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Nine Internal Traits for Success
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| There are nine traits that those of us truly interested in achieving success in our lives, need to be developing. Many people think that you must measure success by material items such as money in the bank or land owed. However, many people that have things things, live miserable lives. There must be something more. I propose that money, land and other material items are rewards from having success in our lives. We know we are succeeding when these things begin to arrive, but to truly measure success we need to look at our progress in nine specific areas. As these nine develop, we will KNOW we are successful because we will be truly happy. |
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The 7 Stages of a Referral Generation
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| Referrals happen, thank goodness, but for too many, they happen randomly, almost accidentally. |
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The 800 Pound Gorilla Problem
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| I was at a board meeting recently where the board and management was discussing the company’s market position. This is a strong company that leads its market and, as a result, one of the board members stated that we were “the 800 pound gorilla in the market.” In my world view, the market was still relatively small so I suggested that we were the 12 pound gorilla. While this got a chuckle, it was instructive and moved the conversation down an interesting path. |
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TIME FOR BUDGETS BUT NO TIME FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT!
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| Make your performance management system work for you, or if you are still without one, implement one urgently. This means making it the driving force of your improvement plan for 2010. If you are like so many other businesses out there where by you have reduced your headcount but require more out of each member of the team now, follow this simple plan.
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Does That Glass Of Water Look Half Full Or Half Empty?
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| Why nurture optimism and why do it now? Well, optimism has been linked to positive mood and high morale. It's linked to scholastic and athletic achievement and general success. How to look at things with positivity is a big part of being optimistic. You owe it to yourself to adopt the habit of optimism. |
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The Invisible Close Sales Nugget - Four Groups That Will Promote You As an Expert to Their List
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| You're planning your free call on the topic of your book, info product or telecourse. Perhaps you're using the free or paid tele-seminar to create a product that you'll sell for years. Or you're taking an existing product you have and delivering it with a teleseries. Okay, now what? How do you get the word out to folks beyond your own list? How do you pack your rafters with callers? And you DO want to pack those rafters. Think about it. If you have a sales conversion rate of 40%, times 100 callers vs. times 400 callers.... That's a lot more dollars in your wallet. |
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A Different Kind of High: The Power of Altruism
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| When we perform good deeds, we experience a myriad of physiological benefits from feeling more calm and peaceful, to overcoming depression, to better recovery from heart attacks and even increased longevity. Altruism-doing good deeds and performing service for others out of the goodness of our heart-is an ipso facto reciprocated gift. This article provides 7 ways to foster altruistic behaviors in our life. |
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Your learning/self-improvement process is probably obsolete
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| I don't know enough. The pace of change in the world of sales, sales management and consulting is such that my traditional process for learning simply can't keep up. I know you're in the same boat. Guess what? We can help each other. |
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What Creates Confidence?
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| Do you lack personal or professional confidence? Do you often wonder at how others can appear to feel so confident? Discover the path to both personal and professional confidence. |
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The American Dream- Are You Truly Living It?
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| This wonderful land allows you to dream big and strive to achieve everything. What is the "American Dream" and what are you doing to make your country proud of you? |
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A Life Can Be Changed by a Few Simple Words
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| One way to become more aware of what we are doing day in and day out is to affirm the goodness that surrounds us and the goodness we can do for others. |
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Home Party Plan Businesses Show Tips: How To Boost Increase Sales At Home Parties
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Party Plan Consultants: How do you increase sales for your home parties? Following are party plan show tips that will guide you... |
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Didn’t I park my car here?
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| Discussing auto theft and preventative measures. |
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Make the Most of 2009
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| New Year’s Resolutions are easy to make and easy to break! Here are my twelve suggestions to make more time and enjoy life in 2009! |
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How To Loose Home Party Sales And Alienate Your Customers
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| How to boost sales at home parties? Now do you see why a home party plans business is about you? You are your own advertisement, your own walking billboard, your own marketing, your own promotional. The manner in which you conduct yourself will determine whether you continue to be a struggling home party consultant or a 6-Figure home party success. |
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The Most Bizarre Old School Sales Rule EVER
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| I had a friend years ago give me some very bad advice (thank goodness I didn't pay attention to it)
"Kim, when you're first in business - no matter what they ask for - say YES."
I think that is a bizarre recipe for disaster. It is also the Old School Rule of Selling that is out-dated, WRONG and definitely NOT for you!
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A Three Step Solution to the Selling Dilemma
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| Recently I began working with a new client, a brand new franchisee of an outstanding franchise system, who told me, "I'd like you to know something about me right away. I've attended sales trainings before and I just won't do the 'car salesman' thing!"
"Well," I replied, "Thank goodness... because that's exactly the opposite of what I'll be coaching you to do."
Today's business owners are really uncomfortable with the old 1950's way of selling. And so are today's customers. The trouble is,many of these same business owners and customers have never experienced a kinder way of selling.
Which is where I step in, ever so gently. |
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How's Your Sales Software?
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| Are you off-track sometimes when you try to close the sale? Like today’s roads, conditions in today’s market place have changed in recent years and like my old GPS with out of date map software, if we are not operating with up-to-date mental sales software, we may not arrive at the destination we had in mind, the sale. Is your sales software (skills) up to date? |
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The 8 Things You Must Know To Build A Great Website
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| Last week we talked about how a bad website can do your business more harm than good. That column brought several emails asking what is the key to building an effective business website. I replied with the same answer I always give: building an effective business website is a simple matter of definition |
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Is The eBay Fee Increase Actually Good For Business
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| This will be the fifth rate hike in as many years for the auction giant and should really come as no surprise. Price hikes are a normal course of business. It was the size of the hike that has many sellers upset. |
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Hottest Vending Machine Home Based Businesses
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| Vending machine businesses are much more than just candy and quarters, this industry has the potential to make great money and the flexibility of hours and amount of work, nearly anyone can own and operate a vending machine business. |
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The Very First Step to Internet Riches
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| This may be the most important tip on making money on the Internet that you will ever receive, and it's not going to cost you a single cent. |
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Are You On The Verge Of Quitting
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| I believe if you're an entrepreneur or in sales - you deserve a gold star!
Why?
Because we're people who don't get regular pay cheques like the rest of the madding crowd. We ONLY get paid when we SELL. (Now look in the mirror because I just pasted a BIG Star on your forehead!)
And sometimes it feels like sales are slow, no one is calling you back, and you couldn't come up with a new idea if your life depended on it. (thank goodness that's not the case!)
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It Doesn't Matter WHAT They Say!
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| I went to the chiropractor this week and told him my right arm had gone numb and my neck was tight and hurting. He gave me a great adjustment and then told me that my neck was losing its curve and I have arthritis. I’m thinking to myself, “Thank goodness I know that I can heal anything in my body. |
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Evaluate Your Path to Wealth
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| Now (not at the end of the year) is a good time to check in with your wealth goals. Notice I did not say career, work or money goals. Wealth is the abundance of anything. |
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End this year on a high
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| End this year powerfully and start the New Year on a high. |
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Appreciation: Looking in the Rearview Mirror
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| Appreciation is more than taking a positive attitude about business and about life: it's also about looking back on how far you've come and enjoying the accomplishment. No matter how much attention you need to pay to the road ahead, you still sometimes have to look in the rearview mirror to appreciate where you've come from. What successful team avoids performing a 'postmortem' on even a well-played game? Perfection is a direction, not an achievable goal; progress is what we're after. Future progress only comes from a healthy examination of where we've been. |
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What Kind Of Car Are You?
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| Learn more about your co-workers with this easy question. |
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3 Tricks for 06
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| 2005 disappeared at a speed that quantum physics is yet unable to explain. Thank goodness I had a goal to achieve! |
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Sorry to have been away so long
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| Yes, I do apologize. To be frank (right now I wish I was anyone
but me, yes, even Frank) I have been on the mend. The last tour
just about wiped me out and then this nasty speaker’s curse, the curse
of the throat, plagued me for weeks. Harsh, cough, gravel,
hurt. All of that and more. Which of course affected the
rest of me…will I ever be able to speak again? Oh, my goodness, is this
it? Am I on my way out? Weak, weak, weak. You get my
point. |
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The 7 Stages of a Referral Generation
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| Referrals happen, thank goodness, but for too many, they happen randomly, almost accidentally. |
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It Doesn't Matter WHAT They Say!
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| I went to the chiropractor this week and told him my right arm had gone numb and my neck was tight and hurting. He gave me a great adjustment and then told me that my neck was losing its curve and I have arthritis. I’m thinking to myself, “Thank goodness I know that I can heal anything in my body. |
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Are You On The Verge Of Quitting
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| I believe if you're an entrepreneur or in sales - you deserve a gold star!
Why?
Because we're people who don't get regular pay cheques like the rest of the madding crowd. We ONLY get paid when we SELL. (Now look in the mirror because I just pasted a BIG Star on your forehead!)
And sometimes it feels like sales are slow, no one is calling you back, and you couldn't come up with a new idea if your life depended on it. (thank goodness that's not the case!)
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The Most Bizarre Old School Sales Rule EVER
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| I had a friend years ago give me some very bad advice (thank goodness I didn't pay attention to it)
"Kim, when you're first in business - no matter what they ask for - say YES."
I think that is a bizarre recipe for disaster. It is also the Old School Rule of Selling that is out-dated, WRONG and definitely NOT for you!
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A Life Can Be Changed by a Few Simple Words
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| One way to become more aware of what we are doing day in and day out is to affirm the goodness that surrounds us and the goodness we can do for others. |
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Mentoring to remove the barriers to your success
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| Mentoring to remove the barriers to your success
“As a result of the one hour I spent with Nicholas, I’ve achieved more in the last 3 weeks than I did in the previous 3 months! Thank goodness for his perception, honesty, clarity of thought and encouragement”.
Looks a great testimonial but there is more to this than meets the eye and at one stage I was quite questioning of my approach. |
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Leaders of Tomorrow
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| LEADERSHIP IS GOODNESS FOR ONE AND ALL. |
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Top 5 Ways to Get the Most Bang for Your Fulfillment Buck
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| Let's face it, as creative marketers, fulfillment services are often the least important element of our marketing plans, and frequently not even a part of our budgets. After all, we think, how hard (or expensive) can it be to put a few packets together, or assemble a few thousand sales kits? I mean, it's not rocket science, for goodness sake! So why does the cost add up so fast? |
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