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Building a Client Base for Business
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| Building any aspect of your business requires determination and persistence. Like the hyacinth flower that grows and spreads over the pond, our efforts are not immediately visible or rewarded. But when we persist, be it for a month, a year, or even years, then we shall harvest. Patience and persistence will build your business far. Add expert knowledge, dedication, integrity, honesty and willingness to go that extra mile or ten and you have the ingredients you need to develop your client base for a good business. |
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Key Management Insights - Get Your New Hires Fully Engaged
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| You find them; you carefully select them; you sell you and your organization to them. Making that investment count is for nothing when you fall short on the first day... |
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Love your job
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| Getting up and going to work each day is something that most of us do for many years. Yet few of us jump out of bed each and every day and can't wait to get there. It seems that we have to whine and moan about it to keep up with everyone else. It does not need to be like this and it is preferable that it isn't. When employees love what they do, they will go that extra mile for their boss and a far more positive culture will be created. This in turn can turn into increased productivity and profits. |
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Mary Kay Ash Quotes
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The Power of Asking: 7 Ways to Boost Your Business
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| The gift called “asking” has been around for a long, long time. One of life’s fundamental truths states, “Ask and you shall receive.” Kids are masters at using this gift, but we adults seem to have lost our ability to ask. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of rejection. |
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Going the Extra Mile to Earn Your Customers
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| Learn how one business person went the extra mile to earn a loyal life-time client. |
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You Might Have A Job Today But…
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| You may be fortunate enough to have a job today, but with the history of the job market, that may not be the case tomorrow. That is unless you make yourself stand out from the “crowd.”
There are five basic keys to keeping the job you have. Even if it is one you don’t enjoy, you can use that position as a launching pad for your ideal position in the future by using these suggestions. |
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Marketing Strategies: Seven Tips to Thrive This Holiday Season
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| Do you think holidays are something to survive? Learn how to create your joy this season! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive during the holidays. |
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Trust is a two-way street
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| Giving employees a little flexibility and trusting them to do their hours can reap companies a lot of benefits, says Rachel Fellows, UK Corporate Communications Manager at Kellogg's. |
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Smart Women, Halloween and Attracting Your Ideal Client
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| This article offers ideas, tips and solutions on how to create a welcoming or inviting first experience so that ideal clients will become more interested in what they do. The presentation of yourself and your business is very important when marketing to your ideal client. You need to create ways to attract them to want to become a regular client. |
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Just Say No!
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| Why is it so hard for some of us to say No? |
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Web Design in 30 Minutes - Can this be Right?
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| The time to design a professional website should not be measured in minutes. Your website should be part of your sales team, in a digital way. You need to care about your website, grow it, promote and expand on it as much as you can. Today’s Internet web surfers are savvy shoppers and they know what a polished website should look like. Shouldn't you allow more than 30 minutes to do it right? |
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Why a Sales Manager MUST Evoke "The Law of Reciprocity"
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| For our purposes, the Law of Reciprocity states: If you do something nice for someone, human nature dictates that the recipient will feel compelled to do something nice for you in return.
It is in essence: "you reap what you sow". This is an irrefutable law and one that you should teach your salespeople. The question of will someone actually act upon it at a given time depends on who asks.
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3 Tips for Customer Service Excellence
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| Customer loyalty is fundamental to business success. But just supplying customers with a quality product may not be enough to keep them coming back; companies need to go the proverbial extra mile to ensure the customer is fully satisfied- or even better, "wowed". |
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Employee Engagement in Recessionary Times!
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| In our experience companies that have succeeded in attracting, engaging and retaining talent have done so because of a company wide commitment to people development. Many of the organisation’s top management have invested considerable amounts of time in mentoring, talented employees both formally and informally. |
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The Poorest Man is the Man who does not have a Dream.
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| Everyone has a dream about being successful and living a life of abundance, but few are willing to do what it takes and pass the 2nd stage of their dream. Discover the 5 stages of dreams and see where you lie on the path to realism. |
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Razor cut-through!
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| How do you cut-through the mass of competitors in your market and get to your truly great customers?
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5 Tips To Finding Your Best Business Opportunity
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| If you're considering opening a home business, you have chosen an opportunity-rich time to do it. Millions of people are operating home businesses that earn them steady incomes. Unfortunately, the home-business field is also a minefield of empty promises and unfilled dreams. Taking your time and doing your homework while setting up your business is your surest protection against failing. The following five tips will help you understand the requirements for a successful home business. |
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Connecting with a purpose Part II
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| This article shares an act of kindness from a group who seeks no praise. It is encouraging to know that deeds like this are performed every day. It would be nice to hear these as often as we hear what's shared from the evening news. |
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How to Thrive in Times Like These
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| The “R” word is coming up a lot, of course. How bad will it be? What should we do? How worried are you? Maybe surprisingly, in those coffee shop gabfests, we’ve heard some fabulous ideas and success stories along with the questions and worried looks.
So this article is about how we can all cope, maybe even prosper, in Times Like These. |
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Are you ready for the Self Managing Salesman?
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| What would it be like to have a group of self motivated, self managed Salespeople on your team. How to get and keep the focus on the pure pleasure of meeting and delivering to challenges with people who are 'wired' that way. Not only is it possible, in many cases it is necessary. Here's what it can be like and a little bit about how to get there! |
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Step Up to Staff Training – A Simple 4-Step Model
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| Staff training is important and yet oft forgotten in small and growing businesses - here is a simple 4 step model on how to make sure your staff get the training they need (and you profit from). |
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Market Like You're A Dentist
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| Interesting marketing advice for your local business. |
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Valentine, valentine, please be mine!
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| A look at an important people management issue with Valentine's day approaching! |
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Leveraging Generational Diversity
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| The different generations at a glance and how to utilize the strengths of each |
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How To Make A Profit From Your Internet Home Business
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| Is your Home Internet Business profitable? Do you have a plan in place to get quality traffic and convert that into sales? Here are ways that you can make your internet home business more profitable. |
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Extraordinary Success
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| When we think of extraordinary success we often think of the multi-million dollar companies with multiple branches covering many cities. Many times we forget that the key to all major successes is people.It takes people to sell products and it takes people to get results.
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Rare Investment Opportunity
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| With the stock market down, and gas hitting new lows, a lot of people ask me, "What should I invest in?"Very simple... People! Now, more than ever people are looking for leaders to invest in their success! You have this opportunity and it’s right in front of you at your fingertips! |
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You need involvement
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| If you're looking to build connections for you and your business, then you need involvement, too. Networking requires you to know other people, and successful entrepreneurs know the best way to do that is to be involved.
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Poor Work Behaviors Begins with Poor Work Ethics
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| Are poor results happening at your business? If so, then you probably have some poor work behaviors. These behaviors are the symptoms of poor work ethics and that is where you need to begin if you wish to change your business results. |
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Lessons from the Pink Brigade: 7 Tips to Inspire Going the Extra Mile (or 12 miles!)
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| Are you trying to influence others to step out their comfort zone, to persevere, or perform at the next level?
These tips and the corresponding short story provide insights for keeping others engaged and moving forward. |
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Helping Others Achieve Extraordinary Success
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| When we think of extraordinary success we often think of the multi-million dollar companies with multiple branches covering many cities. Many times we forget that the key to all major successes is people. Ordinary people, who are inspired, motivated, trained, and encouraged to live up to their full potential. It takes people to sell products and it takes people to get results.Billy Cox shows you how to help yourself by helping others achieve extraordinary success. |
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Are Your People Skills Killing Your Profits?
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| If you listen to the conversations from people who are not self-employed you'll notice they will often discuss the problems they have with management.
Having two members of my family, my daughter Tia and husband Tama working as employees, many of our daily catch-ups are centred on this topic.
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The Power Of Thanks
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| If you were like me growing up, when it came to accepting presents or gifts from others, your parents may have told you, “No, you can not accept that.” They told you this for a variety of reasons, but the message was clear. You should not accept gifts. To further complicate things you may have grown up hearing the old adage “It is better to give than to receive.”
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SALES CALL PLANNING WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE EVERY SALES CALL
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| By Mike Schultz and John Doerr
A good part of business development success is, as some say, just showing up. But show up prepared and success is what you will get.
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Entrepreneurship Has No Age Limit Or Boundaries...
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| I am sure you have knowledge, skills and talents that you excel in that others would love to benefit from. People want information and services that will make their lives easier and more productive. |
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10 Ways To Improve Customer Loyalty
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| Having loyal customers is highly important in many businesses today. Repeat business can make the world go around as well as the highly profitable word of mouth advertising. Face it, if your customers are telling others about the great experience that they had with you then you are going to get some customers that did not cost you a dime in advertising costs. But the question is, how does one build top notch customer loyalty? |
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Top 10 Ways To Create A Hot Customer Loyalty Program
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| Having loyal customers is highly important in many businesses today. Repeat business can make the world go around as well as the highly profitable word of mouth advertising. Face it, if your customers are telling others about the great experience that they had with you then you are going to get some customers that did not cost you a dime in advertising costs. But the question is, how does one build top notch customer loyalty?
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Is It's Never Too Late or Early to Build Customer Loyalty
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| There are many ways to explain or define customer loyalty, but it’s basically an attitude that customers display and which employers desire because they’re showing a continuous interest in the company’s products or services. All businesses need to build customer loyalty, and it’s never too early or late to start building it for your company as well. |
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You Always Work for Yourself!
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| What’s the difference between the owner of the company and the front-line employee? The obvious answer is that the employee works for the owner. Really? |
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Your Personal Services Company
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| Take a look at your performance and give yourself an honest grade. If you are doing your best, congratulate yourself and honor that! But if you see a few things that could be adjusted to give you a slight "edge", take action! |
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What are the important steps to examining employee motivation and reducing employee turnover
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| Many companies understand that if their employees are happy, they are more likely to be productive and the company will be more likely to do better when it comes to keeping clients happy and meeting set goals. Business owners may realize that employee motivation tactics would work, but if they do not understand on a personal level how these simple actions can affect a worker, they may not be likely to continue this process or procedure on a regular basis. |
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Benefits of Incentive Programs
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| Incentive programs are a great way for businesses to reach out to their employees in an appropriate and appreciate manner. Not only do they work to improve the livelihood of the individual worker, but they also help to improve the livelihood of the business as well. Everyone is able to take part in the success of the company and feel like they are an integral part of the company and the work which takes place inside the company. |
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How to Create Great Word of Mouth
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Today, word of mouth is drown out by radio, TV, newsprint, mail, billboards and email advertising and publicity. You can use technology and traditional marketing channels to get the word out in a different way-a way where you are sure that everything said about you is true. |
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Weakness is Expensive
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| Weakness is Expensive...Employees who lack personal power cost you money. |
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The Secrets Of Great Customer Service - Follow These 6 Simple Tips
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| You want your customers to come back to you time and time again - am I right? Great - read this and ensure they do.... |
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Here Is A Method That Is Helping New Managers To Delight Their Staff
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| How do you know you are getting the best from your staff? How do you know your staff are working to their full potential? This article will aid you to find out... |
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Here Is One Secret To Having A Great Career
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| Do you wake up on Monday morning and dread going into work? Are you constantly watching the clock all day waiting till you can go home? Can you not wait until Friday comes around? If this is the case, you most probably hate your job and have no passion for it. |
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Leadership Styles - the Ten Top Qualities the Best Leaders Show
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| Leadership Styles vary enormously, but there is one overriding quality that is vital in all top leaders...
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Receiving Thanks and Praise - The View from the Other Side
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| Receiving goods and services from suppliers, whatever shape or form they are, still means some human interaction, most of the time. Yet we are becoming much more demanding as customers... |
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Employee Success 7 Ways Feedback Works
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| Feedback to your people works if you get it right. They develop; your business grows and everyone's a winner.
Now, here's the good news! In this article are 7 reasons
to build 'Feedback' into your skillset. |
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6 Steps To Improve Customer Loyalty From Site Visitors
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| Online shopping has quickly outstretched high street shopping for popularity and overall spend. One of the big advantages that consumers gain is the ability to comparison shop for a better deal. However, for the e-store owner or service provider, this can make it difficult to survive without offering the lowest prices and the greatest deals. |
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The Positive Power of Saying "NO"
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| Niquenya D. Fulbright, a Chicago area executive life coach, professional speaker and corporate trainer, examines the subject of setting boundaries in the workplace. She identifies some reasons why business professionals have trouble saying "no" and identifies why it is important for them to do so. |
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Other extra mile Related Articles
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Information Externalities, Car Dealers, and Spaghetti Osteopaths
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| Why do some competing stores locate near one another, while others don't? In National City, south of San Diego, there is a stretch called the "Mile of Cars". I dont know if it's a mile or not, but it's pretty much an endless strip of car dealers, from Hyundais to Hondas, and everything inbetween. There are similar areas in most reasonably-sized cities, whether a cluster of car dealers, a car strip, or just a bunch of dealer generally clustered around one another. |
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Five Easy Secrets for Delighting Your Clients
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| Want to increase your business by leaps and bounds? Then go the extra mile and give your clients a rich, compelling experience. |
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3 Tips for Customer Service Excellence
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| Customer loyalty is fundamental to business success. But just supplying customers with a quality product may not be enough to keep them coming back; companies need to go the proverbial extra mile to ensure the customer is fully satisfied- or even better, "wowed". |
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Baby Boomers Can Make Money Fast!
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| If you are a Baby Boomer then you know you are coming close to having to face, retirement, even if you are not ready to retire.
If you are considering putting something in place to secure your senior years, then now is the time to begin.
TO ensure your success to make money fast, go the extra mile and get an experienced MLM Mentor.
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How to Increase Productivity through a Motivated Workforce
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| As managers, we all want employees who are motivated or engaged at work. We want employees who will not only do a good job, but also go that extra mile when dealing with customers and work colleagues. It is easy to assume that when we see an employee who lacks motivation, that we have "hired the wrong person" for the job. |
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Love your job
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| Getting up and going to work each day is something that most of us do for many years. Yet few of us jump out of bed each and every day and can't wait to get there. It seems that we have to whine and moan about it to keep up with everyone else. It does not need to be like this and it is preferable that it isn't. When employees love what they do, they will go that extra mile for their boss and a far more positive culture will be created. This in turn can turn into increased productivity and profits. |
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Instilling Pride ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence
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| Eliciting excellence in others is the essence of leadership, and one of the most effective means of eliciting excellence is to instill a sense of pride in those around us.
Instilling pride has a myriad of benefits - quality of work and workmanship improves, creativity and innovation increases, collaboration is facilitated more easily, and people are willing to "go the extra mile" to do their best. |
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Going the Extra Mile to Earn Your Customers
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| Learn how one business person went the extra mile to earn a loyal life-time client. |
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How NOT to SEO your site
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| Sometimes you can try too hard. You so desperately want to succeed that in covering every angle, turning over every stone or going that extra mile you've inadvertently pushed it too far. |
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Boundaries and standards: why you need both in your business and how to set them
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| Why is it that some teenagers are good academically and never get into trouble whereas others are the opposite? Similarly, why is it that some employees go the extra mile and are worth their weight in gold, whereas others turn up late and perform poorly? It’s no coincidence that work performance goes hand in hand with conduct and I’ll explain why. |
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