Nialldevitt commented on the following stories on BizSugar
Do You Know What's In Your Customer Handbook?
"Hi Adam, great post and super reminders to us all! My job to learn how to get them to “see the light”? My opinion on this has changed somewhat over the last number of years. Some customers hire me for my advice and are in a position to take all or most of it on board; some people hire me because they want to appear like they are getting the right type of advice. At the start, this frustrated me greatly and I persevered with this relationships only to be continually frustrated, the reality been that with time I thought I could eventually get through to the particular person. Then a while back I decided to only work with people who were in a position to work with me, and hey presto, my business life became a whole lot more satisfying. This is one of the reasons I love social media, it helps the right type of customers to find me. It almost acts like a kind of lighthouse for me guiding the right types of customers in my direction. Thanks for sharing, Niall"Engaging Visitors With Your Website Domain Name
"Hi Jennie, Nice to see you back blogging on here! I'm afraid I've learnt the hard way with respect selecting to domain names. I choose btbtraining.com, which in hindsight was a mistake I'm now going to have rectify particularly as my personal brand i.e. Niall Devitt is now much better known. Together with this post let it be a warning to others :)"Elevate Your Business With An Elevator Pitch
"For something like Dragons Den, they make a lot of sense but I remain unconvinced as to the usefulness of elevator pitches, as they are currently used at most networking events, in that they invariably end up becoming sales pitches. Networking like sales is a relationship building exercise, the problem with the way a lot of networking groups and people use EPs is that the focus is always on "me" rather than person been networked with?"The Use And Misuse Of Stock Photography In Websites
"Hi Beatrice, great piece and great advice! I am certainly guilty of some of the sins above. I love your advice around taking a photo of you. I would also extend this advice to cover video. Video is accessible, can be produced inexpensively and to a high standard by anyone. Businesses don't have to produce TV advertising standard stuff or Oscar performances, but customers will love to see and hear the about the people behind the business and it's a really effective way to stand out."Coping With Change
"Hi Elaine, great post! In my experience the biggest obstacle (business or otherwise) is our inbuilt resistance to changing our beliefs structure. Many of us come from the position the beliefs are fixed rather than transient. It's in letting go of a particular belief about ourselves or the world around us, that's where we start the process of changing. This sometimes happens naturally but it's cumbersome and invariably accidental, where as if you realise that you can take an active part in your beliefs system, you in turn empower your actions and results. The people who change the world are the ones that believe they can :) Thanks, Niall"Accounting for Dummies: Part 3. The Balance Sheet
"Hi Aonghus, great series! "Valuation of companies is an art rather than a science" interesting point and one which I would certainly like to see dealt with in a follow up post. For instance, does this mean that different accountants will end up with different amounts?"How to Write a Marketing Plan for Twitter
"Great post Ivan, one of the most comprehensive I've read on Twitter and a must read for any one that wants to use Twitter as a serious business tool. In the last 12 months I've noticed that the increase in users and information on Twitter means that it has become much more difficult to attract traffic, I will be certainly taking your advice on board.Thanks for sharing, Niall"Business acronym: Staff
"Hi Mairead, Hiring staff is one place where a lot of businesses get it wrong a lot in my opinion, I think a huge part must come down to hiring processes and techniques which at best poor and at worst awful. For instance, the most important person in an interview is the interviewer rather than the interviewee? Usually this hiring mistake is further compounded because the business (usually business owner) then fails to accept and rectify the original hiring failure and persevere with a person who is unable to perform the role. If what I've seen is anything to go by, hiring staff is the first place most businesses will make their first critical mistake :("Subscribe
Hail The Weekend!
"Do what you do well and enjoy doing it, Great post Elaine! I also think that education should shoulder a lot of the blame when it comes to people disliking Mondays, the truth is that most kids really dislike Mondays and lots of Adults too, see the connection?"