Business: Ten Top Ways for Managers to Motivate Their People

Ten Top Ways for Managers to Motivate Their People

Written by Martin Haworth

Motivating people is a sure way to get repparttar

best from them - yet it is not something for a to-do list. Motivation comes from consistent cultural shifts from within. Managers are repparttar 135982

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difference and lead to a team of highly motivated individuals developing your business forward.

So to help start repparttar 135984 ball rolling, here are ten top ways to get your people motivated. Ten small steps for you to start with.

Recognise them Recognise your people as people, by saying 'Good Morning', checking that they're OK and taking a little time with them.

Challenge them People need stimulation at work, so to encourage growth, build on their achievement of one skill, with repparttar 135985

introduction of another. Instruct, coach and then delegate repparttar 135986

new task.

Encourage fun Whilst it is a fine line between having fun and anarchy, it is worthwhile spending repparttar 135987

time to understand, define and explore that boundary. Having fun is a great way to build team spirit. Checkout where everyone's 'fun' threshold is, respect it and then have a lot of laughs.

Listen - a LOT! Listening to your people builds rapport and a bond which in itself is powerfully motivational.

Encourage mistakes By stretching themselves, people sometimes get it wrong - and sometimes make gloriously powerful 'inventions' to move your business forward. By creating an environment where mistakes are not wrong but encouraged, you will find creativity soars. Even mistakes where things go wrong and cost money should not be wasted. Create value from these by really learning for repparttar 135988

future...as Henry Ford once said "Bring me people who make mistakes" - make it a safe place!

Say Thank You It is surprising how much reward we all get from being recognised. The humble (if rare in some organisations), "Thank you" is a simple, yet very powerful way to recognise efforts every one of your team puts in every day. Think of last time someone said thank you to you and how great that made you feel.

Make Money Blogging Using These Nine Powerful Strategies

Written by Brandon Hong

I'm sure there are more creative ways to make money blogging, repparttar

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thinking process of making money from blogging....

The question "How to make money blogging" sits high on every blogger's mind.

In fact I received many questions on "How to make money blogging" when I conducted my first webcast to answer my subscribers' most pressing questions on Blogs and Rss.

You can make money Blogging in a number of ways, and in this article I share with you up to nine ways in which you can make money blogging.

1. Make Money Blogging by Selling Advertising Space

Before repparttar 135982 advent of Blogs, we have e-zines and selling advertising space on ezines was a popular way to earn extra money. If you run your own Blog, you can let others advertise in your Blogs with banner ads, solo ads, sponsor ads, classifieds and so on.

Now that we have Blogs, you can repeat repparttar 135983 same business model that e-zine publishers do, that of selling advertising space.

One popular advertising company that helps Bloggers look for advertisers is Blogads (www.Blogads.com).

Besides placing advertisers ads on your Blog, you can also make money Blogging by placing Google Adsense into your Blog.

In my "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos, I show you how you can customize your Blog template to include repparttar 135984 Google Adsense into your Blog template so that you can make money blogging.

2. How to Make Money Blogging by providing technical services such as Blog hosting or setting up Blog

You can also earn money blogging by providing technical services such as helping people to set up their Blogs or providing your own Blog hosting service.

One example of this is www.typepad.com . This is a Blog hosting service provider that charges a monthly fee. Typepad lets you create your Blog and they will host your Blog for you, and provide you with a number of Blog features.

3. Make Money Blogging by setttin up joint venture marketing

Joint Venture marketing is a powerful marketing strategy employed by many top online marketers.

Basically how joint venture works is this:

You promote person B's products to your subscriber and customer list, and you get a cut from whatever sale that follows from this promotion.

You can apply repparttar 135985 principle of joint venture marketing to Blogs as well. If you have a substantial readership to your Blog, you can also promote or endorse certain products to your Blog readers and this way, and split repparttar 135986 profits from repparttar 135987 sales generated.

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