For ten years the world has been watching with Awe and
Admiration the Phenomenal success of Jeff Bezos the
Founder and CEO of Amazon.com. The goal of each and
every Entrepreneur be they Home Based Business or not
is to achieve success and rise to the top.
Success does not come easily. It requires Hard Work,
Commitment and Dedication to reach the top as an Entrepreneur.
Attaining your goal is often easier if you can follow
the path already trodden by Brilliant Entrepreneurs.
Pick up some Great Ideas and Tips that rocketed them
to Fame and Fortune and try to implement them.
In this respect the Phenomenal success of Jeff Bezos,
dubbed by Time Magazine as the " King of Cybercommerce"
comes to mind. His spirit of Adventure, Imagination,
Innovation and Creativeness are some of the qualities
that have made Amazon.com what it is today.
In 1994 he set up his Home Based Business in a two bed
roomed house in Seattle with extension leads running
to his garage. There was no turning back and the tremendous
progress he made is history.
Today Amazon serves over 45 Million customers and well
over 600,000 Associates. Amazon.com is the Internet's
most popular brand name. It is the largest Internet
retailer in the world. Jeff Bezos the founder
and CEO is a multi-billionaire and one of the richest
men in the world.
A few quotes of Jeff Bezos will display the characteristic
thinking behind the success of this brilliant entrepreneur
and the dominance of Amazon.com.
1."A brand for a company is like a reputation for a
person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things
well".
2."If you do build a great experience, customers tell
each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful".
3."There are two kinds of companies, those that work
to try to charge more and those that work to charge
less. we will be the second".
4."We see customers as invited guests to a party and
we are the hosts. It's our job everyday to make every
important aspect of the customer's experience a little
better".
5."What we want to do is something completely new. There
is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming".
About his vision Jeff Bezos says Our vision is
the world's most customer-centric company. The place
where people come to find and discover anything they
might want to buy on line.
To top it up he places great emphasis on the importance
of the six core values-he insists on. 1.
Customer obsession. 2. Ownership. 3. Bias for action.
4. Frugality. 5. High hiring bar. 6. Innovation.
Here are some very useful Ideas and Tips that all Entrepreneurs
including the Home Based Business Entrepreneur can pick
up from Jeff Bezos.
You have to be:
1. A Dreamer and never give up your dream
2. An Optimist and be Confident in what you do.
3. A Strategist, ready to meet all situations and circumstances.
4. Prepared to tread into areas where others have never
trodden before.
5. Customer focused more than Marketing focused.
7. Obsessed about customers not competitors.
8. Innovative and keep on innovating.
9. Always thinking Big.
10.Working hard and charge less.
Finally a tip from Jeff Bezos for all Entrepreneurs,
Work hard, have fun, make history". Yes,That's what
the "The King of Cybercommerce" has done with Amazon.com.
Copyright
© 2005 Kanaga Siva.
Kanaga Siva has a wealth of experience in Marketing
and also running his own Home Based Business. He now
operates his Internet Marketing Business. Visit his
website http://www.business-fromhome.com/
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