In this issue   of Geewiz News  you will find:

Christmas gift ideas

Holidays

New Years Eve challenge

New Contacts

Seminars  Coming Up

 

 

As we count down the days to our Christmas celebrations and our holiday breaks lets think of the values that we should be reviewing from our successes during 2005 and perhaps setting ourselves new objectives for 2006.

2005 has been a pretty good year for most of the members of the GEEWIZZ world with many businesses reporting good growth years, new products released, new services added, new targets and objectives achieved and perhaps a little bit of a strain from staff shortages, skilled staff development, and the pressures of work of keeping everything going within a challenging and economic year.

Perhaps the hardest of all is to understand why the economist_s appear to be out in their predictions as to what is actually happening in the business world, maybe we all know something they don_t.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

The Christmas gift season coming up just make sure that all those gifts that you are taking out have your company logo and website and contact details firmly attached to them or branded on them and that you have made certain that you are giving your gifts to the right client mix, that is clients that have grown their business with you, clients who have given you referrals, clients who have built their relationships, and clients who are deserving of recognition for the good business opportunities that you have taken up.

Don_t just pull out last years list and send it anyway.

Another alternative of course is to do a welcome back to work in January which will be far more effective working with your clients as it focuses them on the new calendar year ahead.

Don_t over look your key staff, support people, and members of your team who have worked so hard to contribute to your success this year and also some of those key suppliers who are deserving of some recognition.

Of Course that recognition can take many forms even a simple email thank you, a blue mountain. com thanks cards, are all just as effective and successful as that gift bottle of wine beer food or product gift.

Also a thought to think about is after you have completed your face to face deliveries of your gifts, none of this sending it on a courier, make a list of the way that you were received to help determine next years gift range.

HOLIDAYS

To many of us we are going to be able to take time to be able to enjoy a holiday break over the Christmas / New Year period, and this should be a time to recharge our batteries.

In to days easy access world of email, texting and much more, yes we will be in contact because that_s what the world is about now, but lets make sure that we only answer at specific times, we allow our selves to advise people that we will deal to that after we have completed our break, and we try and build on the relationships within our families and partners over this time.

Don_t forget to recharge and do something different, perhaps it is exploring the beach or perhaps it is walking in the bush, perhaps it is challenging yourself with windsurfing or mountaineering or anything else that is reasonably safe, but it is about this break should be focused on resetting the brain, and refreshing you for the challenges of 2006.

A break can be just as relaxing around the garden at home, perhaps in your own neighbourhood and your community reintroducing your self to your neighbours as well as going on a holiday destination.

The greatest challenge is in the first 3 days of your break is to actually do nothing, read a book, snooze, sleep, and let the body unwind from the daily stresses of your business lives, once you have achieved that after the first 3 days you can tackle the world in as many ways as that you can find useful.

Perhaps take time out to read that business book, listen to that CD, or perhaps focus on some background reading of magazines and articles, or even search the web for some stimulating challenging information.

The Challenge _ As a member of the GEEWIZ network I invite you to raise a toast in a glass of anything that you enjoy on New Years Eve to celebrate success for 2006 and I will wish you well at the same time.

A big welcome to all of the new members of GEEWIZ from Birmingham U.K. as they move into their White Winter Christmas and keeping warm and of course have a much shorter break around Christmas time than us in the Southern Hemisphere, and to my Malaysian contacts I will be back up to see you in February, and to my Australian contacts see you in January.

Welcome to some new contacts within GEEWIZ

Andrew at Positive Image

Mike at Greenfingers Bags

Chris at Prenzel Distillery

Competenz,

Karl at Global Medics

And of course to the many people I have met over the seminars during the last couple of months.

Things coming up include:

A special summer school in association with the Institute of Sales & Marketing of New Zealand on 18 & 19 January in Christchurch and 20 & 21 January in Auckland, which will allow those staff members or people who want to get an early start to building their career to get some skills in selling and marketing for more details check out my website.

 bill@bill.co.nzBill

A full list of seminars for the year is now up on the website and these public seminars are available to anybody to join at any time and in any country, in addition there will be plenty of activity with my promotion partners during the year.  www.geewiz.co.nz/seminars

Best wishes for the festive season and I hope that you enjoy your self recharging, and enjoying yourselves and lets all look out for 2006.

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