Use Business Training To Bolster Your Online
Business Success
You are embarking on an online business venture to
destination success. What will fuel your trip? Your self improvement efforts will be your source of
unlimited energy for the
entire journey. Along the way you will have to achieve a balance among your
work, family and friends, continuing skills development, and your own self-driven fitness program, spirituality and attitudes.
Right now you are fired up to get under way. However,
getting your venture started is one thing. The real test will be just down the
path – when you encounter your first detours/delays/cobbles in the road –
when today’s motivation will be seriously challenged. Then is when you'll you need
to draw upon additional energies to keep on trucking to your destination.
My company specializes in providing companies of all sizes
the support they need to be successful. Down your road to success we hope
you will call upon our services – and we're preparing now to be there ready to meet your needs. Right now you need to develop some basic habits that will ensure that
business excellence will be your standard throughout your business career. Many
centuries ago the philosopher Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
The common ingredient of success in organizations of all
sizes is their ability to continue to evolve, adapt, learn and improve. As the
leader of your enterprise you must build your own habit of continuing
development. You must adopt the
habit of self improvement in all areas of your life -- regardless your age -- at
the very start of your enterprise and your continuing journey. Self improvement
will be the fuel for your journey. If you put it off now – you just will not
find the time in the future. Just tell yourself this: “If it is to be, it’s
up to me.”
In our regular management training series we have a number
of sessions that address the attitudes needed for success in life. Why? Because
attitude is critical to our business success (and our success in life). A study
conducted by Harvard and Stanford Universities asked successful business
managers which areas were most important to professional performance: skills,
knowledge, attitude. The results: skills (5%), knowledge (10% ) and attitude
(85%).
What are the right attitudes? Napoleon Hill in his classic
book
Think
and Grow Rich discusses the attitudes necessary for business success. You
must “think right” to be successful. In his book
Keys
to Success he presents 17 principles of personal achievement outlined. I
kick off my January training session each year referencing his principles as a
framework for lifetime self improvement and
pass
out a (reduced size) copy that participants can reference in a daily self
improvement exercise.
There are many excellent motivational personalities who
have expanded upon what basically is Napoleon Hill’s framework for self
improvement. I used a number of them when I was conducting facilitated
management training. One such personality is Zig Ziglar. In one of
our sessions Zig recommends reading (or listening to while driving)
positive literature for just 20 minutes every day to fortifying positive thinking and
expand your education foundation.
You can build your
own
self improvement library (click here for one of Zig's audio cassette series)
and/or enroll in a program such as our monthly
online
continuing development series (free to our members –
www.BestManagers.Net)
which focuses on continuing self improvement in personal and management skills.
You could start your self improvement by reading "The Lazy Man's Guide to Online
Business."
And, you can enroll in online self improvement study offerings.
Personal health and fitness is an essential ingredient for
success – especially for an online business entrepreneur (because of the
sedentary nature of online business activities). Because of
its importance, I am enrolled in what I consider to be the best self
improvement fitness program of our time.
Take
a look at my best fitness tips for stress reduction here – you can start your
fitness self improvement right away!
Here are a couple newsletters you should subscribe
to right away. Perhaps one of the best authorities on internet marketing,
commerce and ebusiness in general is Dr. Ralph E. Wilson.
Subcribing
to his
Web Commerce Today newsletter will launch
you on a self improvement agenda tailored for online
business success. While you are at that page, click on the Dr.
Ebiz tab at the top of the page, then sign up for Dr. Wilson's FREE
e-mail version of Doctor Ebiz (and get two free eBooks to boot).
You also may wish to read the reviews and selected contents from Dr. Wilson's
great book,
Planning
Your Internet Marketing Strategy.
A final recommendation for commencing a self improvement
agenda right at the beginning of starting your
online business journey. An essential element for the success will be your web site. Regardless of where you are
now in web site
development – if you have not done so you should enroll in Ken Evoy’s free Masters
Course on making your website sell. If
there were any single time investment I would recommend before doing
anything else it would be this:
click
here and follow my instructions for boarding your self improvement agenda track to
destination online business success!
Best of success,
President, Best Managers on the Net®, www.BestManagers.Net
We
are a business consulting, training and development company dedicated to helping
good managers and their companies prosper by reaching for the top.
