This question might take some of you by surprise, no body is born with razor sharp tongues, its you who can built up your shooting skills over the years and mind you, many a times it happens so by the experience an individual gets in his/her lifetime. As the saying goes, “Action speaks louder than words” but not always, you have to use your tongue if a person cannot see you, did I get that correction right? Well, talking about razor sharp tongue isn’t literally meaning the sharp tongues to tear upon something. Use tactful words that will indeed make a difference to a situation.

Some people pin this as using swords for writing sharp words, they are not actually using swords or knife but yes, make it feel as if it was a real sword while written. Writing is an art, we are well aware about it so when the writer is writing something there are 2 objectives which gets to be fulfilled one is crafting their message right across to the audience and the other is putting across the things which actually doesn’t consist in their message. I have been attending many a workshop that has helped me a lot and it is especially beneficial for the people in the field of journalism, blogging, editing, etc. the best of written words comes very much from inside its an idea of self expression and once you are done with expressing yourself, you can use sharp words as knife to cut through people’s mind and heart that will make them aware of the reality, the actual thing that you wanted to portray, may be indirectly. It’s a innate ability of an individual which helps to let him put across his message and its often natural for them to fall in love with their words and sometimes its not possible for them to speak out sword like words, so here I present to you some of the tips which will help you cut out on emotional quotient and move ahead!

• Stick to your content -  when you have decided upon writing something for the audience, be open and let them know exactly what your feelings are. Your whole content should revolve round one focused topic that will let neither you or your audience deter from reading it ahead. If you have something that you only have slight idea about its better you don’t use it anyway.
• Cut out on first few words – its often the habit especially with the young writers who have just headed out or for novelists, who start their content with some background idea of what the content is all about. Its only an idea at first and once they get the grip of the audience than the actual words comes in. so my advice to you is to cut down on those starting words or paragraphs and come to the direct stuff you would like to discuss and see how things change.

• Spicing up you words can be too harmful sometimes, people may get overly anxious about what is going to come next and if your content doesn’t meet their expectations than you are surely going to loose out on your audience, so the best is to make your point clear in a clear language.
• Don’t use Creep-in words that will make your text look dull, you can find it out on your own, just go through some of your text copies which you have written and after reading them you will get a little annoyed somewhere or the other there it is, and you will see you have done the same type of mess even I other copies. So find your own such creep in words and avoid the annoyance of your audience.
• Avoid exaggerations in your text, even if you are trying to convey to them how something was seriously beautiful, they wont get the exact picture of what you are saying and some people might not understand it altogether, so its best to write a simple word of your experience.

• Don’t gobble over words, find out the precise, accurate and the best word that is suited to define a particular situation or an object. When you hit the perfect set of words in your text, can you have the ability to strike that perfect chord which will portray your message across.
• Don’t let go off the cut text, you must have often seen how the left out food is utilized to make some other variety of served to the poor, the same thing applies here too. The best of novelists or writers will never let go off the single thing they write, if they had to cut a portion of the novel they are writing, they will make a point to use that part of text in some other writings.

Sometimes, it gets really difficult to get your audience’s attention to the thing you actually want to speak out, so the best solution is to follow the steps I have given, this way you will become more bolder and smarter. Have a go-getter attitude and get your points across to the people and remember to carry that knife in your words always.

Doing business is not always about how much sales you made but also about business entrepreneurship. While lots of businessmen give less important to entrepreneurship, they fail to understand, that better you perform as an entrepreneur, the better you be at sales. Although, each of our business colleagues wee for a better entrepreneur title, it doesn’t come easily knocking at your door steps, it has some unique characteristics to be possessed to be differentiated at the top then the other business partners. A lots goes in to being the perfect men at the match who are fielding to get the catch of the ball, a perfect entrepreneur is the one who gets everything perfect without a hitch and providing better customer service each day. Here are some of the tips that I would like to share with you to become a better entrepreneur:

• As a business person, you must have got loads of criticisms as a starter but I shall just say these are the stepping stones to success, unless someone criticizes you, you would have never known about your pitfalls so wisely accept them and get going to improve upon them.
• Don’t get emotions in business, once you are emotionally broke then it’s the end of the game, think logically and be practical.
• Networking is the key to ultimate success in business, even if you are an established enterprises never ever stop your networking.
• Nobody gets success at one go, there are things to learn from the mistakes you commit.
• Look out for opportunities, there is something in store for sales to be made, at every minute of the day.
• Greediness is not the word to become rich, spend money where you need.
• Keep your family and business lives miles apart.
• Never stop learning new things in life, accept them as it brings in new technology to your business.
• Appoint good lawyers and accountants for perfect accounting in long run.
• Pick a meaningful company name and the one, which people will remember without confusion.
• The bigger the enterprises, the bigger the sales force, problems will arise; learn the trick to come out of them.
• Have a good business partner for consultation that will yield you success in the business.
• Be ready to take up challenges.

• Have a good successful strategic marketing plan.
• Don’t ever under estimate the power of your competitors.
• Having a business mentor helps to take decisions and also guides you through your journey as a businessman.
• Diversification is a good way to do safe business.
• In markets, customer is the king; give importance to your customer’s needs.
• Pick up a website which helps you with free tips and advices to do business.
• Develop the willingness to work hard for better results.
• Sometimes even the most simplest and idiotic ideas build up a big business enterprise.
• Starting business itself is a big risk; business precedes risk, and sometimes it so happens, the bigger the risk, the bigger the profit.
• To attain success, you need not necessarily do business.
• To get venture capital is of utter most importance then any other investments or resources.
• Be a team player with sporting spirit, accept the losses as evenly as profits.
• Don’t let anything ruin your business plans.
• The path for success need not always be rosy, as it might seem so get ready to deal with it.
• Don’t be too aggressive or overpowering to your business colleagues, they can backfire.
• Networking is the best you can do to make your business popular.
• Whether you like particular individual or no, you never know when they would come handy to fulfill your obligations, so be nice to them.

• Have an attractive business email signature that will impress your potential buyers.
• You will always learn more things by doing practical business rather than going to any business school.
• Develop a personal brand by having your personal blog over business networks; have your business niche known in business circles.
• You can learn a lot from your enemies, so don’t always ignore them.
• Find ways to grow your business even if it means working free from someone.

I hope reading the above points will surely help you improve on your entrepreneurial skills. If you feel, you have something really exciting and out of the box ideas that can help our readers than please share here, you are more than invited.

This may sound like a very weirdo question but I have specially got this point forward today so that you can expect the unexpected, still confused, well, you will get your minds clear as you read on. We are talking about the importance of not so fortune 500 companies that are not making any billion dollars today but tomorrow probably they may rake in good money. Talking about any companies today means you got to be talking about the biggest companies in the US, the fortune 500 – as they call it. These companies are not only just making billions of dollars per year but are raking in good sales each year with increase in the profitable revenue.

The not so fortunate companies are the small companies, they may sound un attractive because of their low revenues, say some of them might not be even earning a million dollar per year but in actual terms, these are the most attractive of all let gets into a brief discussion as to why you shouldn’t be following the fortune 500s!

• Big company, big talks but hell lots of time and money – the bigger the company, the bigger the managerial levels. If you are thinking your deal would be passed just meeting one official, it’s not the end. There may be even more official to talk to and you will never know the person you are meeting is going to take the decision.
• Apart from the costs of presentations, you will have to spend a lot of money if you are meeting the official outside office premises for wining and dining purposes. And if do get in to any deal with the company; the legal fees would be much higher than your expectations.
• Lots of people think, if they are in some way making a deal with a billion dollar company than they are going to make good money, this is a misconception; in fact, the money from the project might go to some other fortune 500 companies. Your company has a small contract so you will get a smaller portion of money.
• Bigger companies often have lots of pending bills, their processing is really slow and more the number of days they keep the money, they will get good amount of interest especially when their balance is running in to some billion dollars.

Its natural for any one to get attracted towards big companies and big deals but it nearly will consume whole of your time, investment and resources, with the same amount of money, investment and resource you can strike a much bigger deal with a good profit sharing ratio with not so fortune 500 companies, read ahead to know more:

• Small company, small talks but big money – the smaller companies run faster because of decrease in the managerial levels and by the time you keep waiting for project to start on with bigger companies, you could already be starting the second business venture with the smaller companies. Small companies might not have big budgets but you get good earnings for your services.

• You can use normal means to contact them rather than spending on putting advertisements in newspapers or magazines, you can save lots of money by not gathering a huge sales force, which you have to do in bigger companies.
• Even if the economy is in recession, your deal wont be affected. The smaller the company, the smaller the investment and small investments are not affected by changes in the economical cycle.
• Small companies have smaller valuation periods and hence quicker results. The bigger companies don’t take risks easily they try the project for few months before taking any major decisions, so evaluation period is more and so you will have to keep spending money for presentation, services, resources, etc.

• The larger the companies, the larger the competition and bigger companies face competition from multinationals so its very crucial for company to stand in the competition. Smaller companies hardly have any competitors so everything is easy going.

Big companies are big companies, nothing can match the high feeling of being on cloud nine, working with fortune 500 companies but it has its own pros and cons and after reading the above points, I guess, you would have got some idea as to what goes in to striking a deal or just a single meeting with officials from big companies. Start working with smaller companies and earn good money, one day you might be surprised to see big companies wanting you as their partners.

Quite an interesting title, isn’t it? But this is the scenario today where thousands of individuals raise money for their businesses only to get bullied by their very own investors at the end because just that, idea didn’t work but I can understand you perfectly well, as an entrepreneur there are lots of ups and downs till you reach your final destination. A funded start up is always demanding from its deepest core since the time of inception to the growing process and the final delivery process, as much as investors are looking for profits from the venture, you try to achieve to the fullest that is possible from your end but what if the idea itself doesn’t work. This may happen because there was no proper marketing mix, probably the idea was out dated, or may be your customers were finding it costly, there can be N number of reasons you can state for your failure.

Some people think that if they rake in good number of investors in their company either from joint venture or selling the stakes in the companies, it is good sign of success. Then I think, they are highly mistaken for the fact, that most of take over happen because company is facing turbulent times, now there are again 2 possibilities, investor may come in due to his personal interest or simply want to help the company but the profit motive always remains. A person’s hard earned money is always the biggest risk individuals take while investing in risky businesses especially when it has no profits or shown downward spiral.

Sometimes, when you get investments coming to your company, you are easily excited about getting money and starting with few more ventures but you really miss to know, that it can really become hard for you in the future as most of the times even when its your idea of a particular business or marketing tactics to be used for product, there are investors who make major decisions of the company and that really bites your nerves. You have to do as per their wish only because they are the investors! Now that may or may not get consumed by many individuals, though you can always proceed towards achieving your goals tactfully even when they are against your decisions.

I had been attending so many conferences and workshops about entrepreneurship, take over, joint ventures and many more, the end point that they discussed was are investors really be allowed to take company decisions when they really don’t know anything of the process they have invested in, let some things be left to the individuals who are actually experts in it. The idea here is not to get bullied by your own people may it be your investors, your colleagues, your partners. If you are wrong, they can surely pin point anything. My advice to you is, use your ideas in a more receptive manner and make them understand if they don’t agree with you. Sometimes even the majority decision taken in a company fails due to improper project report or lack of judgment matter or due to peer pressure – juniors follow their seniors blindly without thinking logically.

An idea comes to a person only when he can think rationally, logically and practically. Although it fails sometimes but not always as, “Failures are stepping stone to success”, no one gets success without facing the failure and as time moves on you tend to learn by your own mistakes, you made as a young entrepreneur. Experience is all it wants, make proper study reports, presentations, market research, individual customer data and company financial data of a company – after analyzing all of these you can proceed ahead to fetch in investors and this will make sure that no investors ever bullies or surround you next time. Prepare yourself for all types of possible questions, give them the answers in a very quiet and dignified manner and you will never miss to win their hearts!