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Top 5 Must Have Tools for your Business

Posted on by Mike Stromsoe

Having your own business can be tough to figure out. Luckily, there are many tools that make your life as a business owner easier and help your business run smoother. These top 5 tools are must haves if you own your own business.

  1. WordPress – with the age of blogging upon us, it is important to make sure you have the best blogging platform for your business. WordPress is a simple site that allows users to blog using the pre-designed templates or to create their own.
  2. Square – if you are still selling products from different, off-site locations, square is guaranteed to make your job run more smoothly. It allows you to take your credit card machine anywhere you go so you can make more sales.
  3.  LinkedIn – this online directory of resumes allows businesses to start with the best team of employees out there. It is a way to connect with like-minded individuals and to seek out new job opportunities.
  4. DropBox – this online link between all your Internet connected devices saves you from having to lug around a million different gadgets everywhere you go. It can save documents, pictures, and presentations that can be accessed or shared from anywhere on any device that is compatible.
  5. Skype – having clients or accounts overseas does not mean you have to drain your company’s travel budget. Skype is an easy and convenient way to hold face-to-face meetings with people around the world. It allows you to hold conference calls with the added benefit of being able to connect with others on a more personal level.

Along with these vital tools, make sure to contact Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Program. This program is a premier wealth creation program for insurance agents. The program can help you discover how to work less, earn more, and enjoy more freedom in your insurance company.

Instant Connections With QR Codes

Posted on by Mike Stromsoe

Have you seen those funny box shaped things that look like a truly messed up bar code stuck somewhere on the page of a magazine, newspaper ad or even on business cards? Most of us have but wonder what they are. It’s called a "QR Code" or "Quick Response Code" and is the next generation of connecting people who want something with what they want. For business owners, it could totally revolutionize the way you do business.

Smartphones, with free QR apps available on both iOS and Android platforms, can easily read these QR codes to connect users with a wide variety of information. This includes:

  • Websites
  • Product offers
  • Facebook Page
  • Twitter Feed
  • YouTube Video
  • Instant Coupons

… and the list goes on. As you can imagine, the possibilities are endless and, with such an easy-to-use point of connection, immediate interest can turn into instant sales. Taking your business to the next level could be as easy as generating some QR Codes of your own with free software that enables you to use QR Codes for virtually anything! If you’re always looking for new and creative ways to expand your business, working with Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program will give you ideas you’ll have to see to believe. Contact Mike today and find out how your business can be unstoppable too!

Identifying Weaknesses In Order to Strengthen Yourself

Posted on by Mike Stromsoe

One of the most difficult things to do is to admit to yourself that you are not good at doing something, even that you are terrible at it. This is particularly true if your weakness is in an area that is important for you. Maybe it is an aspect of your job, or a skill that you wish you could master, but just can’t. Many people will try to rationalize their weaknesses or simply deny that they have them at all. This is the worst thing that they can do.

It is important to acknowledge your weaknesses, to actively search them out, in order to turn these weaknesses into strengths. There are two key ways to identifying your personal weaknesses so you can start to strengthen them:

  • Review your past failures. History is the best way of predicting the future. Examine what you failed at doing, and why.
  • Notice what you avoid doing. Often we avoid doing the things that are difficult. Notice what you avoid doing to find where you are weak.

Do you want to learn more about strengthening your weaknesses? Check out, Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program.

How to Enhance Your Client Relationship

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Your customer and client relationship is vital for your business. Without strong relationships your business would cease to exist. Are you doing everything to enhance those relationships? Use these tips to strengthen relationships with your customers and clients.

How to Enhance Your Brand and Customer Relationships

  • Know your clients better. Learn what they want and how to give it to them.
  • Use clear communications to avoid misunderstandings. Stress clarity in all contracts and other communication with your clients.
  • Know when to say "Yes" and when to say "No." Don’t make promises you can’t keep, but keep the promises you do make.
  • Avoid and/or solve problems for clients. Whether you sell product or provide services, always be a problem solver for customers.
  • Stay focused on your customers more than your products or services. Since your clients ARE your business, keep them as your prime focus.
  • Don’t discard new techniques or solutions without analyzing them.
  • Constantly work at strengthening the client relationship. As strong as your customer relationships may be, take nothing for granted. Work hard to improve them at every opportunity.

Business owners seeking more valuable information should contact Mike Stromsoe at Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program™. Although designed for all types of insurance agents, Mike’s principles and techniques can help all business owners improve their client relationship and increase profits.

Keep Your Valued Team Members

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An important part of running a successful business is keeping valued team members. Without them you have to search for new employees and find others to fill the shoes of the valued members who have recently resigned from your company. The best way to keep your valued team members onboard is to develop an employee retention strategy which will keep your employees happy, reducing the chance of them going elsewhere.

Recognize the warning signs that an employee may be looking elsewhere for employment. Warning signs include being impatient, not engaging with others, taking extra time off or venting negative feelings to others. Try to understand why your employee is feeling this way and aim to fix the problems. In many cases, unhappiness at work involves not feeling appreciated or having enough compensation for the work they do.

Talk to those you feel are no longer happy working for you. Ask simple questions to try and find out how things are going and if there is anything you can do to improve things. Immediately take care of any issues which may be causing problems for an employee.

Make your company a place where employees want to work. Instill a decent compensation package and recognition program. Being proactive and preventing situations where employees become unhappy is the best employee retention strategy you can have.

For more information about how to improve your current business strategy contact Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program.

Top Causes of Employee Turnover

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Unhappy employees are less efficient and are more likely to leave your company, but to reduce employee turnover, you have to know what causes employees to quit. Check out these top five reasons employees leave, so you know how to keep your employees happy.

Reasons for Employee Turnover

The number one reason employees quit their job: lack of opportunities and growth. In 2011, 30 percent of people who quit their job, quit because their current job wasn’t offering them the opportunities or development they needed. Other reasons include:

  • Inadequate compensation (28%)
  • Boredom/no challenge (27%)
  • Poor work/life balance (20%)
  • Job stress/unfair treatment (20%)

What You can Do to Reduce Employee Turnover

From this list, you can see that two of the top five reasons for employee turnover are similar: no room to grow and no challenge. Employees want a job that forces them to develop new skills and gives them a challenge, but they don’t want something that causes stress or disrupts the balance between work and life. The best way to deal with this is by talking with your employees and actively listen to what they want.

For more information about employee retention in California, contact Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program, located in Murrieta. 

How Workplace Collaboration Benefits Companies and Employees

Posted on by Mike Stromsoe

The old saying "two heads are better than one" has been around for a long time. Today it’s known by a more modern term, workplace collaboration. The Mike Stromsoe’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program promotes collaboration based on tips from Kevin Gazzara, DM, a faculty member from the University of Phoenix, School of Business.

 Gazzara has authored a book entitled The Leader of Oz: Revealing the 101 Secrets of Marvelous Leadership for the 21st Century. Gazzara, entrepreneur and business leader for 30 years gives tips for collaboration, saying that it is a win-win for businesses and employees. It is necessary for true efficiency. 

 He says that “Managers should provide the structure of how to achieve management’s targets. Collaboration makes the most of everyone’s knowledge and effort and results in a faster time to market for goods and services. 

Gazzara advices that collaboration is needed to keep up with advanced technology and fast-paced global competition.  Team players with diverse strengths and abilities can accomplish more tasks and a bigger variety of them. This ensures keeping up with fast marketplaces. 

Gazzara says that workplace collaboration goes beyond job descriptions tapping into team players varied abilities. He gives an example of how he used neogiating skills along with his managorial skills in the past. Consequently, team members develop cross-functional skills. 

Finally, Gazzara maintains that the benefits of workplace collaboration results in results in employee retention. 

Find out more about improving you business through Mike Stromsoe’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program.

Increasing Your Efficiency and Productivity with Downtime

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The Puritan Work Ethic with its almost constant emphasis on frugality and diligence, but even more so on hard work, leaves little room for doubt about the relative value of work compared to rest and relaxation. But since the days when the Puritans’ ideas were prominent we have learned a few more things about work, and about how rest actually helps us accomplish more with our work.

Work is performed for reasons, called goals and objectives, and the more efficient and productive your work is in moving toward or accomplishing objectives, the more successful that work is deemed to be. The Puritans frowned on rest and relaxation as vices, robbing us of our prized accomplishments from hard work. As it turns out, however, without rest work can become counterproductive.

Multiple studies have begun to clearly point to rest as a key element in our brains’ ability to function efficiently. If efficiency and productivity are important, then rest is, too. Our mental capacities are continuously depleted during daily conscious behaviors. Various types of mental downtime, in the form of rest, serve to replenish our reserves. It seems that all work and no play does, indeed, make Jack a dull boy.

Napping can seriously increase productivity, and naps of about ten minutes seem to be the most beneficial, more so than either longer or shorter naps. But so can meditation in its many forms help to increase mental sharpness. Even simply resting idly, or daydreaming can be highly beneficial to mental functions such as concentration, memory, attention, creativity, and general productivity.

What this means for busy insurance professionals or anyone else who wants to increase their efficiency and enhance the results of their work, is that downtime can accomplish more by recharging your batteries. Mike Stromsoe’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program is built around the concepts of increasing your productivity and efficiency. If periodic rest and downtime accomplish this best, then the sufficiency of your rest can be equated with your success.

Mike’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program serves the business and professional world nationwide, and is ready to revitalize your agency’s operation and recharge your batteries to improve efficiency and profit. Contact Mike today. 

The Power of Following-Up

Posted on by Mike Stromsoe

Business leaders in every industry recognize the importance of creating a steady stream of new customers.  Large sums of money are spent to “cast a wide net” through various forms of advertising.  Unfortunately, too many advertising campaigns fail to deliver because no one ever checks to see who is caught in the net.  The objective in any advertising effort is to find new customers that become faithful to the business.

In discussions with frustrated business owners, few can answer one simple question, “what follow-up methods are used after the initial push?”  Time after time, the answer is the same, “none!”  Growing a list of contacts is ineffective when the leads are allowed to grow cold in the days following the first contact.  Instead of following up with these leads, decision makers become frustrated with a response rate of one or two percent. 

In any email campaign, additional emails should be sent with additional instructions concerning the product and company.  Direct contact with potential customers can be established through social media, a website, email response or phone call.  The meager response rate can be transformed into a winning effort to find customers through proper effort to follow each lead to a definite conclusion.

Learn other techniques through the Mike Stromsoe’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program.

5 Creative Tips To Improve Your Business

Posted on by Mike Stromsoe

Your business has a slim chance of growing if you don’t make constant efforts to improve. Even small improvements in the areas of knowledge and behavior can boost your sales and change the way customers view your company.

  1. Build your brand. In the age of Internet marketing, branding is everything. Your brand is more than just your business name, website and logo, it’s about your overall company message and how people receive it.
  2. Monitor trends. Keep in mind that global changes can impact your business. When you keep track of trends, it gives you the chance to adjust your business practices as needed.
  3. Show empathy. When you’re coming up with products, try to understand your customers’ reasons for needing them. When you do this, you create better products and give better service.
  4. Collaborate with others. Teaming up with other industry experts can freshen up stale business ideas and help you come up with new ones.
  5. Improve your selling skills. It’s doesn’t matter what line of work you’re in, if people aren’t buying what you’re selling, your business will sink.

No matter how successful your business becomes, you should never stop looking for ways to improve. Even small strides can put your company on the path to better profits.

To get more information about how you can improve your business and boost your profits, check out Mike Stromsoe’s Unstoppable Profit Producer Program today!

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