Qualities of Sucess

Qualities of Success

Have you ever considered what makes you successful?

Common sense. First and foremost being successful requires some form of common sense. The ability to understand what is going on around you and put it to good use. Common sense can be like a sixth sense allowing you to understand before most the scenario playing out around you and allowing you to utilize your skill set before someone else does.

Strive to be the best. As I mentioned above you must have common sense however common sense without expertise makes you as good as the next guy. Most successful people are very good at what they do, and they know they are very good. Successful people study, listen and learn. They achieve through learning and using for the betterment of their clients until they are recognized by their peers as being among the very best in their fields. This quality of being the best is an absolute prerequisite for achieving success.

Have big shoulders. Successful people have big shoulders. They understand that they control their own destiny and are self-reliant and do not look to other for the solutions to their problems. Blame and excuses are for others and do not fit into their vocabulary when things go wrong. They are always first in line for the tough assignments, and they take charge when something needs to be done.

Smart, not necessarily book smart. For successful people being smart is another personal quality that helps them succeed. Smartness seems to be a key requirement for success in any field. However, smartness it is not necessarily measured in terms of test scores. Actually many of the more notable men and women alive today did poorly in school obtaining low grades or no grades, and many of them did not even complete college or high school. Their smartness was not reflected in their grades but in their ability to transfer what they understood into something they could use.

Be results-oriented focused. Don’t daydream! Successful individuals complete more tasks in a short period of time than the average person. These individuals have the ability to identify the important stuff and focus their energy into becoming results-oriented. This means accepting the task of achieving the results for which they are responsible for. Did you ever notice successful people seem to have that ability to achieve more and still have time to be at their children’s events, take better vacations or just take an afternoon off? These highly respected men and women are recognized as being the kind of people who can get the job done, whatever it may be. They are decisive, focused results-oriented people. They have sense of urgency about their jobs in which they have trained themselves to be extremely capable of doing whatever is required. Consequently, bigger and better jobs and responsibilities seem to flow to them. If you want to achieve the success you desire you must become like these individual by adjusting your mentality and getting in tune with your best personal qualities. You need to create a results-oriented focus by identifying your goals and then taking the steps needed that will lead to your success.

The keys to being a successful Person in Business or Sales

1. Be a salesperson! As a salesperson your objective is to help people, to be a trusted advisor, and to educate and lead people down the path they need to go. For example, if you are talking to a qualified prospect with a young family and you don’t convince that person to protect the family with life insurance and something bad happens, it’s your fault that person’s family is not protected. Own that feeling it will make you a better person to believe that.

2. Think like a business owner! Selling is an exciting field with unlimited potential. I probably would never have said that at 22 or 23 however today I believe it is the only place to be. There are only three activities that will ultimately make you money: prospecting, closing and servicing accounts. Those three activities are where most of, if not all of, your prime selling time should be spent. If you want to be successful in sales you must always be prospecting.

3. Customer Service Customer Service Customer Service!!! Success comes from service. The better and more service you provide the more people will do business with you. Keeping a client happy in today’s world is not always easy but needs to be a priority. Happy clients refer more clients and a successful business needs new clients.

4. Work hard, work harder!! The one thing I have learned the harder I work the luckier I get. Hard work creates a good feeling. It makes you feel better you smile more when you smile more people want to be around you. Soon success follows you!

5. Take responsibility for your actions!! Everyone has a bad day don’t feel bad when you do. If your sales numbers are dismal, own them, take responsibility for them. See your results as a warning sign that you need to make some changes in your activity and your approach. Don't make excuses or blame anything outside of yourself, such as the economy, the market you’re in or the people you work with. You are completely responsible for your success or failure.

Are you mentally strong!!

How to be amazing!!!

If you want to be amazing then creating the ultimate customer service is what will set you apart from all others and give you that competitive edge, it’s that simple. Everyone sells the same materials, products or services, what sets you apart? Customer service is what tips the scales in your favor. Most clients will drive further, wait longer and even be willing to spend more for superior customer service. Sales people that deliver a higher level of customer service are, in a word, amazing. Amazing customer service is not an over-the-top level of service it is just a little better than average and consistently given as if it was expected and ordinary. It’s that consistency that makes the difference and that drives client loyalty. A little bit better than average is within the grasp of every sales person. Sure, some individuals will have the opportunity to wow their clients with over-the-top service, but that extreme level of service is impossible to sustain. When you study the best sales people, what you will find is that they are a little better than average and do it consistently. That is why they have clients and not customers. Every company and sales person wants clients because clients they stick with you even if there is an error with their account, they refer others and most of all they continually bring you new business. Quite often, superior customer service is an occasional experience. Usually, this type of service only happens when it is prompted such as when an employee goes the extra mile to fix a problem or react to a situation. However, the best sales people don’t wait for an incident to happen they proactively make sure it doesn’t happen. So how does this happen? Everyone has a role in delivering great service. Everyone can become the role model that others look up to and want to emulate. Customer service is not a department, it’s a philosophy and it’s everyone’s job. If you incorporate it into your daily routine then it becomes part of your daily culture and becomes part of your entire life. So, here’s the bottom line: If a sales person wants to be known as amazing, then you must be committed to being consistently better than average. This takes focus and constant attention to detail. If you can deliver this level of service, clients and prospects will go out of their way to find you. Vincent Ferrara

Final Project High School Logos

This was a fun project for me as a high school varsity coach for multiple sports, can you guess which ones? My audience for this project would be high school athletic directors and other coaches. I used illustrator and Photoshop using blending and diffusing and illustrator for 3D effects. It wasn’t too difficult to maintain ethical standards as I was creating high school logos using every day pictures that were easy to obtain.

Final project

Concept: Creating sports logos for high school sports teams
Target Audience: High school coaches, administrators and high school athletes
Analysis: What helped me determine my project is that I am a high
school coach and see the need for better logos.
Sketches:


Intended format: Will be digital art.
Software to be used: Photoshop, Illustrator and some Picassa.

Plane dreaming!!!

I thought the idea of editing a photo my son sleeping with old warplanes surrounding him placed on a photo I took wile on a cruise would give my design competition photo a unique outlook.