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Guerrilla Timing
If your marketing is right, but your timing is wrong, watch out. Even the best-laid plans go awry when the timing is off. Here's how to prevent that.

Spreading yourself too thin in Social Media
Many DIY's have utilized social networking sites and other forms of social media to broadcast their message and communicate with others; however you can fall into the trap of starting to use many different sites to the point you can't update each one nearly frequent enough. The social media world is littered with "dead" blogs, dead profile pages, etc. Every instance you appear online will lead to a perception drawn from the visitor; a poorly maintained Facebook page or perhaps a blog not updated in several months can lead to a perhaps false conclusion your company is out of business, or struggling. Being visible online in many different places is really only beneficial if you have the manpower to update and continually communicate on each site.

Develop a 'Decided Heart' for Business and Personal Success
Every Monday is a new beginning if we choose to have a "decided heart." Are you eliminating all excuses for NOT taking action? Are you accomplishing things rather than "keeping busy"?
Work-life Balance "Putting on the Brakes"
"Putting on the Brakes", first published in Atlantic Business Magazine, advocates that enjoyment-based decisions are the key to work-life balance and provide coaching questions from business coach Karen Kelloway to help get you there.
Financial Regulation: Necessary Evil or Evil Necessarily?
The article discusses the issues with newly proposed regulation for financial markets. It lists the possible implications of mistakes regarding new regulation, and cites past instances that support its claims.
Revenue Progression in the Midst of Recession
The world has changed. And that means there's no such thing as business as usual. In responding to the demands of this economic downturn, you've probably had to cut back on resources and spending while trying to maintain the status quo as you wait for the situation to stabilize. However, this is not a time for you to simply retrench in order to survive. Find out what you need to do...

Diversions, Distractions, and Drama
If the name of the game is 'Life', then 'uncertainty' is how it's played. All the other illusions are merely debilitating distractions along the way.
Are You Making this Sales Mistake?
The best laid plans of many business owners have resulted in failure because they tried to build a business around products or services no one wanted. What sounds exciting, meaningful, useful, desirable to you may have zero interest to your prospects. The only way you can know for sure is by doing your homework.

Companies Use Incentive Programs for a Variety of Reasons.
They want to change customer behavior. They want to attract new customers to their products. These customers later become loyal customers and provide the company with a continual flow of revenue. They want to reward loyal or long time customers. These are the companies’ bread and butter and companies will go out of their way to see that they are kept happy. A company can use and incentive program to gather information about their customers. The most successful companies are the ones that have an accurate, up to date data system that includes information about their clients.
The Leapfrog to Leadership
Find out how to get over the things that hold us back on our way to being better leaders.

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Guerrilla Timing
If your marketing is right, but your timing is wrong, watch out. Even the best-laid plans go awry when the timing is off. Here's how to prevent that.

Are You Making this Sales Mistake?
The best laid plans of many business owners have resulted in failure because they tried to build a business around products or services no one wanted. What sounds exciting, meaningful, useful, desirable to you may have zero interest to your prospects. The only way you can know for sure is by doing your homework.

5 Marketplace Implementation Lessons from a Corporate Strategy Execution Consultant with 25+ Years of Experience
The best-laid strategic plans often go awry once exposed to the light of day and the rudeness and ruthlessness of reality. These difficult times call for a disciplined, thoughtful approach to execution of strategy in the marketplace.
Business Loans Can Put Money In Your Pocket for Years to Come
A business owner might possess a multitude of inspired ambitions as well as plans although without the the accurate business financing, even the best laid plans can, and usually will, go amiss. While any business owner is dealing with the concept of whether there is acceptable funds at hand to conduct every one of the vital practices to properly manage that business on a day-to-day basis, it will merely create chaos in the future.

Make Money From Online Business - Plan to Succeed
What is one of the traits that all successful people have in common - they are planners. They would never even dream of going on a journey without some making a plan. They would need to think about how to get to their destination, how long it would take, the best way for them to travel, luggage, insurance, time away from home and work, someone to mind the pets in their absence, etc. etc. etc. So they would have to make a plan. But even the best laid plans need need re-assessing and adjusting.
The Gooose That Laid The Golden Eggs
I would like to share a classical fairytale of the Goose that laid the golden eggs! For anyone that has never heard of this story I will quickly go over it. Once there was a farmer who had a goose and one morning he found a golden egg laid by the goose. Intrigued, he waited to see what would happen the next morning.
Food Pleasure or Pain?
Whenever January comes along we start the year with renewed vigour and optimism that this year we will stick to our resolutions and will do better than before!!!! That is fine until the first birthday, wedding, or celebration comes along and we have to face the fear of choosing to keep our best laid plans or choose the wine, starter, main course and pud!!!! The balance of the scales is there for just a moment…..then temptation, and our self talk kicks in, one night is not going to hurt…..I will be good tomorrow, how many times have we said that!!!!!
Write What You Know and Watch Your Influence Grow
How many times have you thought about doing something only to shoot yourself down with the old “I’m not good enough” rhetoric? The fear of failure or not being the “best” at something can sometimes paralyze even the best laid plans. This is especially true in the field of technology where stars are born virtually overnight. Do yourself a favor and get over it. Write what you know. Focus on the quality of your online engagement and not the quantity of your “fan base”.
Now is the Time
I love the hopeful feeling of having a new calendar and fresh plans laid out in front of me. But of course the New Year doesn’t wait long before euphoria subsides and it begins testing your resolve, persistence and plans. Whether your goals for 2012 were written in indelible ink or simply mumbled to yourself during your commute, the universe somehow seems to know about them and begins delivering the challenges. At some primal level, we know that our plans will only take wing if we get both hands on the steering wheel and are not shy about turning it in a direction we want to go. So, if starting a business is on your list of resolutions, I have some thoughts to share with you.

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