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Great Ideas And Tips For Entrepreneurial Success From Jeff Bezos Of Amazon.com
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
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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.
About the author:
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 for Articles, Resources, Ideas
and Advise to start a Home Based Business and for other
recommended Programs.
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