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Great hires / bad hires: how to tell the difference BEFORE you make the offer
You hire someone. They don't work out. They leave. What is it that you remember and say about them in the past tense? It's rarely the fact that they didn't know how to work the numbers, or that they couldn't put the pieces of a widget together. No, it's almost always their soft skills that generate conversation-their personality, character and values.

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Thirteen Proven Lead Generation Tools For Service Businesses From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Is your lead generation tool kit well stocked or almost empty? Or are your lead generation tools rusty and no longer work? What lead generation tools are you using? And are the tools you are using producing results? So many people over so many years have told me that they just cannot grow their service business. After listening to them complain, I ask what and how many lead generation tools they are using? They tell me that they advertised in the Yellow Pages and mailed some letters as their lead generation efforts. Wow, and they are complaining that they do not get enough leads. Reflecting on what have been successful tools for me in the past, your Strategic Thinking Business Coach identified thirteen (13) proven lead generation tools to apply to your service business. And here they are in no priority order.

How To Build Your Own "Cruise Control" Marketing And Lead Generation System
Most people are pressed for time and looking for ways to leverage what little time they have. The second most popular reason for not building a business, behind having no money, is no available time. This comes from a lack of understanding that there are alternatives to always spending your PERSONAL time to generate leads for your business. If you're someone who works a regular full time job, which these days is 40-50 hours per week, it becomes very difficult to muster the mental and physical strength to tack on another 20-30 hours just to try and build a successful company on a part time bases. When will you sleep? Eat? Spend time with the family? Relax??? Lead generation is the lifeblood of your business, so you must take it seriously. So, here's a few things you can do to free up some time in your lead generation efforts.
Family Businesses Face Unique Challenges: What Makes Them Different?
In matters of cash flow and marketing, a family-owned or closely-held business is the same as any other small business. But family-owned and closely held businesses also they have significant differences, especially when it comes time to talk about retirement, resale, or transitioning the business to the next generation. Here were some key points noted by the Family Business Institute on what makes family-owned businesses different:
The Gift Of Receiving
Every family has one. That one person who shoulders all the family burdens, keeps the family secrets and cleans up the family messes. The one who is everyone’s sounding board and shoulder to cry on. The one who remembers all the holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. The one around whom the family always gathers. In my family, it’s my grandma. She has been the rock in my family for as long as anyone can remember.
Design a Lead Generation Scorecard
“Lead Generation refers to the creation or generation of prospective consumer interest or inquiry into a business’ products or services. Often lead generation is associated with marketing activities, such as cold-calling, targeted at generating new sales opportunities for a company’s sales force. Therefore a “lead” is correctly described as information regarding, or provided by, a consumer that may be interested in making a purchase. “Generation” is one of a myriad of activities that produces contact information and/or interest.” Typical Lead Generation Campaigns

Third Generation Leadership and Accountability
The bottom line in any organisation is performance. And performance demands accountability. The issue as we move from First Generation Leadership or Second Generation Leadership approaches to a Third Generation Leadership approach is not one of being accountable versus being unaccountable. This article looks at how it is possible to maintain personal accountability in a Third Generation Leadership organisation
The Ultimate Alternative Energy
We have no energy shortage, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post to obtain some background about efforts underway in next generation nuclear power generation that could generate alternative wealth generation opportunities.

Feelings of Entitlement
It is difficult for most kids who are working in the family business to not have some feelings of entitlement. After all, the main reason most entrepreneurs’ start their own business is to provide for their families. Once that is secure, thoughts of creating a legacy and passing the business from generation to generation become a natural progression for most founders, even though statistics show that business failure is alarming in second and third generation leadership. In fact, The Family Business Institute reports that only 12% of family businesses survive the third generation. Feelings of entitlement are not necessarily a bad thing. It’s the attitude of the owner’s child that really matters.
The Battle for Talent is Heating Up, Are You Ready?
This is an interesting time in the history of business - workplace dynamics are in the midst of a huge shift. Baby Boomers in their 60’s are running into the challenges of managing the very different needs of those in the Y generation. In fact, so much focus has been placed on these two sizeable generations colliding in the marketplace, that the generation in between them, Generation X, has been largely forgotten.
Managing Generation Ys
Generation Y is largest generation behind Baby Boomers. Often referred to as Millennials or Generation Next, these workers are just now entering the marketplace and seem to be creating quite a stir in companies all over the world.

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