Managing your Manager
May 16th, 2013 // 5:47 pm @ Mark Hamilton
There are occasions in business when your manager is not able to give you the level of managerial input you would want. And this proves difficult for many people, causing confusion and conflict. There are several reasons why your manager may not be able to give you the input you want and deserve, these include: [...]
Category : Management Technique
Understanding the Question Before Trying to Answer it
May 16th, 2013 // 2:42 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Often in business conflict is caused when a problem is tackled before the question at hand is fully understood and agreed upon. The problem is often not finding the right answer it is agreeing the question. There are a number of reasons why we all do this: The first is simply we are keen to [...]
Category : Blog &Management Technique &Other Thoughts
Why are you telling me?
May 15th, 2013 // 7:39 pm @ Mark Hamilton
When communicating with a colleague in business make sure you know why you are communicating with them, and what response you desire? When you and them have different expectations, confusion will ensue! The core of communication is to take an idea in your brain and to communicate that idea to someone else’s brain. Sounds simple, [...]
Category : Blog &Management Technique
Understanding the Strange Sales Animals
May 14th, 2013 // 4:58 pm @ Mark Hamilton
There is in many organizations a cultural gap between the salespeople and the company. In most cases this causes no more than low level antagonism between the parties, but in more extreme cases can cause a significant fall off in the sales teams performance. It is worth trying to understand this gap, and how it [...]
Category : Blog &Key Business Success Drivers
Fast & Furious Communication
February 21st, 2013 // 7:11 pm @ Mark Hamilton
The massive increase in the speed and volume of communication is a critical issue in modern business. Historically communications were much slower than those of today. In the days of sail powered ships, getting a message to India and back could take a year. In 1879 the UK got itself into a war in South [...]
Category : Blog &Key Business Success Drivers
New Business Models – Classified Advertising
February 12th, 2013 // 9:25 am @ Mark Hamilton
The Internet is changing many businesses in dramatic ways, those who win from this will be those that understand and embrace their changed business model most effectively. One industry that should suit the Internet perfectly is classified advertising, whether it is for cars, homes, jobs or any other advertising we are used to seeing in [...]
Category : Blog &Business Strategy
The Future of The Internet
February 11th, 2013 // 7:13 pm @ Mark Hamilton
The Future of The Internet Do you want an Internet Fridge? The Internet has now been with us for two decades, yet it still has a long way to go in its development, technically, how we interact with it, and where we stop its incursions into our lives. It is worth remembering what the Internet [...]
Category : Blog &The Future
The Herd Mentality in Business
February 9th, 2013 // 2:00 am @ Mark Hamilton
Within the business world many decision follow what appear to be trends, but in fact represent the herding instinct many decision makers are influenced by. This desire to be inline with what the majority are doing represents our instincts and many corporate cultures. This herd mentality can be seen in almost every area of business, [...]
Category : Blog &Other Thoughts
Social Media Marketing – Graffiti Communication?
February 8th, 2013 // 10:20 am @ Mark Hamilton
Over recent years the marvel of Social Media Marketing has been talked about, written about and promoted more than any other marketing trend. To listen to its exponents it has changed marketing completely and made all other marketing obsolete. On the back of this Facebook is worth $68,000,000,000 and Twitter over $9,000,000,000 despite never [...]
Category : Blog &Key Business Success Drivers
Desperate Marketing
February 7th, 2013 // 12:12 pm @ Mark Hamilton
There is a growth in aggressive marketing verging on the desperate. Not only from the unscrupulous players there have always been, but now from major companies, why? Facebook is placing “Suggested Pages” into our feeds, presumably having not been able to generate enough revenue from its traditional advertizing to support its share price, and shareholder [...]
Category : Blog &Other Thoughts