Each month (and get it ready in advance) plan the ideas you will put forward in your marketing to strengthen your Brand or project.

Wordstream Online Expert came up with a great resource we wish to share with you.

Check it here and start building your subscriber list and clients.
Implement an idea this week. Don't delay.

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Discover the Golden Rules for success.
Learn the mistakes your competitors have made before you.

How much is that worth? Yo...

After several years working hard on the The Profit from CNBC, Marcus Lemonis shares with us his Top Rules. 
Have a healthier business.

Enjoy.

Rule 1 - Don't be an ass

Rule 2 - Make your employees number 1

Rule 3 - Know what you don't know

Rule 4 - Accept the crazy 

Rule 5 - Be vulnerable

Rule 6 - Be authentic

Rule 7 - Be transparent

Rule 8 - It's all about follow through (Need a process and consistency)

Rule 9 - Know your numbers

Rule 10 - Quit whining and start winning

 We agree with his approach and his focus around Products, People and Processes.

If you need a sounding board or help to implement the above points in your business, let us know.

Book your free discovery call here.

Recently, we were able to hear and see Christina Tan from CNBC interviewing Noni Purnomo, CEO from Indonesian Taxi operator Blue Bird.

Blue Bird was founded in 1965 and today it is a $1 billion company. 
As it has an agenda to be more sustainable, it has decided to take on electric vehicles including the new Tesla (model X).

Their goal is to have the support from the Government and funding organisations so that the yearly 4000 taxi replacement fleet can be made with EV (electric vehicles). 

Noni Purnomo's father Purnomo Prawiro explains why competition is nice.
"If there is no competition, there is no challenge.
If there is no challenge, we can't improve ourselves". 

Today, the company faces the competition of taxi operators like Grab or Uber.

What was interesting to hear is that when Blue Bird launched its own app in 2011 (ahead of the others), it was not picked up by the market place however with competition (Uber...), it is now the norm. 

RESOURCES

Blue Bird on Instagram -

UPDATED VERSION & IN CONJUNCTION WITH GLOBAL FASHION MANAGEMENT

What will break or make your business succeed is time and priority management.
How do you rate your team? yourself?
Do they regularly procrastinate tasks which are important in the business?
Do they just focus on the easy ones?
Do they only focus on the ones they love doing or those which are urgent but not important?

Let's check what other Business people say about Time Management and let's review some other great quotes from business leaders and successful people ...

Just recently, 2 Brands doing over £1 Million were not having any proper management monthly (or even quarterly) and the business owner could not understand why some projects were slow and others not moving at all!
If there is no accountability monthly on a goal, project or task then the business will under-perform even though you may still make money today. 

Douglas Reid - Xerox Corp
"Management has the responsibility to explain to the employee how the routin...

Where do you get your ideas to grow the business?

Early last year, on Radio BBC4 was the right place to get real insight.

It was interesting to hear experts talking about the role that companies and individuals give to how we present.

The issue is that we forget 2 notions which are real contributors to the companies' strengths and future growth:

Substance and
Critical Thinking.

Do you ensure there is quality content and substance coming from your employees?
Do you promote and support the employees (and partners) to bring critical thinking when projects are discussed and when solutions are implemented?

If you answer no then you are letting your business down. 
By embedding those 2 skills (bringing and showing substance, knowing and applying critical thinking), you will reach higher results.

When we work with Clients, we see 4 direct positive outcomes:

1. The boss appreciate that it can delegate more to the Team as it brings higher results

2. The staff is highly motivated as they s...

BBC - Positive Thinking Programme

Did you hear Sangita Myska and Charles Towers Clark on BBC Radio 4?
Topic: Keeping Humans Relevant At Work

There were a few key messages to reflect. Hear the whole interview above.

Be a thinker and not just a doer especially in an economy where we will see more automation.
Do you agree?

We agree that as a Manager or CEO, guide your team and coach them. Help them become a better version of themselves and make them become a leader.

Charles Towers-Clark was also recommending to use tools such as

1. Rewarding Staff
2. Creating Transparency including salary information
3. Offering shares to the staff
4. Allowing Staff to pick up how many days of holiday they would have, where to work from and even choose their salary

He asked us to be more Human as we all need to communicate better.

Our clients have asked us the same things.
Support us in making the CEO/ Team more human and teaching, sharing and bringing more leadership skills, communication skills, negoti...

Are you looking to grow sales effectively and long term?

If you answer yes then we need to talk.
Alternatively, join our parent brand Global Fashion Management free monthly webinar (*) and we will answer all your questions.

Selling with success is about having a holistic perspective.
Do you agree?

Today, we want to emphasise 2 areas that we improve with clients like you in order to X2 or x10 your sales results:

1. Helping you identify the right buyers or sharing such knowledge with people who will refer the right buyers
2. Optimising the selling of your collection to trade buyers

As regards to #2, we work with brands and retailers every month and on many occasions, brands confess that the product only represents 15% of the sale.
What is hiding behind the balance 85%?

There are 8 key reasons for buyers not to buy. If you drill down further, you will find over 30 reasons why buyers will love your product and price and yet they will not buy your collection.

Too often, the brand or fash...

Are you looking to build your business at Wholesale (B2B)?
Are you planning to exhibit at your first Trade Show?
Do you need to improve the return on investment on the Trade Shows you currently do?

We can help.
You will gain over 25 years' international experience as LFBA Founder has represented the Magic Show, visited many shows around the world and has acted as Retail and Brand expert for international show Who's Next for many years. LFBA Founder is also the founder of Global Fashion Management who will deliver the webinar.

Access this free webinar on Trade Show and how to get the most from them.
We will share top tips and golden rules to follow.
You will have an easy solution to implement to get up to 30 orders at your first trade show.

Date: December 14th 2022 - 4pm GMT (UK)
Register below and receive the recording.

A webinar which will be short and to the point. You can contact us afterward and get support, guidance, coaching, mentoring and even help in delivering the action plan...

As you are looking to sell in the USA, you may wonder what is going to make a difference.

As we have hands-on experience, we want to share 3 words which will help you get on the ROUTE 66 to build your $1 Million business.

80%+ of people will know the words and will take them at face value and will not understand what it means very practically in the way they need to think and work.

DO NOT HESITATE TO REACH OUT TO US AS WE WILL HELP YOU.

GFM/ LFBA founder had to set up a business from scratch in the USA. He also had to manage over $40M and work with all the Fashion Stakeholders.

The 3 words to keep in mind and to drive what you need to do are

Money, MOney, MONEY. 

In a practical way,

1. you'd better ask the lawyer if the conversation you are having with them is billable or not. Alternatively, you may end up with an invoice and as they may charge $200/ 400 per hour, you may have not planned that in your expenses sheet!

2. you need to understand that time is money. Accordingly, w...