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What Guerrillas Know About Email
Guerrillas are well aware that free marketing exists in its most free state as email, which is far more than merely letters with free postage.
WHY IS UPSIDE-DOWN MARKETING SO POPULAR? AND IS IT KILLING YOUR BUSINESS?
For some peculiar reason marketers persist in paying attention to what they like rather than the things that make the most difference. This piece examines this unwise behaviour, explains why it is so common and suggests a more intelligent set of priorities.
Disappointed By The Things You Didn’t Do
The only thing that limits you is yourself.

The Criticism Sandwich: A Stale Idea
The criticism sandwich is the staple of Management 101 primers, advising us to lay on some praise before delivering any criticism and to complete the process by adding another layer of praise. Most of us intuitively know, from having been at the receiving end of what feels like faux praise, that this process almost never works. Now we have scientific proof of why this is a management orthodoxy that should be abandoned.
Prospect Development: The Giant Donut Hole in Sales & Marketing
Ineffective Inquiry Qualification & Development * The most-ignored activity in Sales & Marketing * The most-effective way to maximize your MarComm investment * The surest way to increase sales & profits
Procrastination to Motivation
If you keep putting it off to later you will never get it done. Procrastination is one of the most common obstacles to achievement and yet it’s a skill that so many have mastered. But procrastination results from a mistake of the mind. Correct the mistake and fuel yourself with motivation toward your goals.

The Power of a Quotation
Last month I shared some of my favorite quotations from The Nature of Excellence gift book and asked you to share some of your personal favorites… and you sure did! There were so many of them, I could not include them all. I did want to share a sampling of some of YOUR favorite quotations. Some were home grown expressions, others were attributed to famous people in history and one was even found on the back of sugar packet! Enjoy…

Borrow Some Brains
Of course you don't have all the answers or even the right questions all the time. That's why it's great to have your "tribe". People you trust and respect who don't exactly think like you and will challenge the way you see things. They will also have different pools of knowledge that you can dive into for pearls of wisdom you would otherwise miss out on. So go ahead, borrow some brains today!
What is Your Level of Awareness?
To increase performance whether in business or personally demands an increase in the ability to be aware. Opening awareness can be done through a variety of means including communication. Read on to better understand this capacity and how to leverage it for further excellence and success.
Increase Sales By Just Eating More Frogs
Have you ever considered that you could increase sales by just eating more frogs? Learn how you can do just that.
Exercise Your Charisma Muscle
Charisma comes more easily to some than to others, but anyone who develops these skills can become more charismatic.
Telling Aint Selling
Telling ain’t selling. If you goal is to increase sales, then maybe you need to redirect your senses.
Eliminate the Negatives
Ever notice that all the folks with negative, small-minded attitudes always hang out together and all the successful, big-minded people hang out together as well? Coincidence? NO! Remove yourself from the negative crowd. Avoid negative people as much as possible.
How To Advertise Your Business For Free
I said over twelve years ago, that the low-cost or free advertising potential of the internet provides a level playing ground that allows most anyone to have an at-home business. However, neither then or now, does low-cost or cost-free translate into a free ride. In order to succeed online you must put in time, money or pardon the expression–-sweat equity. It’s truly not at all like the Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams where "If you build it they will come." Someone, somewhere, somehow is going to have to promote, promote, promote!
Role of Leadership in Planning
Executives love to talk about planning… most complain their processes don’t work very well. Harvard Business Review reports that only 11% of CEOs believe that strategic planning is worth the effort. Most planning processes are too complex, and only document decisions already made. CEOs have the responsibility to make their planning processes effective; I believe the key is to keep the processes simple and focused.
How To Use Strategic Listening to Grow Your Business, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
You have probably heard some variation of proverbs and quotes that indicate we should listen more than we talk. For example: Mark Twain said, “If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.” An old German proverb states, ”A man has two ears and one mouth so that he hears much and speaks little. And to follow-up on the listening more than talking, I want to add that we need to do much more than listen – we need to hear and understand. I have seen too many advertising and public relations campaigns touting the virtues of a company, organization and/or individual as a good listener. If you listen and do not hear, and if your hear and do not understand, you will not be very effective. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers thoughts on strategic listening and its impact on growing business.

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A Recipe for Success
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
Selling Mark Twain
This short article describes Samuel Clemmons’ “Subscription Sales” process. In addition to being an extremely gifted author, Clemmons – who most people know by his pen –name “Mark Twain” – was an acknowledged sales genius.
Trademark Law India
Trade Mark means a registered trade mark or a mark used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating or so as to indicate a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right as proprietor to use the mark ; and a mark used or proposed to be used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating or so as to indicate a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right, either as proprietor or as registered user, to use the mark whether with or without any indication of the identity of that person, and includes a certification trade mark. (See Section 2(v) of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958)
Trademark Registration India
It is not any trade mark which is registrable. To be registrable the mark should be distinctive and should not be similar to any other trade mark registered for the same or similar goods or used by a competitor whether registered or not. In the case of a similar mark used by a competitor but not registered difficulties for registration will arise only if the owner of the mark chooses to oppose the registration. In choosing a trade mark therefore one has to see whether the mark satisfies the requirement of distinctiveness contained in section 9 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958.
Fear Free Selling
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Trade Mark Infringement Law India
Infringement of a trade mark occurs if a person other than the registered proprietor in the course of trade, in relation to the same good or services for which the mark is registered, uses the same mark or a deceptively similar mark. Essential of Infringement The taking of any essential feature of the mark of taking the whole of the mark and then making a few additions and alteration would constitute infringement. The infringement mark must be used in the course of trade, i.e in a regular trade wherein the proprietor of the mark is engaged. The use of the infringement mark must be printed or usual any oral use of the trade mark is not infringement. Any or all of the above act would constitute infringement if the same is done in such manner as to sender the used to the mark likely to be taken as being used as a trade mark.
Live So That You May...
I know I want to live my life in a way that I would want to life the same life all over again. That’s the way ideas get re-circulated. And that reminds me of another great quotation: "There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We just take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn, and they create new and curious combinations. We keep turning making new patterns, but they are the same old pieces of glass that have been in use throughout all the years." --Mark Twain So I’ll probably take Nietzsche’s quotation, refine it a little and make it my own.

Saturday Night Sales and Marketing
If you are not thinking about sales and marketing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, are you in the wrong line of business? According to Mark Twain, turning your vacation into your vacation is what leads to success and this means becoming passionate about what you do and doing what you are passionate about.
Developing a Team or Organization Vision
As Mark Twain once remarked about the weather, there's a lot of talk about vision, but very few managers really do anything about it. Visioning is sometimes an innate natural skill just like leadership sometimes is. And the moon sometimes blocks out the sun - but none occur very often. Most people have had to consciously and with great effort continually work to strengthen their visioning.

Innovation Through Accidents and \"Controlled Chaos\"
Mark Twain, once said, "name the greatest of all inventors. Accident." He was right. Most innovations and breakthroughs come from mistakes, serendipity, false starts, set backs, and misapplications. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.
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