Affiliate since: 05/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Erika,

Very good question requesting views and tips on maintaining/ boosting momentum in the group.
Our other learned friends have already given their valued opinion and I wish to add mine here.

One thing is certain that mature business can certainly boost growth. One can adopt an entrepreneurial mindset that capitalizes on new growth opportunities. Following key points are noteworthy.

Leader Morale: Keep in mind that, if you're a leader, your team’s morale starts with you. It's up to you to be a good role model for your team. If your own morale is suffering, then it's vital that you work on rebuilding your own outlook and attitude first. Start by identifying why your own morale is low, and then come up with ways to adjust your mental attitude.

Often, this starts with action. For instance, perhaps your morale is down because of some sad incident in the family, or your income level has gone down for any reason. You can make yourself feel more positive and in control of the situation by getting organized, and by achieving measurable goals that will put you at ease. Work on rebuilding your self-confidence.

Remember, your team is always watching you: if you're feeling positive and confident, they will too. Some eager zebra game wins or auctions will also help build confidence – for you, and also your team with your beaming confidence.

Team Morale: If your team's morale needs rebuilding, there are several strategies that you can use. However, just as you did with your own morale, you need to start by understanding the problem. This helps you choose strategies that best fit your situation, which may include:

1. Reconnecting With Your Team:

Morale is higher in situations where team members feel close to their leaders.

You can create this type of environment by developing good relationships with your team, and by reconnecting whenever possible. With regular contact and communication, you can re-establish trust and rapport with your team. It also helps to develop your emotional intelligence: the better you can sense the emotions and needs of those around you, the better you will be as a leader.

Keep in mind that lack of appreciation is often cited as one of the root causes of low morale. So, do whatever you can to show your people that you appreciate them. Reward by saying "thank you" for a job well done, or by offering benefits such as extra days off, or flexible scheduling when key goals are met.

You'll also want to give everyone regular feedback on their work.

2. Developing Your Team:

Another way of improving morale is by helping people develop their skills. So make sure that you're offering your people opportunities for learning and development, as a way of helping them feel more secure and committed to the organization.

You can do this by understanding their developmental needs, and by using Training to make sure that everyone is properly trained. Cross-Training is another great way of building morale, and improving productivity, just as long as you explain why you're doing it.

3. Improving Communication:

Poor communication can be another common root cause of low morale.

Identify ways that you can keep your team in the loop. Always send a weekly email with important updates, or devote a few minutes in your regular meetings to keeping people up to speed with what's going on. Communicate fully with your team, and explain how any changes or decisions will affect them. Remember, the flow of information should go both ways. Encourage your team to come to you any time they have questions or concerns. Listen actively to what they have to say, and respond in a timely manner to problems or suggestions.

4. Setting Measurable Goals:

Morale can fall when your people are unclear about what they should be doing, or what your expectations are. This lack of direction is disheartening, and disorienting. Understanding these gives members of your team a clear and (hopefully) inspiring view of what you expect.

5. Keeping People Motivated:

Once you've rebuilt morale, it's important to keep people motivated so that the team can reach its objectives. Regularly look for signs of low-morale, and revisit the strategies above when necessary. Team morale can suffer for many reasons, poor leadership, poor communication, or not-so-serious workers. If you suspect that your team's morale is not what it should be, there are several strategies that you can use to rebuild it. First, focus on your own morale. Then identify why team morale is low, and choose appropriate strategies for rebuilding it.

This can include:

1. Reconnecting with your team.
2. Developing your team.
3. Improving communication.
4. Setting measurable goals
5. Rebuilding confidence.
6. Focusing on talent management.
7. Motivating your people effectively.

Hope the above helps in maintaining momentum in the group.

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Hi Erika,

Very good question requesting views and tips on maintaining/ boosting momentum in the group.
Our other learned friends have already given their valued opinion and I wish to add mine here.

One thing is certain that mature business can certainly boost growth. One can adopt an entrepreneurial mindset that capitalizes on new growth opportunities. Following key points are noteworthy.

Leader Morale: Keep in mind that, if you're a leader, your team’s morale
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Affiliate since: 05/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Social media is a great place for marketing since people around the world gather here to recreate and entertain themselves. This makes it the right platform for marketers to extend their offer while entertaining the audiences as marketing or say shopping happens to be a part entertainment for people. However, making money with social media is a little bit tricky and there are certain things that you must keep in mind while running a social media campaign.

“Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent.”

Before we talk about how one can market his/her business through social media, let’s have a quick glance at these stats.

• 91% of online adults use social media regularly
• YouTube users watch more than 3 billion hours of video per month
• There are more devices connected to the Internet than there are people on Earth
• 40% of people spend more time socializing online than they do face-to-face
• Every minute of the day:

So, do I still need to explain and is it not evident from the above mentioned stats that how important social media has become as a marketing channel. I think I don’t! Still let’s take a sneak peek to its advantages:

• Is free and easy to reach customers
• Boosts Organic Search Presence
• Increases Brand Awareness
• Drives Traffic to your Website
• Does Viral Marketing
• Increases Recall Value
• Increases Brand loyalty
• Ignites positive Word of mouth if carried out well
• Helps in conducting Market Survey
• Helps in engaging your present Customer
• Helps in cost-effective Lead Generation

Besides, let me tell you how you can use various social media sites to market your business taking the examples of the major players in this field such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and Google+

“You can buy attention through advertising. You can beg for attention from the media through PR. You can bug people one at a time to get attention while doing sales.

However, you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free through Social Media.”

Facebook:
Creating a Facebook page, and publishing your profile and products will help you connect to millions of customers who are already present on this social network.

Twitter:
By creating a twitter page you can connect with your existing and new customers, and can share, promote and drive word of mouth communication about your business.

LinkedIn:
With more than 259 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories, LinkedIn serves as a wonderful platform for lead generation if you know the tactics.

Hence, social media is a boon for your business if you know how to use it effectively.
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Social media is a great place for marketing since people around the world gather here to recreate and entertain themselves. This makes it the right platform for marketers to extend their offer while entertaining the audiences as marketing or say shopping happens to be a part entertainment for people. However, making money with social media is a little bit tricky and there are certain things that you must keep in mind while running a social media campaign.

“Social media creates kinship
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Affiliate since: 05/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello David!

Member Rewards Points earned are very important to affiliates. Thousands of eligible products at TripleClicks list an MRP value next to the price. Once you've accumulated the needed MRP, all you have to do is put the item you want in your shopping cart, choose MRP as your payment option, and check out! It's that simple, and you pay only for shipping (if any)!

Points you earn for specific actions performed at TripleClicks.com. Referred to as MRP throughout the store, these points can be redeemed for thousands of different products and services at TripleClicks. TC Members earn 5 MRP for each bid on a Pricebenders™ auction, 5 MRP for every Pick-The-Price (PTP) contest entry, and 50 MRP each month as a WAVE3 program member. Additionally, members also earn MRP for every purchase at TripleClicks.com; this MRP value varies and appears on the right side of an eligible product's details page, next to the Add to Cart button. Redeem your MRP by choosing MRP as your payment method during checkout. For more information, see the Member Rewards page at the store.

You'll find some of the most popular products and great gift ideas at SPECIAL MRP (Member Rewards Points) prices! You can earn MRP each time you make a monetary purchase at TripleClicks, bid on a Pricebenders™ auction (5 MRP/bid), play an Eager Zebra game (5 MRP/TCredit spent), or participate in the free WAVE3 program (50 free MRP/month). You can redeem your MRP by adding an item to your shopping cart and choose MRP as your payment method during checkout.

The most often use of MRPs is for 1 TCredits with 126 MRPs which bring you 102 VP. That is important for reaching the status of EA2, BTL. You can use MRPs for some special products in the Menu REWARDS on TripleClicks where you can see good discounts. Also you can use MRPs for so many products on TripleClicks.

Hope this helps. Earn more MRP and use it wisely to propel your business.

PS: - IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:

1. Member Rewards Points expire after one year of receipt.
2. MRP values on products are subject to change without notice.


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Hello David!

Member Rewards Points earned are very important to affiliates. Thousands of eligible products at TripleClicks list an MRP value next to the price. Once you've accumulated the needed MRP, all you have to do is put the item you want in your shopping cart, choose MRP as your payment option, and check out! It's that simple, and you pay only for shipping (if any)!

Points you earn for specific actions performed at TripleClicks.com. Referred to as MRP throughout the store,
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Affiliate since: 05/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Maya,

This is a good question. My understanding of the subject is as follows.

When you refer to constructive criticism, it is meant to offer valid and well-reasoned opinion about the work of others, usually involving both positive & negative comments, in a friendly manner rather than an oppositional one.

The purpose of constructive criticism is to improve the outcome. In collaborative work, this kind of criticism is a valuable tool in raising and maintaining performance standards. As recipient of constructive criticism, your downline can benefit by focusing on the positive elements of the criticism and achieve greater personal development. It helps uncover blind spots.

When you write your emails to your down line, take care that constructive criticism must always focus on the work rather than the person. Personality issues must always be avoided. Constructive criticism is more likely to be embraced if the criticism is timely, clear, specific, detailed and actionable.

Sometimes, sensitive individual may adopt a passive, defeated attitude if he views the situation as personal or permanent while others may adopt an aggressive response. I strongly believe that effective interpersonal communication skills can be highly helpful to assess the recipient's frame of mind.

You must assess the situation and communicate in such a way that it is not felt as offensive. One should put out exploratory feelers. It will do well if you adopt insightful rather than judgmental attitude. Conflict resolution skills can go a long way.

Hope this helps.

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Hello Maya,

This is a good question. My understanding of the subject is as follows.

When you refer to constructive criticism, it is meant to offer valid and well-reasoned opinion about the work of others, usually involving both positive & negative comments, in a friendly manner rather than an oppositional one.

The purpose of constructive criticism is to improve the outcome. In collaborative work, this kind of criticism is a valuable tool in raising and maintaining
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Affiliate since: 05/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Its a good question.

I have seen many good answers to your query. I have done my Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management and have worked in marketing field for last 27 years. I retired three months back. I now work as freelance consultant for brand building. So may be I could throw some light on the issue related to your query.

First let us understand what a Keyword is.

A keyword can be defined as a word or phrase used by a person to gather information on a topic online. Usually people enter the keywords in search engines like Google, Bing or social media sites like twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on to hatch the information they are looking for.

Day by day, the number of people finding business online through keyword search is increasing. This is a good signal for marketers who want to extend their business and increase their reach. They can optimize their website and social media profiles around the keywords that are related to their business and are most frequently used by the people to get the required information. Now, when the people will search for information using these keywords, their chances of getting found go higher which eventually brings more and better quality traffic to your website.

Now the important consideration would be 'How to construct a keyword strategy'?

Well let me present you with some tips on creating the ultimate keyword strategy. Avoid using words or phrases in your keyword that are very competitive as that will make it harder to rank well in search engine results. Rather use keywords that are less.

Two things that need to be considered while deciding about keyword is its relevance and search engine results that it gives. Keeping both in mind, you need to make a balance between the two. Suppose your keyword is very relevant to your business but people are using some other word to find the information, it will not give you the desired results. Similarly, if your keywords are giving you good results on search engine pages but are not relevant to your business then that is a waste of clicks and money because visitors are not going to find anything that they thought will be there and will finally leave your website competitive and more distinctively related to your business.

The competitiveness of a keyword increases with the increase in volume of searches on that keyword as in greater the volume of searches on a keyword, the more competitive it is. As far as determining the competitiveness of a specific keyword is concerned, you have a number of tools at your disposal such as Google keyword tool and others.

It is not that you have chosen the keywords so you need to fit in them into your website. However, you need to optimize your website to use the mentions of your keywords at requisite places. Let’s take the images on your website as an example they should include all text that reveals your keyword strategy.

Hope this helps.

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Its a good question.

I have seen many good answers to your query. I have done my Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management and have worked in marketing field for last 27 years. I retired three months back. I now work as freelance consultant for brand building. So may be I could throw some light on the issue related to your query.

First let us understand what a Keyword is.

A keyword can be defined as a word or phrase used by a person to gather information on
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