Many a times, while gazing through the business daily, you come across the words “Vertical integration” or “Horizontal integration”. Its time that you learn about it and utilize its powers!
Archive for the ‘Business Basics’ Category
Can business ethics be really taught?
How do we ensure ethical behavior? Are we tackling the issue in the right manner? Whether it is a startup or a well established enterprise ethics is something that forms the part of the organizations character and simply can’t be compromised with! A few points about how this should be approached.
How to get thousands of referrals and increase your sales all the time
Getting new customers is a costly affair for businesses. Lets try to analyze the importance of referrals in Marketing. This post attempts to establish a checklist which you can follow to generate referrals and increase sales with the minimum effort.
Why even achieving all your business goals will not convert to success
Goals are part of our daily lives. And when we look a typical cubicle jungle, what we find is hoard of employees running towards meeting those goals, targets and deadlines. But does all this really convert to what we want? This post addresses why Goal setting always remains an incomplete task.
How to be a good trainer. 5 rules that always work
I believe this is one of the most practical and experienced posts here on BizDharma. I have been part of several training sessions recently and have tried to assimilate all my learning into this post. In case if you are looking forward to be a training manager well here’s the checklist.
The best lesson learnt while studying Finance
A quick take away from finance that I recently completed. A term that that can change our fortunes, businesses and even nations. Completely demystified with examples, I hope this small nugget will make you more rational while making key decisions.
How Michael Porter’s five forces framework can take your business to the next level
Michael Porter’s five forces framework has been quite popular among Business Strategy books and MBA courses. This post tries to highlight the components and asks various questions based on the same that can help an entrepreneur in his journey.
3 Negotiation tactics that even a one year old baby can teach you
Whoever said child is the father of man, was damn right! Via this post we learn some key ways children can help us be better negotiators.
Best Business Strategy: Plan the death of your Business
You might have heard various Businesses strategies, but this one is different. Its not rocket science but a law that has been resulting in new innovations and new markets. Read on, it might just change your industry.
7 Deadly mistakes of the Long Term Investor
We are humans. Prone to mistakes. But mistakes can cost us fortunes. Are you committing these 7 mistakes thinking you are a long term investor?



