INNOVATION
What do you do when you are trying to innovate? Do you grab a pen and just start to write or draw? Do you need something to stir up your creativity?
Looking at a lot of pictures of a wide variety of things can help stimulate your creativity. It helps you get out of your regular patterns and see new things in familiar objects.
When I see my grandfather's cookie jar I see the red flowers and green leaves. I also see the thousands of times my cousins and I got into that jar... tiny hands that might be the cause of the cracks on the lid. I see the Nutter Butters he always kept in there. Heck, I can even smell them. I see other possibilities, too. Gratitude jar, braille, raised art, painting, milk, whipping cream, ancient fermenting jug.
When you think of these things together, you can find connections. You can also find a springboard for new ideas. If you'd like to explore innovation, look at Innovation Engineering at Eureka! Ranch and dive into their program. Data driven innovating that will help you make more money faster by helping you fast track your innovation.
#FailFast #FailCheap #IE #InnovationEngineering #innovate #EurekaRanch
BEST PRACTICES
"Best practices."
We hear the phrase, but how do we know what they are?
In the world of manufacturers representatives (reps, for short), we've long had Best Practices groups. It's a brain trust of sorts. Typically, it is reps in a single industry in different territories. The one my parents belonged to actually had a name, it was LMNOP which was an acronym (before they were everywhere) for Lindberg, Mancus, Northport, or Penzner. Those were the five reps who were in the group. My mom even had an LMNOP necklace. I probably still have that thing. This group was comprised of reps who all represented Grayhill.
I also have a best practices group of women who are reps. We cut across a variety of industries because we are all members of MANA. We have an annual conference where we discuss our businesses and how to improve them. Join us for our next event in March 2025... we'll be in sunny San Diego.
Any woman who is an independent manufacturers representative is welcome to join us. Message me and we can chat about why this is a good idea for you, too. This can by your favorite best practice, too.
#WomenReps #ALOTO #MANA #ManufacturersReps #Sales #Marketing #Entreprenuer #Soloprenuer #WomenInBusiness #WomenLeaders #SanDiego
