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10 Lessons I Learned From My Mother
1. Establish and stay connected to a supportive community. My mother is genuinely interested in the welfare of her family and friends. She visits with them as frequently as she can and when visits aren’t possible she calls or writes them. She is a good friend, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt and cousin! She cares for others and they care for her.

Mr. Electronics: Morita Brings Sony to Life

World War II may have ended, but for many countries, the years following proved to be the even more difficult ones. Japan was one of those countries. Almost every single large city in Japan had been damaged, along with their industries and transportation networks. Food shortages were rampant, not to mention the fact that nearly 3 million able bodied workers had been killed during the war. In short, Japan was devastated and, if it was going to recover, it would have to start rebuilding from scratch.

The Time Has Come: Luce Launches His First Magazine
Back in the U.S., Luce began working as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. He later moved to Baltimore to join his old college friend Britton Hadden as a reporter for The Baltimore News. But at 23 years old, both Luce and Hadden were growing restless with their jobs. They began to dream of running their own magazine. Soon, they realized it could be more than just a dream.

Lesson #4: “Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men.”
The introduction of television might have come following the conclusion of one of the most deadly wars in human history, but with it came an entirely new war – the war to dominate the burgeoning communications industry.

BANG BANG YOU’RE DEAD!
Oooh my that hurts. The shock of suddenly being told that your business isn’t making any money.

On the Subject of Marketing Integrity
I’m delighted to share with you news of the impending publication of my good friend John Jantsch’s superb book, Duct Tape Marketing, for which I have contributed the foreword.

A lesson from fanmail
I get all types of messages from people who've read and enjoyed NEVER EAT ALONE.

The VC Version of Kick the Can
I got an email this morning from an entrepreneur that I know that has been trying to raise an early round from a "seed VC investor" for the past few months. He's put together (and closed) a decent angel round and left it open for this seed investor.

Beware of Snark-Infested Waters
Kaira Sturdivant Rouda is not just a good friend of mine, but someone I deeply respect as a brilliant marketer who walks everything that I believe in. During our recent conversation on real estate, personal branding and passions, we even discovered that we both had "Spazz" as a nickname. Here's some advice from her new book Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs:

When You Say The Wrong Thing
Recently I hosted a dinner with a great group of friends and people I wanted to meet. One of my guests was a particularly good friend, a guy I care about and respect deeply. Until recently, this guy was a high profile CEO. But due to politics, he was let go - despite the fact that everyone knows he's a total superstar, both in his performance at that company and in every position prior.

A Closed Mouth Never Gets Fed

I don’t watch a lot of television, but this one commercial sticks out to me about a kid who was born with seemingly ultimate confidence: asking girls out for dates even though he’s clearly shorter and younger; graduating college when most graduate high school; performing open-heart surgery in a crowded concert hall with a ballpoint pen. But when it comes to negotiating a fair price for a new car, he’s frozen in his tracks.

You May Love Your Job, But Dose Your Job Love You?
I say this to people all of the time, know one’s job is guaranteed for life. Let me tell you a true story, a good friend of mine who love’s her job so much she took the time out to learn everything that there was to know about the job.

How It Works: Clinton’s “Reality Distortion Field” Charisma
This is a guest post from Michael Ellsberg, a good friend who’s spent the last several years studying interpersonal persuasion and language (spoken and unspoken).

The Secret to Sales Success and 5 Key Reasons Why This IS So Important
Are you wondering why your promotional and marketing materials don’t pack the punch you had hoped they would? Keep reading to learn the secret to sales success.

What If You Stopped Trying So Hard?
Sometimes its better to stop trying so hard because nature has a funny way of simply taking over!!

Social media marketing - How to use Twitter to find prospects for your business

Do you consider using or are you using twitter to market your business? Twitter is growing rapidly and is now one of the most visited sites on the internet. Twitter is a wonderful social media site and has endless possibilities even dough it looks and is in fact really simple. There is a large amount of software available for Twitter, both payed and free and a lot of courses that claims to explode your following. If you learn how to use Twitter you can drive a huge amount of quality traffic to your site.

Secrets to Becoming an Online Marketing Entrepreneur
The secret key to look for when setting up an online business.

Razban Golden Rule 2: Steady Giant and/or Baby Steps in Executive Coaching
Breaking Executive Coaching goals to step by step well define process can guarantee success and reduce frustration and aggravation.

Make A Decision To Be The Person You Want To Be!
I love to ask questions, especially when it makes us think about our answers. This is one for you. Are you satisfied with any area of your life at this time? If you answer yes I certainly applaud you. You have made a choice that makes this possible. I remember when I was a little girl, tall, skinny and a stutterer. You know how ruthless kids can be.

4 steps to break through to a higher level of success
Even the successful struggle from time to time and get stuck. This usually happens when you are trying to elevate your business to a higher level. In this article you will discover 4 steps to break through this barrier.

Losing friends and family for your pursuit.
There is something that has always bothered me and it was the constant reminder that you will have to change your friends if you want to succeed.

Human Connections
In order to lead a healthy, well balanced life, it is important to have some special people in your life. This makes you feel connected, loved, cared for and valued. We all need human connections to thrive and also to be the best we can be in this world. There are many qualities that make up a good friend. Here are three important ones:

7 Habits for Franchisee's
Owning a franchise doesn't qualify you as a better entrepreneur. What might be the things that provide you with the right foundations to succeed in your business and other businesses in the future? Let me suggest 7 Habits you will find quality franchisee's practicing.

Who Inspires You? Pay It Forward!
Who has inspired you in a way that your life will never be the same again? Inspiration is wasted inside of us, we need to let it out, inspire others, pay it forward.

Smart Women Live into and Find the Flow
This article is about taking those first steps toward making your Big ideas, dreams or goals a reality. We can wait for the perfect time or sometimes we want everything to be in order before we can move ahead. Sadly, that time rarely arrives. This article offers some tips on how to move ahead with confidence.

Tweet This! Understanding the Power of Twitter
You really can't understand the power of Twitter unless you use it. Follow me on my journey as I learned about this powerful social media tool and what it can do for your business. If you don't already have a Twitter account, then get started today.

How This Critical Success Factor, A Laser Focus Attitude Required To Win Increase Sales
Critical success factors are present in every business from securing new clients to keeping fixed costs low. However, this one critical success factor, a laser focus attitude, is missing from many businesses.

10 Summer or Anytime Quick Sales Coaching Tips
With spring just passing and summer now here, the cold winter months are now a distant memory for some and there is new energy. These 10 summer sales coaching tips may help you secure your goal to increase sales.

Publicity -- What Do You Do When PR Goes Horribly Wrong?
Have you ever had done something you thought was a really good idea at the time and then it completely backfires on you? What if this happens in a public setting? Well, here are 2 things you can do to turn the situation around and come out even more on top than before.

Smart Women and Cravings
This article is about offering some suggestions on how women entrepreneurs can make their business more desirable to their ideal clients. Make sure that you create marketing, offers and image that will get people “craving” your product or service.

Pace The Race
Let david Oliver enlighten you with this practical method of stress management. Learn why athletes know it and lemmings apparently do not.

Make Service Your Nature
The economic recovery is on its way according to the animals around my house. And, they seem to be trying to let me know just that. I recall how my childhood dog got under the back porch steps if a storm was coming. If she paced around a lot and whimpered, you could count on a hard rain. She was never wrong. Nature seems to be able to foretell the future.

6 Simple Steps To Naming Your Lifestyle Business
If you are ready to start your own lifestyle business, but stuck on finding a good name for it or just wondering how to come up with a catchy name that hasn't been taken yet, you'll find your answers here. These six simple steps will help you find a great name for your business - something fitting, catchy and not boring.

Smart Women Are Plugged In
This article is about looking at our lives in a more positive way. It’s about making a decision to see the silver lining in all areas in our lives. Finding people who motivate and inspire you can be really helpful. It’s about having a new mindset and looking at life in a different way if you are currently challenged or experiencing some difficult situations.

The American Dream Downsized, or Upscaled. Your choice.

Today’s news is filled with doom about the economy and dire predictions about a permanent downsizing of the American Dream. It’s as if our futures have become foretold. To me, this is precisely the time to talk about building wealth. The mind numbing tidal wave of financial collapse does not have to engulf you. To avoid it, however, you have to have an evacuation plan that leads to higher financial ground, and you have to choose when to put that plan into action. When it comes to wealth building, it always starts with a choice.

Waking Up To Opportunity
When you are at the right time and at the right place, you'll succeed even if you're falling asleep.

5 Questions To Ask When Assessing Your Business Direction
Staying in any situation that is costing you peace of mind, self-worth, physical safety, your health… because of money can cost you more than you can imagine. Learn how to gain clarity about what your next business and life steps might be.

Sales Training - Top 3 Questions to Decide If Comparing Yourself Can Increase Your Sales
In sales it's so easy to compare because there of goals and quotas. When we are on a team, those goals or quotas might seem like enough of a measuring stick. In sales, whether on a team or solo, we often use another measuring stick: other people. Is it ever really worthwhile to compare ourselves to anyone or anything? What would Dr. House do?

Hang on...

The blessing of life also brings with is a multitude of adversities we all face - challenges with career, family, finances, relationships, feeling overwhelmed or struggling with depression. Recently, continued negative news on many fronts can tend to magnify these challenges in our lives. I was personally uplifted as recalled an inspiring address given by Wallace A. Kennedy, Professor of Psychology at my alma mater, Florida State University. He was talking to the students of Maclay School in Tallahassee on November 17, 1981. One of their classmates, Margaret, had just committed suicide, and they were in distress.

The Secret to Getting Press
Public relations enables you to build sales and get third-party credibility you simply can't purchase. But how do you get mentioned in the press? Find out as the secret is revealed!

Tweets and Peeps -- The Social Networking Vocabulary
There are thousands of social networking sites out there, but (as expected) a pecking order is starting to emerge. That doesn't mean things won't change in a few months, but for now, many business folks are focusing on the big 3 -- Facebook, Twitter and Linked In.

Direct Sales Marketing Success: How to Sky Rocket Direct Sales Profits by 50% With Two Simple Words
One of the Deadliest Mistakes many direct sales consultants and direct selling business owners make in their business is lack of follow-up! This deadly mistake is tied to misconception that you are not selling, you are just sharing! Direct Sales is the business. Direct Selling, with they key word being selling is the name of the game. Home parties is the avenue by which these sales are made.

21 days to a life full of gratitude
Is gratitude something we get from what we have or is it something more? Find out where gratitude comes from and how to have more.

CONFIDENCE BOOSTERS

As you're probably only too aware, our confidence and self esteem are very variable - more of a wavy line than a straight line. Some days we feel we could conquer the world and other days we just want to hide under the duvet! We can miss opportunities because we allow fear and self doubt to get in the way. We undermine our confidence by taking things too personally and by trying to second guess what others think of us. I love the phrase: "What you think of me is none of my business!" And Eleanor Roosevelt famously said: "No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission."

Should You Talk About the Economy In Your Marketing?
Is it a good idea to talk about the economy and get into the fear and negativity, or not? The answer isn't quite so straightforward.

Saying What You Mean To Connect With Prospects! Why What You Say is Just as Important as How You Say it.

Do you REALLY think about what you are saying and how you are saying it, particularly in your promotinal copy? Word choice is a vital component of the copy for your marketing, advertising and promotional materials. In fact, your copy can make or break your sales efforts. I always say “copy counts and actually your sales count on your copy.” The best illustration of how important copy really is was shared by my good friend and mentor Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero. She explains that copy is the DNA of all marketing materials. I have to agree. Imagine stripping all of your marketing materials of words. How well would your website, brochure, print ads, sales letters, press releases or broadcast scripts work without words?

Franchise Brokerages--The Smart Choice In Small Business Opportunities

If you've done much research into franchise opportunities these days, you've no doubt discovered that there are plenty of reasons these days to choose a franchise rather than to start your own business from scratch. Banks are much more willing to lend money to franchisees (especially during a lending freeze) and franchises are proven to have 5 times the success rate, which is reassuring in this type of economy. Here's a look at franchise businesses that show would-be-franchisees the best options available and work almost as a dating service for franchises; matching perfect franchises with the right candidates.

How Organized is Your Business? Part 3
Yesterday I asked you how organized your business was. Did you consider your answer? Today I'll share a thought on how you can move yourself to a business more organized. Take Care of Yourself.

The Thick Line Between Buddy and Boss
I have made just about every business blunder you can imagine. I am like the Evel Knievel of the small business world, if Evel Knievel wrote a weekly column on motorcycle safety. One of the more unpleasant things I've had to do is fire a good friend who was not doing the job I hired him to do. He needed a job, I needed an employee, so I thought I would give him a shot

Advice to Authors: Give Acquisition Editors What They Want
Authors: Ever wonder what acquisition editors at book publishing houses are looking for? Want the "inside scoop"? Here's some advice for authors from a 25-year publishing veteran--Jerry D. Simmons.

There was a Fly in the soup!!! But they kept the customer
We have all heard it happened to someone, we have herd the jokes, Customer to Waiter: “What is that fly doing in my soup?” Waiter. “Looks like the back stroke.” Customer to Waiter: “There is a fly in my soup.” Waiter: “Don’t worry, He will not eat much.”

The Power of Acceptance
An article of 950 words focusing on making the shift from struggling and stress to acceptance and peace.

Love and Work: The Pleasures of Our Lives
Long ago I read a book that featured one of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s most famous theories. Freud said that man has two basic needs: love and work. As a young woman, I had already figured out the universal need for love, but the idea that ‘work’ was equally as important was a big ‘aha’.

“I’ll Start Tomorrow”
It is a question I hear repeatedly from my subscribers… “I am struggling to make progress to meet my goals. How do you suggest I make the right progress?”

What are the 3 biggest challenges faced by supply chain/purchasing professionals today? (Survey Result 10)
There are many factors both internally as well as externally that are affecting supply chain/ procurement practices today. From the growing talent vacuum to the continuing lack of collaboration between Finance, IT and Purchasing relative to corporate initiatives. What in your own experiences and opionions are the top 3 issues that procurement professionals face?

How to Buy a Franchise – Step 1

What to do before you begin searching for a franchise. You’ve thought about it for years and you’re finally ready to make the leap into business ownership. It’s time to be your own boss, to be the one in charge of your financial future – your destiny. Because you are a smart woman, you want to avoid making mistakes along the way. You have so many questions: Will you be happy as a franchisee? Can you make the money you need to provide for yourself and your future? What kind of franchise would be best? Where do you even start, with thousands of franchise opportunities available?

Never stop challenging yourself~

How often do you really challenge yourself? This could be in your career, personal challenges, physical challenges, or any combination. For those of you that have been reading my tips for some time, you remember that I was persuaded by a good friend to sign up for a triathlon last summer. I loved the experience and was very proud of my commitment to the process. Well, this same friend just asked me if I would be interested in signing up for the MS150 with her. This event takes place in June and consists of riding my bike for 150 miles over two days. This would be a huge undertaking in which I would push and train myself harder than I ever have before.

Dreams Come True Series 4: 5 Attract Your Wealth Strategies

These 5 Manifesting Strategies are based on the Law of Attraction, Setting Intentions and the Art of Allowing. As you practice focused intention combined with energetic alignment, you will propel the manifestation of your desires. For these attraction exercises, it is essential that you get into a highly charged energetic state - feeling gratitude, joy and a sense of completion. Often the exercise automatically creates this high vibration; other times, you may need to help this feeling state gain momentum ahead of time.

Five Important Questions To Ask When Your Confidence and Faith is Shaky
It’s normal to have those times when self-confidence wanes, fears and doubts creep in and faith gets shaky. Learn how you can shift from doubt and fear to confidence and action.

The Quickest Route to Success and Happiness
Ever wonder, when will “I get there” so I can pause and relax!? Do you sometimes feel like throwing in the towel because you have no idea you’re making progress? I’ve been there too, believe me. This article shows you the quickest route to “getting there”!

MAKE PUBLIC RELATIONS WORK FOR YOU
Good PR can be an entrepreneurs best friend

Needed - One More Friend
Somebody once said that a stranger is simply a friend you haven't met. The dictionary says that a friend is one who is attached to another by affection which leads him to desire his company, or one who has sufficient interest to serve another.

Fonts Are Like Spandex - One Size Won't Fit All
Like all good things, fonts are best when used in moderation. It's always a good idea to run your selections by a trusted friend or colleague before you go "live." While a design may seem intoxicating in the moment, things may look totally different in the morning...so font responsibly.

About Those Good Dishes
A good friend of mine and brilliant coach and author, Jim Donovan, once wrote an excellent article on using your good dishes... it reminded me that I hadn't read these words of wisdom for quite a while and maybe now more than ever, we need to remind ourselves that we should "use our good dishes".

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