subject: Dealing with information overload in your wholesale business [print this page] Dealing with information overload in your wholesale business
In past, we were daunted by the lack of information and today we're haunted by its profusion, thanks to the high tech mediums like Internet that disseminates information to all four corners of the world in a jiffy. Excess of anything is bad without a doubt, and that includes something as valuable as information. A human mind having excessively unnecessary information can falter when making important decisions. The dilemma is known as Information Overload and it can hurt your wholesale business, just like it may hurt any other business that requires timely decisions. For example, when setting up a wholesale business and trying to choose a product, you might end up collecting information for a number of products, as a result you will find it hard to decide on one single product for your wholesale business. Or when searching for pros and cons of getting into some wholesale venture, you might find it hard to reach to a conclusion after weighing in innumerable advantages and disadvantages. That is why it is very important for you to learn about ways to deal with information overload.
The world is rightly dubbed as information age or information era as a common person living in big city can run into a tremendous amount of information, regardless of the nature of their jobs or occupation. Earlier, wholesalers use to have difficulties in finding the required information, these days a wholesaler might face the problem of trying to make some sense out of too much information. Disorganized and unsystematic information is more of a lumber than a facilitator. Being a wholesaler, there's not much you can do to systemize the flow of information but, you can at least prepare yourself for effectively dealing with the overkill.
To start with, stop trying too hard to keep a tab on everything that's happening in the wholesale industry. It's good to keep on top of market trends, upcoming demands or some proposed law that will make things worse (or better) for your wholesale business, but you should avoid poring over all sorts of information, in an effort to relate it to your wholesale enterprise. At times, some sources (e.g. newspaper, news channels, Blog) may try to paint everything with dark, gloomy colors for the sake of sensationalizing, that doesn't mean you should start preparing for the worse by searching for more and more information. Avoid jumping into the heap of unsystematic data when trying to make a decision. Just because you are in wholesale business, doesn't mean you need to read or subscribe to everything that mentions wholesaling. Create a time table and try to stay on schedule, by doing this you'll be able to keep yourself busy in more productive and important tasks instead of swamping yourself with excessive information all the time.
