EKOWAPI

The personal productivity formula.

2010-10-12T13:14:00.000-07:00

There is a productivity formula, like a recipe, that you can learn and practice until it becomes automatic and easy. When you develop the habit of thinking in terms of these seven key ways to increase your output, you can double your productivity, performance, and result in no time at all.

WORK HARD.

First, develop the habit of working longer and harder than other people, start a little earlier, work a little harder, and stay a little later. Work all the time you work. When you start work, don't fool around. Get busy and stay busy all day long. This habit alone can increase your productivity 50 to 100 percent from the first day.

WORK FAST.

Second, develop the habit of working faster and getting the job done quickly. Pick up the pace. Move more rapidly from place to place and from task to task. Develop a sense of urgency, a bias for the action. Become known as the person who gets things done quickly, rather than a person who gets around to them.

WORK SMART.

Third, develop the habit of doing the most important things. Remember, every single thing you do has a value that makes it more or less important than every other thing you do. The law of the Excluded Alternative says, “Doing one thing means not doing something else."Make sure whatever you are doing at the moment is the most important thing you could be doing. Otherwise, you will end up putting more important tasks aside.

The sad fact is, even if you do an unimportant task extraordinarily well, it will have no impact on your career. In fact, spending too much time doing a good job on something of low priority or value can actually damage your career because it keeps you from working on something that really matters. As management consultant Benjamin Tregoe once wrote, "The very worst use of time is to do well what need not be done at all."

WORK ON YOUR STRENGTHS.

Fourth, develop the habit of working on those things you are better at. There are special talents and skills you have developed throughout your career that enable you to do certain things quickly and well. You make fewer mistakes and therefore save an enormous amount of time in doing things you are better at, the better you get at those tasks and activities, and the more of them you get done in a shorter period of time.

What tasks are you the very best at doing in your work? How could you organize your work so you are doing more and more of them at a higher level?

WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY.

Fifth, develop the habit of bunching your tasks. Take advantage of the learning curve. This principle says the more similar tasks you do, one after the other, the faster you will complete each subsequent task, and at the same or higher level of quality.

For example, dictate all of your letters at once. Write all of your business proposals at once. Clear up all your correspondence, or assemble all of your expenses at the same time. Write all your reports at once. Do all your telephone prospecting at the same time.

Efficiency experts calculate that if you have ten similar tasks to do, and you do them all at once, one after the other, by the time you get to the tenth task, you will be working so efficiently that it will be taking you only 20 percent of the time it took you to do the first item on the list. Bunching your tasks is a powerful personal productivity habit.

WORK BETTER.

Sixth, develop the habit of continuously improving and getting better at your key tasks. This is one of the most effective time management principles of all. The better you become at what you do, the more of it you can get done in a shorter period of time. Sometimes, improving in one essential skill can have a multiplier effect, increasing your productivity and performance in many other areas of your work.

For example, if you do not know how to type with the keyboard, you will use the "hunt and peck method." You will type with two fingers, and no matter how long you work at the keyboard, you will only be able to type five to eight words per minute.

However, if you decide to learn to touch-type, you could get any one of several popular touch -typing compute programs, practice 20 to 30 minutes each day, and within 90 days you will be touch-typing at 50 to 80 words per minute. You will have increased your productivity, performance, and output in typing by 1,000 percent. You will have opened up the entire world of the Internet for yourself by development of a single skill, which is learnable by anyone.

What one skill could you develop that could help you use more of your other skills at a higher level? If you could be absolutely excellent in any single skill, which one skill would have the greatest positivity impact on your career and your income? What can you do, starting today, to develop that skill? Whatever it is, set it as a goal, make a plan, and then work on improving yourself in the areas every day until you have mastered the skill and made it part of your personal skill set.

PREPARE FOR WORK.

Seventh, to get the most out of yourself and your life and to increase your return on the investment of your time, you should develop the habit of preparing thoroughly for every meeting and interview, both inside your company and with people on the outside. Thorough preparation takes a little time at the beginning but can lead to tremendous saving of time later on.

Customers always know when a salesperson is thoroughly prepared. Juries always know when the lawyer is thoroughly prepared. Prospective employers always know when the applicant is thoroughly prepared. Make it a habit to do your homework and get all of your ducks in a row prior to any meeting of importance or significance. Sometimes, the element of preparation is the critical factor that enables you to impress everyone present and achieve great success.

Specialty Services

7 Tell-Tale symptoms showing your sales chase is going wrong.

2010-08-12T14:30:00.000-07:00

You've followed up a few times, and now you're searching for a reason to call your customer... but you can't think of one.
You are uncomfortable about calling, you are unprepared, you have not established the needs of the prospect, you are unsure of their status, or you don't have much rapport with the prospect(or some of each)
You call,get their voice mail, and hang up.
You left your best message and they didn't call you back.
They told you a decision would be made Tuesday, and Tuesday has come and gone.
The prospect is giving you a bunch of lame excuses.
The worst symptom of all..You are blaming the prospect for your ability to generate enough interest, create enough value, or for not having a solid reason to call you back.

Ekowapi gives you ways to reach your client around East Africa.

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WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM TOYOTA AND BP CRISIS!

2010-06-12T08:50:00.000-07:00

Toyota, Coca-Cola, Audi, Ford, Firestone, Diet Pepsi and numerous politicians - these are just some of the brands that have gone through crises due to real or supposedproblems with the product or service.
A crisis is not the same as a problem. Crises have the potential to harm your reputation and your organization. Crises often has harmed customers or has the potential to do so.
A crisis is any situation that may:

Cause harm
Escalate in intensity
Fall under scrutiny
Interfere with your operations
Damage the organization.

Managers who have experienced a brand crisis say it is like a fire storm, It often happens suddenly and is stunning.
During a crisis, the normal rules and procedures of the orginazation are disrupted - thus the need to prepare for it.
To prepare for a crisis, there are four steps you should follow:

Make clear that crisis response is your organization priority.
Organize a crisis team and have a crisis center prepared.
Set up information systems.
Develop stand - by plans foor crisis, including crisis communication strategy.

In a crisis preparation is to acknowledge that a crisis might occur. That requires scenario thinking.You should assemble a crisis team that include:

Senior Management
Marketing or Product experts
Operation experts
Other experts
Legal experts
Outsiders

Outsiders should be on the team to provide perspetive.

A spokesperson.

The crisis plan should be tested by having the team to go through crisis simulations where they can experience their roles and practice their responses.
Brands can be destroyed by crises if they are not managed.Brand Failures: The Truth about the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time. Of much importance, people can be harmed if a crisis is not dealt with quickly. Throughout, communications with the public should be maintained.Plans need to be ready in case a crisis occurs. Consider it good fortune if the plans never need to be used.
COMMUNICATING INTERNALY AND EXTERNALLY IS THE KEY TO MANAGING A BRAND CRISIS.
Once the crisis is over, keep in mind that you need to continue to communicate to your customers and others that the situation is again normal and, perharps, improved.

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WHAT'S UP WITH THAT ATTITUDE!

2010-05-31T09:34:00.000-07:00

Is it a feeling? No...its a state of mind that is self induced.You are in complete control of it.You determine what your attitude will be - Positive or Negative.
YOU HAVE A CHOICE!
Attitude is something you give yourself over time.Day by day. And others can catch it from you or not.There is no "instant Positive Attitude" - only "instant Negative Attitude."
Positive Attitude is a self - imposed blessing. To achieve it you must study it, and practice the self-discipline of it.You must live the essence of Positive Attitude.....every day.
Here's the lifetime formula to attaining a positive attitude.
1. Surround yourself with positive things and positive people.
2. Read and listen to positive books,CDs and tapes.
Read two pages from positive books every morning.....Napoleon Hill,Dale Carnegie,Norman Vincent Peale.You can find more books on http://amzn.to/clfqA7 or you can sell them on http://bit.ly/bZyGE4.
Listen to Earl Nightingale recording "the strangest secret"
3. Say all things in a positive way. "How you can,not why you can't."
4. Believe you can achieve it.
5. Don't listen to others who tell you you're nuts.They're just jealous.
Star now and work at it every day. Simple? Yes. But it takes hard work.
Attitude has nothing to do with what happens to you. It's not about money or success.
It is, pure and simple. "The way you dedicate yourself to the way you think"

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LEARNING THE HARD WAY!

2010-05-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

Learning, it is something that goes on for the rest of our lives. It took me ages to learn how to shorten my links and use them on social websites like http://bit.ly/dxyGm8 and http://bit.ly/bTCnuQ and many more.
Its simple just sign in on http://bit.ly/ and you will find it to be simple.
Try it, I learnt the hard way. What have you learnt today?
http://bit.ly/bsO3M8 . Hard hmmm.....????

TAKE CONTROL

2010-05-22T22:28:00.000-07:00

Most people say they have "no time". Everyone has the same amount of time,it just depends whether you spend it or invest it.
If you are doing the right thing with your time, you're investing it.
Wherever you are,whatever you're doing, the time is always the same.

Read a book like "influence" by Robert B. Cialdini or "Emyth" by Michael E. Gerber as a way to invest your time.

The time is now to invest in Africa through www.ekowapi.com by going an extra mile.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR TIME.

MAKE YOUR PROPOSAL STAND OUT.

2010-05-21T11:02:00.000-07:00

Why do proposals exist? Buyers think they can get the lowest price(or the best deal) by pitting one company against the other. Proposals are there to lower risk to buyer, and potentially to lower the cost.
The key is to make yourself the winner before the proposal happens.
When asked for one say "NO". That will shock poeple, ask them if they write notes. If "yes," say " well, let me just sign the notes.' Countinue y saying "all we really need to do is to pick a date to begin." and 30% of the prospect will, 'alright." The other prospects will insist on the proposal. but then you have won 30% without of the business without submitting a piece of paper.

If the risk is low and the reward is high, then the answer is always obvious. YOU WIN.
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How to become successful person you dream about!

2010-05-19T14:25:00.000-07:00

SET ACHIEVABLE GOALS:
Where will i be one year from today?
Where will my sales be?
How will i get there?
Are my real-waorld goals established?
Are they written down?
(If not, next year you'll likely be where you are today.)
Goal: A DREAM----WITH A PLAN AND A DEADLINE.