The review
Hopefully, your employee will come prepared for the meeting with a justification as to why they think they deserve a salary increase. If they come without a clear focus, it will be up to you to take control of the meeting. Clarify current salary and the salary they would like to earn.
Do not make any promises at this stage, especially if you have to confer with another party such as the Finance Director or Personnel department. Ask your employee why they think they deserve the raise .If they find this difficult, you can cover the areas you researched before the review, asking them how they believe they have exceeded their original job description or objectives.
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Executive Book Summaries
With thousands of business books published each year, a busy business executive like you don’t have the time to weed through all business pages and dig over new key ideas and concepts.
With this reality, you often get stuck with the obsolete business tactics and miss out on the freshest tips. Can you afford to be left behind and see your business struggle with the fast changing times?
As a busy entrepreneur you may not have the time to read the latest and Executive Book Summaries. These books which contain suggestions on ways to enhance your business are must reads for any entrepreneur. However, most likely you cannot find the time to read all of these books.
Learning more about leadership will make a difference in you, and you will make a difference in the lives of others.
One of my favorite web-based services comes from Executive Book Summaries. They take the most popular business books and create a “cliffs notes” version of the book highlighting the key themes and messages.
Instead of reading the book over several days, you can capture the essence of the book in minutes. You can download the condensed book to your iPod, computer (powerpoint, pdf, video) or PDA. It is a paid service, however, there is a free 30 day trial offered. Check it out.
Quality Content To Improve Website Results
Producing quality content that is easily seen by search engine spiders can result in much higher search engine rankings.
Be sure that your web content involves your audience and creates a dialog with them. The bottom line is that you may have the best optimized content in the world, but if it’s hard to follow you can loose your audience in a heartbeat.
Think about where you want your visitors to travel on your site. Your content should draw them to where you want them to go.
Each time a visitor has a positive experience on your website you are building loyalty. The more loyal an individual becomes, the better chance you have of converting them into a customer.
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Viral Marketing or Referral Marketing
Viral marketing is a marketing strategy that encourages and prompts people to convey and pass along a marketing message to others voluntarily. With viral marketing, your campaigns once started, would spread like a virus. Everyone wants to see it, and when they do, they all want to share it with their friends. This has many times the effect of regular advertising.
When starting Hotmail after having been left way behind by Yahoo! Mail, Bill Gates had resorted to viral marketing strategy to hit back at Yahoo! And he did it very successfully. All Hotmail messages that were sent out had a brief signature at the end of the mails requesting the recipients to sign up for their own free Hotmail account. In less than one year, Hotmail managed to capture millions of users!
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