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Lesson #1: Give Back To Others
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| “One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy. And only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.” |
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Larry Ellison Quotes
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One Copy at a Time: Kinko’s Takes Off
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| Orfalea had been a student at USC when he noticed a copy machine in the school library. He realized that few people had access to the new technology and decided to do something about it. With a $5,000 loan from the bank, Orfalea rented out a 100-square-foot garage behind a hamburger stand near his campus. In addition to selling school supplies, Orfalea bought a copier and began charging 2.5-cent copies. The store was so small that the copier had to be used out on the sidewalk in front. He called his business “Kinko’s” after his childhood nickname. |
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Making Customers More Than Your Top \"Priority\"
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| Recently, my firm was conducting training at a regional sales meeting of a big conglomerate. Our goal was to establish cross-divisional lead-sharing as a part of the company culture and to get everyone to understand how big of a win-win that practice can be. |
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Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding
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| I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs. |
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Scheduling
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It’s been said, “You can always get more stuff, but you can never get more time!” There will always be more to do than you can accomplish in a day and more people needing more of you than you are willing to give! It’s enough to make you want to pull your hair out! But don’t - instead think about the power of planning.
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Eyes Wide Open
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| I'm sitting in my hotel room in Palo Alto after 20 hours of travel from Hampshire, England. Amy and I took our Q3 vacation in the English countryside at the Hampshire Four Seasons where we had a glorious week off of the grid. I find myself really wanting to be tired, but I am so far beyond tired that I'm wide awake well past midnight California time. |
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Chunk-Down that Goal and Get Out of Overwhelm
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| Sometimes our biggest life goals seem so overwhelming. |
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Network Marketing Tips: Why you have trouble building your downline.
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| After the initial fire of emotional excitement and possibility dies down (usually by day 90 in a new network marketing opportunity), and the boat loads of cash aren't rolling in, a fundamental question arrives: Why doesn't anyone see what I see and how do I find people who will see the potential? As far as network marketing tips go, these three were the biggest A-ha moments for me. The principles I'll cover here are: |
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6 Irrefutable Reasons Why Working At Home In Your Own Home Based Business Makes Sense.
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| Home based businesses comprise one-half of all businesses. Whatever is holding you back from starting your own work at home business, consider these 6 reasons why you should work from home in your own business. |
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Quick Tips to Decrease Stress
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| Life has been busy, busy, busy but good. Lots of new projects in the works and great new clients. It's definitely been a time to chunk down tasks! Yes, even I, "the life balance guru" need reminders. Living in a state of overwhelm is not healthy. I always say, you can live that way for a sprint but not a marathon!
Here are some basic steps to use to move from overwhelm to calm - or at least calmer! |
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To Ask or Not To Ask, That is the Question
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| Asking questions and negotiating is part of business and life. So why do some questions put my teeth on edge and others don't? Where's the line? |
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SEO Positioning or PPC Marketing: You Can Only Choose One.
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| There are two sides of online marketing: a. The slightly awkward, a little rough around the edges, SEO Positioning that speaks in code and works really late at night b. The smooth talking, nicely dressed, PPC Marketing, consuming numbers and spreadsheets like the entertainment section of the NY Times
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Sales Peoples' Biggest Weakness – C-Level Selling
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| If you want overachieving salespeople they must know how to and be comfortable C-Level Selling. Most sales people deliver mediocre results because they lack this skill set. Learn how to put this missing major element into your salespeople.
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ITV…Does Art Imitate Life or Life Imitate Art?
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| Tellywood and manufacturers have picked the team they want to be on and have started the game to determine who will be the league winners in the next generation DVD series. Problem is there is no one in the stands. Consumers seem happy to watch the game they know. After all, current DVD recorders, players, media is very economic. Millions of viewing options are available. No one has done a good job of showing them why the new game is better -- unless you call the news releases and press conferences proof. Boy looks like it is going to be a long season. |
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You can't afford to let the knowledge leak out!
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| The sales rep with superior knowledge is a formidable competitor. That's why you have a Sales Excellence Council in place. (Right?) And that group is charged with identifying the best and newest sales best practices and tools. (Right?) |
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Comfort Zones
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| “You are either learning or dying” the saying goes.
We meet some remarkable people in life. People in their 20’s and 30’s who are confident in who they are. People in their 40’s and 50’s who are alive with passion and commitment. People in their 60’s,70’s and 80’s who are fascinated, open and learning. |
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Equity Splits
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| I’ve been working with a couple of clients recently on how to give equity to other people coming into the business, and it’s definitely a recurring theme which causes a lot of debate and difficulty. |
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Not Having All the Answers...or Any For That Matter!
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| Are you so wrapped up in your chaotic day that you forget to pay attention to your learning curve and what's possible for you in the world? |
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Do You Have The Likeability Factor?
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| Much of our success in life will be determined by our ability to sell ourselves to others. Whether in our personal or working lives; people will judge us by what we say and what we do. However, more importantly, this will be influenced by how likeable we are. |
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Real Estate Marketing Strategies - Seven Simple Steps to More Clients in 90 Days
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| Are you letting your dislike of marketing get in the way of your business? Focus on your goal! Here are some tips to empower you and help you attract more clients. |
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Successful Goal Setting
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| Setting goals puts you in the driver’s seat, giving you the power to transform your life or take a company to another level. Successfully setting and executing goals is not rocket science but there is a tried and true way that works for my clients and me. Sticking to this program guarantee’s success. It doesn’t matter whether your goals are personal or they are used to direct a large enterprise, the steps and the pitfalls are identical. I’ll take you through a quick tour. If you like, you can identify a goal of yours and do a test run of the system. The steps to executing goals are simple, unambiguous and easy to follow and should be practiced every day. Skipping one step increases the odds that you wion’t realize your goal. |
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5 Top Tips to Stay On Track and Get Great Results
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| I'm constantly amazed at the amount of people I encounter who seem to invest a big chunk of their time and money attending seminars, joining coaching programs and investing in very expensive products only to do nothing with them.
I recently saw a testimonial from a lady who had attended one of these events, saying the information from the program was going to turn her business into a million dollar company.
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The Most Underrated — and Most Powerful — Tool in Online Book Marketing
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| Know the outstanding, cost efficient features of owning and maintaining a highly effective, interactive and multimedia website to market and promote your books. |
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Increase Your Focus
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| Unable to concentrate on the task at hand? Don't waste work time with daydreams or frazzled thoughts. Here's how to increase your focus and get back to business.
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Balancing Your Needs against Your Wants
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| Should your next career satisfy your basic economic needs, or should it satisfy the desires of your heart? Is there any way to strike a balance between them? |
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The Secret to a Successful Online Business: It's All About Building Relationships
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| Establishing a trust relationship with your potential online clients takes time, but it is well worth the effort!
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4 Vital Negotiating Behaviours
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| A skilled negotiator will create high levels of rapport and be sensitive and empathetic to the people they are negotiating with, yet can still be hard on the issues. The ability to separate the people from the issues and recognise that negotiations, are often fraught with emotional intensity can help sharpen the focus on the interests of the other party to better balance perceptions. |
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How to Sell the Benefits of What You Sell - How Would You Answer - Why Should I Use You?
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| Forget having a fancy USP's. For most companies the best USP you can have is ensuring every member of staff can answer the question - "why should I do business with you?" This invaluable article shows you how to do just that. |
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Is Franchising Right for Me?
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| Before setting up a plan for your franchise business, you have to truly ask yourself if it’s the correct choice for you or will it end up being a regrettable career move? |
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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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Be Careful What You Wish For
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| Well, my friends, like the Terminator, politicians named Clinton, the ghosts from the movie Poltergeist, and that corn on the side of your big toe: I’m back. There are just some things that won’t go away. Sorry. |
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What Mistake Ends Your Hopes for Increasing Sales?
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| Your sales are down, your self-confidence is gone, and you feel like you’re beating your head against a brick wall. Maybe you should just quit. |
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Business Literacy Stimulates Entrepreneurial and Personal Mastery—Part 1
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| In this series, I will share the traits, actions and strategies pertaining to entrepreneurs I’ve gathered over two decades. Business Literacy™ adds order to chaos and reason to scattered efforts and information. |
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Successful Franchisee Traits
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| Do you have the personal traits necessary for success in the franchising industry? You might want to make sure you can say “yes” to these questions before you invest... |
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Rule 18 Let Your Customers Point the Way to Profit
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| This is Rule #18 in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars. |
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The Little Internet Marketing Tactic That Could
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| Learn about a powerful yet simple Internet marketing tactic that is often overlooked. |
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Time Counts
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| Time counts and here are 12 time tips to help you become more effective every selling day.
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The Einstein Factor in Leading Science Based Projects - Part 3
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| When asked if the people, practices and techniques required to lead science research projects are different from those in the general population, the answer is not just YES, but a resounding DUH! |
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Tax Deductions One Way to Minimize Self Employment Taxes
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| The US Tax Code can be pretty rough on the self employed. But there are a few provisions that can save you thousands. Here's one self employment tax deduction strategy that you can't afford to overlook. Your heartburn over outrageous health insurance premiums and skyrocketing medical expenses may be about to go away! |
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Business Success and Life Tip 15 Minute Increments
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| Learn tips on how to become more productive by working smarter not harder! |
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Effective Writing: Where Have You Gone?
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| There are several poorly written articles circling the bowl on a daily basis, and this may end up being yet another one, but it's alarming to me that professional journalists consistently botch spelling and grammar. It used to be newspapers, magazines, and books served as an example of the proper use of punctuation, word groupings, grammar, and synonyms. Not anymore.
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Procrastination and JDI!
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| Getting better information makes for the more correct decisions. Yet the fear of 'getting it wrong' sometimes means that we use collating information and all sorts of other seemingly completely valid tactics as a good excuse for being slow to decide. |
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A FiveStep Plan to Overcome Procrastination
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| Dear Jane,
Why can't I ever finish anything? Why do I procrastinate so much?
Most of us think we are simply lazy when we procrastinate. But the truth is that the cause of most procrastination isn’t laziness; it’s fear. We may be afraid that the task at hand is overwhelming or we may be afraid of failing at it. These are the two biggest fears that tend to keep us in approach/avoidance mode.
Here are five key ways to get past your resistance and get “it” done, whatever the “it” is: |
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Get Yourself Unstuck: 8 Smart Reminders
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| Whether you consider yourself a occasional procrastinator, or a terminal one, getting stuck in the mud occasionally - paralyzing your ability to act sometimes happens. While it's certainly useful to explore the reasons behind persistent procrastination patterns and resolve them, this article is intended to offer you 8 smart reminders, to free you up, and get you moving again. Here they are:
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Promote Fun -- Promote Profits
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| This article suggests that by creating a "fun" work environment, you can also create better customer and employee satisfaction. |
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What's Your Chunk Size?
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| In this article you will learn what your chunk size is. |
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How Much Money Does It Take To Run An Small Business Website?
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| One the primary stopping blocks to starting up a business on the internet is lack of understanding at exactly how much it all costs. Do-it-yourselfer's often think they can save money but, in the end, it is the one who knows the true value of a website and who is willing to invest a chunk of change up-front that will reap the rewards of an established small business website. |
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Avoid that Christmas Financial Hangover
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| Yes, folks it’s that time of year again in which we will be expected to spend 20 million euros an hour on Christmas Eve in Ireland along Yep, that’s right, AN HOUR. Of course a substantial chunk of that will be on credit and many of us will be dreading our January credit card bills: I spent HOW MUCH. Ouch. So how can we enjoy Christmas without giving ourselves the January hangover? Here are some tips to ensure that January is not the cruelest credit card month for you. |
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5 Top Tips to Stay On Track and Get Great Results
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| I'm constantly amazed at the amount of people I encounter who seem to invest a big chunk of their time and money attending seminars, joining coaching programs and investing in very expensive products only to do nothing with them.
I recently saw a testimonial from a lady who had attended one of these events, saying the information from the program was going to turn her business into a million dollar company.
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BOOK REVIEW: Why Should Anyone Be Led by YOU? What it Takes to be an Authentic Leader (By Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones. Harvard Business School Press, 2006, ISBN #1-57851-971-3)
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| People want to be led by a person, the authors contend, not by someone with a fancy job title or a manager who has amassed a vast chunk of organizational turf. Employees will choose to follow only a real, live, breathing human being who reveals at least some of their humanity, values, personality and, yes, vulnerability. |
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Adding Structure To Your Home Business is Imperative
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| Structures in life are necessary. Without them the human, unless naturally the high structures type spoke of in a previous article, will wander aimlessly from task to task. This is easy to do when promoting online because one site will lead to another. Each offering to nickle and dime the business owner with small costs to promote their URL. Each one seems small but when added up over the month, can be a large chunk if not exceed the advertising budget set aside. |
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Quick Tips to Decrease Stress
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| Life has been busy, busy, busy but good. Lots of new projects in the works and great new clients. It's definitely been a time to chunk down tasks! Yes, even I, "the life balance guru" need reminders. Living in a state of overwhelm is not healthy. I always say, you can live that way for a sprint but not a marathon!
Here are some basic steps to use to move from overwhelm to calm - or at least calmer! |
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Taking Action to achieve your Goals
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| You can't eat an elephant all in one bite so sometimes we need to chunk down our goals into bite size chunks! |
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5 Steps to Focusing On Your Business Priorities
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| Whether you are trying to get clear on your business direction, or your daily tasks, you have to chunk up from the detail swimming around in your head to a higher level focus. |
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How much can I really make in a franchise business investment? PART 1
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| So you're considering a franchise investment, but you want to know before you plop down a big chunk of cash: how much can I really make in this business? It's a fair question and one that, contrary to popular opinion, you can do a reasonable job of actually answering. Read on for part 1 of FranchiseHelp's exclusive 3-part, in-depth guide to estimating the profit potential of nearly any franchise, where we cover some basic franchise accounting. |
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