a look around.

"You there, second desk. Blue jacket. What is your name?" he asks a student.

"My name is Alexis."

"Please leave my lecture room. I don't want to see you at one of my lectures ever again."

Everyone is quiet.

The student is irritated.

"I don't understand."

"I am not going to ask a second time. Thank you."

The student packs her things, gets up silently and leaves the hall.

The other students are speechless too.

Quite shaken not to say shocked.

They stare at the professor who looks at them attentively.

"Why are there laws?" he asks the group.

Still, nobody dares to speak.

Everyone looks at the others.

"What are laws for?" the professor asks again.

"Social order." someone says hesitantly.

"To protect a person's personal rights." Another student says.

A third replies.

"So that you can rely on the state."

The professor is not satisfied.

"Justice!" calls out a student.

The professor gives her a warm, encouraging smile.

"Thank you very much. Did I behave unfairly towards your classmate earlier?"

Everyone nods.

"Indeed I did. Why didn't anyone protest?

Why didn't any of you try to stop me?

Why didn't you want to prevent this injustice?" he asks.

Silence.

"What you just learned you wouldn't have understood in 1,000 hours of lectures if you hadn't lived it.

You didn't say anything just because you weren't affected yourself.

This attitude speaks against you and against life. You think as long as it doesn't concern you, it's none of your business.

I'm telling you, if you don't say anything today and don't bring about justice, then one day you too will experience injustice and no one will stand before you.

Justice lives through us all.

We have to fight for it. In life and at work, we often live next to each other instead of with each other.

We console ourselves that the problems of others are none of our business.

We go home and are glad that we were spared. But it's also about standing up for others.

Every day an injustice happens in business, in sports or on the tram.

Relying on someone to sort it out is not enough. It is our duty to be there for others.

Speaking for others when they cannot.

I am here to teach you the power of your voice.

I want you to learn criticial thinking

to empower you to stand up for what is right even if it means going against what everyone else is doing.

Let's begin."

Based upon a post by Joerg Storm and a short film by Chiara Gizzi.

[indigos-stardust]

their autism clashes so hard (so do their traumas <3)

[legofemme]

Im going 2 be soo fucking for real right now. The way the FR staff has been going thru the TUMBLR TAG and monitoring it the same way they would the actual site is grim as hell. Reblogging someones post abt religion buttons to say that theyre at risk of a DISCRIMINATION CLAIM is fucking batshit. Making vague posts abt how tumblr users have the staff blocked is CHILDISH . This is NOT the main site and the mods need to mind their fucking business unless asked something DIRECTLY

[ink-the-artist]

forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol