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Adopt an Emotion: CURIOSITY
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| Curiosity is one of those emotions that can be "turned on" at any moment by asking a simple question of inquiry. All one really needs to experience "curiosity" is a willingness to do so. |
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Using Mental Garlic to Defeat the Discouragement Vampire
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| Discouragement is the biggest reason why so many new entrepreneurs quit just before they reach their full potential. From experience, I have felt this same life-sucking discouragement vampire biting at me several times in my entrepreneurial ventures. Curiosity causes use to have this amazing survival instinct to question everything and negative thoughts starting racing thorough your head as you wonder "Why am I putting so much effort into reaching my goals but I'm yet see any results?" We have to understand that discouragement comes from the feeling of dissatisfaction. |
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Need More Innovation? Foster a Culture of Curiosity
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| In organizations, curiosity fuels innovation and the solving of stubborn problems. Foster curiosity in yourself and others and you will be on the way to getting breakthrough results.
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Leaders Connect to Their Genius From What They Don’t Know
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| The vast majority of individuals operate from what they already know based on personal knowledge, experiences, values, and beliefs attained throughout their growing years. They see the world through lens colored with their limiting perspectives. Organic leaders consciously or unconsciously have a vision that is bigger than them. They ask questions beyond what they know and what is universally known. Their inquiries stem from curiosity. One of the questions may start with: “I wonder.”
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Lesson #5: Never Stop Learning
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| “Every now and then I like to pick up a copy of Time magazine and read every article from beginning to end, not just the articles that interest me most,” says Gates. “That way you can be certain to learn something you didn’t know previously.” |
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Lesson #2: Chase Your Dreams
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| “Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true,” Disney said. “This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence.” |
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The Source of Enlightenment: How Franklin Achieved Success
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| With his commitment to personal achievement and to improving the lives of his fellow Americans, Franklin proved to be one of the most successful statesmen, writers, entrepreneurs and intellectuals of his time. Given that his father was a soap maker who couldn’t afford education for his 17 children, Franklin’s success is all the more astonishing. How did Franklin take control of his situation and turn his destiny around? |
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Lesson #5: Think For Yourself
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| “The first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own,” says Dell. “It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell.” |
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Walt Disney Quotes
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Bill Gates Quotes
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Michael Dell Quotes
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Lesson #1: Creative Brilliance is the Bridge to Success
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| “It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product,” wrote Ogilvy. “Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.” Ogilvy was an advertising executive who praised the virtues of creativity; if an ad didn’t sell, it was because it wasn’t creative. His years of experience taught him that people were not going to buy a product if the ad was boring; only interest and curiosity would entice people to buy. |
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From Busker To Billionaire: How Guy Laliberté Achieved Success
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| Until 2010, Laliberté will have his hands full with the opening of three new shows and a special Christmas production. “Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves,” he says. Just how did this one time street performer turn a group of young buskers into a performing troupe that has become a global phenomenon and a billion-dollar enterprise? |
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The Time of His Life: How Luce Built a Publishing Empire
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| “All our publications, all our activities, are successful,” Luce once said in looking back on his career. “They are successful not only at the box office, but they are successful also in the opinion of a large part of mankind. This is a considerable consolation for our efforts over the years.” |
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W.K. Kellogg Quotes
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Get the Trump Mindset for Real Estate Riches
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| by Donald J. Trump and Gary Eldred, PhD
We have a lot in common. We both started reading books about real estate when most of our fellow students were only thinking about buying cool cars.
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Secrets of Email
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| Most people read their email with their finger on the delete key similar to the way we sort through our mail over the trash bin to facilitate the process of throwing our junk mail away. If your email is not opened, you have exactly a 0% chance of getting a response no matter how fantastic the contents of your email may be. |
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Live a Life of Discovery
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| "What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Trigger their curiosity
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| Most people don't like advertising. And most people won't make the effort to open their email solicitation if they think they are getting an advertising message-unless they are sincerely interested in buying something that the advertisement offers. |
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Curiosity
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| One thing I’ve learned over the years is that curiosity is a good way to stay stimulated and informed as well as young. Ever notice that children are curious about everything? That’s how they learn and the same thing should apply to adults. |
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What Questions Do New Customers Ask of Entrepreneurs?
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| Amongst many things, entrepreneurs spot a hole in the market, create something ‘new’ (or different) and move fast. They need to be cash conscious, astute risk takers, careful business planners, passionate and energised. They influence financiers, associates and (most vital of all) ‘new’ customers. Good entrepreneurs sell and sell well. (And in the current economy, many who were once in the order-taking-by-word-of-mouth business need to learn to sell too.)
They start by raising customers’ curiosity. And once they have raised curiosity, how can entrepreneurs go about selling, a ‘new’ product or service to a ‘new’ customer, well?
Answer: understand the sequence and the nature of the questions all customers ask.
What questions?
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Making it Real
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| An old friend of mine shared, "I marvel at what my friends teach me". She wasn't talking about learning from her many friends how to improve her gardening skills or understanding more deeply the complexities of politics. She was addressing the emotional charges, the judgmental thoughts, the highs and lows of relating to others and what she learns about herself through such exchanges. She holds herself 100% accountable for her growth in relating to others from a place of real curiosity and a commitment to love. |
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Recruiting Tips In Network Marketing
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| Networking marketing is about selling and recruiting to be successful at it. More emphasis is given on building your network than in selling. Prospecting is a process by which you find the right people who will listen to you talk about your business. |
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Key Account Sales - More Than Just Important Accounts
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| Over the last several months I have engaged in several on line disagreements about the importance of asking questions early in the sales process. More than one sales expert has claimed that asking questions violates trust. More than one marketing expert has claimed that asking questions is offensive. |
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Isn't That Amazing!
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| TV pitchman follow a super-effective selling method. Learn exactly how their formula works. There's a sales lesson to be learned here. |
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Alpha Dominating Confidence in Your Marketing
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| Are you just a push over, when it comes to getting your point across the table? Are you completely terrified of offending someone or not being liked by the majority? |
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Inspire Productivity by Thinking like an Entrepreneur
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| Take a moment to consider how you approach life. Does life feel too routine and predictable? If your answer is yes and you enjoy that then fine. Routine can help people to feel grounded and comfortable. But if you feel bored here are some ideas. |
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The Role of Creative Advertising Techniques
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| Even the advertising industry is very competitive. To entice more clients, advertising companies are using many advertising techniques. Each advertising company seeks to outperform and outthink the others. The more competitive innovative the advertising is, the more clients it can draw. |
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3rd of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
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| In this post I present the real #2, The Enemy is Resistance. I've written about this before too.
The gist of Resistance is this: Selling would be far more simply for many more of your salespeople if they would focus on recognizing the resistance rather than attempting to overcome the many forms it takes: |
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Find out the 7 Top Copyrighting Tips
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| Most government or legal writing is passive, such as “enclosed in this envelope is a contract.” Something more active would be: “you’ll find in this envelope a contract I’ve included.” Passive writing is usually without a person doing something in the sentence. Active writing is when you have somebody doing something in the sentence. “The door was open” is passive. “Joe opened the door” is active. “Joe kicked open the door,” is even more active. |
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Creating Bullets and Using Bullets Efficiently
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| To create bullets, take a pad of paper. List all the features in the first column, the advantages in the second and the benefits in the third. |
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Using a Pre-Headline and Using a Story
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| The pre-head is a small statement before the headline that qualifies the readers a bit more. Often they read it after they read the headline. Use it to tell who this letter is for and who it's not for. Tell something that you've gone through to put people in the frame of mind before they start reading the letter. If the headline doesn't quite draw them in, people tend to start reading from the very beginning, and that's where the pre-head comes in. You could say: Please Read Carefully: This Opportunity is Only Being Offered to the Next 134 People." You could also ask a question. In short, you can do anything you think will compliment your headline and push people into reading the rest of your letter. |
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Writing Sales Letters and Pull your customer In.
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| Three Immutable laws of sales letters:
- People never read anything at first. Your job is to get people to start.
- People never believe anything at first. You must create the believability and prove that what you're offering is genuine.
- People never do anything at first. Your goal is to get them to do something, with the ultimate goal of ordering your product. You need to tell them exactly what to do
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The Art of the New Wealth: A Journey of Inner Peace and Deliberate Creation
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| I recently had a client that was struggling financially and I told her to be grateful for what she had. Instead of accepting this thought, she went irate. She told me that she couldn't be grateful for her old clothes, small house and her debit. She could even be grateful for the intangible things like her angry teenager and ex-husband.
In reflecting on my journey in deliberate creation with universal laws, I have found that before lived deliberately, I was overlooking all that I have.
What if we could be feel glorious peace and gratitude towards every-single-thing that meets you in life? Instead of getting caught up with what we don't have and what we are striving to "get". And depressed that we don't already have what we want already. |
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Is your website offering a wet and limp handshake?
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| Don't make the mistake of creating a website that is purely designed to lead people through a preconceived process. Having a process is essential, but not before your customers have 'buy-in'. To extract customer information before there is an established relationships or some form of emotive connection is only going to put people off. Sure, the internet is vast source of information and contains unlimited realms off opportunity. But don't abuse it simply because can or just because others are - you're better than that! |
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How to Tell a Joke is a Business Skill
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| If you want to discover the career element to
success, learn how to organize a funny joke.
Don't stop until you can automatically 1-2-3
put together a joke that draws a smile.
It will make you money all your life. |
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Back to School!
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| Five Homework Tips to Make You a Best-in-Class Salesperson |
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The Key To Your Success Is In Your Mind
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| Having a successful mindset is the most important tool someone wishing to be successful can have. |
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The Key To Happiness In The Workplace: A Lesson From The Happiest Person In The World
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| Happiness can be a real deal clincher. With very little often separating competing bids and tenders, the deciding factor often comes down to how pleasurable it has been in dealing with the people involved. But are people naturally happy or is it a skill that can be learnt? I learnt the answer from who I regard as the "happiest person in the world" and the answer might have you reassess how and who you hire. |
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How sticky are your ideas?
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| Every now and then I come across a book that really nails its topic. "Made To Stick" by brothers Chip and Dan Heath is one of them. Their insights into consistently creating memorable messages is must reading for anyone in sales. |
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Got Creativity or Hot Air?
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| We live in the Knowledge Economy, and
without Creativity, you got nothing.
Are there secrets to discovering how-to-
be seen as a creative hot-shot? |
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Dangerous Knowledge
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| How secret information leads to personal success.
Secret stuff connects the dots to give you a
competitive advantage over your peers.
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELLING
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The Power of Personal Notes
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| There are many things you can do to develop a great reputation, establish rapport with clients, colleagues and prospects, and get top-of-mind awareness in your target market--certainly too many things to list here. But few things are as effective (and inexpensive) in accomplishing all of those objectives as personal notes. As a devotee of personal notes, I've even been known to go so far as to call personal notes one of the three "magic bullets" of marketing. |
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7 Things To Avoid When Building Customer Relationships
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| What do you focus on when you meet with new sales prospects? Do you concentrate on what's important or do you hurry-up and start selling? Here are seven things to avoid when building customer relationships.
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"Twitterize" Your Marketing
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| In today's "microwave-I-want-it-now" society you really have no business taking enormous amounts of time to sell....just get t othe point, and now!
That's why Twitter is so popular, 140 characters is HARD to keep your message under!
Let's take a lesson from Twitter and use that in ALL our marketing! |
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5 Juicy Tips to Quickly Create Headlines that Draw Your Readers in & Move them Towards the Sale (hint: this means more money for you).
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| These are simply basic suggestions and serve as a guide for juicer headlines. |
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INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO INCREASE YOUR DIRECT MAIL EFFECTIVENESS
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| Innovative approaches to increase your direct mail effectiveness by getting creative. |
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Garber on Business: Breaking in to Trade Magazine writing
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| No matter how much experience one has as a journeyman writer, any new area of expertise presents certain challenges... |
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Salesmanship 101
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| One of the keys to achieving selling success is to employ your ears before you engage your mouth. Learn how to ask great questions. |
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Sales Training - Is There Any Need For Cold Calling Anymore?
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| There is much hype around at the moment that Cold Calling 'sucks' and that it has died a death. Never! In a business to business environment there will always be a place for cold calling. |
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Internet Marketing For Small Businesses
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| When one raises the topic of internet marketing there are usually a couple of responses. From the technically gifted, they immediately go off onto an elaborate discussion about the nuances and subtleties of the newest software or services. For small businesses, there is usually a completely different reaction. |
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How To Market Your Services or Products
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| The key to getting more new clients is to motivate prospects to "raise their hands" and then stay in touch with them with messages of interest. This article shows you easy-to-implement steps for doing just that. |
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The Magic of Social Media and Why Your Organization Can’t Ignore it
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| The Internet has evolved from a curiosity, to a two-way communication platform dominated by academia, and then to a commerce platform that has threatened to make conventional shopping and “business as usual” obsolete.
But with that transformation came an example of the law of unintended consequences: consumers became jaded.
Barraged by email, banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and multi-media online infomercials, the consumer felt more like a commodity than ever. And they started fighting back. Internet users banded together on primitive discussion boards where they found a voice. They were able to communicate with each other, make recommendations, air complaints, and generally provide instant feedback on the quality of goods and service being provided across the ‘Net as well as by traditional land-based (brick and mortar) vendors. |
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What Do You Do When You Get Up in the Morning?
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| As entrepreneurs who can't "hold down" a nine-to-five job, we often get questions from friends and family who wonder what we do when we get up in the morning. |
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What should my sales team expect from a successful Sales Coach?
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| Successful sales coaching requires patience, a good ear, curiosity and of course the ability to provide individual sales people or sales teams with the right information at the right time. These relationships empower the recipients with knowledge and the confidence to maneuver themselves toward the right outcomes. Wisdom is knowledge applied. Therefore the sales coach prefers not to impart his wisdom directly, instead coaching the sales people or sales team to find their wisdom through their own questioning, answering and experiences. |
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Build A Huge Responsive List the Quick and Easy Way
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| Online business is all about building lists so that you can effectively market to them time and again for the sole purpose of increasing your own income. Firstly, you need to build a relationship and you can do this by applying these two very simple techniques. |
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The Art of Book Branding
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| You wrote your book for others to read. True? You wrote it to offer others enjoyment, excitement, help and/or training. Don’t you owe it to your prospective readers to put the book share the book in a really big way? Don’t you owe it to yourself?
To get started I’ve created a short checklist for branding YOU and your book. |
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4 Words Your Web Site Should Never Use
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| There are 4 words used on millions of web sites that are seemingly innocent, but very costly if you make the same mistake. I'll not only tell you what these words are, but why they are counter productive and what you can do to be more successful with your web site. |
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Twenty-one Hot Tips for Developing Your Winning Personal Success Strategy
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When asked to define a “winning personal success strategy” many business people, community leaders, educators, and other “successful individuals” in many walks of life, provide the insight and information presented in the short but powerful article. |
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Got creativity in the workplace Well here are 20 ways to nip it
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| If the idea of having a bunch of creative thinkers running around the office has you shaking in your Florsheims, this article will show you ways to get rid of it before it can take root and help grow your company into the powerhouse it was meant to be. A humorous look at the "don'ts" of creativity, designed to give you a laugh and a few tips on how to nurture creativity in the workplace. |
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Arbonne Consultants Market Your Arbonne Home Party Business with Samples Testimonials
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| Hey Arbonne Consultants been to Costco lately Or Sam’s Club? What can Costco & Sam's Club teach Arbonnites about building a 6-FIGURE Arbonne Business? I love the Saturday frenzy when they have 40 different foods for unsuspecting shoppers to taste. (Don’t be modest, many of us have lunched at Costco making sure to grab each sample provided). |
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Winning Secrets To Successfully Advertising Your Business The How and Why of Pushing Their Emotional Hot Buttons
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| Advertising your business is the one expense you cannot avoid; even online...but if you are smart about it you can cut down on your expenses while still successfully helping the world beat a path to your virtual doorstep. First you get their attention and then you creat a burning desire to hear more...and believe. |
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How To Create A Reputation for Honesty as a Leader-Part 2
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| It is possible to have a well deserved reputation for honesty-the most important reputation a leader can have, simply by modeling a few behaviors. |
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What Great Questions Can You Ask?
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| Ingenuity and thinking are driven by questions. The better the questions you ask the more insight and ideas you get. Here are just a few of the over 150 questions I like to ask. |
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Stop Spewing the Sale and Start Sharing Your Exceptional Value
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| Many in sales forget that telling is not selling. These busy professionals are working harder not smarter because they continue to spew their price, product or proposal instead of taking this approach that increased sales conversions and reduces sales cycle time. |
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The 10 Most Common Web Design Mistakes
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| Does Your Website Make These 10 Mistakes? Fix them Right Now or Keep Leaving Money on the Table Every Day. |
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Keeping Your Leadership Fresh
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| How do you keep your leadership fresh? By being willing to give up the certainties of past answers and throwing yourself into each instance of groupwork as if it were the first. Risky, yes. Exciting, for sure. Essential, without doubt. Find out more with the 5 ways to inject freshness into all your groupwork. |
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The Art of E-Mail Marketing: Take Your Emails From Blah to Bodacious
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| Business owners are continuing to fail to create e-mail campaigns that effectively converts prospect to clients. Too many business owners are not taking the time to build an online relationship with potential customers. If you are not taking the to create quality communications, you may be destroying your reputation.
Are you a victim of a blah email marketing campaign? Do you share meaningless information? Do you realize how many clients you may be missing out on by not creating a relationship with your subscribers? |
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Yawn..Do Your Customers Think You're Dull?
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Well - it really breaks another big rule of SELLING. When you're dull - you're not different.
When you're not different (with something that is important to your customer) -they feel that you're exactly like your competitor.
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How To Wear Your Sales Message
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| At a recent conference session I spoke at, an exhibitor came up to me after my presentation and asked a great question: “How can I start a sales conversation with people without being obnoxious?”. |
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Tell Me, What Does It All Mean?
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| The essence of midlife is a huge paradigm shift. The essence of a midlife crisis is the refusal to change. The only question is, "Will you take responsibility for your life?" |
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Marketing With Classified Ads-What It Takes To Make Them Work
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| Not all ezines are created equal; some of them have poor formatting and lack luster articles, and others are a breath of fresh. But nearly all ezines, good or bad, have classified ads. |
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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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Nine Ways to Network More Effectively
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| One of the best ways to convert prospects into customers is by networking. Here are some simple strategies for making your networking more effective. |
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Be Impressed, Grasshopper, Not Impressive
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| To have clients like you, you must be impressed, rather than impressive. But it's also more than being impressed. You must listen deeply and ask questions with Childlike Curiosity-not just about the problem you were trained to solve, but about his family, his hopes and his dreams. |
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5 Simple Tips How To Craft Killer Headlines that *BOOST* Email Open Rates, Opt-Ins, and Sales
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| Email marketing is a fabulous way to market your products and services to your readers and make sales---*if* they bother to open your emails to read them! Your first impression--your headline--can lead to marketing success or failure. Read about five simple headline tips and formulas you can use to *boost* your email open rates, opt-ins, and make more sales!
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An Elevator Speech Can Open Closed Doors
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| A good elevator speech makes a good first impression. In the time it takes for a short elevator ride, you should be able to answer the question, "What do you do?"
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Marketing is a Contact Sport; Can You Deliver a Knockout Punch?
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| Your best clients have lots of things to do every day, and lots of things that need their attention, and none of those things necessarily involve you. It can feel as though you’re invisible and your best prospects are walking around, over, or right through you without even noticing YOU. |
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We Live in a Headline World; Will Yours Do its Job?
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| You may not think headlines have anything to do with you or your sales success, but you’d be wrong. You’re exposed to headlines everyday whether those headlines are presented in a written format, audio format, or visual format. |
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Opening Statements Are the Keys to Successful Calls
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| The opening statement is the most essential part of your call.
The point you need to communicate in the first few seconds
The purpose for your opening is twofold
Stupid Questions Get Stupid Answers |
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Kicking the email habit
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| Even the high-tech giants such as Google and Intel are recognising that constant bombardment with electronic communications can lead to stress, and are seeking ways to protect workers, starting with their own staff.
In this article, John Niland describes an experiment carried out at Success 121 during May 2008, which had a dramatic effect on the productivity of the team. He describes the “email diet” as a pragmatic way to sustain attentiveness and prevent overload, and also deals with some of the practical issues this creates.
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A Real Bad Business Assumption:
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| Assuming you know the perception the customer has of you and your business
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Bad Business Assumption:Assuming You know The Perrception The Customer Has Of You
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| With the customer having many, many businesses to purchase the products and services you sell it is very important that you do not assume the customer views you the way you wish them to.
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Your Own Community Service Websites - The Golden Key To Success!
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| The Internet May Be Global But If You Are Ignoring Your Home Town You Are Leaving Your Most Valuable Resource Untapped! And the best part is that you can literally be up and running in a couple of days and for easily less than $200.00 a year. |
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Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 1 of 7)
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| Do you want to learn a proven formula that will help you:
· Create the business of your dreams?
· Move to a more advanced level of consciousness and income?
· Learn the secret of using energy principles in a grounded process for yourself and your clients?
Success Through Your Spirit: The Golden Six-Figure Formula, is about amping up your belief in your ability to be successful in your work and to help you take the actions to see this become a reality. We get to the root of what is holding you back from being and earning what you deserve. |
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The Power of YES!
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| The choices we make about what we say to ourselves and others profoundly impact the quality of our lives.
I notice in myself and my clients that saying the word, “YES,” increases our energy level. ‘Yes’ peels away resistance and helps us to move downstream. With yes in the forefront, we easily flow with the river of life instead of against it. The weight of struggling our way through whatever is happening lifts, and life becomes so much easier.
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The Only Object of Life
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| Margaret Fuller wrote: “Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
I love this quote and imagine this perspective had a profound impact on the quality of her life.
If each of us shared Margaret’s outlook and truly lived from this perspective in all of its fullness, what would be different for us and those whom we touch? There are many possibilities. |
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3 Ways to Makeover A Plain Headline Into An Irresistibly Gorgeous Head-turning Headline
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| Many people do their own writing, be it copywriters cranking subject lines and sub-headlines, or “normal Joes and Janes” riffing bullets and body copy.
Here are a 3 techniques that will instantly SPICE up your copy. |
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7 Steps to Acquiring an Instant Intellect
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| Want An Instant Intellect? An easy way to stand above the crowd if to demonstrate your mastery of communication. It is easily shown in your own communication style. |
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A Basic Guide to Promotional Products
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| Running a business requires you to use various marketing strategies and determining when it’s best to use which. One marketing strategy that you’ll no doubt use often is giving out promotional products, and if you haven’t had any experience yet with this strategy, here’s what you should know. |
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The Story of the Talking Head
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| When you’re bursting with ideas or are passionate about your topic, it’s easy to become a Talking Head. But, developing the ability to listen is so much more effective and vital to becoming a successful entrepreneur. |
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Courtroom Earth vs. Classroom Earth
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| When I am coaching my professional clients, in some fashion, I am likely to be asking them, “What risks are you avoiding taking that might very well make you happier?” Together, we examine whatever fears, self-judgments, or limiting beliefs are holding them back, keeping them in Courtroom Earth instead of letting them enjoy hanging out in Classroom Earth. |
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Promote Your Business with Postcards
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| Many business owners are utilizing the internet to grow their businesses. Technology is marvelous and frankly, I don’t know what I would do without it. But just because you can implement loads of marketing strategies on-line, it doesn’t mean other methods are obsolete.
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Top 10 PPC Ad Tricks to Boost Your Click-Through Rate
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| How do you make your ad jump off the page and become a click magnet? The secret is "triggers". Your ad headline and copy need to trigger a response within the viewer instantly.
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The New Face of Professional Networking: Online Social Networks
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| The new face of professional networking - online social networks offer a mix of opportunities and challenges for job seekers. |
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UNDERSTANDING YOUR ROLE AS LEADER
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| The purpose of this article is to help you develop an awareness of your role as a leader. Unlike the typical role of a manager, leaders are expected to have a greater impact. Knowing how effective leaders think and act can help you the manager communicate more effectively with the key leaders in your organization and also communicate the desires of the leader to those who report to you. |
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EQ Coaching The Ultimate Development Tool by Peggy Grall
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| Learn how coaching can accelerate the development and promote ability of Generation X |
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Enrich Your Time! Discover The Joys of Curiosity
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| Are you still Curious? Enrich Your Time! |
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Book Review: Made to Stick
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| Have you ever wondered why you remember what you do? The authors have distilled the essence of “sticking” (remembering a message) into 6 principles (”SUCCES”) |
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Take Care of Yourself - Take Care of Your Business
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| Everyone knows how important it is to take care of you while building a business. It’s almost become a cliché – the expression coined by financial expert David Bach, “pay yourself first”, has come to represent across all disciplines, the notion of taking care of number one before turning your focus to the rest of a very needing world.
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You Only Have To Ask…..
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| What questions can you ask this week that will help to move you forward? What have you been putting off for fear of asking?... |
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Do Planes Have Horns?
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| In the not so distant past, my niece’s four-year old son, Hollis, was getting on a plane. Hollis is a frequent traveler. As usual, the energetic four-year old ran down the gangway in excitement. He just about ran into the captain’s legs at the entrance to the plane. As he looked up at the uniformed woman, Hollis asked, “Do planes have horns?”
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Lesson #5: Think For Yourself
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| “The first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own,” says Dell. “It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell.” |
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How To Tell Your Marketing Story
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| We are wired to tell, read, and listen to stories. A great story gets you to feel as if you were in the story: you senses are engaged, your curiosity is piqued, and your adrenalin is flowing. |
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NLP - Your Pathway to Personal Success
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| NLP is more than just techniques. It is a curiosity about how people who are high achievers accomplish what they actually set out to do. |
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Adopt an Emotion: CURIOSITY
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| Curiosity is one of those emotions that can be "turned on" at any moment by asking a simple question of inquiry. All one really needs to experience "curiosity" is a willingness to do so. |
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Need More Innovation? Foster a Culture of Curiosity
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| In organizations, curiosity fuels innovation and the solving of stubborn problems. Foster curiosity in yourself and others and you will be on the way to getting breakthrough results.
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What Questions Do New Customers Ask of Entrepreneurs?
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| Amongst many things, entrepreneurs spot a hole in the market, create something ‘new’ (or different) and move fast. They need to be cash conscious, astute risk takers, careful business planners, passionate and energised. They influence financiers, associates and (most vital of all) ‘new’ customers. Good entrepreneurs sell and sell well. (And in the current economy, many who were once in the order-taking-by-word-of-mouth business need to learn to sell too.)
They start by raising customers’ curiosity. And once they have raised curiosity, how can entrepreneurs go about selling, a ‘new’ product or service to a ‘new’ customer, well?
Answer: understand the sequence and the nature of the questions all customers ask.
What questions?
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Curiosity kills the cat but wins the customer
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| If you’re searching online for a blind date, you can narrow the field demographically to, let’s say, people between age 35 and 45 who live in Denver. And you can take a peek at the all-important photograph. But is that enough information to make even one valid assumption about someone? Before you commit to that blind date, you’ll want to know what kind of personality they have and what their interests and values are, among other things. That same kind of curiosity about your customers gives you a deep understanding of what they need or want-and serves as the basis for a passionate long-term relationship.
It may be time to add intellectual curiosity to the competencies you require in your sales, marketing and customer service staff, and embed curiosity in your company culture.
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1973 Style Selling...How NOT to Sound in a Sales Call - Medical Sales Training
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| "If I could show you a way..." just may be the best way to begin annoying your customer. Remember, before posing sales questions you first need to build respect and trust…then create curiosity with a question. |
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You think know your buyer. You don’t.
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| Sales folks are taught to have a certain amount of curiosity. But what, exactly, are you curious about? |
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7 Proven Strategies For Going Viral
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| I surprised myself last month when my new free gift went viral. Since I’m filled with curiosity, I wanted to know why… so I deconstructed the experience, looking for the lessons. Here is what I learned. |
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