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Moment of Good Financial News Zen: Shark Attacks Down
Here is your moment of good financial news zen, or maybe we should call it optimism porn:
Looking to 2010: Marketing Advice for Small Business Guerrillas
OK, so 2008 and 2009 were not good years for small businesses. Demand was soft, those customers, who could pay, did so slowly, banks and other sources were very stingy with credit. If you made it this far, what should Marketing Guerrillas be doing looking at twentyten? Here are five specific recommendations based on the book, MORE Guerrilla Marketing Research. The key idea in the book is that when Guerrillas have a marketing problem, they should ask their customers and prospects for advice. Doing this will produce a better decision than going it alone--every time.

Employee Retention: 7 Tactics to Retain Your Most Valuable Asset
Recent surveys show that senior executives place employee retention as their greatest staffing concern. And so they should. Employers who are able to minimize their employee turnover during this recession period are going to emerge from it stronger and healthier than those companies whose employees have defected. You should be doing everything you can to make sure that you keep your employees happy, engaged, and productive. Your company depends on it, and here's why.

House prices are down (again) and will continue to go down!
The article discusses current house prices and where they are headed, the economy and invesment flows, and the Case Shiller index.

The Power of a Blank Whiteboard
Unfortunately for many companies, people don't usually respond well to change. Anything but. I wish we could embrace the opportunity to evolve processes and thinking and behaviors - but often we don't. Especially in tough times - when the company environment is probably already tense and constricted. When things get tense, people tend to hang on to what they know, as a touchstone for the status quo - which is known and safe, even if it does mean a downhill slide. Hanging onto 'the way we've always done it' is one of the most common challenges I encounter in my clients.

Prospecting, Follow-up and Solving "Around" the Problem
Do you solve problems by “solving around the problem?” This is what I mean. Manager “Ken” is frustrated because his sales force isnʼt prospecting because they are relying on the companyʼs expensive advertising budget to drive the traffic. Even though personal prospecting is the least expensive form of advertising and has the highest success rate in closing customers. Because the sales force hasnʼt been trained or managed properly they are “rewarded” by manager “Ken” who increases his ad budget. Kenʼs defense is that he canʼt get his salesmen to prospect. A classic case of the tail wagging the dog.
How Fast-Track Learning Paths Create Skills and Talent For Next Economy
Arupa Tesolin examines how companies can use Learning Paths to increase productivity and strengthen their competitive capability
Manage Stress to Boost Productivity
If you want to be at the top of your game, spend the time to determine which “rituals” help you to alleviate stressful feelings and be committed to taking care of yourself. I have a Zen Buddhist saying on the wall of my office which says, “Live half for yourself, and half for others.” It’s a good philosophy to live by.
Imagine All the People
“Imagine all the people living life in peace” sang John Lennon in the 70’s and it’s still being played today. Well, imagine employees working everyday in harmony and peace and happily contributing to a healthy and highly profitable organization. Sounds like wishful idealistic thinking from the 70’s, right? But recent studies show that this is possible. The global consulting group Towers Perrin has published their annual global study of employee engagement, which shows just how motivated people are to perform at their best.

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Plan Early for a Successful Partnership
Forming a company with a few colleagues these days may make all the sense in the world. And combining skills, assets and business development efforts may very well be a smart move. But, what happens when the bank asks for a personal guarantee of the company owners and one of them declines? Where do you go from there?

The Irony of “Risk” in the Markets
Right now in the markets, there are essentially 2 trades: risk-taking and risk-averting. The risk-taking trade can be summarized as US dollar and Japanese yen down, bonds down, everything else up. Risk-averting is just the opposite. Oh sure, you get the occasional stock that goes down because of blatant corporate mismanagement, but overall stocks will go up if the dollar declines.
Rental Housing - The Saving Grace
More overleveraged developers and owners, surviving on loan extensions, will be forced to turn in the keys in 2010 as fundamentals continue to fall before the market hits bottom around the end of the year. Once there, value declines will approach about 40 percent, on average, from the mid-2007 peak-the worst decline since the Great Depression and worse than seen in the early 1990s.
Are You A Network Marketing Sore Loser Or A Loser Who Soars?
As network marketers, we experience more rejection by those we approach to join our business opportunity than acceptance. It is how we accept this rejection which determines how we respond to that person who declines our offer. Are we sore losers and thereby slam the door shut on their joining our opportunity in the future? Or do we leave the door open?

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