Posts tagged business lessons

“Gaga’s business of show business may be very different from the “average” business, but her focus on growing through devoted customer loyalty is a universal business objective. Most business people know that it’s far cheaper to keep a customer than to get new one. Gaga gets the math. It’s her overarching philosophy to focus on her core advocates, the super-fans, the “Little Monsters.” These advocates will ultimately be evangelists who bring in new customers on their own. This customer philosophy is one that businesses would do well to learn from Gaga.”- Jackie Huba, author of Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into FanaticsRead more on how to turn your customers into fanatic followers form the Lady Gaga playbook on OPEN Forum

“Gaga’s business of show business may be very different from the “average” business, but her focus on growing through devoted customer loyalty is a universal business objective. Most business people know that it’s far cheaper to keep a customer than to get new one. Gaga gets the math. It’s her overarching philosophy to focus on her core advocates, the super-fans, the “Little Monsters.” These advocates will ultimately be evangelists who bring in new customers on their own. This customer philosophy is one that businesses would do well to learn from Gaga.”

- Jackie Huba, author of Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics

Read more on how to turn your customers into fanatic followers form the Lady Gaga playbook on OPEN Forum

Click here to embiggen (see full infographic) Here are 9 practical tips to help you deliver engaging presentations that will keep the audience focused on your message. (Text by Bruna Martinuzzi, designed by 24Slides.com)

Click here to embiggen (see full infographic)

Here are 9 practical tips to help you deliver engaging presentations that will keep the audience focused on your message.

(Text by Bruna Martinuzzi, designed by 24Slides.com)

Lessons From the 8 Greatest Marketers of All Time

Although the greatest marketers of all time bring us different lessons, approaches and philosophies, they all achieve the same results: conversions and loyalty. Create your own small-business marketing strategy using one, or a combination of all, of the most famous marketing techniques of all time: Read More

Richard Branson Shares Business and Life Lessons From His Mother 1. No Regrets2. Learn to Survive — Fast3. Put Others First4. Keep Your Feet on the Ground5. Every Day is a Fresh Chance to Achieve Something New (via Richard Branson Shares Business and Life Lessons From His Mother | Entrepreneur.com - Image source)
Richard Branson Shares Business and Life Lessons From His Mother

1. No Regrets
2. Learn to Survive — Fast
3. Put Others First
4. Keep Your Feet on the Ground
5. Every Day is a Fresh Chance to Achieve Something New

(via Richard Branson Shares Business and Life Lessons From His Mother | Entrepreneur.com - Image source)

“None of the leadership lessons that I have learned, unlearned, or relearned ever since have left as indelible an impact as the ones I learnt as a child.”Vineet Nayar shares 3 essential lessons that have taken him from the playground to global business leadership. (via Three Leadership Traits that Never Go Out of Style - Vineet Nayar - Harvard Business Review)
“None of the leadership lessons that I have learned, unlearned, or relearned ever since have left as indelible an impact as the ones I learnt as a child.”

Vineet Nayar shares 3 essential lessons that have taken him from the playground to global business leadership.

(via Three Leadership Traits that Never Go Out of Style - Vineet Nayar - Harvard Business Review)

I can think of many business ideas that weren’t brand-new but became wildly successful by building on an existing product or service with a little tweaking. Rieva Lesonsky on what you can learn from the latest erotica novel craze, 50 Shades of Grey. (via 6 Business Lessons From 50 Shades of Grey)

I can think of many business ideas that weren’t brand-new but became wildly successful by building on an existing product or service with a little tweaking.

Rieva Lesonsky on what you can learn from the latest erotica novel craze, 50 Shades of Grey.

(via 6 Business Lessons From 50 Shades of Grey)

There are important business lessons to be learned from the demise of the once-popular Marie Callender franchise. via The Struggles Of A Once High-Flying Family Pie Chain

There are important business lessons to be learned from the demise of the once-popular Marie Callender franchise.

via The Struggles Of A Once High-Flying Family Pie Chain

5 Lessons From Sam Walton

                  

Sam Walton (1918-1992) was a self-made billionaire. In 1945, he bought a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas, and began to put his own innovative retail approach to work. He scoured the area with his pickup truck, buying up goods from anyone with a blowout offer to make. Then he sold them in his store, dirt-cheap. Merchandise flew off the floor. He’d make half the profit per item of comparable retailers, but sell three times as much and make a greater overall profit.

This simple but brilliant strategy enabled him to expand to fifteen stores in fifteen years’ time. Walton became the largest independent variety store operator in the U.S. When he started Wal-Mart in 1962, the lessons he learned from his success with Ben Franklin went with him. 

Read his story here.

What’s Happening To Hewlett Packard?

Why has Hewlett Packard lost half its stock value in recent months? Here are the business lessons to take away.

The Trials And Tribulations Of The Pinball Entrepreneur

David Silverman discusses non-profit vs. for-profit work, passion in business and the National Pinball Museum.