Growing your business

            

     

Putting effort to seeing your business grow is a whole lot of challenge.To take your business to a higher level is another  challenge. In other words, to really        make your business worthwhile, you need a strategic management process.  Here are the 8 strategic tips to adopt that have been provided by Carla Turchetti to help make your business boom!

1.      1. Envision Where You Want to Be

Your strategic plan for success probably includes a BHAG style, which is an acronym for Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goal. Those are the goals that dreams are made of. It is tangible, energizing, highly focused. By imagining where you want to be you need to work harder and be focused.

2. Picture where you’re going

If you do not have direction to where you are going, then you are bound to fail you won't get there if you can't see where you're going. Everyone in an organization should have a clear picture to hold onto of where the company will be after it heads in a strategic direction.

3. Keep the Journey thrilling

To work toward the future you have to be excited about the future. If you have passion for what you do, the journey will so exciting that it would continue to keep organization motivated. 

4. Keep Climbing

According to Collin and Porras, "Start-up businesses frequently suffer from the 'We’ve Arrived Syndrome' after reaching a stage in which survival no longer seems in question" it takes commitment and determination to succeed in life. If you've hit one peak, it's time to set the next goal. Keep the strategic directions of your small business moving even when things are moving on well.

  

5. Work Together

In every company or business there should be team spirit. No company will head in the right strategic direction without teamwork. Working together not only speed up activities but also create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. Ideally, the entire team understands the goals and shares the vision for how the business is moving forward.

6. Evaluate Where You Are 
  
Every once in a while stop and evaluate how the strategic management process is going. It is important to measure the success of your business to know how far you have gone and what needs to be reform.

 7. Live the plan

 Let the plan come to work with you every day and be part of the strategic direction of the company. Keeping the plan alive and active, will become a reality.  It is also good to encourage everyone in your company or business to live the plan as well.

 8. Believe in Yourself 

No plan, no matter how organized or how intricate, is going to work if you don't believe in 
yourself, in what you can do, in your purpose or in your company. Trust your instincts 
and use your entrepreneurial skills to move your small business in the right direction.

Signs you're heading your way to be scammed

Scammers are now on the increase, advertizing fabricated jobs on job boards, walls of houses and more to lure unsuspecting job seekers into parting with their hard earned money, or becoming victims of identity theft.

Whatever the scammer’s technique is and how they go about their modus operandi, their goal is always the same. To separate you from your cash, or to obtain your confidential personal information, that can be used in identity theft.

Nowadays, scammers are now more creative and crafty in the manner they operate, to the extent that it is difficult for people to identify a scam and a true job offer.

Here are the signs you should look out for in order not to become a victim of job scam.

  1.     Advance fee fraud

 Any job offer that requires that you pay a fee in advance is probably a scam. Also, an employer or company that offers to train you for the job in return for money is not genuine. There is no reputable company or employer that will bluntly ask for money.

  2. Embark on research  

    If you see an online job advert, it is important that you visit the company’s 

     website to know the services or product they offer, how they operate, their 

   aims and objectives and so on. You can as well search the company’s             name Google to give you an over view of the company.If they do not have a website,or it does not have contact details, then you need to tread cautiously.

3.     Free email accounts

Every job that has an email account does have a corporate email account.  Any company that keeps in contact with her clients from a free email account such as Yahoo, Hotmail, G-mail, etc is definitely a scam.

4.     Instant job offer

Be it sales business, banking, online business, company job, institution, organization and many more you must be interviewed or accessed before you will be offered job. Offers without interviews either through telephone, written or face-to-face is not genuine. Never, ever accept a job offer that has come through via email, when you have never had any interview.

5.     Huge salaries

Getting paid a really high salary is not the norm for all job seekers. Any rightful employer will evaluate your skill set and experience, before deciding on what you are worth. If the company offers you a salary that is completely out of your range, and experience, you are probably in the process of being scammed.

6.     Giving out your personal data

Before you give out your personal data and apply for any job advert you see online, on job boards, on TV or anywhere. First of all, do a Google research about the company to know if it actually exist and to make it is not a scam. Never part with your social security number or personal information. The only time you should be handing over personal information such as social security numbers, is after you have been hired and are setting up payment and tax information.

7.     Be watchful of emails with spelling mistakes

Most online fraud is carried out by scammers outside of the United States, with English often not being their home language, so check the grammar and spelling carefully when communicating.

8.     sham websites

Scammers often use fake websites to mask themselves as a well known corporate. You may think that you are on a well-known company’s website, when you are actually on a counterfeit website. So always check the URL first.

      
      9.     hazy  job adverts

If you read a job description and at the end of it, you are not really sure what the job actually entails, educated or uneducated or if it states that there is no specific skill necessary for the job, be it known that you are about to be scammed. The majority of jobs will require at least some qualification, experience or skill.

I hope this tips will help you not to fall victim to scammers.