nice one, frank!
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Coroprate web sites: Turn language barriers into a competitive edge
If you are aiming to grow your business into foreign markets, don`t forget to embed the possibility of adding foreign language versions when designing your website. Make sure you address this issue with your web designer from the very beginning.
It will rule out many problems that could (and probably will) occur if you change your mind and decide to add another version afterwards.
By the way, don`t rely too much on online machine translation engines. More often than not, machine translation is your enemy when it comes to getting your selling message across to your foreign audience.
Instead, make sure you invest wisely in a good, human-quality translation. It will allow you to turn culture and language differences into a competitive edge that will boost your international development.
If you are aiming to grow your business into foreign markets, don`t forget to embed the possibility of adding foreign language versions when designing your website. Make sure you address this issue with your web designer from the very beginning.
It will rule out many problems that could (and probably will) occur if you change your mind and decide to add another version afterwards.
By the way, don`t rely too much on online machine translation engines. More often than not, machine translation is your enemy when it comes to getting your selling message across to your foreign audience.
Instead, make sure you invest wisely in a good, human-quality translation. It will allow you to turn culture and language differences into a competitive edge that will boost your international development.
Enhancing Our Customers Experience with Our Company
We are a brand new business with what we think is a very informative, easy to use and beautiful web site for our unique, fun and wonderful kitty product. During the design and content development stage we were confident we had covered everything about our product features and other important information for our customers. To our surprise we hadn`t. We follow up as quickly as possible on every customer suggestion and question to answer their questions and thank them for the suggestion. We also offer to send a sample of our product to the customer who has really enlightened our thinking. No one has turned us down, and they write back with appreciation. Even though they may not place an order now, we believe we have left a very positive impression of the company and product with them, and, that they will be back to visit again.
Kittyslicker.com
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Barbara
Thanks, twenkie, for the tip!
all who`ve posted here:
we`ve edited and added a number of your tips to the 10 Steps to Grow Your Business already. your nicknames, linked to your profiles, appear along with those tips. great promotion for you - and you deserve it!
keep them comin` folks! we`ll rotate them in and out over time...
rich
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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation
all who`ve posted here:
we`ve edited and added a number of your tips to the 10 Steps to Grow Your Business already. your nicknames, linked to your profiles, appear along with those tips. great promotion for you - and you deserve it!
keep them comin` folks! we`ll rotate them in and out over time...
rich
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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation
I have one for "Create Your Life Plan":
Be Calculatedly Courageous
After reviewing your life plan, be bold in making the right work-related decision for you and your family. If the right decision is that currently it is not the most opportune time for you to pursue an entrepreneurial venture, then take a brief timeout. Your research and planning can always continue, but if financially, physically, emotionally, or spiritually you are not 100% ready, it may be helpful to focus on your readiness gap before diving head first into a new venture.
However, if your readiness gap is minimal, be calculatedly courageous by taking your first baby steps to launching your new business. Only fear and unsound decisions can hold you back. Whether the right decision is to maintain your “day job” during the launch phase or to dedicate yourself full time, ensure that all aspects of your life are primed and ready to support your life’s passion.
--Karan
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Here is a proven tip that will cost virtually nothing and requires a minimal time commitment. Find your niche and get in touch with local Non-Profit Entities eg. Charities, Foundations, Organizations etc. which identify with your particular product or service. Provide the individual involved with in-kind or leveraged resources and offer a vendor booth or sample product etc. for any upcoming events or gatherings. It is virtually free PR and exposure as well as a valid tax deduction. -Valarie K. McClain, A-Z Resources www.atozedresources.com[/QUOTE]
Be careful what you are deducting. You CANNOT deduct the time for your services to a charity. You can only deduct expenses incurred while offering your services. For instance if you sent out flyers for them you could deduct the cost of the paper, envelopes, postage, etc., but not the time it took you to do it.
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Rebecka Melson | Virtual Business Services | www.vbsofok.com
I`m not exactly sure under which number this should appear.
What I have found most helpful for moving my business to the next level is having a life and business coach. Sometimes we`re too close to the business to see what`s going wrong - or right. Let`s face it - our companies are an extension of ourselves. We can easily make the same mistakes in business that we do in life. A coach helps us to step back and see things from a new angle. That angle just may be the adjustment in light that propels the business to new heights.
Having a coach, a mentor, an advisory board is essential. Find a place in your budget even if you think you can`t afford it. Keep family and "best" friends off of your advisory board because you can`t expect them to be objective. Take your advisory board to dinner once a year and then sit back. It`s not your time to talk, it`s your time to listen.
What I have found most helpful for moving my business to the next level is having a life and business coach. Sometimes we`re too close to the business to see what`s going wrong - or right. Let`s face it - our companies are an extension of ourselves. We can easily make the same mistakes in business that we do in life. A coach helps us to step back and see things from a new angle. That angle just may be the adjustment in light that propels the business to new heights.
Having a coach, a mentor, an advisory board is essential. Find a place in your budget even if you think you can`t afford it. Keep family and "best" friends off of your advisory board because you can`t expect them to be objective. Take your advisory board to dinner once a year and then sit back. It`s not your time to talk, it`s your time to listen.
Know your audience!!!
If you don`t know who your customers are, you won`t know how to reach them (communicate your business to them), make sales and at the end of the day have the successful business you`ve always dreamed of.
It seems like there is a lot more media out there today than in 1950, because there is, but (bonus) it`s more targeted. There`s literally a magazine, website, blog, etc. for everyone in every industry. Build your base. It will allow you to expand eventually.
Jennifer
This is a good one Karan...........as i read, my mind leaped in a way of bold decision to launch my business idea........i have a high cravings for my business idea, but i find myself subjected to my daily pay.............and can`t really figure why i cant take bold steps in facing challenges to conquer my limitations.........your tips is like a light at the end of a tunel where you find the exit to the other side..........as i write, im making plans what to do next.........
its great to be here.
maacs-nigeria
Ah! Blind woman's cheese would be here with here inside ... I moron, but not Sharhan - ate chewing pants.
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