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Lesson #1: Balance Work and Play
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| “I think about the business all the time,” says Ellison. “Well, I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I'm wakeboarding.” |
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Lesson #4: Stop Chasing a Lost Cause
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| If one thing above all else could be said about Luce it is that he was an ambitious man. No matter what the task at hand, Luce hated to lose. Indeed, his parish priest described Luce as “a man of unlimited imagination who reveled in hard facts; one who could be gruff with the mighty and relaxed with little children; a thinker who could see all sides of a question and yet make a quick and implacable decision. To talk with him was to shift the mind into high gear, for his was never in neutral.” |
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GUERRILLA SOFT STEPS
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| It's a hard step for a prospect to decide to buy from you. Guerrillas
make that hard step a whole lot easier by offering prospects several
soft steps. |
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Why some people can make a six figure income easily, and you can't.
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| The secret of the the six figure income is a mystery to most of the population. But the ones who have achieved it know that there are two simple principles to achieve the six figure income.
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A Test of Sales Character
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| I can honestly say I did not enjoy the early years of my sales career. I initially found it hard, relentless and sometimes really distressing. I was asked to do things I didn't always understand that significance of. I often felt overly scrutinised by the constant monitoring of activity and performance by my managers. I worked in tough markets in tough times and sometimes wondered if it was worth it. I felt under pressure and sometimes wished I didn't have to sell at all, however I came to realise that this tough introduction to selling was what I really needed to prepare me for the future. In the words of Robert Louis Stevenson "Everyone lives by selling something'.
Over the years as my sales career evolved, I began to learn a lot more about myself. |
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Even ADHD Coaches Suffer with Clutter
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| When I moved homes in February, my home office set-up changed. While I have a great office to see my clients in, I also do a reasonable amount of work on my computer in my home office. |
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Sales - A test of character
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| I can honestly say I did not enjoy the early years of my sales career. I initially found it hard, relentless and sometimes really distressing. I was asked to do things I didn't always understand that significance of. I often felt overly scrutinised by the constant monitoring of activity and performance by my managers. I worked in tough markets in tough times and sometimes wondered if it was worth it. I felt under pressure and sometimes wished I didn't have to sell at all, however I came to realise that this tough introduction to selling was what I really needed to prepare me for the future. In the words of Robert Louis Stevenson "Everyone lives by selling something'. |
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers That Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
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| In 2009 we’re deep into a major recession in the United States and many other countries throughout the world are experiencing many of the same problems. Each week we hear comparisons to previous recessions and economic downturns – but the benchmark for all financial crisis is the “Great Depression”. So, this seems like a great time to read and learn more about what happened around the world from the end of World War I and the late 1930’s. Liaquat Ahamed has written a great book that documents what was happening in the world during this twenty year period. I highly recommend that anyone interested in learning more about what lead up to the Great Depression and how the financial leaders handled it – must read this book. |
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Recession Reality and 15 Simple Strategies for Growing Your Buiness
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Good businesses principles work regardless of a recession, in fact they probably work even better during a recession because customers are more tuned in when purchasing. Bad business principles are routed out and killed during a recession. This happens to also be good for people who conduct business in the right way.
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Are Your Salespeople Selling Value Like Nordstrom's or Price Like Sam's Club?
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| Nordstrom's was busier than Walmart and salespeople are trying to get appointments based on low price. What does this say about the state of the economy and more specifically, about discounting and trying to win business based on price? Read the exciting details... |
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Oct 28 1968 Kidney Transplant Survivor Holiday Thoughts
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| Yes I had a Kidney Transplant on Oct 28 1968 when I tell most people they say "Right" well we live in a world of non belief! A real good reason for this just look at whats going on with the election and our economy! This is part of a ongoing book I am writing and I hope you have some time to read some of my views after being a prodigy of the Health Care system for over 40 years I was 14 when this all started and I am including some very close thoughts that anyone with a child in a health care situation should read. Some might get mad some might like some might even donate to help fund my book but in this time of bad credit bad investments and High cost of Health care You should take 10 minutes and read this Thanks |
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Is Your Business Card Working for You?
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| Using Your Marketing Real Estate Wisely. |
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Obligations and Expectations
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| We start out life, given a set of assumptions that act as 'training wheels' until we're ready to strike out on our own. Sadly, some people never do. |
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How you must be like the wise old German Shepherd
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| You have got to have a back up plan to survive and prosper |
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Business Opportunity - Leverage Your Employees!
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| For business to be successful, you have to take every step possible to make sales, control costs, be profitable.
Yet there is an asset that so often gets looked over.
The very people you employ.
And if you work it right, they can bring in rewards like you never thought possible. |
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Prioritise Your Day Keep Focus Win
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| It's such an easy thing to say, "Prioritise", yet many of us find it very challenging, especially in the moment, when the chips are down and everything is going wrong. So what can be done to make the difference to you and your business? How can you decide?... |
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I’ll Do It Later
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| "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams
Let's talk about the P word. Procrastination. If this is you, this pervasive, habit effects every aspect of your life. As a procrastinator you typically under perform, limiting success and the life you want to live. It dampens your ability to take action, creates missed opportunities, and is the single pattern of behavior I see in most entrepreneurs that if corrected would free up log jams of energy and potential. If you're a procrastinator you know in your bones that this is true, yet, it seems like an impossible habit to break.
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I’ll Do It Later
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| "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams
Let's talk about the P word. Procrastination. If this is you, this pervasive, habit effects every aspect of your life. As a procrastinator you typically under perform, limiting success and the life you want to live. It dampens your ability to take action, creates missed opportunities, and is the single pattern of behavior I see in most entrepreneurs that if corrected would free up log jams of energy and potential. If you're a procrastinator you know in your bones that this is true, yet, it seems like an impossible habit to break.
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Words Can Make A Difference
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| As a youngster I heard a little rhyme which said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." That's untrue. Words can give us hope and encouragement, or they can break our spirits and dash our hopes. |
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Email Marketing Demystified
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| I’ve combined some of the things I learnt from Matt Furey with my own approach to writing, and the result is a winning combination that I use to write emails that actually make money.
For me, writing an email is a 4-step process – it’s a system that you can use and build on.
1. Current or Evergreen?
2. Determine the Strategy
3. Write down the Bones
4. Edit
And additional tips. |
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The New Old Timey Customer Service
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| Whatever happened to Lee Roy Clark? Mr. Clark was the grocer in my South Georgia hometown. He was my introduction to what it meant to be a "merchant"—courteous and eager to help all who came into his small all-purpose store. The business world is today rediscovering the value of service that permeated Lee Roy Clark's bones. The Lee Roy Clarks of yesteryear get no credit for using methods now attributed to Disney, USAA, Nordstorm, and Ritz-Carlton Hotels. What happened between the early 1950s version of small-town service and its present-day renaissance? How did the business world move so far away from Lee Roy Clark and why is his brand of customer service now so eagerly sought? |
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Power of the Spoken Word
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| Solomon once wrote, "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones."
This article shares a small tale of how one heart reached out to another in an unlikely place.
Leaders cannot underestimate the awesome influence that can be made by what one person says. |
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Yesterday's Wisdom - Mrs Caulder
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| Here lie the bones of Servicorous - the good old fashioned service dinosour is now extinct and but a mere memory for those still alive to remeber what the word actually means. SERVICE. Treating a customer as a client. Giving them recognition and respect. Letting them know that they are important and of value. |
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The Power of an Impossible Mission
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| I was sitting on one of the park bench at the top of Little Glassy Mountain at Connemara, Carl Sandburg's former home, when it hit me. I'd been reading excerpts from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich and Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, and was pleasantly surprised to find a connection between Hill's "definiteness of purpose" and Goldberg's essay on the power of our obsessions. |
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