Recruiting the Generation “Y” Workforce
In case you haven’t notice there’s a new generational cohort entering the workplace and they are making their presence know.
Generation Y (aka iGeneration, Google Generation, Millennium Generation, and the Boomerang Generation), have grown up in a world of diverse Internet resources. If you want to bring out the best in your Generation Y workforce you may have to begin by letting go of traditional methods in favor of a more creative approach.
According to experts, Generation Y workers were born generally from 1977-2002. Their force is almost 80 million strong out numbering the Boomers by approximately 1 million. In a recent survey conducted among hiring managers and Human Resource professionals, across all industries, the generation gap is more pronounced in the areas of communication styles and job expectations in the workplace.
The business world as we know it is changing. As the skilled Boomers retire, companies will have to go the extra mile to replace them. Gen Y workers will have a huge impact on the workplace. An inaccurate description of this group is since they have been pampered their whole life they are lazy.
They are not only high maintenance but high performing as well. This generation of workers comes computer literate and high tech ready. In addition they have very high expectations of themselves.
Employers are scrambling to implement new policies and programs that appeal to the new workforce. Those managers that hold steady to old belief about the workplace and how work is done in the business world-will find themselves out of jobs.
There is still much to be learned about this new cohort of workers but here’s a start on some basic principles to keep in mind.
Recruiting - Gen Y are civic minded and socially conscious and very aware of the world. They volunteer and feel personally responsible for making a difference in the world. Gen Y is all about choices and meaningful work and social networks. Don’t be put off by the tattoos or piercing, those are considered stylish and/or spiritual.
Motivate - They like to have choices focusing on output not method. They’ll get the job completed according to the deadline but will resent being reminded to. Members of Gen Y are not obsessed with work. Although they want to make good money, it is not what motivates them.
You will find social networks of friends are their preferred environment and they love to be decorated with their iPods, BlackBerrys, and laptops. Realizing anything is possible they are determined to live their best lives now.
Retain - Gen Y is known for gender bending. When creating new policies list the benefits with out assumptions as to which gender will use them (eg. maternity leave). Don’t be surprised to find they need flex time to compete in some extreme sports activity or to travel.
Expanding their experience, education, and mentoring are important to this generation. This young workforce will job-hop when they see no other choice.
They have a reputation for experiencing boredom and frustration with slow-paced environments, traditional hierarchies, and slightly outdated technology. Telecommuting programs are in great demand allowing Gen Y to work remotely.
They are also likely to be boomerang employees. Those who leave and come back, will return knowing the company and culture and bring a new perspective and institutional knowledge which will be an asset.
Trying to keep up with their demands could send any company into a frenzy but remember workplace diversity is not just about culture: it’s about the way people think. Expect to get professional consultation to transform your organization and coaching for your managers. This generation is very different from any other generation the workplace has seen.
Unlike Boomers who lived for their careers, today’s young workers are more interested in making their jobs accommodate their families and personal life. They place a high value on self fulfillment.
As Bruce Tulgan, author of Managing Generation Y, says, “If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace, that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.”
Copyright 2007 Michelle P Simms, personal development coach. Her ideal client is not defined by a specific profession, but by the passion they have to grow personally and professionally. Michelle leads weekly teleseminars and works with individuals worldwide at http://www.SimmsInternational.com
Are You on the Inside or the Outside of Jargon?
On an online network, the subject of word use became a topic of discussion. This is a worthy topic of discussion anywhere, but it seems especially important online, where the written word becomes the primary means of communication.
Several subtopics emerged in our discussion, including jargon. Jargon is a powerful time saver, if you are inside the circle of people who know its meaning. If you are outside that circle, though, the use of jargon can confuse, annoy, or exclude you. The extent this is problematic to you will depend on how much you want to be in the inner circle.
Entering any new subculture requires getting acquainted with the vernacular. Understanding acronyms, jargon, shortcuts, inside humor, and incomplete sentences are all part of getting acclimated to a subculture or inner circle. Consider the casual chatter about the Internet these days compared to, say, five years ago. Even over lunch time conversation, you will say or hear jargon like ISP, domain, spam, virtual networking, ezines, and on and on. Not that long ago, such conversations would have been very foreign.
As a consultant and coach, I find it absolutely essential to listen to the language of my clients and speak their language as much as possible. Sometimes I ask for clarification when I am unfamiliar with an expression, but often I let it go unquestioned, knowing that if it is important I will figure it out or it will come around again. By being with my clients in their vernacular, I can more easily introduce other language. I am constantly looking for how I can assist others in using language in more and more empowering ways.
Helping people to lift their consciousness through use of language is key to my work. If I let language that I think is silly (for example, “more is less”) pass without a comment, I can more easily focus on transforming language that is truly disempowering to language that creates desired change, whether the language is jargon or some other form of a shortcut or automatic response. For example, “I hate my job, I’m really stuck, everything’s going wrong. . .” are ideas that are truly disempowering and create a self-fulfilling prophecy. A more empowering idea, which is usually believable to the person expressing those ideas, is “I am ready for a job I love.”
Effective use of language clarifies meaning. When language creates confusion, not all is lost, because when confusion is out in the open, greater clarity can emerge. Language is creative. Underneath language are thoughts. Thoughts expressed in language become more tangible than thoughts unexpressed.
One of my favorite quotations of Albert Einstein expresses it so well, “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t know enough about it.”
Jeanie Marshall is a Personal Development Consultant and Coach with Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com She writes about personal empowerment, meditation, and effective use of language. She assists professional coaches and consultants to write at http://www.WritingByCoaches.com
Virtual Networking To Keep You Connected When You Are Not Able To Meet In Person
“Yikes! There’s no way I can make it to that networking meeting that I used to attend!
Now I have just too many tasks and people needing my attention.”
Does that sound like you, facing the dilemma of how to stay connected when your usual routine is interrupted by family challenges?
When family challenges make it necessary to alter your schedule drastically, it’s important for you to have an alternative plan to keep your business growing and thriving. You may even be working at a location away from your usual office while handling family responsibilities in another city.
With the vast amount of opportunities on the Internet, you are able to find alternative ways of staying connected and finding new customers. In this article you’ll learn three effective and efficient ways of keeping in touch.
Joining Virtual Networking Groups
There are a number of networking groups online. A few examples are RYZE, Linked-In, Virtual Womens Chamber of Commerce, and E-Women Network.
YouTube and MySpace are two sites that are becoming more and more credible in the business world.
YouTube is actually being used by speakers to promote their programs. In many cases this has replaced the typical demonstration video formerly distributed as a way of giving a taste of what they will experience from the speaker. Videos on UTube are also being used as part of a resume for applying for jobs. When you are not able to meet with prospective clients in person during a crisis period, YouTube is a way that they can experience you and how you work with clients.
Many entrepreneurs have created pages on MySpace to promote their businesses and to make networking connections.
Writing and Submitting Articles
My guess is that you have talks that you have given that would lend themselves to great articles. Just get these down on paper. You could even have a transcriptionist do this for you so that you can read it over and do any necessary editing.
You can then distribute these to article submission sites on the web that will then send them to various online publications. Or submit them to individual publications either online or in hard copy that are relevant to your business. Naturally, at the end of every article, you will have your contact information and an enticing offer for them to either call you or visit your website.
Sending Out An Online Newsletter
An online newsletter is a cost-effective way to keep in contact with current clients, prospective clients, and networking partners. If you have clients or prospects who have not signed up for your online newsletter, it is necessary to send them either a sample issue or an email inviting them to be part of your reading audience. Otherwise you will be violating SPAM laws.
Make good use of the article you wrote and sent to submission sites. Use it in your newsletter to give your readers some quality content every time they hear from you.
To make it a simple process for sending out the newsletter to your database, sign up for a service such as Constant Contact. This service has attractive templates, statistics as to how many emails were opened or blocked, and an easy way for web visitors to sign up or opt out of the newsletter.
For strategizing ways to make your business more resilient even in the tough times, talk to me, Suzanne Holman, your Exuberant Productivity coach and consultant. Free resources are available on the website, http://www.suzanneholman.com
Ten Things Leaders Need to Know About Audience Analysis
The right diagnosis is imperative to success in the medical field. Without it, patients suffer and perhaps succumb. Diagnosing the state of health of a patient is a systematic process which helps the physician come to accurate conclusions. Diagnosis is more than information; it is applying that information in a way that brings accuracy to the process.
Sales, education, public speaking, or writing for the web,in each case leaders doing the communicating need it to be prescriptive. It needs to fit a specific audience the way a prescription is given to fit a specific diagnosis.
There needs to be a systemic analysis (diagnosis) of the audience to deliver content which accomplishes the purpose. Audience analysis is an indispensable part of the systematic design of communication.
There are ten things every communicator needs to know about doing an audience analysis.
1. Do it in writing (or typing). Information changes when it is written down or at least the way you process it changes. It becomes more organized in our thinking. When I take time to write down an audience analysis, it slows me down enough to carefully undo some assumptions I may have made which may not be entirely accurate. It helps me see the information from a different perspective or makes it visible that I have oversimplified perspectives on the audience.
2. Do an analysis, even if you think you know your audience well. By doing a careful analysis you gain deeper understanding of people that we know superficially, and yet do not really know because we have not asked the right questions or only asked those questions in one framework. People are complex. We need to ask questions about the people we think we know best to see how they have changed.
3. Include the context in the analysis. The readiness to listen or ability to absorb information may change with the context in which they are exposed to the content. People behave differently in groups than they do in individual settings. People are sometimes distracted by their setting or the people around them. I try to think about both the physical and social context.
4. Break the audience into segments. Write down the different sub-groups that might be in the audience. I like to attach numbers to them. What percent will be of one gender or another, one age group or another, one interest group or another? This does two things, it helps to clarify how general I need to reach everyone or how specific I need to be but moving that specificity from segment to segment.
5. Consider their culture. Not just as it relates to an ethnic group but community or corporate culture as well. A friend told me about being a translator for speakers who came to Romania to speak. He said the hardest thing was to translate for people who came and used baseball metaphors, when almost no one in the audience played or cared about baseball. He said “striking out” as a metaphor carried no significance for a Romanian audience. There are cultures within academia, business, churches, and communities. The time we take to analyze what the characteristics of the cultures represented in our audience, the more effective our content will be communicated.
6.Analyze their expectations. What are their expectations of the delivery? Are they expecting to be entertained? Are they expecting a serious discourse? That may change from audience to audience. Decide what delivery styles would they consider to be appropriate for the content. Offended people do not listen. Are they a crowd that needs a lot of facts, or do they expect to be motivated?
7. Consider their needs. I have gotten letters that start out, To whom it may concern. Those letters leave it up to the recipient to determine if the letter pertains to them or not. Perhaps they are one of the concerned ones, perhaps not. When we communicate, we want everyone to feel concerned. We want them all engaged with our content. When doing an audience analysis, I like to put myself in the place of an audience member and ask myself, how does this pertain to me? Or, what do I expect to get out of this? Perhaps, Why do they need my content? Asking these kinds of questions helps us determine their needs. People do not like being sold, but they like having their needs met. An audience analysis can reveal those needs and perhaps help the communicator show the audience why they need it.
8. Consider their previous knowledge. Nothing bores people quicker than having someone talk above their head or using terms that are outside of their past experience. Sometimes they are not only bored, they become angry because they feel stupid because they do not understand. Analyze their previous knowledge of the subject, and then definitions can be a part of the content so that the audience has access to the information and feels respected.
9. Consider their emotions. Analyze what the audience needs to feel about the content. Analyze what they need to feel about you as the presenter or author to believe the message. Non-verbal communication is often the vehicle that taps into the emotions. A clear understanding of what they may or may not feel because of the presentation style or the context can help us develop content that is affective (emotionally effective).
10.Consider their limitations. How much information can they absorb at one setting. A friend used an oil metaphor with me when I was talking about a speech I was preparing. He said, “If you do not strike oil in 20 minutes, quit boring”. This is less likely to happen if you note in your analysis what you think the limitations are on how much new material you can deliver in your context. If you write it down you are more likely more likely to deliver it effectively.
Now I am going to follow my own advice. In my analysis of online audiences, the limitations for reading an article is about 1,000 words. I am at 1023, so, I will stop here and hope that this information will help you deliver communicate your content more effectively.
Rick Hubbard studied Organizational Communication at the B.A. level and e-Learning/Instructional System Design at the graduate level. He works in instructional technology at a Florida University and does consulting in communication and instructional design. http://www.ALeadershipRevolution.com
Technical Translation: Communicating in Global Markets
Have you ever bought a product with “assembly required” and found the directions to be a mish-mash of nonsensical word-salad? Those directions were not much help, were they? You were lucky if you didn’t break the thing trying to get it put together!
Technical translation is a whole sub-field of translation services, and it’s even harder to get it done right.
But technical translation is increasingly in demand as more specs, medical documents, engineering documents, instructions manuals, manuscripts and other specialized texts reach global audiences.
Why is it so tough to get these documents translated well?
Technical documents are difficult to begin with. Do you remember the last time you read a legal contract or waded through a medical paper? The language is dense and difficult, and unless you are an expert in the field it’s easy to get lost.
These technical documents use “jargon,” a specialized vocabulary for a certain field of study. These terms will not be found in an ordinary dictionary, and to use and translate them correctly, you really need to have some background in that field.
More than any other kind of text, these documents need to be perfectly translated in order for the other party to understand clearly. It’s not the time for interpretation; the words have to be there just as they are in the original, or the whole thing could be a failure.
Translators may find words that do not yet exist in the language! This may be hard to believe, but there are highly specialized technical terms that nobody has thought to translate into certain languages yet. This means that the translator will actually be coining new terms, and they have to have experience in their chosen field to do this.
If you need a technical translation done, there are a few ways to find a good service.
First, look for someone who specializes in your field. For example, if you have medical documents that need to be translated, get a service that specializes in the medical field, or has lots of experience doing medical translations. There are translation services that specialize in certain fields, and some that have a few specialties they deal in.
Try to find a translator who has some experience in the field, outside of the translation work they have done. Look for certification and experience. If you need an engineering document translated, look for a translator who is also an engineer. They will have a deeper understanding not only of the terminology specific to engineering, but also how to write for engineers.
You will need a translator who not only knows their field, but also knows the culture and country that you are selling your product to. Find someone who has lived and worked in that country for a long time, or is native-born and bilingual.
Finally, look for membership in linguistics organizations. The more language certification they have, the better.
Technical translation is growing in demand, and in today’s global marketplace, whether you sink or swim could be determined by the translation of your texts. Find a good technical translator once and you can stick with them forever.
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Alerting Your Business Regularly
Today’s businesses need to stay ahead in the rat race if they want to maintain the edge over their competitors. Business messages, notifications, and alerts help your business strategies to be put to use much in advance.
The business world does need to be reminded of the important events linking various business operations. For example, reminders, notifications, and alerts help organizations to the dynamics in the marketplace.
There are occasions when retailers would want to showcase their products as the market becomes competitive enough to keep up with the marketing effort. At such times, a section of companies engage in email marketing. This is a great idea for the holiday season.
REMINDER SERVICES:
Many organizations outsource reminder services to expert companies that have specialized in this field. There are service oriented companies who would even offer their services to help you set up your own reminder service internally. Alternatively, you could also fully outsource ASP style solution. The typical enterprise solutions offered are:
* Optimum customization.
* Extensive integration throughout the enterprise.
* Terms and fees are in accordance with the customization needed.
* Extended technical support.
* Reminders, notification, and alert services.
Business notification services ensure that timely and important information reaches organizations which help the companies to exploit available opportunities. These notification services are available to all kinds of organizations, independent of their business operations, the size of the business, the company’s human resources, or its technical expertise.
In choosing the services, the vendor companies usually select commodity codes belonging to their business interest. So when the companies start to receive email regarding the opportunities available, the mails carry a link to the original entity.
BUSINESS NOTIFICATIONS:
Several smaller business organizations make use of business notification services. As a result, they receive news regarding seasonal and exclusive offers, as well as of special discounts which pertain to their business activities. Business notification services are a booming service industry in this age which clearly has more info than it can handle. Business notification services provide quality business notifications to all levels of business industries.
In order to subscribe to such services, the providers ask you to select the categories of your interest, and from then on you start to receive information on a regular basis. In these kinds of services, there are provisions where you can unsubscribe totally or from the specific categories that may not be of use to you.
BUSINESS ALERTS:
There are several kinds of alert messages that you could avail of. These business alerts bring immense help to various organizations. You can avail of services such as, news alerts, media alerts, business alerts, political alerts, and so on.
The news alert messages would provide you with instant news flashes on the important happenings in the world, while business alerts would provide you with information about various business developments such as on the stock market, thus allowing you to be up to date about all things. The alerts are usually available as text messages which you subscribe to after selecting the categories of your interest.
In the same fashion as in business notifications, a partial subscription is possible if you do not want to pay for too many categories.
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Are You Ready To Go International?
Although North Americans were the dominant population on the Internet, that has now changed, and the rest of the world has caught up rapidly. And while English is still the most widely used Internet language, it’s not the language of choice for many, many Internet users.
So are YOU ready to communicate in this international medium? Whether you’re building your own Web site, taking part in discussion groups, visiting a chat room, or just sending and receiving e-mail, you’ll meet more and more foreigners on the Internet - and vice versa, of course.
Let’s look at some tips for communicating effectively in this new global village.
1. Write in plain English
Write clearly, with small words and short sentences. If you’re writing long messages or creating long Web pages, include a simple summary at the top.
Be very careful to write exactly what you mean. If you’re writing for a general audience, avoid sarcasm, colloquialisms and other things that rely on a certain tone of voice or cultural background.
2. Watch out for phrases with two meanings
Although English is the de facto international language of the Internet, differences abound between, say, English and American English. It’s easy enough to allow for differences in the way that we spell colour, apologise and organisation, but other - more subtle - differences can easily lead to misunderstandings.
For example, does bi-weekly mean twice a week or once every two weeks? It’s different for Australians and Americans. Similarly, when Australians table an issue, they are raising it for discussion, but for Americans, tabling an issue means putting it aside.
3. Include area codes in phone numbers
Any time you quote a telephone, fax or mobile (cell) phone number on the Internet, ask yourself whether your readers reside outside your local area. If you’re potentially addressing distant readers, include your international code and area code in these numbers.
4. Allow for variations in postcodes
American zip codes and Australian postcodes use numbers only;
U.K. postcodes contain letters and numbers; Singaporean postcodes use numbers only, but appear in a different place in the address; all have different lengths from each other.
If your Web site includes an order form or a demographic survey, allow for postcodes that fall outside your own local format.
5. Include your full postal address
If you’re addressing an international audience, include your country in your postal address. Don’t expect people to just figure it out. This seems obvious, but a surprising number of businesses on the Internet forget it.
6. Include international postage costs
If you’re selling anything through e-mail or your Web site, cater for international orders, whether you expect them or not. Find out the cost of international postage and shipping, and publish the costs for your customers.
This is a complex area because of the variety of options, depending on the source and destination countries, methods and speed of delivery, customs and duties, and more.
Simplify this as much as possible for your customers. It’s better to start with something very simple (for example, one postage price for all international orders, regardless of destination) and adapt it with experience.
7. Explain your currency
If you use a currency that’s common to other countries - such as dollars - make it clear which version you mean. Some Web sites quote their prices in American dollars as a kind of universal currency, but most use local currency.
Include a link to a currency converter on your Web site to make it easy for your international visitors.
8. Be aware of time zones
If you’re writing a time (for example, the time when you’re available in a chat room) for people in specific time zones, include their local times as well. When writing for an international audience, include the time in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
Include a link to a time zone converter on your Web site.
9. Use icons carefully
Choose icons on your Web site carefully. For example, not everybody understands what a STOP sign means; and a thumbs up sign can offend people from some cultures.
In fact, its so easy to misunderstand icons - even within a culture - that you should always supplement them with clear descriptions.
10. Tolerate mistakes
The more you use the Internet, the more you’ll communicate with people who don’t speak or write English as well as you do. Be tolerant of poor spelling, bad grammar and typing mistakes when you receive e-mail or take part in Internet discussion groups.
Of course, this is just common courtesy, but again it’s surprising to see how many people attack others when they think they can hide behind the safety of their keyboard.
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Online Phone Cards: Connecting People
The world seems to be a lot smaller than what it was before. This is so because people get to travel to the different parts of the sphere in a few minutes or a few hours or a few days with the help of the various means of transportation that technology has brought into the century. Now we have trucks, buses, boats, planes and helicopters to get us to places. The people from the east can easily take a trip to the west side of the globe sitting comfortably inside an air-conditioned plane and even taking a nap during the flight.
With this development, people not only travel to tour and go visit but a good number of individuals take the trip and decide to migrate and to reside in a whole new different world of an entirely different culture. And although the grass may be greener on that pasture, still you get the pangs of missing the loved ones and friends that you have left behind. But then again the wonders of technology have provided a solution to this dilemma-phones! Through phones we get to talk to people who are miles away like they were just within arms reach. The world is definitely getting smaller.
You can have a telephone installed at the comforts of your home or you can choose a mobile phone that you can bring with you anywhere you may be. As convenient as it may, having phones can be quite expensive. You would think the privilege of being able to talk to someone far away should be of a high price, think again. Innovation and smart minds have made this luxury inexpensive with the help of phone cards. With phone cards you get to make long distance calls whether they may be domestic or international yet get to be in control of your call expenses.
This is because phone cards are generally prepaid. Paying in advance means you can say goodbye to monthly phone bills and detailed statements. Each specific phone card has an equivalent call duration minutes based on the price that you pay. The available call minutes are reduced each time you make a call and on how long these calls are. As soon as your credit runs out, you are no longer to make anymore calls. This kind of control or regulation could be the very solution of people who tend to spend hours and hours chattering on the phone not knowing their limits and waking up frustrated the next day to find a full blown telephone bill. Such limit could make people conscious of their calls and their expenses.
To add convenience, these phone cards are now available online. So with just a click, you can get the full service of a card as soon as possible. A good number of merchants are offering domestic and international online phone cards to the various countries of the world. Each comes with a distinctive rate and boundaries with some even offering added features for your greater satisfaction.
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Two Way Radio Joins The Communication Party
Communication takes many forms from face to face to more advanced methods like modern mobile and cell phone technology. The key to successful communication within many businesses is having a good mix of communication methods including team briefings and meetings, emails, teleconferencing and more.
So with the need for businesses to find the best methods of communication for their company Two Way Radios are now being used to further enhance their communication mix. 2 way radio gives business a reliable, robust and portable way for their staff to stay in touch in many different circumstances. These radios can be used over a wide area and benefit from no call charges which often makes them far more appealing than other portable communication equipment like mobile or cell phones.
And because two way radios which are available from companies including Motorola, Kenwood, ICOM and Entel are affordable, businesses of all types can benefit from using them. Some examples include security staff at licensed premises or sporting venues being able to keep in touch and alert colleagues to disturbances, queues and potential problems. They therefore aid not just communication but health and safety as well. Schools, colleges, nurseries and universities are also using 2 way radios for various members of staff to stay in touch. Teachers on field trips, caretakers, ground workers and teaching assistants whilst organizing sporting events can all now take advantage of the benefits that portable radios can bring. With features including long battery lives, panic alarms and license free communication.
Other businesses where the use of two way radio has greatly enhanced their performance and ability to stay in touch include factories and retailers. The retail sector in particular find the radio technology extremely useful as it allows workers on the shop floor to easily communicate with the distribution team to check stock levels, deliveries and again as in other industries to report accidents and therefore enhance their health and safety practices. The retail sector like many others is now extremely competitive so shops and retail outlets who want to enhance the service they provide customers can use two way radios to further differentiate them from their competitors.
Picture the scenario, you go into a shop and ask a member of staff if they have a particular item in stock. The member of staff disappears what seems like forever only to return with the news that the item is or is not in stock. Compare this to another retailer whose staff carry 2 way radios. You approach them and ask if an item is in stock. They immediately connect the stock room using their 2 way radio and within seconds you find out if the item you are after is available. This is just one of the ways that the retail industry is using two way radio but there are many others.
Communication in the business world is vital and modern 2 way radio can now be used by businesses of all types to make sure their staff and customers benefit.
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Hosting A Business Opportunity Presentation
Down line MLM network marketing is the art of taking your business knowledge, combining it with your faith in the product you are selling, rolling it up and packaging it and then presenting it to a room full of strangers as the must have business opportunity they have searched for unsuccessfully until today.
In other words, it turns a room full of unqualified leads into a room full of potential down line candidates for your multi level marketing (MLM) business. There are seven tips for down line MLM network marketing that you will do well to remember the next time you are hosting a business opportunity presentation to attract potential candidates to your business opportunity.
1. Do not be a stick in the mud. Train yourself in the art of small talk, the skill of the meet and greet occasion and how to introduce yourself to a complete stranger without talking about your accomplishments. The latter is probably the hardest aspect to accomplish. Yet so much is riding on your ability to come across in a personable manner.
2. Dress for success but do not overdress. It is tempting to show up at the business presentation in full regalia, such as suit and tie but keep in mind just exactly who your audience is. If you are presenting a business opportunity to a room full of college freshmen the odds are against their wanting to turn into a room full of suit wearing business men in order to succeed.
Slacks, a high quality dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up and some well shined sleek footwear are the best way to dress for that room. Conversely, if you are attending a Chamber of Commerce meeting, then a suit and tie may not be a bad idea.
The weekend meet and greet at the street fair on the other hand, will require just the right mix of successful yet not formal, dressy but just relaxed enough to get the message across that this business opportunity can be fun. Slacks and a golf shirt will do wonderfully.
3. Avoid the jargon. There is nothing more off putting than having someone jump into a presentation that is laden with industry specific terms. Unless you are pitching your business opportunity to a room full of seasoned network marketers, keep the lingo to a minimum.
4. Do not insult your audiences intelligence by reading verbatim from the brochure. Perhaps the most grievous sin committed during business presentations is the unimaginative mode of presentation. Think on your feet and adjust your presentation to fit the audience.
5. Never end your down line MLM network marketing presentation without asking the audience to make a commitment. Define for yourself ahead of time the scope of the commitment. Perhaps you will invite signups for a newsletter, hand out invites for another presentation or boldly ask for names and phone numbers of those ready to get serious about this business opportunity now.
6. Be open to criticism. There will always be a heckler in the audience and the better acquainted with your material you are, the easier it is to deal with the person.
7. Offer refreshments after the presentation. By offering the refreshments at the end, you will cause candidates to linger. This will give you an opportunity to schmooze with the ones who appear the most eager.
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