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Who’s your market?

To have the passion for a product or to be familiar with the industry is not enough. As in all businesses, you have to study it, research about it, and assess your competition.

The point here is that you must know who your market will be. You don’t need to be a scientist to research your market and you won’t even need to hire a market researcher whom you’ll end up paying thousands just for that simple task. For the most part, all you have to do is talk to your friends and they’ll talk to their relatives. Chat up with your relatives and have their friends come over as well. You can also simply ask some random person on the street. Engage in small talks in the supermarkets or malls, as all the potential target consumers are all in those kinds of places. Ask them general questions that you can relate to the product you have in mind. It might be too informal to record but the spontaneity is what gives it its validity. Simple, but reliable research is what you have!

A Visionary in Action

There are two ways wherein you can become optimistic in your job and put your conviction at work. One way is to visualize a job greater than what you have. While you may not be a CEO or not even a manager, imagine yourself to be at least a team leader. How would you settle possible problems that your company may encounter? It’s not so much of having an illusion of being THE top man but it’s more of putting yourself in a bigger responsibility in order to train yourself for the actual sense of duty that you will meet later on. Having this self-commitment to undertake a greater role, you will be able to open up a panorama of brilliant business ideas that are sure to contribute to your company’s success.

The other way to put your commitment to work is through sharing of your imagination. Most of us are afraid to be deemed as eccentric or foolish upon having images in our heads. But little do we know that these kept images can be the genius that will change things positively. You just might have a “business intuition” that not anyone can realize in himself. Every company needs a business “artist” and eccentricity can be the key. Don’t be afraid to share your vision/s. As long as you know that you can make it work, hinting your associates about what you see can start things to get moving. Think of yourself as a “mission maker” – both to yourself and to your colleagues.

Effective Communication

To be effective in our communication, we could learn about the basics of communication. Let’s study the principles, the concepts, the parts and the processes because the more we understand it, the more we can control it. After gathering information, we must apply that knowledge in our everyday living. In doing so, we gain skills that we can use anytime you need to. But of course, we must have resolve in continuing to practice what we learned while keeping in mind that we must adapt to the different challenges that come our way. And of course, let’s take the focus off ourselves. Not only that it increases our self-esteem, it also enhances our communication with others.

The Right Motivation

Sometimes we wonder what really drives us to do better, or at least what makes us do the things we do. There are a lot of reasons, but behind these reasons, there are always principles that determine the way we carry out our actions. It is very important that we know our values and that we are not uncertain to enact them. We may have all the goals in mind but if we don’t put value first, the end result won’t be what we expect. Putting value in everything that we do, especially in our work, would prove that there is more to just living life in the economic sense. Upholding values proves that we answer to a calling of survival and success that will last a lifetime.

Keys to a Motivational System

Some questions to ask yourself, especially when you feel your motivation is slipping:

1. What is my meaningful motive? Am I focused?
2. Have I tapped my inner resources? What actions do I have to take to overcome this obstacle?
3. What’s driving me now to do this? Am I afraid or do I believe that I am capable of doing it?
4. Are my expectations high? Is there enough challenge for me or is it too much and unachievable?
5. What is my purpose? Have I set my goal, what do I want to achieve, what to contribute and to whom?

Internal Motivation

We believe that if we wish to succeed, we should be responsible for our choices and actions. We set goals but our thinking and belief in ourselves prevent us from achieving the best.

The best plan would be to do our best regardless of the circumstances. Focus on what is important, make the best choices, deal the best hands, and make the most of the hands you are dealt with. Use your talents, resources, work, relationships, everything that you have on hand and suppress negative thoughts.

By doing this your motivation is permanent and maximized, and external incentives are secondary.

External Motivation

There are two kinds of external motivation: fear and incentives. Fear is a powerful motivator and it is a usual response to a threatening situation. It is highly soul destroying and stressful. It stifles imagination, limits one’s potential and makes one stagnant. Failure causes the person to lower their standards.

Incentives, on the other hand, challenge you to respond positively to a reward, such as bonuses and commissions. You get to enjoy something because you’ve done well.

The only thing is that the impact of external motivation is temporary. They are short-lived, set limitations and cannot sustain us through bad times.

Difficult times call for small incentives

Motivation is one of the hardest things to achieve in this troubled economy yet it is fairly easy to attain to attain by understanding the needs of your employees as you go through daily life in the workplace. Weekend meetings to give praise to your employees who excel and to bring up issues that will make everybody work better, improving conditions and the pat on the shoulder most people need goes a long way in getting people to work better. Simple measures like maintaining what little perks have been left and fighting for them like the free coffee and other perks of your sales staff will go a long way. The rights of your employees should also be enforced to allow them to see they are important to a business.
Customers are always right yet when reprimanding is necessary, do it in a discreet manner that does not shame people for it only harbors discontent.

Motivating Factors

There used to be a notion that people were motivated purely by money in their work and the performance of work related functions. In today’s world however, people have begun to realize the importance of not just earning a nice amount of cash but to have time for other pleasures such as time with the family and others. Time out is one of the best ways of relieving stress from work, specially in sales where it’s always a hit and miss game.
Today, as the recession begins to bite hard, sales is going to become tougher by the day but a long as there are people that can be convinced, sales are a good possibility. maintain a positive attitude inside and out so a failed sale doesn’t have after-effects on the next customer that comes along. Say thanks, even for a failed sale for they listened to your sales pitch just the same. Recognizing people and making them feel important is one of the keys, making them more than just victims but customers who are respected and cared for.

Job Motivation Tips

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As a student I mean working student, I also experience being part of a group before. I became a freelance agent of an insurance consultancy company in our country. Sales job is not an easy job because it requires a lot of effort to close a deal. In order to last in this type of job you need to be motivated.

1. You need to have a goal why you are doing this type of work. It is because you need money today your monthly bills or is it because you want to buy car, house, or invest money.
2. You need to have timeframe how long will it take to reach your goal will it be one week, two weeks, three or four. It can also be a month or a year.
3. You need to have a focus.
4. Like what the bible say “You cannot serve God and Mammoth, You just need to pick one so that you can concentrate”.