What do you know about your customer?

Learning your customer or client on a personal level will help you to establish a realtionship that will last. Does you customer have a favorite sports team? Perhaps a favorite hobby that you and they share a common interest. It is very important to find a common interest with your customer or client, this way, the business becomes a secondary "understanding" that will happen... it's just a matter of time. 

One of the things that you may want to consider is writing a survey list that you have all to yourself. Update it frequently when you get answers to the questions about the people you want to connect with, on a deeper level. Example: What are their goals for the next year 2009 and how can you help them with acheiving their goals with your products or services? Perhaps, it's neither, but maybe a contact that you know. Then your product and service becomes more attractive, because you are more attractive to them, and have proven yourself valuable.

Jake Press ---- Reporting. 

Daily Do's: What are 3 things you have to do?

Forget the seemingly hundreds of things you can cloud you mind with on a daily basis. What are 3 things things that:

1. You are going to do today that you didn't do yesterday?

2. That you did last week that you won't do again?

3. That will help you to bring peace in your life: 

Write them down. Right now. Use it as a guide to help you through this Monday! Be as specific as you want. Please send me feedback. I enjoy feedback. Let me know if these are helping you. Sometimes we all need a little help! Or a lot of help! 

-The Daily Do Man,

Do you know about these Online Events?

Featured Site: http://www.blitztime.com/ ....."How are you networking?"

So there you are!

You are at an event to meet people "business contacts" and here you are stuck in front of a guy, who just won't stop talking! He is going on and on about things that really don't interest you. Over in the corner next to the coffee table is someone that you know you have to speak to... what do you do?

You don't want to be rude, but you have to talk to this contact. Politely excuse yourself from the conversation by asking for their card and letting them know it was great meeting them and you have to meet this other person before he/she leaves. There is however another solution... how about scrapping that networking event all together and joining something that I found recently, it's called BlitzTime.com.

Now normally I wouldn't write an entire column on a company "site", but I found it to be incredibly resourceful with loads of potential. What if you could have those meetings from your office/home computer and phone with no traffic or "How's the weather conversations"? Here's how it works... You sign into blitztime.com and join "It's free.. plain and simple". You then have access to events whereby you will speak to several different people that pop onto your computer screen in 5 to 7 min increments. You dial into a number given to you and you will hear hold music letting you know that your blitztime is about to start. So now there you are, in front of your computer with the person that is about to speak to you in a matter of minutes or seconds. You have 5 minutes to tell what you do, what you can do for them and "vice versa". No weather conversations here! During the call within the last 20 seconds, get their phone number and email address if it's someone that has shown "interest" in what you do. Don't let the time run out before saying goodbye, but if you do, there are still ways to connect in the site.

It's a great way to polish, how you present your service or product and get you sharpened when speaking to others. I think this company is setting the future standard for how people will network online.

You may access them at http://www.blitztime.com/ "Check it out today and see what YOU think!"

----Jake Press Reporting.

Do I know you? Tips for finding the right business contact.

You are sitting in front of a computer with the phone on your right hand side, you have a job to do! Your job is to get in contact with the "right person", the person that can make the decision to work with you. So how do you do this? It really is quite simple.

1st Step: Do your research! There are several ways that you can find the "right person", use Google and type in the persons name + title and chances are they have been interviewed at one time or another. Other ways include, using resources like tech crunch, and other sites like this to gain information about who is the top dogs in the company.

2nd Step: Know what to say before you start speaking! What is the state of their company, partnerships, at least know "something" about their company! Don't get in a position of "do you know what we do?" and you say uh!...Uh... That's a great way to end a potential connection/relationship.

3rd Step: Do it! Pick up the phone and make the call. Don't worry about what they say, because if you do step 1 and 2, and then proceed to make the call, you will be doing better than a vast majority of people. "You just have to make that call!"

4th step: Very important! When you are the phone, be real, be quick, be respectful, be YOU!
Know what you do, how you do it, how you can help them, don't curse, be friendly! After all people do business with people they like!

5th step: Don't worry if you mess up! It's all a part of learning! You will be tongue tied sometimes, you will lose your thoughts, it's ok. You're human! You will however, do Great!

----Jake Press Reporting

How do I define Failure? - Step 3

As quickly as I can pull a band aid off a wounded elbow, let me quickly say, that some level of failure is inevitable. Failure as a whole is not! Let me explain further.

We have created our idea, we have taken the necessary steps to write it down, we are moving in the right direction with whatever it is that we need to accomplish. There is one thing, that hasn't been calculated, the fact that "something" will go wrong. As much as you don't want to hear it, if you don't prepare for it, it will feel like the world has been dropped on you. Maybe, it will be small, like a misprint on a brochure, or a deal went sour, or maybe larger like trademark issues, issues with rights, partnerships going to a dismal place, costs increase unexpectedly. Some of these things happen, so be sure to calculate errors in your process, time, and expectations.

Whew! That is tough to talk about. Of course we all have dealt with some errors in business. However, it is what makes us stronger, wiser, and sharper. May, I quickly make mention. Choose your business partner very carefully, in prayerful consideration. Do not be hasty and crass in your decision. It could certainly affect you briefly.

So, use this as a calcuation tool, when implimenting your execution of your business. You are successful! You are great at what you do! So, get out there and do it! Do it well!

Success is the only option.

Thinking Big!

-Jake Press - Reporting.

Do you have a written plan? Step 2 in a series of Steps.

Hello again, We just finished talking about passion and motivation to "get out there" and start achieving your dream of doing what you love to do, on your track to making the millions of dollars. Passion will get you far places, but if you are anything like me, your passionate drive MUST drive you somewhere and that somewhere my friend, must be written down.

This is such an easy concept to write down an idea or concept for changing the world or revolutionizing that industry, but taking the necessary time to do is another issue. I am here to tell you that if you don't write down your vision the following things will happen:

1. You will lose focus and sight of your goals. Candidly, you will forget what you are going for..
2. You won't know the steps to get there.
3. You will be in a stagnant position.
4. You will be looking for people to help and not know what help you need.
5. You will begin to be weary and un focused, because you will not know when you are close to
getting there. Your starting point or milestone so to speak.

Now that we have outlined what we must NOT do, let’s talk about the steps to writing down the steps!

1. Right Now! You must grab a pen and paper and start writing down your ideas, start numbering them and jot them down, I don't care if it's on scraps, write it down!

2. After initially writing down the ideas, schedule some time, if now is not good, to organize your idea in sections of needs and wants. What do I need to be successful; a programmer, designer website, business cards, tools, utensils, just start listing them. This way, you will know what gaps you need to fill.

3. I am not going to overwhelm you with more steps; we will get to this later.

Let’s start here.

I really would appreciate your thoughts and feedback, therefore, please send your comments. I am writing this to help people out there that are serious about their dreams and just needing some guidelines, tips, and hints to helping them further... their BIG IDEA.

Jake Press --- Reporting.