Manik Gunawardana's cyber space

When it comes to sales, its all about selling your product or services to whoever and no matter what. May be not everybody thinks like that, but most do. That's why there are lots of articles on the internet about promising something you can't deliver. Specially when it comes to sales we all think of selling more to achieve sales targets and make more money. Not only in sales, you sometimes make promises to your superiors to build trust among them, but what will happen if you fail to deliver something that you promised? Will it make a positive effect on your sales target or your reputation? You will end up repaying a good portion of the money you got and the client will never consider getting your service again. And if it is to your superior, only god knows how they will react. When it comes to customers, you know how hard it is to get a client to pay for your service. Losing a client may burn a big hole in your pocket. Following advises will keep you away from promising t...

How many emails you get into your inbox everyday? How many of them you read everyday? Are those emails really relevant to you? These are some interesting questions you should ask yourself before doing an email campaign. Yes! even you plan the campaign, you must get into the other's shoes to see or think like others. How many emails you skip each day because they are not relevant to you? And have you ever thought of how many emails you get into your junk folder each day? I want you to answer these questions before further reading this. Being an email marketing service provider is easy these days, you just need a good email list with about 500,000 emails in it and you just have to create multiple email marketing accounts in MailChimp or any other email marketing software provider, it's that easy. I recently got a call to my office line from a guy asking me if I am interested in buying an email list. Just because I am curious, I asked how many contacts in it and how much do...

How many decisions you take everyday? hundreds? thousands? think about how many decisions you take in every second daily. Do you take all those decisions consciously? not exactly. If you have a brain, you are automatically wired to be bias and if not you are not a human. So being bias unconsciously, is it a bad thing? the answer is it depends on the situation. As I explained earlier, we take a lot of decisions everyday, and it's impossible for us to take all those decisions consciously, it just not happens. For example, lets say you are crossing the road and you see a speeding car coming towards you; do you really do the math how speed it comes and how long will it take to run you over or do you just immediately jump away from it? Now lets see how unconscious bias can affect your workplace decisions. When it comes to work life, most of the time we make gender biased decisions. Ever thought of this when you prepare a job description? Check the below statement "Ideal ca...