Emotional intelligence has been well-known in the business world since 1995, and although 23 years have passed, it still plays a huge role in successful businesses in Australia. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is a big fan of Emotional intelligence and has used it...
“Caring” and “Sales” are two words rarely found in the same sentence or heard in the same conversation together. Indeed, many people nowadays don’t find sales – both as a skill and as a profession – as appealing, all because they think that...
A customer with a repeated poor service experience rarely sticks around to keep doing business. They’re a danger to your business since you won’t only lose word-of-mouth advertising, they can also ruin your reputation with just a word. While many factors affect good...
Amazon has been changing the retail industry for more than two decades now – all by challenging the status quo and forcing its competitors to adopt the e-commerce approach in selling. As a result, many retailers where Amazon operates have declared bankruptcy and...
Let’s face it…sales is one of the toughest jobs of being a retailer. This is especially true if you are the only one running the business, and the thought of “sales” feels very unnatural and uncomfortable for you. Many entrepreneurs don’t like the idea of “selling” to...
When it comes to hiring people, you may be inclined to evaluate applicants based on their skillset. The more skilled a person is, the less time, money, and effort will be exerted on training them on what they need to do. A high skill level, however, does not mean that...
65% of businesses don’t make it through their first year, and another 40% of those businesses don’t make it through the next three years. Those who do survive deliver a good product, have implemented good systems, are composed of good employees, have a strong leader...
When you have customers who complain and then walk out, you have an understanding of where you’ve made a mistake. This helps you retarget your efforts and improve your business to give better products and services. But what if they just become silent? How would you...
Customers are like friendships, if you don’t invest in them they gradually, and sometimes very quickly, find other suppliers. We all know that maintaining a relationship of any sort takes effort and commitment and yet we regularly forget this in the commercial world....
Businesses, no matter their industry or size, are all concerned with their customer service – especially at this age when buying experience can heavily influence the opinion of the customer, and subsequently, their decision to patronize and what they will say to...
