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Digg it UP - How to Organise a Successful Business Event
The path to self employment is long and tough. If it was easy, everyone in the world would be doing it. While self employment is expanding throughout the world most people are still stuck working the dreadful nine to five job. Everyone must work to survive. Whether people want to hear that or not, it is true. Too many people today want to do less work for more money and well, that's just not working. However, it can be done. It will be challenging and it will be hard. There are pros and cons to being self employed and today this article will focus on both.The Pros: This is pretty obvious. Staying at home, setting your own hours and spending more time with your family are a good start. That's why most people take a leap of faith into the self employment world. However, did you ever think about how it would feel to create your own destiny. When you create your own employment you are essentially putting you and your family's destiny in your hands. While there is no ceiling holding down your success, there is also nobody there to bail you out if you fail. With that being said remember anything is possible. All these positive takes on self employment make the industry look very desirable, but the intent of this article is to show how hard it can be. So onto the cons.The Cons: This part is tough to write about. Once we as humans get out of fantasy land, we must tackle the tough issues of self employment. So what happens when we leave our nine to five job for self employment? Well sit down for this because it is not pretty. People often fail to realize the benefits they are giving up when they leave their employer. By benefits I mean insurance covera
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have f
The young man took his place behind the lectern, preparing to address the graduating class. He had earned the right to make this speech by having the best grade point average over the last four years. In addition to being the valedictorian he was graduating with academic honors. So were two thirds of the members of his class.It's not just this high school. I checked around a bit and found that grades appear higher and there are more "honors" graduates, even though official standards don't seem to have changed much. And it's not just high school. At Princeton, in 2003, 47 percent of the grades were A's. William Strauss and Neil Howe identified the generational cycle and its language in their classic 1991 book, Generations. They defined four kinds of generations, one of which they called "Civic." Members of a Civic generation "grow up as increasingly protected youth."The valedictorian and his classmates are members of a Civic generation variously called Generation Y or the Millennial Generation. And they're showing up in workplaces everywhere. They're the children of the Baby Boomers. Protection for them has taken some strange forms. Leave it to my generation, the Baby Boomers, to come up with beliefs about praise and reward that are both anti-establishment and result in some really dumb actions. One belief is that no one should be a "loser." That leads to sports leagues where kids play soccer, but no one keeps score.Or how about the corollary belief: everyone should be a winner? That gives us other sports leagues where everyone gets a trophy just for playing. Parents pay for them before the year begins. And there's the belief that no one, especially my darling
1. Define your aims of the event
What is the concept? Before you can start to organise your event, write down a few lines about what the event is going to be about and what you hope to achieve. It’s helpful at this stage to have a meeting with everyone involved to discuss the event. Here is a list of points to cover:
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
• Where do you want to hold it?
• Who do you want to come to the event? How many?
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have fo
Being a student, summer can be a great time to take a break from school and studies. However, it's usually a time to make some necessary money for the following school year. One way that I've found to earn some great money, and which still allows for a good bit of freedom and time off is doing some painting. No, I'm not talking about painting a masterpiece, I'm referring to doing some painting for people who just don't have the time or inclination to do it. Most people will need to have some kind of painting done this time of year, and you can step right in and fill the need and earn some money.Some tips on getting this done; put some small ads in local newspapers letting people know that you will do the job cheaply and professionally. Although you'll make top dollar doing this, saying that you're going to save them time and money will draw them in like bees to honey. You can also post on boards in food stores, try your luck at putting some makeshift signs at busy intersections, etc. If you advertise, you'll get the work.Say you don't know anything about painting? Spend a little time at places like Sherwin Williams or other places that specialize in paints, and you'll soon know the difference between High Gloss, Satin, Semi-Gloss, Flat, and you'll definitely know if you're supposed to be using an Interior or Exterior Paint. You'll probably want to stay away from the Big Chains when it comes to getting information about painting because the quality of information that you get varies from store to store.Lastly, it will come in handy if you have access to a truck and ladders. If not, you can always rent them, and oftentimes you can borrow them from the people th
What is the concept? Before you can start to organise your event, write down a few lines about what the event is going to be about and what you hope to achieve. It’s helpful at this stage to have a meeting with everyone involved to discuss the event. Here is a list of points to cover:
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
• Where do you want to hold it?
• Who do you want to come to the event? How many?
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have f
Did you go through the goal setting exercise outlined in the August '05 Dose of Reality™? [see the end of this article for subscription information and back issues] If you did, fabulous! With your goals written down, you’re lightyears ahead of your peers. Get a load of this: A study was conducted a few years ago of graduates from a business school. Only three percent of grads had clearly articulated and written goals...but those grads earned ten times more than the 83% who had no goals at all. Even those grads who had some sense of their goals, but had not written them down, earned three times as much as those who hadn’t given goals a second thought. How’s that for motivation to get this exercise done?Now that your goals are written down, do you think you can accomplish them all by yourself? Stop right there if you think you can. You may have impressive work experience and education, but ‘what you know’ has less to do with your future career success than ‘who you know.’ Start right now on creating an impressive network of contacts in your chosen field of work and you’ll find yourself propelled toward your goals faster than you imagined possible.Whether you’re still in school, or looking for your first job, or already in a job, a network of contacts in your chosen field is invaluable. But don’t run out trying to meet as may people as you can…you need to get yourself prepared first. Get a three-ring binder with forms you’ve created for tracking all the important information you’ll keep about each person you meet. It will be invaluable to you for decades to come. Next, practice name/face memorization tricks if you’re not proficient in this very important
• Decide on the subject for the event
• Discuss what you hope to achieve, for example
1 .Raise the profile of your business/organisation
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
• Where do you want to hold it?
• Who do you want to come to the event? How many?
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have f
Wholesale clothing distributors purchase cloth, apparel, trimmings, home furnishing and accessories from manufacturers in large lots and resell them in smaller lots to retailers. Wholesale distributors usually work from warehouses or offices with no display of their merchandise. They interact with their customers through salespeople, over the phone and using the Internet.Wholesale clothing distributors sell either imported goods or locally manufactured goods or both. The clothes may include readymade apparel or cloth material. The product range not only includes garments for men, women, boys, girls and infants, but also includes accessories such as scarves, hats and gloves as well as some home furnishings. The industry is tightly integrated and many distributors often manufacture the goods themselves or get it contract manufactured from low cost locations such as China. This is because of the seasonal nature of the industry. There are also wholesalers who act purely as a distributor from manufacturers to retailers. Their customers include retailers and online merchantsThere are basically three categories of customers in the clothing industry. They are upper, middle and budget sectors with the budget sectors accounting for the largest chunk. Generally wholesale clothing distributors do not specialize in a particular product or products for a specific category of customers since specialization has not been a major trend in this industry. However, some wholesale distributors focus on sub segments such as women’s clothing, children’s clothing or accessories.The traditional distinctions between clothing manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are slowly beco
2. Network with some sales prospects in a relaxed environment
• When do you want to hold the event?
• Where do you want to hold it?
• Who do you want to come to the event? How many?
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have f
In the world of restaurant management you run into all types of people. That is what happens when you open the doors to the public. Some days are filled with ease and joy, but mostly the days are long and frustrating. Your quality of life is completely dependent on the quality of your operations. That in itself is sometimes an oxymoron. The top quality A caliber employee doesn't want to make minimum wage all their life. Keeping them motivated and happy requires a time and energy commitment that at times takes away from your ability to run a quality operation. Don't allow your self to get side tracked. Have a plan and work your plan. A man once said to me "a goal with out a plan is just a wish". If your goal is to have a good quality life outside of work and you truly enjoy the restaurant business, then have a plan everyday and work the plan. There are a number of ways to achieve your goal.1) Staff: Staffing will solve your employee wows. Competition for hours and work will give you the ability to make the tough decisions that will eventually improve your operations and your quality of life.2) Communication: This is a key component in any operation. Ensuring all employees, partners, and management team members are aware of changes, substitutions, additions will make daily operations run itself.3) Consistency: Each and every member of the management team has to handle situations in the same manner. If it is disciplinary actions for tardiness, rudeness, poor work performance, what ever the situation, it has to be consistent across the board.4) Muddy list: There can't be any unclear expectations or messages. If there is it will and uncer
• How and where will you promote the event to ensure that they come along?
• Do you want outside speakers? If so, who? What will they speak about?
• What budget do you have for the event?
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
• What else is going on at the same time as your event (both within your organisation and externally) – will this have an impact on your event?
• If you are, for example, running a training session, have you identified that there is a sufficient need for that particular topic?
• If you are inviting outside speakers, always make sure that, where possible, you have a ‘reserve’ choice in case your first choice isn’t available. If you have existing contacts that is fine but make sure you know they will be competent and “on message” - if in doubt contact an agency for advice (I recommend http://www.speakers-uk.com/ for no other reason that they will always spend time with you to make sure that you have a list of the right people at the right price). Watch out for expenses clauses as they can be hidden costs
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