This podcast takes a look at how your business should plan for a catastrophe and some of the steps you can take to help you mitigate a disaster.

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Plan For The Worst; Hope For The Best

Take a look at your business – whether you own one or a leader in one – and all the people that are involved in making it a success. On the face of things each person plays a key role and their individual effort is important. The key differentiating factor between your business surviving or thriving is how well those individuals operate as a team. Everyone, including yourself, must acknowledge and believe that they can only succeed if they help their partners succeed.

Building Successful Business Teams

Sales it the life of any business. It is what drives the cash-flow for a business. Sales is the face, voice, and primary interaction between businesses and their customers. Successful salespeople pre-call plan, practice, anticipate, and create powerful questions to create great conversations instead of sales presentations. Successful salespeople seek to build lasting relationships and enhance networks for the improvement of all involved. This podcast seeks to give you tips and tools to become a successful salesperson!

Sales! The Lifeblood of Any Organization

Social Media is a fantastic means for businesses to connect with their markets and customers. Like all things in business you must have a plan to be successful. This podcast discussing components for a successful social media plan and how to get started. These items along with other articles can be read here: http://vongehrconsulting.com/Finding-Answers-Blog/category/social-media/ 4ZBJBEAMU3M5

Social Media Planning For Your Business

Leadership. It means different things to different people. It is the most sought after trait that employers look for. It is a topic that has countless tomes have been written about it. This podcast discusses fifteen rules each leader must follow to be successful. Peer leadership - one of the toughest forms of leadership to achieve - is given three hints to do it right. Leadership in Social Media… how does one define it? measure it? and execute it successfully? These items along with other articles can be read here: http://vongehrconsulting.com/Finding-Answers-Blog/category/leadership/

Leadership

The volcano in Iceland will have an impact for months, if not years, on the economies of Europe and Africa. More importantly, the volcano is a great lesson in how the use of social media helped those trapped communicate and find other means of transportation. You business can draw from the lessons learned. Additionally if you are thinking about or already have tinkered with Social Media, it is time you get authentic!

Social Media Lessons

Social media is the buzz these days for businesses both large and small. As a medium it allows, for an investment of time, companies to engage with customers and potential clients. Whole departments are being built and new companies are being founded to help guide messaging into the social media realm. The focus is on listening to the customers, engage with them, and then convert them into a sale, a referral, or a fan. There are lots of ways to build plans to do all of this. Yet, in all of those methods none of them, so far, has addressed the customer experience. What do they expect the experience of the customer to be? Plus, we had bad sales call happen to us. It is so heart breaking when that happens.

Customer Experience and Bad Sales Calls

There are many articles out there that discuss how to discover a business coach. These articles describe where to find a coach and how to determine which ones are right for you. The articles also tell you what you can expect. Yet there are few that tell you want not to expect, until now. Second part of this episode discusses deposits to your relationship account, what it is, and how to manage it.

Expectations and Relationships

Customers want value when they purchase goods or seek out services. Organizations want value for the effort they put forth to get customers. This podcast discusses the four secrets to ideal customer service and how to avoid the activity trap making sure your company is getting value. There is a lot of bad customer service out there. Make an effort to be exceptional and you can sweep up more customers than you can count. Likewise make sure your activities to get customers are measured against a value metric.

Delivering Exceptional Value

No dream is invalid as long as it fills a need. This episode we discuss how Sheila Sale, founder of Rocky Mountain Roots Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, started in her profession and how she decided to open her own business. She also discusses why she chose a business coach. This is from the Lions Roar Radio on BlogTalkRadio that was broadcast on 11 February 2010.

Interview With An Acupuncturist

Your mind has to be free of limitations and sacred cows. You have to free your mind in order to find all the opportunities that are available to you. The Von Gehr Consulting Group business coaches go over how you can free your mind to have exceptional planning sessions.

Free Your Mind For Planning

Many great plans fail at execution because they try to be all things to all people. This results in too many moving parts, complications, and lack of focus on the end result. The reality is that companies that succeed focus on a few things and do them incredibly well. This video discusses that.

Execution Is A Mile Deep

Many forms of employee praise come from the top down. This helps with productivity and can bring about a healthy internal competition. Conversely is can lead to employees not sharing best practices and the organization as a whole suffering from its inability to exploit such practices. A peer-to-peer system of praise can foster cross communication, increase productivity, and create a new level of accountability. This presentation discusses how.

Peer To Peer Praise

Your ideal customer is influenced by your competitors, market forces, and their friends and families. It is one thing that you know who your ideal customer is and another thing to know how they make their decisions. Each of them has a circle of trust that they go to when it comes time to make a decision. Our business coach walks gives you tips on how to identify that circle and become a part of it.

Who Influences Your Ideal Customer

Your Ideal Customer will buy more from you, rave about your services, and refer new customers. If you do not know what they look like, you run the risk of missing them when they walk through your door. In this video our business coach goes over how to brainstorm who your ideal customer is and put that knowledge into practice.

How To Determine Your Ideal Customer

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