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How to Find a Job through Networking
Tips and Rules for a Successful Networker: There are many ways to find a job but by far the most effective way is through networking. Over 80% of employers hire as a result of networking.

High Tech Helping Hands in Haiti
When a spirit of goodwill prompts our thinking and when united effort goes to work on a common problem, the results can be most gratifying. By joining hands and working together to help this impoverished country we can eliminate the weakness of one standing alone and substitute for it the strength of people working together.

Find your true nature and live harmoniously
Working from a firm base is essential, and this is not just a good business plan, or excellent marketing, or fantastic products, or exponential sale growth. It is about you!!

Practicing the Golden Rule Has Limitations
Treating people as you want to be treated assumes that they are like you in terms of their motivation. Instead, you may want to adjust your approach to treat others as they want and need to be treated.

YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE-Warren Buffet Business Principle # 10

Of all the business principles that are promulgated over at Berkshire Hathaway, this one can have the greatest appeal and application for business entrepreneurs, large and small corporation contemplating a public offering as well as the start up company developing its business principles. Business Principle # 10 invokes the golden rule of business and the bottom line that giving business value can be done in varying relationships to getting business value for exchanges and sales, stock offerings, stock options and public offerings.

Your Reputation: A Dozen Ways to Protect It

Preserving our reputation ought to be a top priority for all professionals. We unwittingly do things on occasion that damage our precious reputation. The rules for enhancing reputation are all common sense, unfortunately they are not always common practice. I have developed a dozen things to remember about preserving your reputation, and I would be delighted to have suggestions of things to add to the list. What would you add? 1. Follow the Golden Rule 2. Be positive 3. Do more than your fair share 4. Admit mistakes 5. Be kind 6. Listen more than you talk 7. Be humble 8. Be reliable 9. Read Body language 10. Offer and ask for assistance 11. Operate from a sense of values 12. Keep your ear to the ground.

Im OK Youre Not OK

When you vent about what other people do that drives you crazy, does it help you cope with them better? I am sure you know people who are world class at griping about what other people are doing that drives them crazy. In reality we all do this to some degree; it is human nature. This paper highlights a dozen tips for reducing the tendency to gripe about the shortcomings of other people at work or at home.

Made in Missouri: James Cash Penney is Born

“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity,” J.C. Penney once said. “I was forced to come up the hard way.” From being born on a poor farm in Missouri to creating a company that today brings in sales in excess of $19 billion, Penney indeed managed to overcome the odds. Today, the J.C. Penney Company has become an international success for its sales of clothing, jewelry, shoes, accessories, and home furnishings. However, that was the result of a long and uphill struggle for the young entrepreneur.

Lesson #2: Always Leave the Doors to Innovation Open

“I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make money,” said Packard during an HP management training session in 1960. “While this is an important result of a company’s existence, we have to go deeper to find our real reason for being…A group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company…to do something worthwhile – they make a contribution to society.”

Lesson #4: Act With Integrity
“Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, once told me something I’ll never forget,” recalled Thomas. “She said the one suggestion she got in life that helped her most was to ‘pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’”

Lesson #1: Live by the Golden Rule
“I can say unequivocally that every decision we make at Mary Kay Cosmetics is based on the Golden Rule,” said Ash. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

The Business of Beauty: How Ash Changed an Industry

Ash once said that “people fall forward to success.” In her case, it seems she didn’t fall so much as she ran towards her dreams. With ambition and determination, Ash created not only a successful billion-dollar company but also one of the few to be featured three times in Fortune magazine’s “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America.” How did Ash break through the glass ceiling of gender discrimination to become a household name around the world?

Lesson #5: Religion and Business Can Go Hand in Hand
“No matter what I did, I knew I had five priorities in life,” says Monaghan, “physical and mental health, as well as the social, the spiritual and the financial. But the most important thing I could be was a good Catholic. That is my No. 1 priority. There's no compromising that.”

Lesson #4: The ‘Golden Rule’ Is Your Golden Ticket To Success

There are some who would argue that there is no such thing as ‘business ethics’. Sharp is not one of those people. In outlining the credo with which he wanted to run his company, Sharp declared that the ‘Golden Rule’ was going to be one of the cornerstones of the corporate culture that he was trying to create. “We aimed to treat others as we would want to be treated ourselves,” says Sharp. “Enforcing our credo was the hardest part, and senior managers who couldn’t or wouldn’t live by it were weeded out within a few years.” It was a painful process, says Sharp, but one that had to be done.

Penney-Wise: The J.C. Penney Chain Explodes

After being forced to close down his first solo venture, Penney went to Longmont, Colorado to work for Thomas Callahan and Guy Johnson, two men who would forever change his life. Callahan and Johnson owned a chain of dry goods stores in Colorado and Wyoming called the Golden Rule stores. Impressed with his work ethic, when Callahan and Johnson were drawing up plans to open a new store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, Penney was their first choice to head it up. He was made a third partner in the store and sent to the town to oversee the store’s operations.

Lesson #1: A Happy Customer Is Your Walking Advertisement
“When this business was founded, it sought to win public confidence through service, for it was my conviction then, as it is now, that nothing else than right service to the public results in mutual understanding and satisfaction between customer and merchant,” said Penney. “It was for this reason that our business was founded upon the eternal principle of the Golden Rule.”

Smart Cents: How J.C. Penney Built An Empire

Penney once said that there were no secrets to his success, but that the principles of business were simple: “In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow’s point of view.” In 1920, the J.C. Penney Company had over 197 stores along the West coast. Just nine years later, that number had grown to more than 1,400 stores across the country; new stores had been opening at a rapid rate of almost one every three days. Today, the company has grown to be one of the nation’s largest retailers. By the time Penney died at the age of 95, sales for the company he had helped grow finally reached the $5 billion mark. How did he do it?

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Lesson #2: Care for Your Customers and They Will Keep Coming Back for More

When Bean first founded his company, he did so with one golden rule in mind: “Sell good merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings, and they will always come back for more.” Today, Bean is a legend in the industry for his willingness to go above and beyond the call of duties for his customers. From having a 100 percent money back guarantee to keeping stores open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Bean placed the customers’ priorities at the heart of everything he did. And that was why they continue to reward his company so well.

100 Ways to Succeed #78
Speak Not Ill of Thine Competitors

Challenge or Opportunity: How to Communicate for Optimum Outcomes
Constructive communication doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time. It also rubs off on the people around you. When you can see each obstacle as an opportunity and focus on identifying and delivering the best solution, you build a habit of win-win for everyone.

A Dozen Ways Leaders Create Meaning
The reason that most workers are not engaged in the business is that they see no real meaning in their work. This article addresses how leaders can change all that.

Leading Without Bullying

How often do you observe leaders and managers acting like bullies at work? The same people who would condemn a school for allowing bullying behavior on the part of some students toward their offspring are often guilty of doing the same thing in the adult world. People in power positions do not realize how easy it is to slip into bullying behavior because they can get away with it most of the time. That is how bullying works after all. We teach our kids to stand up to a bully, yet few people have the gumption to do it at work. This article highlights ten ideas to reduce bullying on the part of managers.

5 C's of Marketing
Victory and Defeat in war depends 90% on the morale of the Army

Motivate Your Salespeople Like Richard Branson
Richard Branson, the eccentric founder of Virgin Airlines and multiple other businesses is the epitome of "unconventional" businessman. He does things HIS way, he does things the way he feels are right...and with a billion or so in the bank, he's been more right than wrong.

Razban Golden Rule 1: The 10% that Changes 90% in Empowering Managers
The 10% can over come 90% concept is desribed here as a trusted way of empowering managers to succeed.

3 Tips for Customer Service Excellence
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".

What NOT to Do When Marketing With Email
E-mail is one of the most powerful marketing inventions ever created, but also one of the most misused.

Succeed With Social Media
The key to success with social mediaâ€“and Iâ€™ve built my business on it since 1995â€“is to interact with others the way youâ€™d like to be interacted with. Call it the Golden Rule of Cyberspaceâ€“itâ€™s not so different from the Golden Rule of every major religion.

Housework and ADHD

When you have ADHD, one of the worst tasks imaginable is… housework. Not only is it boring and mundane, it also provides ample opportunity for procrastination and distraction to take place. What could be a two-hour cleaning spree could take all day. However, even though housework, such as cleaning and tidying, taking the trash out, etc. is not a pleasant prospect, it does need to be done, both from a health and safety standpoint, and for your mental and emotional well-being. You feel much better when you have a clean and tidy house. So how can you make it more interesting and even fun? Below is a winning formula!!!

How sticky are your ideas?
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.

Speak for Leads
Capture Leads Through Speaking Engagements

The Golden Rule of Communications
Treat others as you would like to be treated! This change in understanding can increase the number of contacts and clients you develop by 500%. This is not a misprint. The whole premise of people helping people comes down to this and it takes the stress out of doing business. Totally. Please read on.

Successful Article Swapping: 7 Steps to Make Money with Articles
Successful article swapping is similar to an ad swap in that two publishers exchange articles in each other's publications with one big difference, online, you can make money with articles by doing swaps.

Focus on Five Areas Today to Close Business Tomorrow

All too often, salespeople focus on the wrong elements in their attempt to increase sales. They turn their attention to the features, benefits, and value-added aspects of their product or service in an attempt to differentiate it from that of the competition and ultimately convince prospects to buy. While these elements may eventually play a part in the presentation (more on that later), it is not the place to start.

Observing Twitter: 5 things you may not know about this brave, new world
While those unfamiliar with social media may consider Twitter the most foreign of planets, it really is based on some very basic and familiar principles. These five observations may help you feel more brave about exploring this networking Web site.

How To Protect Your Online Business And Website From Disaster

Everyone who is in business should be doing business online. The potential is just too great to pass on. Even if you have nothing up but a virtual business card posted on a domain name that you own and control you need to have a business presence online. The cost to do so is too little to ignore, and the cost to not do so is too great to ignore. That is vital step number one. Vital step number two. Protect Your Online Business From Disaster by following a few simple common sense steps detailed herein!

Powerful Relationship Selling
INFUSE ME! A simple encouragement to uncover the power of relationship building and selling. It starts with the one in the mirror!

Rich Jerk Marketing - A Different Approach to Marketing
Internet marketers try to promote a respectable image. All across the World Wide Web are messages telling you to be friendly and courteous and you'll be an internet success. But what if being a complete jerk got you a greater level of success? What if the respect of your clients didn't matter?

Small Talk
A trained professional salesperson uses small talk to try and qualify the prospect and make sure they are indeed a prospect. Real estate agents are notorious for it. They slide in things during the small talk like “Oh, where do you work?”, or “What do you do for a living?”, or “How long have you been doing this?”, that it sounds exciting?

How to Market using Forums
Building Links is today's golden rule to promote your website amongst the search engines. Since the arrival of Google's patented Ranking Algorithm that position a website with in the SERP depending upon the number of quality links those are pointing to a website, “One way Link Building with Forums” has been a win-win tool for many Search Engine Optimization companies.

SELL YOURSELF WELL
The most difficult CV’s to put together are those of people who have just left school, who perhaps didn’t complete school, have no tertiary education and little or no work experience. It might seem that they have very little to work from. But everyone has something about themselves which they can sell.

Developing Strong Relationships on the Job

Finding the right position is only one piece of the puzzle that leads to job satisfaction. Have you ever heard someone say, "I’d like my work if it weren’t for the people I work with"? One of the greatest challenges in the workplace is getting along with other people. It hardly matters if someone is the best and brightest at what he does if he creates dissension in the office. Regardless of whether we’re hired to lead or be led, it is the ability to establish functional and healthy workplace relationships that can make or break our success and job satisfaction.

But I Sent an E-mail on That Last Week
I know many managers who believe if they send information out by e-mail they have communicated it. In many cases that assumption is not true. There are several reasons why information in an e-mail may not get the message across completely. This article explains some of them and offers suggestions.

If Business Ran Like the Government

The big news these days is the federal government’s debt ceiling. Every time Washington gets into one of these messes - which it does a lot - people renew the discussion about how government should be run. “If I ran my company the way they run the government…” The outcome is usually bankruptcy or prison. Should government be run like a business? That’s a debate for another article. But, the surprising thing is many business ARE run like the government. Do you understand how to manage cash flow in your business? Does your company cater to special interests, waste money or time or push problems aside instead of addressing the real issue?

Drive Out Fear
It is hard to grow trust in an environment of fear. People need to feel a sense of safety before they will take the risk of trusting others. Unfortunately most organizations generate a toxic atmosphere of habitual fear.

Empathy for Your Clients is Key in Communication
Communicating with your clients begins with learning how to do one skills well: empathize. Empathy says, “I feel your pain.” We want others to “get” us in a way that understanding alone cannot bring about. Do you know the top six ways to develop your empathy skills? Read on for details.

Organizational Pooper Scooper
We are all familiar with the pooper scooper, and we know what it is used for. I was thinking that maybe we ought to have a figurative pooper scooper for use at work to clean up the messes people leave behind for others to step in.

The ROI of Managing Diversity

To address diversity issues, consider these questions: what policies, practices, and ways of thinking and within our organizational culture have differential impact on different groups? What organizational changes should be made to meet the needs of a diverse workforce as well as to maximize the potential of all workers, so that San Francisco can be well positioned for the demands of the 21st century?

Give customers what they really want
It’s the golden rule of market research: Ask people what they want. “I learned that most Canadian men don’t like getting their hair cut,” says Sergio Medrano.

Never, Ever Bad Mouth Your Competition . . . Directly
You should generally follow the golden rule, "If you have nothing good to say about someone, say nothing." However, I’d like to tell you about an incident from several years back.

Obedience to the Unenforceable
There is the rule of law and the rule of free choice. In between is the rule of self. If we are not careful to manage the rule of self in the interest of customers, employees, and others, we may find that someone somewhere will legislate the rule for us.

Closing with Passion
When you get the opportunity to close, always remember to close with the benefits that the customer has stated. The golden rule is three benefits, this does not mean that you always need three, one is enough if it's powerful enough, the rule of thumb is three, then in most cases you will always make the sale.

First, You Take Care of Everyone Else
Think Golden Retrievers are always gentle? Our Golden killed our new puppy. Can the Golden be saved? How do we go on, with this guilt and loss?

SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF COMMUNICATING!
Is social media the new golden age of communicating or the end of the golden rules of etiquette?

It's Up to You to Make Customer Service a Positive Experience
Being aware of your attitude and focusing on the Golden Rule will help improve your customer service and keep them coming back.

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