RELATING WITH OTHERS

According to Theodore Roosevelt,The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.The ability to relate with people and maintain cordial relationship with them while leaving a good lasting impression is a vital quality every entrepreneur must possess to succeed. It is often said that about 5-10 years into people's career,they tend to need 10% of their technical skills and 90% of their relational skills.
These are some keys to help you improve your relational skills
1) Seek to understand people.
2) Practice empathy (always see things from other's perspective)
3) Be people-oriented
4) Keep your integrity
5) Renew your mind.

9 traits that a successful salesperson must have

The customer only wants to know what the product or service will do for him.In order to be a super salesman, you must possess these traits;
1) Knowledge of merchandise(goods for sale)
2) Belief in the merchandise or service.
3) Knowledge of the prospective buyer
4) Ability to make the buyer receptive
5) Ability to know the right psychological moment to close the sale
6) Initiative.
7) Persistence and ability to follow up.
8) Ability to listen and respond to customer's needs
9) A good memory.

POINTERS TO PASSION

To discover your passion and how to channel it into a definite purpose, you can consider the following;

• Things,situations or challenges you dread, or hate deeply
• Ideas or things you like spending most of your time doing without getting tired easily
• Things that others are doing that deeply arose your interests
• And some other pointers like your temperaments, your childhood fantasies, motivatiton etc.

You must note that there is no hard and fast rule to locating your passion because you need nobody to do it for you; they are as natural as you. Just a look inside and a look at the trends in your life as an individual, you can discover PASSION.

A DATE WITH PASSION!

Passion is the invisible and invincible motivation or driving force possessed by every individual, and by their makeup it is usually greater in some areas of the individuals life than others.
Passion can be likened to fire and everybody has this fire indwelling inside of them, but few have channelled it towards a particular purpose. Passion is the ultimate driving force of an individual.Without it, even the strongest
 and most resourceful men will become sluggish and weak.
It is believed that it is uniquely built in the human system by God, hence you cannot automatically create it, we can just channel it into a particular purpose (an observed opportunity) and if pursued well can become a world-class venture, benefiting humanity.

THE COMPONENTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurship can be mastered! It might not be overnight though,but,through practice,seeing yourself as an entrepreneur and carrying out entrepreneurial activities regularly,you can master entrepreneurship and build fortune for yourself.
Mastering entrepreneurship comes faster when you know the basic ingredients which are ;

• PASSION
• PURPOSE and
•  PRACTICE.

The passion burning inside of you,that drives and pushes you comes from nature.
The purpose that can also be referred to as vision that serves as the destination in your mind,and
The practice which involves everything needed to carryout the process to achieve the purpose...

CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTREPRENEURS...

Some traits of entrepreneurs that you as an inspiring entrepreneur will have to learn or get used to are;

• They are visionaries. The entrepreneur has an enthusiastic vision and that is the driving force of an entreprise.Strive to have a definite vision,missions and goals for your life because those who do not have goals are doomed to work for those who have goals.Think Big.
• Passion. The entrepreneur promotes their vision with enthusiastic passion.Things that we have passion about tends to be more easier to achieve as there will be motivation from within our mind.
• Decision making. They are positive thinkers and decision makers.Think Positive,Think Possibility..
• Risk taking. Entrepreneurs take prudent risks.The greatest risk in life is in doing nothing.
• Persistence. With persistence and determination,the entrepreneur develops strategies to transform the vision into reality.
• Idea generation and Opportunity recorgnition. Generating ideas and creating opportunities is their hobby.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101....A free ride into the creative world.

Entrepreneurship places emphasis on innovation such as;

• New business models
• New production methods and Markets ,and
• New forms of organization

Entrepreneurs are simply people that practices Entrepreneurship.Entrepreneurs are innovators who implement change within markets through the carrying out of new combinations.

THINK NOT WHAT YOUR SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER BUT WHAT YOU CAN OFFER YOUR SOCIETY AS THAT IS THE KEY VISION OF ENTREPRENEURS.

A JOURNEY TO THE WORLD OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

Entrepreneurship is the process of identifying, developing and bringing a vision to life. The vision may be an innovative idea,an opportunity or simply a better way of doing something.It often involves response to identified opportunities and entails substantial innovation.

Entrepreneurs rule the world.They always add meaning to life through their creativity and the world depend on them.Entrepreneurship can be learned and mastered through the course of time but the true test of it lies in someone being a visionary....