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Within an organization, be it in the company, institution, or an association, the existence of a leader is vital. Character and style led a leader will greatly affect the performance of every member who joined in the organization. Leadership is important in organization.

It is true that every leader that no one is perfect, there are the weaknesses of every leader, although a bit. However, intelligent leader is a leader who can cover up weaknesses by maximizing the power he has. So what if the leader in an organization can not issue a strength or perhaps even more weakness? Then wait for the destruction of the organization.

In one organization there may be a leader who says "between exist and not exist".

Said to exist as a physical fact and the structure,there is a leader, but the leader has been found not exist because it does not contribute at all to the organization. No decisions are made, there is no direction to go, and do not understand the environmental conditions of men and institutions. In other words, the existence of these leaders did not affect the progress of an organization. Organizations are left adrift in the uncertainty of not knowing the objectives to be achieved, even strategic instruction was not there at all.

If an organization has leaders who are "between exist and not exist", so watch the destruction. Because sooner or later its members will slowly leave his concern for the organization. Great ideas they have only limited ideas without execution because fettered by uncertainty. And in the they will lazy to work, despair, individualism, no team works, and egoism will upon them.

Leaders must have good attitude and communication, because attitude and communication is important in organization. A good leadership is a leader who is able to control and mobilize all of its members in achieving the vision and mission of the organization. Leaders who will be respected by his subordinates is a leader who can deliver a decision for its members, and they are not afraid of making decisions. Because in principle, better to have a decision in the organization even though it's wrong when compared to no decision at all.

You may have heard people say that "Business is great need of capital," or "Currently there is no opportunity to do business". Yes, most people would comment like that. However, it is not true one hundred percent. The entrepreneur believes that with foresight, intelligence and perseverance then you can start a business. Problem capital? Not the main thing. Opportunity? If you are observant, there will always be opportunities to start a business.

Maybe you would not believe one hundred percent above statement. But try this. Nowadays people are familiar with the world of internet and social networks. In fact, you might spend every day at least one or two hours to perform social network activity, be it through facebook, twitter, or anything else, and you do not make any money. If you are observant, actually it is a business opportunity, and do not need big capital. How can it be?

This time has been developing many Internet-based business as a medium to approach potential customers. Example is the online retail store. Do you need a big capital? Not really. In fact, maybe you can make money without capital. You can just be an online marketer promoting other people's products through the Internet. If there are consumers who are interested in these products, you just ask the owners of the product to be delivered to the buyer's address. You only accept payments from buyers alone. And you'll earn from the difference between price of goods you sell and the real price from the owner of the goods. This is the sophisticated business opportunities in the era of information technology today.

The point is when you are keen to see something that could be money, then in fact that's business opportunities. No need to imagine a large scale, because it clearly needs a large capital, and anyway it probably will not succeed. Think that a business is to obtain the money flowing into your pocket, although a little but sustained. Yet over time would also be great.

Once you are keen to see opportunities, increase your knowledge associated with these opportunities through the exercises, reading business articles, or ask the person who first knew. After that, be consistent, focused, and diligent in the explore these opportunities. Do not give up easily, as fortune would soon come when you have been at the right time. And it's the right time you can not predict.

Since its initial launch on May 12, 2007, the public interest against the Yamaha V-Ixion has been very enthusiastic. Evident from the thousands of customers who lined up to get this product since February 2007. Why Yamaha V-Ixion is so successful reach the market and beat competitors like Honda Tiger? This is the answer

Before beginning production, Yamaha V-Ixion positioned itself as a motor sport for people who are young at heart. Before Yamaha V-Ixion compete to reach this market, there are already first Honda Tiger in this market. It was Honda's Tiger dominated the youth market of motor sport, and relatively no competition. This is what makes the Yamaha feel have a chance to reach that market, because according to the rules, some competitors will be a greater chance of success.

However, positioning is not one thing that makes this product a success. Advertising also plays an important role. Yamaha V-Ixion ad launched far-distant days before product release, either through word of mouth, or below the line. Why advertising is launched before the product release? Because it is important to socialize and find out the public interest, so that production targets to serve the consumers can be met.

It is not easy to market a new product that has been monopolized by other products, but with the right marketing strategy, then the monopoly can be defeated. Reflecting the Yamaha V-Ixion case, then in fact those of us who are and will be doing a business, need not fear the competition. By knowing the strength of our product will, weakness of competitor products, there will always be opportunities for our products in order to reach the market. The important thing to think about the right marketing strategy from scratch. Which segment you position your product, then how to deliver and introduce your product, and do not forget to think about what services you can provide to consumers, and different from our competitors. The latter is a process. The process here is that the steps in the delivery of products until to consumer has been through a groove so that no systematic errors in every department of corporate communications. The products will reach consumers must be believed to have experienced the touch of every department in the company, such as the production, marketing, sales, etc.

Do not feel inferior to the products you have than competitors product, just the opposite is the mix of products so that you have prepared in the fight reached the market. Who knows your product is "The Giant Killer".

What's the first time you prepare when you do a presentation? Yes of course, a deepening of the material. It was a very amusing if you have not mastered the material when it will make a presentation in front of many people. You can be bruised. Therefore you must have prepared all things for all the questions you can answer. You should understand about simple communication skill.

But when you enter the battle arena, namely the presentation room, a sense of nervousness began to emerge. Especially when you see that the participants who come are a CEO, nor the people of the same level of director or manager, you may have experienced when all the things you do prepare to be lost some where.

Not to mention when you start talking, the response was less appreciative audience. They expect you to finish the conversation, because saturating. And you were actually hoping that your conversation be completed soon. You lose before the match!

So what should be done to deal with this? These are some tips so you do not lose without a fight.

1. Know your prospective audience

Sun Tzu said: "Know your opponent before you fight". Yes, if you do a battle, the function of intelligence is very important to recognize the enemy in formulating a strategy battle. Then what its connection with presentation techniques? Try to imagine, if you do a speech in front of the kids do need to use a difficult language? Of course not. If your audience is children then of course you will use the language of children. The language used in making presentations to managers is different from the language used to its staff. Then know your audience first.

It is important that you not too long in front of an audience. Moreover, too many words will cause the listener to be decreased arousal, and ultimately your message is not conveyed. Use a brief but clear language. If you are using Power Point media, preferably no more than 5 minutes to explain every slide. Your message should send effectively, and you should have a right time.

3. Play the intonation of speech

Do not use a flat intonation in speech. Use up and down intonation so that it can invite the listener passion. Analogues? If you listen to a song, of course, you will be getting carried away when the song was sung in a voice up and down and tunable. Imagine if the song you hear is flat!

Do not sit when you speak. Nor should stand like a statue. Move, but not too excessive, just naturally adjust to the content of your conversation. Why is this important? Due to the move, this will make you more relaxed. What you say can flow perfectly. Then using body movements to make a statement that disclosed will be more easily understood by the listener. Body movements that you do will also make the eyes of listeners follow your movements, and this will avoid the sleepiness that usually come over to the listeners.

Comedy can break the ice. Use little phrases that can invite the laughter of the audience because it will make the listeners remain concentrated listening to your voice. But do not to much because it may wasting time and it will also disrupt your credibility, so you are considered as a comedian who was doing attractions. Use the joke at the right time and place.

If you are a novice presenter, it is not easy to implement this tips when you make a presentation. It takes time to acquire the style of presentation that you would expect. Practice diligently and take every chance of doing a presentation or public speaking to get a high number of flying hours. The more often you speak in public, then you will get trained, and you'll find your own style of speaking so that your message can be received well by the listeners.

You might have the desire to do business. And business that you run is to open a store. If you are hiring a retail consultant to build a small shop, it would require no small cost. But you are confused and will be trouble if there is no place to ask questions in preparation for opening the store. Here is my attempt to share about things that have to be prepared in the opening of a modern retail stores, not traditional anymore. This is taken from my experience in making a specialty stores in a few years back.

Things that must be prepared to open the first store is:

Certainly the difference between offline retail stores and online retail store is that online stores does not require a place.

On offline stores, you should have a place to do all your business activities. It might be owned by yourself or by rent. If you decide to rent a place, then you should find a place that you think is strategic to sell your products, whether it will be in a shopping mall, or alongside a road.

Of course, what would you sell if you have no products? Prepare the amount of your product as accurately as possible. It should not be over stock even more low stock, because the amount of goods you have will determine your store appearance. If you have a lot of budget and lack the ability to lobby communications, you just buy it in cash to the supplier for the supply of goods. If you are good in business communications, and happen to have a limited budget, use your communication strengths to lobby suppliers to be owed first in the provision of merchandise. But remember, if you do the lobby, you must uphold honesty and trust, because that is the primary key in this business.

You should not have a lot to recruit employees. Adjust to your needs and of course in accordance with your financial planning business. Things that must be considered in recruiting salesperson are:

a. Appearances.

Who says the appearance is not important? Very important. The logic? How would you feel if approached by a beautiful and fragrant woman? Glad is not it? Customers also feel the same. I'm not saying you should looking for pretty salesgirl, but at least your employees must be willing to be taught and able to improve her appearance.

b. Confidence

Being a salesperson is not a trivial job. In contrast, your store survival depends a store clerk. Being a store clerk is not just in order to keep the goods not be lost, or just serve people who want to buy. Far more important than that. A clerk should be able to gain a loyal customer. For making a loyal customers, then they should be served with excellence. And service will be excellent when your employees have a high confidence.

c. Skilled

Don't hire a lazy person, but a skilled one. This allows you to carry out activities at the store.

4. POS Systems

The next thing must be prepared in opening a modern retail store is to prepare the POS. Pos is the abbreviation of Point Of Sales, which is a set of computers used to process the trading transactions at the store. Is it necessary? Of course, this is the preparation of a modern retail store, not a traditional store! POS is not only to process transactions only, but will also be used as a data source to perform analytical work such as sales analysis, customer effectiveness, productivity per transaction, etc. Everything was advanced, no need to use the record books that might take up much room. Standard POS for stores are computer monitor, customer display, CPU, barcode scanner, and printer. If you believe that your store will be crowded with visitors? You can use 2 or 3 POS at once, but if you are not sure, simply provide a unit only. And do not forget, give training to your employees and create a standard operating procedure so that the transaction does not have errors.

5. Displays

What you see when you visit a shopping mall. Stores therein displays their products with beautiful and neat. These are made not in vain, but have certain rules and techniques, and it was called display techniques. Display technique is important to attract customers visiting your store, and as a supporter of impulse buying customer. Standardize your display technique, and socialized to all your employees. display technique also includes your interior design. Create a design of your store as attractive as possible, but also not too crowded. Feel when you act as a customer, what would you get when visiting a store? Convenience.

That is 5 things to prepare in opening a modern retail store. This is just the first step, not yet the retail management. But as time went, I am sure you will be more proficient in managing the store. And if you are already proficient, get to share your retail knowledge to others, because it will further increase your fortune.

Good Luck!

Ability in capturing the consumer directly is a task that must be performed by store employees who are the front line in a retail business. Therefore the leaders in this section shall have ability to analyze themselves and their environment (SWOT Analysis) to be able to support the company's survival.

Everyone can be consumers, ranging from children, adolescents, and adults, but what matters is their purchasing power. Requirement that he hoped would be in accordance with purchasing power. Therefore, ideally to get consumers then the store must adjust their purchasing power. In the entertainment retail stores, such as music and movie store, the situation was more complicated when compared to retail stores engaged in the field of primary needs. This because entertainment is a secondary requirement, where this requirement will be met if the primary needs (food, clothing , boards) have been first met.

In terms of techniques to reach customers, of course, music and movie store with basic needs store are very different technique. An entertainment retail stores might be more aggressive in doing product offerings when compared to the primary needs retail store. Why is that? Because music and movies highly dependent on the tastes of consumers. And this taste can be satisfied if the primary needs are met. It is very important for employees in the store to have the ability to design impulse buying customer.

Not only impulse buying customers, the ability to analyze customer, product knowledge, and skills of employees in suggestive selling is an important factor in order to create a sales transaction.

And one more that is not forgotten, that is excellent service. Transactions that we expect certainly not the only one time transactions, but continuously transactions, in other words we expect that retail stores have a loyal customer. And customer loyalty is strongly influenced by the service performed by the employee.

So was it difficult to gain loyal customers? The nature of human beings who love the beauty, cleanliness, comfort, and satisfaction is a basic philosophy in creating a loyal customer. As long as we understand and do the third thing which is impulse buying customer, suggestive selling, and customer service, then the answer is not difficult. This three things are united that can not be separated to maximize the sales of a store. Stores will be more leverage in reaching its sales target if it has a lot of loyal customers.

Impulse Buying Customer is an effort made to stimulate consumers to buy goods that are not planned in advance. When someone came to visit a store, it is likely that these visitors want to buy the goods according to their needs, or just want to browse the store room as interested in the arrangement of the room. Impulse buying customers tend to make users who had only intended to just look around to be interested in purchasing a product that owned the store, or a consumer who will only buy a product they need, be interested to purchase more planned out. Some examples of customer impulse buying are: engineering displays, window displays, and product demos

According to research, customer impulse buying based on a fact of consumer behavior as follows:

1. The reason consumer spending is due to attract consumers shop, the store looks beautiful, easy to find stuff that consumers need, and store employees are easy to help and serve.

2. 2/3 of purchase decisions happen at the store. When visit to a store, desire to buy will increasingly appear after the visitor is seeing the physical product, as well as understand the functions and benefits received from these products. And it happened in the store!

3. 55% of consumers visit is without a pre-planned. The difference supermarkets with the regular stores are because supermarkets assume everyone who is visiting a potential buyer. Starting from this understanding, then they will try to entice consumers to be willing to pay a visit to the shop, although previously not intend to buy. With efforts like this then logical to say that the supermarket more often visited by people who previously did not plan to visit.

4. Consumers buy 15% -20% more as visually appealing as well as in accordance with the conditions of his emotions. Since the supermarket is to pamper and empower consumers, then when someone is planning to buy an item needs indirectly they will look at other items on display in the store. Sometimes because of the products on display are attractive, they will be willing to buy. Emotional condition is greatly affected consumers' purchasing desire, as an example in a shop there is a visitor seen is sad of course will find the music in accordance with the conditions of his feelings, and if deemed suitable then they will willing to conduct transactions on the product.

Efforts in order to impulse buying customers are actually part of the strategy undertaken by the store manager. Understanding of this strategy is complicated because it is closely connected with the advantages and disadvantages of the store along with the opportunities and threats.

The main purpose of the store is to obtain maximum sales, thus creating impulse buying customer would not be sufficient if no sales transactions occur. Therefore, to support the efforts that have been performed, then active employees serve customers in the store is very involved in the customer's decision to buy the product. When customers have started to be interested with the products on display at the store, the employee is immediately active in suggestive selling of those products. In this way the purchasing decisions by customers will be more quickly accomplished. The theory which says that 2 / 3 purchasing decisions occur in the store is a logical thing because it is supported by active employee in approaching customers shop.

In September 2011, held the handover ceremony of Boeing aircraft to one of Indonesia's airlines, Lion Air. The event was also attended by Minister of Transportation Republic of Indonesia and Indonesia's Ambassador to the United States.

Boeing's welcoming party was incredible, hundreds of employees are very enthusiastic to welcome guests. One of Boeing employees in the finance staff said: "We want to know customers and the face owner of this new aircraft. For us they are very special guests as they are helped to develop and maintain the viability of the company and the family ". They understand the importance of a customer. Their enthusiasm in welcoming the guests, as well as the attitude of those who do not look down upon his guest. A remarkable phenomenon in the concept of customer service.

Attitude and enthusiasm that Boeing employees shows as if that was his. Boeing will not live without customers. And if Boeing does not have customers, then the employees and their families will certainly run into trouble. They realize that THEY ACTUALLY PAID BY THE CUSTOMER, NOT BY MANAGEMENT. 

This is exactly the principle which must be held by all companies in any field of business. All companies must have their own superior products. And the products made by its employees under the command of skilled managers and directors or leaders. But what's a superior product if no one bought, only to be sitting in storage until broken. These products need customers! The employees needs the customer.

That's why customers is important. Without customers, the company will not survive. Money coming into the company, and the wages paid to all employees every month is from the customer, and not from the management or owner of the company. Many products being sold, then more incentive are received. And the more incentive receives, then the welfare is increasing. Work Motivation will be stronger because of the needs of the employees are met. And this will further extend the life of the company.

Whatever business you have, assured that the customer who determines life and death of your business. Make customers satisfied when served will create a loyal customer, and customer loyalty will make the company survive and grow. Therefore, remind your employee, that "customer who wages employees, not management!"

"Motivation is the willingness to issue a high level of effort for organizational goals, conditioned by the effort's ability to meet some individual needs. The need is an internal state that causes certain outcomes appear attractive. As each of these needs have been met, then the next requirement will become dominant. Although there is no need to ever be met in full, satisfied a need is (substantially) no longer motivate. Therefore if you want to motivate someone, it needs to be understood where a person is focusing its needs, or needs that are above it. "(Stephen P. Robbins)

Abraham Maslow said that in human beings there are five levels of needs, namely:

These are hunger, thirst, protection (clothing and housing), as well as other bodily needs.

It is the need for safety and protection against physical and emotional losses.

Includes affection, sense of belongings, sense to be received, and friendship.

Includes internal respect like self-esteem, autonomy, achievement. And external such as the status of respect, recognition, and attention.

5. Self-actualization needs

That is a boost for becoming what he feels is capable of, including growth, achievement potential, and self-fulfillment.

Employees motivation is a very important thing that needed to progress the company. Many ways that companies do to motivate employees. In general, the factors that determine an employee is motivated because of the recognition of the achievements obtained by the company, the work itself, giving greater responsibility, and the challenge of a job.

One of the criteria of a qualified leader can be seen from the ability to motivate subordinates. It is very important to put his subordinates as a colleagues. By placing subordinates as colleagues, then there will be confidence in subordinates so it will be easier to direct them as you wish.

In a modern retail store business, one of the most common shape in motivating employees is by incentives or commissions. Incentives are paid wages directly on the basis of his work. Providing incentives is a form of company awards for his accomplishments he achieved in sales, and it is formed with money. Incentive are different with bonus, because the incentive provides a continuous increase, while the bonus is a form of reward that describes the one-time payment.

Sales incentives are closely related to sales targets. If a seller successfully achieve the targets specified by the company to sell his product, then the employee is eligible for an incentive. Each company has different ways in the regulation of sales incentives to its employees. Sales incentives is usually paid in conjunction with next month's salary. Providing sales incentives might be used as a parameter of an employee's productivity. The more productive an employee to make a sale, the greater the amount of sales incentives received.

Each person has needs, and each needs to be met with money. Sales incentives psychologically will increase employee motivation in doing the work. As a result of their self motivated, then automatically they will always use their ability so can be more skilled. And if employees have been motivated, it will be easier for a leader to guide them in doing a job.

You must have heard about the term blog or blogging. Well if you are a beginner, you probably do not know what to do with blogs or blogging. And if you are already an expert in blogging, this is just a reminder, you might even know the meaning but maybe it is difficult to describe in words. This are the terms in the blogging world.

Content

Content is the most important component of the blog. The form can be an individual article, input, or writings. The main content of blogs arranged in reverse chronological order ie most recent posts at the top and are identified by date, time, and writer.

Writing Titles (Headline)

Identify the content and / or theme of each blog post, the post title acts as an important indicator for blog readers and customers. Quality titles will attract the attention of the reader and when includes potential keywords, that can increase the ranking in top search engines, link by readers and the distribution of the popular social networks.

In each article, readers can provide feedback and share suggestions. Depending on the information shared by the readers who wants to comment, comments generally consist of the name of the readers, web site, the date and time associated with it. The names of the readers will be linked to their site if any. In this comment section can also contain Tracking (Trackbacks) and Pingbacks.

Spam is a problem that applies not only in emails but also on the blog. Comment spam usually contains only a few words and is connected to a site. The goal is to get as much might link to spam giver that gives them higher rank in search engines.

Archives

Each article is saved and given a date catalogs or categories that can be traced as an archive. Archives are usually seen on the sidebar, or on a separate page.

Categories

Classification is a form of blog posts. Every time we publish a posts, we could give a label, or often referred to as a tag, with one or more categories that describe their contents. Categories are usually displayed on the sidebar or at the top of the blog, and when clicked will display all the appropriate posts. Category of our blog will help readers choose the topics they're interested in writing.

Blogroll

A list of our favorite blogs or sites.

Widget

Installed in the sidebar or footer of a blog, widget is the accessory panel that provides additional information for the reader blogs. Blogroll is also a widget in WordPress. Another widget that is widely used is the Most Popular Posts, Recent Comments, Recent Posts, Giver Best Comments, and Calendar. There are hundreds if not thousands of widgets that can be added to our blog.

RSS / Atom Feeds

Often represented by an orange button, RSS is an acronym for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary" which serves to subscribe a posts from the blog. By clicking the RSS button, readers can subscribe to our blog using an RSS reader like Google reader and receive notification every time we publish a post. Even at this time if you have a facebook account, your writing will instantly update on your wall or your group. Facilities for automatic posting of facebook is called RSS Graffiti. How to set RSS Graffiti, just see How To Post Articles Automatically to Facebook Via RSS Graffiti.

Trackbacks

Trackback feature helps bloggers get links back to other posts with related subjects. The function is rather complicated: If we write about anything we have ever read on other blogs and we quote it by including the URL address of the blog, the blog will automatically be notified about our writing. And if the owner of the blog is approved, then our link will be mounted on their blog.

Trackback spam

Same with spam comments, but done via Trackback.

There are several blog tracking the websites where we can search other blogs and search for recent posts. If we use a blog platform that allows us to ping to these sites when making posts, then our writing will be sent and included in to ping site index, it is potentially increasing our traffic.

Aggregation

Many blogging software package platform that allows us to capture and display RSS or Atom feed other people's blogs. This is useful if we want to create sites that are constantly updated by the fed blog content. For example, a blogger who posts about business can capture feeds from other business blogs.

Moblogging

Moblogging is short term for mobile blogging. Many blogging software that allows us to publish writing by sending via e-mail from our mobile phone, PDA, or whatever it was possible to send emails.

Blacklist

Blacklists usually is a list of URLs that are identified as spam URLs and therefore removed from our blog comments and trackbacks. With many blog software providers, software companies build and maintain a public register of this blacklist and all users can contribute.

Captchas

Captchas is an additional feature to provide comments and user registration. By providing a picture containing letters and numbers, and required by the user to type the appropriate letters and numbers, the blog software can eliminate some of the comments and trackback spam robots generated by the program.

URL Redirection

In an effort to make comment and trackback spam is not effective, the link in the comments and Trackback labeled NOFOLLOW indicating to search engines so that the link is not counted when the search engine do the ranking sites.

Skins

Most blogs include a set of templates that are designed to provide a specific and interesting blog. These are called skins.

Post scheduling

Some blog software allows you to write posts and schedule them to be published at some point in the future. This is useful for vacations and holidays.

Bookmarklets

Bookmarklet is a direct link to the new post page of our blog. If we add this little JavaScript to the browser toolbar, this is a shortcut to write quickly.