Wednesday, July 27, 2016

'Out of the Box' Thinking


The scene in the picture is from Sare Beizli in Switzerland. Look at those two mountains closely moving into each other without leaving at least a few feet of space. However, look at the 'out of box' thinking of humans who built a comfortable way that snakes through the small gap of those two mountains. Just because of that small artificial attached path, this place has become a huge tourist attraction!

A small tweak that propels your business in the right direction is what you need at the moment. Just like that artificial pedestrian bridge, your business need an 'out of the box' element which helps it to become an instant success.

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Managing Social Media Professionally


Look at the picture; that is a beautiful scenery offered by a prestigious hotel called Lago di Braies in Italy.

The scenery has the potential to blow off your mind & take you to a different world altogether.

If you closely observe the picture, the wooden stairs are running deep below the water surface level. You can see & enjoy the view but difficult to follow the steps; as you never know the strength of them.

Similarly, from outside, social media management looks pretty easy. But when you start implementing your ideas, only then you realize that it is difficult to get expected results.

No worries! Hire social media content strategists.

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Dream Opportunity


Diving in pure pristine waters, that too, emerald color water, is a dream come true. What if you come across an opportunity like the one shown in the picture where you can do boating leisurely in a picturesque emerald colored long tunnel water channel. How you feel? You get thrilled, excited, inspired, etc., right?
Social media provides you that emerald colored water channel (as shown in the picture) so that your company can dive, swim, and boat in whatever it feels advantageous to further its current brand, product, & services awareness.

So, how you are planning to use your 'dream opportunity'?

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Mentor

Know yourself and your path to salvation; most of the 'gurus' teach this message to their disciples. Knowing about one's self is possible up to certain extent, but knowing the path to salvation is really difficult! Why because, just like what you see in this picture, you can see your goal and up to certain extent you can see the way too. But after that, suddenly, you become alone in your search and there is no path. Here, we need the help of guru who can guide us to our respective goal.

Similarly, in business, just by knowing your goal & having right infrastructure is not enough. You need a mentor (social media expert) who can guide you toward your goal.

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What is Your Color Strategy?

Who does not like colors? And a colorful life? Colors bring us joy, creativity, inspiration, and give us a pep feeling. Is there any place in this world where there are no colors? Look at nature; drown you endlessly with beautiful colorful scenes. Now, look at the picture: the otherwise shady dark streets are laced with colors; including the buildings.

Similarly, your business needs to be colorfully presented if you want to attract your customers. However, you must maintain color consistency throughout your collaterals & websites. You can highlight your brand & make it memorable in your customers minds forever by impressive color combination usage.

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Content Presentation Strategy

Why people make it a point to watch and like peculiar things? It is because human mind always crave for variety. Look at the picture; you might have seen all the elements that are shown there since your childhood: a bird, a leafy stem & a lake. However. The combination of all these three elements in a variety way is what made us recognize, and capture the whole scene: the bird sitting in the leafy stem which is floating on the surface of a lake!

Same strategy applies to your collaterals too. From cover page to content presentation, do it differently but in an attractive way. People flock to your site, download your freebies, and become your subscribers.

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Beautiful Presentation

Ice bubbles! A rare winter phenomenon that happens in man-made Abraham lake in Canada. These bubbles are created by the plants (located under ice), which release methane gas. The bubbles tell us that life can thrive under the most inhabitable places on this planet. Besides, while doing so, they create incredible beautiful effects as shown in the picture.

Similarly, your digital interfaces like website, mobile site, etc., continuously work day and night (even while you are sleeping) to get you more leads. When nature displays its processes in more beautiful manner, why not you make your interfaces most beautiful & present them to your audience!

Think!

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Your Website Visitors


Are your customers visiting your site like seasonal birds? They come to your site for a certain period and then they leave. Period. When they come back, God knows! But what made them visit your site too is a mystery.

Since businesses need visitors to sell their products & services, there should be a mechanism which when implemented attract visitors consistently throughout the year. Only this kind of visitor flow gives you leads. Try to understand why your visitors are acting seasonal when it comes to visiting your site; dig deep, find truth, devise fix, & implement them successfully.

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Competitors' World

While traveling in a jungle, we never know from which side do we have to face the unexpected attack from wild animals. We are not talking about 'safe safari' here but about the context when we are traveling alone without any protection. Even after taking enough precautions also, we always have a thought about that nagging lurking danger thought at some corner of our mind.

Similarly, your business world is like that jungle; the winner takes it all! NO matter how many measures you take, there is always that lurking danger to get taken over (if you are competent!) or pushed out of business (incompetent!) by your biggest & strongest competitors.

Take care!

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Think Differently

You might have seen the hunting of a kingfisher flying on the vast stretch of a river to catch a small fish! It is great, right? However, what about the view of a butterfly playing on a small scratch if a water surface? The colorful butterfly playing with the surface of pure water! Had you ever thought about it? Actually, the latter view is a rare one.

Similarly, to further your business, you don't have to shell out millions to attract your customers. All you have to do is 'think differently' and come up with something new at a shoestring budget. And hurray! What if it works like a charm and gives what you dreamt of! Is it not great? Why don't you try it!

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Nature's Management

How nature manages things? A glance at the dry leaf in the picture tells you so many things and the most important gist of all those tellings is that 'nothing gets wasted by nature'.

A leaf takes its birth on a tree. As it grows, the parent tree provides nutrition. The leaf sticks to the tree until it becomes old and its lifecycle come to an end. Then, it gets detached from its parent and lie at its feet until a whiff a fresh air takes it to a different destination.

Now, the dry leaf cycle starts here. The leaf gets twisted, moved around, eaten, and made into pieces by different forces and agents of nature. Finally, the nature turns the leaf into compost and makes it serve for the growth of another leaf on other tree.

A meticulous  execution without unwanted micromanagement! That's NATURE.

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How to Delight Your Audience?

Luxury lifestyle without a yacht is unthinkable. While buying a yacht, we make sure regarding all the 'must have', 'should have', and 'good to have' facilities present in it. But, as a owner of yacht, the ultimate goal is to delight our guests by making them easily use all the facilities provided in the yacht. Only then, they feel that their time spent in the yacht is worth.

An organization's website is like that 'yacht'. Unless you equip it with all the needed collaterals like white papers, case studies, videos, podcasts, latest content, etc., your audience do not feel that it is worth their visit and spend time on your site.

Delight them!

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What Attracts Your Customer?

Enjoying a beautiful sunset sitting by the side of a river in a wonderful roof top garden restaurant everyday is a dream come true to many of us. Right! One needs to understand what is it that the restaurant in this situation is providing the customer; the answer is 'a beautiful experience' supported by a well thought out organized arrangements.

Similarly, you can provide this kind of delighted experience to your customer when he visits your brand website. Attractive pictures, corporate standard language, strategically well-laid website, decent page transitions, and thought provoking content can do the magic for you.

Try it!

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How Many Active Contacts You Have?

How many contacts you have? This is a normal question for people who participate in social media channels like LinkedIn. Most of the times, people go by numbers to proudly express their clout factor.

However, if you are a social media expert, you have this propensity to see through these vanity numbers. If you have to ask the same question, you tweak it a little and ask the same question like this: How many ACTIVE followers you have?

Because, active followers count when it comes to sharing, liking, and commenting; rest is all equivalent to dead meat.

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Power Dressing

Business attire! Casual dress! We expect executives to wear different types of dresses for different events. Fashion! Fad! These things change the way we dress. Although it looks so confusing, basically, the whole fashion dressing goes in circle. That means, a fashion that we think as retro suddenly surfaces itself like a sudden tsunami and drowns everyone irrespective of their age in it. And then another fashion wave comes on top of the existing wave, overlaps with the existing wave and create a new hybrid fashion trend. And this goes on...

Cool dude! If someone wears appropriate clothes for the occasion gets this epithet! And you need this epithet if you want to impress your business conglomerates!

Dress well for the occasion!

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Are You A Winner?

Have you ever heard that 'path to success' is a lonely travel? Look at the picture; it shows one of the pathways in Ireland. Look at those weird trees that stand on either side of the pathway. The whole scene gives you nothing less than a horror movie experience. But, look at the man walking down the pathway; though he is alone, he is not afraid!

The 'path to success' can be compared with this road. No one cares & dares to tread down that path until that one man shows the whole world how it has to be travelled. Once he successfully emerges on the other side, this society declares him as a WINNER. And then, everyone wants to go down the same path!
Are you a WINNER?

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Powerful Words Drive Your Campaigns


Natural calamities create havoc; this is everybody's knowledge. However, there are a few contexts where when they are taken as metaphorically... gives the context a 'huge push'. A tornado, a hurricane, a storm, etc., all these are worth to be remembered and used in contexts where you need to tell the world with what kind of force you are planning to splash them with your 'disruption ideas'.

For example, one can say that a marketing campaign (done at the right time) using Bebee works like a charm on your prospects. It attracts them to your site just like how a 'twister' sucks everything into itself whatever comes on its way.

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Your Product is Like Your Kid

Every gentlemen in this world strives to keep others happy. When it comes to kids, irrespective of age, every matured person tries his best to make them smile, laugh, etc. all the time. Kids are adorable! Given a chance, who does not want to play with kids! As shown in the picture, quite often we see this scene in real life where the dad throws the kid in to the air and catches the again. Although this is a heavy exercise on part of the dad, the sound of that kids' laugh make the dad forget his physical stress part.

From business point, your client is your kid. When you sell your product, it must keep your client happy; otherwise, they complain. Although there is lot of stress in keeping your client happy, ultimately, it is you who is going to benefit from that happiness by selling more to him and making more business.

 Now, are you ready to act like guardian for your product?

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Practice

Ever imagined how much effort do athletes put in their daily life just to make sure that they cross the set benchmark on their D-day? It is called PRACTICE; which you are familiar with this word since your childhood but somewhere down the line you stopped doing it. Practice helps you to achieve the unreachable!

Engaging with clients and keep them happy is an art. But, it is not an inborn talent. Anyone can do it; provided, if they practice it continuously. Apart from just talking to them, you can do other things like... from finding the intricacies of any problem they were facing about your product to finding their wish and fulfilling it by innovating new products. All these activities further your business and promote your brand.

Where there is a will, there is a way! Channelize your energies and exercise your strengths to better your business and to delight your customers with your products and services. And practice, practice, practice... what you believe in and drives your success to the hilt.

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Who Remembers Your Brand?

Sun! Every living being irrespective of its size us dependent on it for its survival. Apart from living beings, there are so many mechanical processes that happen with the help of Sun's rays. For example, the conversion of ice into water just like it is shown in the picture. Without Sun, it us not possible to imagine our survival on this planet.

Just like we feel how Sun is important in our life, is it possible to make our customers feel that your brand occupies a pivotal place in their life?

What you need to do to make your customers feel like that about your brand? Think!

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