Business: When you're afraid you'll make a bad decision

When you're afraid you'll make a bad decision

Written by Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D.

When faced with a decision, clients often say, "I can't make a mistake this time," or, "I want to be sure I'm doing repparttar

right thing."

There are no guarantees, but here are some ways to improve repparttar 106555 odds.

1. Assess your strengths, limitations and values before you begin.

2. Ask friends and colleagues, "I'm thinking of doing X. If you heard that I tried X and succeeded, what would be your response? If you heard that I tried X and failed, how would you be likely to explain repparttar 106556 reasons for failure?

3. Are you feeling especially depressed, isolated, vulnerable or scared? These feelings often lead to decisions we regret later. Deal with repparttar 106557 feelings or take an intermediate step that will take you to a different emotional place.

4. Talk to at least three people (six would be better) who are doing what you want to do (or living where you want to live).

Ask tough questions: How did they get there? What worked and what didn't? How has repparttar 106558 field (or repparttar 106559 location) changed since they moved? What was their toughest challenge?

Be negative. If you've gotten this far, you've already looked at repparttar 106560 positive side.

5. Create best case and worst case scenarios. Describe in detail how you would deal with each.

6. Create a safety net based on your own personal comfort zone. Some people sleep soundly when they don't know where they will get repparttar 106561 next mortgage payment. Others toss and turn when their income falls below six figures to repparttar 106562 left of repparttar 106563 decimal point.

How to IMMEDIATELY increase customers orders by at least 30%

Written by Godfrey Heron

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************************************************************ How to IMMEDIATELY increase customers orders by at least 30% ************************************************************

When a potential customer decides to order your product, repparttar introduction of repparttar 106554 following technique can increase your profit from repparttar 106555 initial order unbelievably.

A customer at repparttar 106556 point of purchase is often extremely favorable to an additional offer or what has been termed repparttar 106557 "upsell" or cross sell". This technique is pure profit as your additional cost for repparttar 106558 resulting sale is ZERO.

This technique has been tested time and time again and is statistically PROVEN to increase your sales. This involves repparttar 106559 use of psychological *triggers*. These are words used in a deliberate context to take advantage of your state of mind or to transform your present emotional state to one which favors repparttar 106560 buying of repparttar 106561 product.

Let's use an example that we are all familiar with. The TV infomercial.

The latest exercise gear being advertised on repparttar 106562 market is repparttar 106563 AB-MAXIMISER. As repparttar 106564 well toned models display repparttar 106565 versatility and effectiveness of repparttar 106566 product and you are almost convinced to buy, they throw in repparttar 106567 clincher:-

"if you order now" not only do you get repparttar 106568 ---product but you also get another ----product free.

SIDEBAR ====================================================== It has been shown that declaring :

"buy 1 get 1 free" yields better results than,

"Get two for repparttar 106569 price of one"

Emotionally with repparttar 106570 first pitch we are more inclined to believe we are getting twice repparttar 106571 *value* for repparttar 106572 cost of one item =====================================================

The important point to grasp here, is to use your basic product, a loss leader if you will, that repparttar 106573 customer believes is an excellent value. Then you introduce a second product which offers repparttar 106574 customer more value, but gives you a healthy profit margin.

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