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 The good negotiator Welcome to my weekly blog about business, in today’s blog I’m gonna give you some tips on how to negotiate. Negotiate is an art, and like any art not everyone can do it, they can try but only the ones that really know how to do it will be able to master the art of negotiate. Without further due let’s start with these tips on how to negotiate. Lose that fear on asking and fighting for what you want. That is the first step, you have to stand up and be assertive, don’t take a no for an answer. Everything in this life is negotiable if you know how to do it.  Always make the first bid. When you are negotiating for a product, be sure to always be the one on making the first bid. There are two sides you can be on, the seller or the buyer, either way you always have to be the first one. If you are the buyer start low on your bid but if you are the seller start high, the only way it can go is up no matter if you are a buyer or seller. Learn to listen This is actual...

 My 4 P’s Hey again, welcome back to my blog, on this occasion more than an explanation about a business topic I’ll tell an anecdote or an experience that I had or well have with marketing mix. This blog will be a combination between experience and explanation of what the marketing mix is. Before we start with our little story we have to know what is marketing mix and the four aspects is made of. Marketing mix is the combination of the minimum variables necessary to be able to develop efficient and effective strategies for the selected market. It is composed of 4 aspects: product, price, promotion, price and place. Along as I tell my story I’ll explain the 4 P’s. First we start with product which is the good or service that aims to meet the needs of the client. My product, t-shirts, a few weeks ago I talked about my brand, a brand call Lykke apparel which has minimalist and cool designs. My first thought when I started was people during this pandemic are spending a lot of money on ...

 SWOT ANALYSIS Hey, welcome to my blog. In this occasion we will talk about the SWOT analysis, here I’m going to explain you what it is, what it means each letter and then I’ll teach you how to do a proper SWOT analysis. Without further due let’s begin. SWOT analysis allows identifying various aspects that should be consider before making changes in the organization. When the marketing department or any particular area of a company requieres generating changes or developing strategies, a situation analysis is recommended as a basis. The SWOT analysis stands for Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat. Now let’s define what each letter means. S for Strength, which is define as the controllable and internal factors of the organization. It allows us to visualize what the company does properly and that has a decision-making capacity. W for Weakness, which means the negative aspects which can be consider as opportunity areas for the company. The organization needs to control them s...

 Canvas model Hi again, welcome back, as you may already noticed, most of my post are related to each other or complete each other, so without the intention of breaking that streak, this time we will talk about the Canvas model. For those who already know what a Canvas model is I hope you learn something new by reading this blog, for those who doesn’t know what a canvas model is, keep reading and soon enough you’ll find out.    The canvas model is a tool that would help you understand a business in a more structured way. The canvas model is made of nine segments. Customer segments, value proposition, revenue stream, channels, customer relationships, key activities,  key resources, key partners and cost structure. Now I’ll give you a brief explanation of each one of the segments.    Customer segment: the customer segments is related to whom are you going to sell your product, who are your clients.    Value proposition: what makes your product ...

 Entrepreneurs  Welcome back to my blogs, last time we talked about leadership, how to be a good leader and the types of leadership, is true you can be the leader of a group or a team but what if you want to be the leader of an entire company, today we are going to talk about entrepreneurship, what is an entrepreneur, how to be an entrepreneur and more. So don’t go anywhere and keep reading.    What is an entrepreneur? The first time I heard the word I had no idea what it meant, I thought it mean something in between or something like that, but what an entrepreneur actually is the person that identifies an opportunity  and organize the essential resources needs to take it. Regularly, it’s commonly used to people that start business.   Just like in leadership, there are types of entrepreneurs, the pure and the indirect.    The pure entrepreneur is the one that  initiates an enterprise not for an economical need, but because he detects an oppor...

 Types of leadership In my last post I talked about the nine points to be a good leader, if you haven’t read it go check it out in my website, in this post I’m going to talk you about the three types of leadership that exist. Autocratic, democratic and Laissez-faire. Autocratic   Let’s start with Autocratic. This type of leadership is characterized by the individual control of the leader over all decision and a small contribution of the group members. Autocratic leaders squally make decisions based on their ideas and judgments and rarely accept the advice of the rest. Some of the characteristics of this type of leadership are the little input from the rest of the group, all the important decisions are made by the leader, the leader decides the work methods and processes, the leaders tend to have a highly structure and very rigid work process, the leaders don’t usually trust important tasks to group members, they usually discourage the creativity and have an excessive emphasis ...

How to be a good leader Leadership is defined as the action of leading a group of people or an organization. But is not easy to be a leader, a leader requieres a lot of skills and competences so he or she can be a leader to a group of people. To be a good leader there are many things you can work on but there are nine main point that are the bases so you can be a great leader. Learn from other leaders, work to build skills, believe you are a leader, take up tasks, share your ideas, listen to others, learn how to delegate and treat other leaders with respect. First to be a good leader you have to learn from other leader. Look for a person who you can look up to, someone who inspires you to be a great leader, to do better every time you try something, once you find that person, learn from them, their failures and their achievements, see what they had done and how they had done it, but don’t only see it, ANLYZE IT, find your way to be a leader through the experience of others. Work to bui...