How To Find New Ideas For Your Business

Written by Noel Peebles


New ideas arerepparttar lifeblood of any business so it is important to encourage creativity and to be truly innovative. But creativity and innovation are notrepparttar 106780 same. Creativity is all about coming up with new ideas, whereas innovation involves putting new ideas into action.

New ideas can be very difficult to find. When you do find them and put them into action, they can provide a powerful marketing edge and become a license to print money.

Here are some ways to help generate new ideas:

Ask For Opinions You could hire consultants or you could simply seek opinions from someone who knows absolutely nothing about your business. We get so close to what we are doing, that often we can't see another way of doing things. There are times when we need to step outside our own environment because sometimes ideas used in one trade can be adapted to another.

Encourage Staff Creativity If you employ staff, then encourage them to think up new ideas and get them to suggest changes. You will need to be open-minded and encourage their input. You'll need to be tolerant when their ideas don't work. And you'll probably need to reward them in some way, although you'll probably find thatrepparttar 106781 satisfaction of "seeing their ideas in action" may be reward enough.

Brain Storm One ofrepparttar 106782 best ways to tap into new ideas is through brainstorming. This could involve family, friends, staff, customers and even other business owners. The key with any brainstorming session is to disallow any negative comments and to only analyse or develop ideas oncerepparttar 106783 session is over. The purpose of a brainstorming session is to produce a quantity of ideas. It's quantity not quality. Refiningrepparttar 106784 ideas comes later.

Success is Just a Question Away

Written by Robert Imbriale


You already knowrepparttar formula; "Ask and you shall receive." And, you already know that it's not just another good idea. Asking isrepparttar 106779 only way to get what you're seeking in your life, in your relationships, or in your business.

Asking may not be your forte, and it might not even be a whole lot of fun. In fact, I have found that most people prefer to do it all themselves rather than ask somebody for help.

Think about this, askingrepparttar 106780 right question atrepparttar 106781 right time, torepparttar 106782 right person can bring you to success faster than you could ever hope to get there on your own! So why are you not out there asking for what it is that you really want?

What keeps you from asking for what it is you really need and want? I have found that it's our desire to be independent that keeps us from asking. It's our ego. Our desire to take allrepparttar 106783 credit when something finally does work that keeps us from doing itrepparttar 106784 easy way.

Think about it in your own life. What has stopped you from asking for help inrepparttar 106785 past? For some people, asking is a sign of weakness, so they do their best to do it all alone. Sometimes things get so bad that these people actually lose it all, yet they still won't ask for help! Have you known a person like this in your life?

I share this with you here because it's a lesson that I too had to learn. I was one of those people who was raised thinking that being independent wasrepparttar 106786 only way to be. I believed that asking for help was a sure sign of weakness and I didn't want to be perceived as weak. So I was tough. I never asked for help and went out there and did it all myself.

Then one day, I gave it some thought. Was it really a sign of weakness to ask for what it was that I really needed to build my business? I began to study people who have achieved greatness in their lives and I asked, "Did they do it alone or did they have help?"

For instance, did Bill Gates build Microsoft by himself, or did he have a team working with him? Obviously he had a team, each of whom today is wealthy beyond imagination. Not only did he have a team, he asked for help and made deals with other companies to help him realize his dream. This is a practice that Microsoft continues to use to this day.

Do you look at Bill Gates and see weakness? I sure don't.

The more I considered it,repparttar 106787 more I began to understand what it really meant to ask for help.

Then I had yet another realization. Asking for help is really GIVING an opportunity to another person. That's right, asking is giving atrepparttar 106788 same time. Think about it.

When somebody asks you for help, and you are willing to help, do you ENJOYrepparttar 106789 process of giving? You bet you do! We're wired to give! Giving is a basic human need and each and every one of us receives great joy when we give to another human being.

So not asking is actually denying other peoplerepparttar 106790 chance to give and feel pleasure. You wouldn't deny another human beingrepparttar 106791 pleasure of giving would you? I doubt it. So then you will learn to ask, right? Great!

Let me share with you some strategies for asking that could make allrepparttar 106792 difference in getting what you are asking for. First, you have to be very clear on what it is you are hoping to receive. If you are not clear, then how can you expect another person to know what it is you need? Get crystal clear and write it down on paper!

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