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Lesson #3: There is a Danger in Dreaming Too Big

“Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary,” Barnum said. “Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow.’” When Barnum was struggling to find his way in the work world, he did just that – struggle. His early career paths were as varied as could be. From a lottery agent to a store clerk to a newspaper editor, Barnum tried his hand at a number of different ventures. However, he learned the hard way that was a danger in spreading himself so thin. None of the schemes proved especially successful, forcing Barnum to reexamine his priorities, interests and capabilities.

Lesson #2: A Strong Team Leads the Trail to Tomorrow
“I’m only as good as my team,” says Ramsay. “Building a team is part of the foundation of a good business.”

Lesson #2: Make Yourself Accessible To Your Customers

Rachael Ray has a secret ingredient to her success, but it is not the cayenne pepper or diced garlic she uses in her recipes. What makes Ray stands out from her peers and the likes of Martha Stewart is that Ray is human. She makes food with regular ingredients found in a normal grocery store and she does not apologize if she goofs up on air, which she does. Ray is just like the rest of her viewers, and it is that down to earth nature that has propelled her to the top.

Managing Difficult People
One of the biggest challenges candidates face on The Apprentice is managing difficult teammates. Even the most talented of project managers often struggles when he or she has to lead individuals who are disliked or disruptive. It drains energy from the rest of the group and it can make the work environment a divisive one.

Bench Strength - The Key to Replacing Salespeople
When you send your replacements into the field, are your fingers crossed hoping they don't make mental errors that help competitors close business or are you confident because your replacements are better than those you replaced? Those are the two keys right there:

Why Promotion?
Getting the word out is key to the bottom-line!

Never Let Go
Introduction to my life of mountaineering and adventuring around the world...discovering the power of teamwork, adversity and leadership along the way.

How the millionaires are getting richer in this economy.
Everyone has been hit hard by the economy. Some predicted this would happen, and they are in better positions than most people. Wouldn't you like to be one of those people who were in the know?

Work From Home: Can You Copy Success?
Are you striving to improve yourself, your job, or profession? Copying an expert is a marvelous way to master the detailed ins and outs of any new job or profession. And who better to model yourself after than someone with proven success?

How I Learned To Dance And How You Can To

Why am I penning an article titled "How I Learned To Dance And How You Can To?" Furthermore, why should you care? Good questions. Do you remember when you were learning the latest dance steps as a teenager? You would get together with your friends and practice the latest steps. Remember the swaying of the hips, the popping of the fingers, clapping your hands, the fancy foot movements, singing along with the music and having so much fun and laughter making missteps. Oh, I intended to say mistakes and actually enjoying the mistakes because you knew they were a necessary process to learning the dance.

Five 30-Second Emotional-Spiritual Techniques to De-Stress at Work
To reduce the effects of stress in the workplace, take an emotional and spiritual, as well as a physical break, at least every two hours, preferably every hour. Here are five de-stressors you can do in thirty seconds each...

First Step
Her adventures have only just begun. I'm so excited for her. I can't wait to see where all she goes from here

Trying To Go it Alone: Why It Is Less Productive To Work Alone

Trying To Go it Alone: Why It Is Less Productive To Work Alone - When you start your business, it might work out just fine to operate by yourself – doing your administration, your marketing, your selling, your fulfillment, and your customer service. But if you're successful, it won't last for long: You'll need to grow (but you'll realize that you only have 24 hours in the day). In this article, you'll read about two reasons why it is better to bring someone else on-board to work with you. An on-site employee might not be right for you, but there is another possibility!

Demise of the Yellow Pages
Yellow page use is declining. If your Yellow Pages leads are drying up, there ar4e two important lessons. You need to have a web site, and customers need to be able to find it in the search engines.

The Power of “Liz”
The power of our primitive Lizard Brain is unbelievable. This has more control over us and others than one thinks. Understand how you can turn this reality into a viable tool that works.

Info Products Made Easy--Stand Out from the Start
Investing a little time upfront to strategically map out your ebook or info product will go a long way toward making sure you end up with a bestseller...here's some ideas for how to do that.

Are good sales people born or made?
This age old question is being pondered by many business owners and managers as they strive to increase their turnover and profitability.

Top 10 Tips For Sales Success
We’re all crossing our fingers these days and hoping for a better economic environment. It’s been more than a little scary for many of us. However, even during these tough times, effective salespeople are acquiring new customers and making sales. How? Here are the top ten tips for effective sales that will bring you success regardless of the state of the economy.

Sales Management for C-Level Selling - 6 Steps to Make Your Sales People Better
Are your sales people as good as you think they should be? If not, here is an easy, no-costs process to make them better.

Business Writing Skills, Effective Communication Count On Process And Details

Writing skills and effective business communication are dependent on the writing process -- exploratory, draft, edit/revise and publish. At the heart of effective writing are two principles. They work in parallel, approaching the writing task from slightly different angles. One is "ideas and details" and the other is "show don't tell." So, to be successful any business writing training starts with a solid understanding of the business writing process and an eye for relevant details.

5 Must Haves to Increase Sales for Business, Executive or Sales Coaches
Would you like to increase sales for your coaching practice? Then check out if you have these 5 must haves to do just that.

How To Make People Want To Buy Your Product – Step By Step Establishing Your Brand

Establishing your brand is a step-by-step process. Big companies pay someone else to do it for them. Small and newly established companies usually do not have that luxury. They have to do it themselves. The good news is, it is not that difficult. When you can afford it you probably will want to bring in the professionals but when you are just starting out you can easily do it yourself with a little help from your friends. How? You determine your mission, vision, audience, and find out what sets you apart from your competitors and then you just put one foot in front of the other and begin to establish your brand. Follow me, I'll tell you how, step-by-step.

2 Crazy Sales Tips To Make You Gasp
I see something all the time that drives me absolutely around the bend. People and companies who are only consistent at being BORING. I guarantee they struggle with NOT getting attention from potential customers, they are constantly dropping their rates and they pretty much say YES to every customer that drops in their path.

Take the bite out of cold calling with these helpful strategies.
Few things strike fear into the heart of an entrepreneur than cold calling. But these cold calling strategies will help make the entire process more successful and enjoyable.

Home Income Opportunities To Earn Extra Money Online
Work at home income opportunities are not only for the purpose of earning extra money as they can also be a chance for you to grow as an individual and harness your untapped potential.

What Impact Are You Having On Others?
An article of 1432 words explaining how to make the impact you want in the lives of those you meet along your journey through life.

Sales and Customer Service are Just Like Steriod Use in Baseball

Sales is just like Steroid use in Baseball. If a customer attacks, complains, whines, demands or points fingers and you simply say, "you're right. I'm sorry," the issue goes away. However, if you get defensive, place blame, make excuses, deny the issue or fail to apologize, your customer will never forget and as a result, may no longer be your customer. The customer is always right - even when they're wrong.

Enhancing Your Self-Image

Success is an inside job. Even if your body and mind are ready, willing, and able to learn and do whatever is necessary to get the job done, a negative self-image may stop you. Although we create many outward images of ourselves-so we can interact with or impress others and sell our ideas or services-we only have one self-image. The way we view ourselves determines the level of success we attain in anything. To achieve more success, some parts of our sense of self will have to change.

Practice Landing Your Next Client
In an exclusive interview with web copy expert, Nick Usborne, Rebecca Matter, Vice President of Marketing for AWAI, shows you step-by-step how to pitch your services, negotiate your fees and land clients.

Is A Children's Small Business Franchise Right For You
Working with kids is profitable, but is it for you? Here are some questions you can ask yourself before jumping into a children’s franchise.

Struggling to "Be Here Now"?
Many of you know of the book, Be Here Now, the 1971 precursor to Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. From the titles of these books, you get the idea that there is something to be gained from focusing on the present rather than being run by our painful past or anxiously awaiting the unknowable future. Easier said than done, perhaps.

Empowerment, Autonomy & Discretion – Oh My!
Granting autonomy and loosening the apron strings can be scary. After all, this is your company we’re talking about. However, a company where employees have a reason to feel that what they are doing is important is a company on its way to greatness.

How to Declutter the Clutter

If you seriously want to have more time and a better quality of life, then you have to look at cleaning out all the clutter. Clutter costs you big time because... • You waste time searching for things. • Clutter occupies space. • You lose things. • Extra money is spent on stationery and office supplies which have already been bought. • Money is wasted on excess office furniture and storage to hoard the clutter. • Clutter makes you feel busy and causes unnecessary stress. You get distracted and have difficulty focusing. • Clutter affects your image. You look out of control. • You cannot prioritise or work efficiently when you can't see or find the tasks that need to be done.

Features, Benefits and Solutions
A solution is, by definition, the resolution of a problem. If you don't have a problem, you don't need a solution.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 3 of 7)
Have you ever thought what it might be like to have more control over what you are experiencing in your business? Wouldn't it be great to decide who your ideal clients are, and then have them actually appear? Wouldn't it be great to decide how many hours you want to work, or how much money you would like to make, and have it actually happen?

Reach Your Reader: How to Make Your Letters a Success

Letters—and even e-mails—are person-to-person communications; they are usually written by one person and read by one person. They have the power to win you’re your reader like no other marketing material can. However, there is no such thing as a routine letter. As soon as you start to regard external correspondence as just a task that needs to get done, your letters may lose their personal touch and competitive edge.

Fake It Till You Make It?

A friend sent me an e-mail after reading my blog last week about AHAs. In the blog, I shared seven realizations, including: Whatever I judge myself for, others will pick up on it, whether I try to hide it or not. So I may as well stop wasting my energy pretending anything. She expressed confusion because she is also familiar AA’s philosophy of “Fake it till you make it.” She wondered how I reconcile “faking it” with being genuine.

Are You Too Smart to Succeed

When we worked in our educational consulting business in Germany many years ago, parents came to us because their kids were not able to get the grades they wanted. When working with these children we saw the following scenario played out over and over again. These children weren’t slow learners or stupid, they were actually too smart. When taking an exam these brilliant students would see so many complex ways to answer test questions that their answers were far too complicated. The teachers who evaluated their test could not make sense of these advanced answers and the students received failing marks as a result. Similar to these children many business owners do not realize how much more they can accomplish when they simplify their thinking and focus only on one idea at a time.

How to Cold Calling Without a "Pitch"
Make your cold calling about them, not about you!

How to Work At Home
You will be working for the best boss in the world - yourself - but ...

MANAGING YOUR IMAGE - Power is Perception
Who sees you and what do they see? Make your image work for you.

Do your own thinking, Don’t let others do it for you
Have you come across a situation where in you wanted to do one thing, but you ended up doing just the opposite just to please somebody else? I happened to come across one recently, and this time instead of being a victim, I decided to be a victor and corrected it. Read on to find out how.

Building Relationships
Building and maintaining relationships is an ongoing process, but one we sometimes forget to address. All business is about people, as is life. What are you like at building good relationships with others? How can you focus your efforts on putting the building blocks in place to develop new relationships, as well as to add value to your existing ones?

Pointing Fingers In Sales And Management
Remember, when you are not accomplishing what you set out to do, if you point your finger at others and always think that YOU got the short end of the stick there are ALWAYS 3 fingers pointing back at you!

The Enemy is Out There
Every second you spend pointing a finger at another group in your organization, trying to show how you can do their jobs better, you are wasting valuable time and resources. Not to mention the professional disrespect and contention that blooms. While you are infighting and pointing fingers, your competitors are laughing all the way to the bank.

Stop Blaming Marketing
Sales and Marketing need to learn to work together and stop pointing fingers.

The Power of Your In-Tent
Two-secrets you will take away that is life-changing. Is it possible to use your fingers (acupressure) to eliminate pain?

Top 10 Chef Jimmy Must Have Kitchen Essentials
It doesn't take fancy equipment to be a great cook, but it does a few simple pieces of equipment. Frankly, I'd rather use a knife than a mandolin and my fingers than a pastry cutter. Start with these inexpensive kitchen items and build your kitchen repertoire from there.

Does Your Proposal Sell or Are You Just Crossing Your Fingers?
A proposal is a key closing tool. Why cross your fingers and hope for the best? You need to clue in about what it takes to write a great proposal. This article spells it out.

Do you disrespect yourself?
We often point our fingers at other people, complaining that they don\'t respect us, or respect our feelings. There is often a reason for this! Life is a mirror and if you are being disrespected by others, the chances are you are disrespecting yourself!

Ringing True to Me
Once five fingers stood side by side on a hand. They were all friends. Where one went, the others went. They worked together. They played together. They ate and washed and wrote and did their chores together.

Stuck for blog topics? Listen, then write.
Whether you've been blogging for a short time or what feels like forever, you're going to have days when you can't think of a single thing to say to your readers. You think your blog is stale, you feel unmotivated and you can't force your fingers to the keyboard for all the tea in China. Yet, there are unlimited ideas out there, you know that but how do you find them?

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