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Small Biz Tip: Employees: How to Handle Them

Posted by Kim Fenolio on Monday, February 16, 2009

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Tips originally broadcast on December 1, 2008

The Small Business tips today will be about handling your employees.

Initiate frequent and frank discussions regarding performance expectations, teamwork, leadership styles and company performance.
Ignoring workplace challenges can cause an employee to lose their commitment to performance. Ignorance is NOT bliss.
Most important: tell your employees often if they do something well. A simple "good job" goes a long way towards a boost in morale.
Offer perks. In my office we have Free Pizza Friday and leave early on Fridays. If you can, give a bonus for exceptional work.

Daily Overview: If you take care of your employees, they'll take care of you and stick with you for long haul.

I post small business tips on my Twitter account each day, Monday through Friday. This is a reposting of those tips.

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Kim Fenolio is America's Best Companies' Interface and New Media Manager. She's been in new and social media since before the terms were coined. She's an expert in the field and at teaching people how to harness its power for good. Contact Kim via your super powers or through email. Contact Kim

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 2:06 AM
didier says:

Didier Grossemy says "This is business basics 101. Yet most of businesses don't do it"

1. It is 5 times easier to sell something else to your existing customers than to get a new customer.
2. If you have an established business 70% of your advertising money should be spent on re-selling to your existing customers.
3. Where possible only sell to people who want what you have
4. If you need to get new customers, by far the best (and cheapest) way is to offer a free sample of your product or service.
5. When promoting your products find the “right appeal”.
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