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Guerrilla Direct Mail
Get your profits off to a rip-roaring start with direct mail. To make every stamp and letter count, follow these seven steps and leave your competitors in the dust.
If You're Fired...
Have you ever been fired? No one likes to think about it but, unfortunately, with today’s economy and faltering job market, it certainly can be a strong possibility for anyone in any field.
Discover the Top Rates intended for Your Mortgage Canada
If you are looking for the best rates for your Canada mortgage, now might be a great time to take action. While the fluctuation of interest rates has been seen in recent months, the time to purchase fixed or variable mortgages may still be now. The slight increases have been felt by very few and the agreed conclusion of many people who observe the housing market is that rates are still less than the all-time highs of not that previously.
The 7 Deadliest Financial Mistakes Self Employed Make Coming Out of Recession
For many of my self employed clients, the sales cycle is already on an upswing. Recovery recession has turned from a deep desire to a slow spiral of reality. Now comes regroup, refocus and rebuild. As you build plans for the rest of this year and into next, avoid these deadly financial mistakes that may kill your business during the next recession. Yes, there will be a next recession; they’re a normal.

10 Tweetlater Tactics to Make Your Twitter Life 100 Times More Productive
Being a fan of twitter and a gadget geek I have tried a fair few twitter tactics and table offerings over the last few months and one of my favourites is Tweetlater for several reasons. So, if you're looking for a reason to splash out on a twitter tool take a look at my list of twitter tactics you can apply by using tweetlater professional as part of your social media marketing campaign.
Use Christmas to promote your business
It’s getting close to that time of year again – when everyone starts to talk about the ‘C’ word and looks forward to their two week break. Before you look forward too much to your break though, I want you to stop for a minute and just think about promoting over the Christmas period.

Holiday Rush?
Even in a recovering economy, the Holiday season is the most stressful of the year. Having a good retail POS system in place can make or break your season, as well as determine how many gray hairs you get!
Your Email Marketing Strategy in Review
Can you believe it’s November already? I’m not really sure how that happened, but it happened nonetheless. And while I’m always sad to see the Summer go, I love this time of year because it’s a great time to start preparing your 2010 marketing plan. But before you do that, you’ll need to evaluate which of your 2009 marketing strategies worked and which were not effective. Since email marketing is one of the best marketing strategies for increasing your online presence, you should be constantly evaluating it and making any and all improvements.

5 ways to pep your team’s work-life balance
Working on your project when your personal life is not going the way you want it can be a real bummer. On the other hand, having your work-conflicts affect your personal life is as bad. How do you ensure that your team members are balancing their work and life well?
How to relieve stress during a job loss
Home business expert, Andrea Scott, shares practical tools to relieve the stress caused by job loss during the recession. She encourages people to develop a variety of tools to cope with this traumatic situation.
Seeing the Big Picture
The Fourth of July weekend is a great time to kick back and look around at your family. This is the time of year that most of us stop and see the big picture….the reasons why we work so much; the reasons for putting up with the daily stresses; the reasons for 40-60 hours of labor. It is all part of a bigger picture……it is not the money that we get every other Friday! It is the joy, the memories, the time we get to cherish with our friends and family.
Smart Women Experiment
This article is about thinking of your Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals as an “experiment.” Taking some time to experiment and research your ideas. Learn more about the possibility if they are real for you.

It's My Party - And I'll Cry If I Want To
Is there anything more embarrassing than turning up at a party and finding that you are the only one there?

Plan your sales cash-crop now!
We reap what we sow and now is the time to sow leads that you can harvest into sales later this year! Read about six sure-fire tips to boost your leads now!
Hottest Small Business Opportunities For The Couple
There are all sorts of different classifications of businesses that help you decide which one will be perfect for you, but here's a unique one: business opportunities for the couple. If you're planning on starting a small business with your significant other, take a look at what are most likely some of your best options.
Eight Ways of Making the Impossible Possible
Need a road map to take impossible to possible? Learn the eight ways to tackle any problem and turn impossible into success.

Liability Limits and you – Choosing appropriate limits
Helping businesses choose legal liability limits
Heres why the market tanked when Geithner spoke
Traders and investors alike have been waiting for Geithner’s speech. However, what he ended up doing was opening up more questions than answers. Until we get some “light” as to which way this will all go, the markets will continue to be choppy and erratic.
Inventory Targeting/Modifications
You can modify your inventory offerings without altering the flavor of your store to better serve your customers in a recession.
Competition in Tough Times
How are small retailers supposed to compete against the big boys, especially in the current economic climate? Small retailers have several advantages, from obvious things like lower fixed costs, to intangible assets like customer service and name recognition. Refinining your position in every aspect of your business can make a huge difference to your bottom line, and how you support it.
Smart Goal Setting – 5 Tips to Success
Intrepid Entrepreneur and expert home stager, Staging Diva, offers five timely tips for setting and reaching your goals.

Are you Ready for 2009?
How You Can Get a Strong Start This Year!
Out With the Old and In With the New To Increase Sales
The beginning of a New Year is a great time for change especially if your sales are stuck in a rut. Maybe the down economy has affected your ability to increase sales? Possibly, the Internet is playing havoc on sales revenue? Now is the best time to throw out the old traditional sales based marketing and embrace education based marketing.

How do mums in business get organised and focused...
Getting organised when you are a business mum is a tough ask for many people, especially with kids in tow! Being focused and organised can be done, and with a business to run, it is absolutely essential.
Work Smarter to Work Less
Tips for marketing yourself as a salesperson to increase your sales results.
Downturn Can-do: Think Upturn Prospects
Talking to salespeople, there seems to me to be an air of futility about at the moment, about prospecting for new customers and new business. While It may be easy to find reasons to be despondent, allowing yourself to feel and behave in this way, what ever the evidence is actually counter productive.
Hurry Up & Wait!
This article is meant to provide the reader with an objective perspective on proper preparation for a new product launch and proper market representation.

Whos in YOUR wallet A Power Networking Strategy and Year End Inventory
Do you know who the key people are in your network? Do you take them for granted? Make time to identify your highly effective connections, create strategies to strengthen those ties, and ultimately increase your bottom line!

Stress Management: Pressure-Proof Your Holidays
The holidays are fast approaching. Are you feeling stress and overwhelm, instead of joyful anticipation? I'll share 5 key strategies to help you pressure-proof your holidays, so you can ENJOY instead of ENDURE your holidays.
Only Just a Minute
The value of time.
7 Reasons to Invest in Yourself Today
You are all you have! I know this to be the case first hand. There’s nothing like a separation, grueling divorce and – here’s the kicker – a near death experience to clue you in that without you and your ability to be at your best – physically, mentally, emotionally and intellectually, you have less.

Buying anything at a Discount in a Bad Economy
Yes the name of the game is CASH and when things are bad for one they are food for another!I learned some good lessons long time ago about buying and selling in bad times for me the eighty's where worst time of my life economically. First we had high interest rates and then jobs well you for the most part couldn't buy a job! Now we as American all know about being resilient and resourcefully when we have to. In this article I will show you some of the ways to buy discounted items most methods FREE or very low cost. Now please as you read keep one thing in mind if you pay for this kind of information you defeated the purpose and one of the largest pay to know is all FREE its the government and here is their site http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/gsaauctions/ see you already paid for this How? You pay taxes!

Half Full or Half Empty?
Despite the economic turmoil opportunities exist. The challenge is to find those opportunities for your business. No matter what's happening around you, there are still things you can do to improve your results.
How to Make More Sales With Less Effort
Exploring how Personal Marketing can be the fastest way to sell more and work less.
12 Steps to a Successful Proof of Concept - Part 3
This three part series outlines twelve steps to installing a hardware or software proof of concept within your customer's IT environment.
Marketing for Small Business - How Successful Was Your Marketing Expense Last Financial Year?
Throw your hats in the air and celebrate – it is end of financial year time again! I love end of financial year as it is a great time to reflect on what worked and what didn't for you and your business in the past year. But ... when you look at how successful was your marketing expense in the past financial year – you need to look your results against a number of definitions of success (and not just the dollars).
Finding Your Efficiency Zone
Everyone one of us has an efficiency zone. That is the mental state in which we find ourselves accomplishing a great deal at a rapid clip, although it feels natural and comfortably paced. It is a state in which our true productivity potential is released.
Who Else Wants More Referrals?
Getting new clients by referral is one of the most effective, simple, and low cost ways to grow your business. So how many referrals have you received lately? How often do you ask for referrals?
Summer time slow down?
Summer is actually a great time to make progress on your website and your business.
Hooray – It’s Spring!
Yes it’s the season! What does spring mean to you? Spring is a great time to start new projects and chances are you will be excited to get started.

Changing Gears
One thing is true; if you keep doing what you always have done you will keep getting the same results. Whether you are achieving what you want or not, it is always important to understand what is driving the present results. What is causing your current performance? What can be done to make it even better or eliminate any obstacles or distractions? Is the problem internal meaning is it your attitude or bad habit, or is it external or is it external such as money, other people etc. One thing is for sure, we choose the circumstances we find ourselves in, whether it be the work environment or relationships. The good thing is that when we acknowledge our power of choice, we also empower ourselves to change the situation.
Five Simple Work at Home Tips
Working at home is both rewarding and challenging at the same time. Running a business out of your home takes dedication, discipline, creativity, and being able to make tough decisions. You need to learn how to treat your business like a business as opposed to just a hobby, or you won’t be able to be as successful as you hope to be. We have five simple tips that will help you see more success on your endeavor in being a home based business owner.
Summer Management of Your Home Based Business
I cannot believe how fast each school year goes by. My children will be done with their daily school structure, and back at home running about in just a few weeks. So, I’m getting ready for the change in how I need to be able to work my business around my children during the upcoming months. This happens to me every summer, as it does with thousands of other home based business owners. So, just what IS a work at home mom to do? This gets to be a creative time in managing work load with running to kid activities and extra outdoor playtime and at home time. And of course.... the kids are bored by the second week of summer vacation claiming there is "nothing" to do! Not to worry, there is always a solution to make things work and keep things on task with your home based business.
Go Deep
Follow the herd, run with the rats and you might have some fun, but strike out on your own and go deep and you will learn unique skills and have an adventure.
LOOK BEHIND BEFORE YOU LOOK AHEAD
Now is a great time to look back on the past year and gain some perspective on where you’ve come over the last twelve months and what you’ve accomplished. It is also the time to create a realistic personal vision for 2008. A personal vision is more predictive of success and satisfaction than socio-economic background, intelligence or educational level.
Networking: Ten Tips to Create New Relationships and Shine at any Event
Do you know the difference between schmoozing and networking? Here are some tips to assist you through holiday networking events. Learn which behaviors assist you in feeling confident and friendly and bloopers to avoid.

12 Tips of Christmas
Christmas is fast approaching so in preparation, Helen Dowling from Exceptional Thinking has put together her 12 tips of Christmas.

Planning for the New Year
It’s nearly the New Year again and time for a review of your business and a bit of planning for the New Year. Helen Dowling from Exceptional Thinking gives her top tips for making this work in your business.
Crafting Powerful Goals
Action Steps are critical to your success. Think of Action Steps as the building blocks or the rungs on a ladder leading toward your goals. These action steps are the small daily things you do each and everyday. Eventually they become habits for success.

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Email folders
Emails are a great business tool, but they can also be a great time waster. Learning to manage your incoming emails can save you a lot of time and energy for other tasks.
Passing Up Good for Great
Work/life balance requires surrender of part of one area - whether it's time spent on work or time spent on personal matters - in favor of the other. But we don't generally like giving up anything we want. We want it all, and we want it all now. Maturity requires us to recognize that perhaps we can have it all (though that too is open to question), but we certainly can't have it all at the same time. The single most useful skill for deciding how to arrange this work/life balance is the ability to pass up good for great. Learning that skill requires that we be able to recognize what's good and what's great, to identify appropriate time frames to help with the good/great evaluation, and to guard our decisions zealously.

Three Key Elements to Improving Leadership
Great leadership is the key to success. Great communication is the key to great leadership. Think of any great leader in modern time: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr, and John F. Kennedy come to mind immediately. They were powerful leaders because they could inspire people to follow them. It was their ability to articulate their vision that made them successful in achieving their goals.
Summer Small Business Re-evaluation
Whether at the beach or on a mountain, I find the summer is a great time to lift my sights to the broader horizon. It’s a great time to regroup solo, or with your team, on what’s working/not working, what the opportunities are and what it will take to get there in the next 12 – 18 months.

Striving for Greatness with Good Employees
Being an effective leader, striving for excellence and being inspirational is essential to creating a great company. There is no doubt that during these tough economic times that average is not good enough. Look around, if you have average performing employees that can't seem to reach the level of performance that is in alignment with your vision, "Now is the time" to do something about that. However, don't let great be the enemy of good. Good employees are not easy to find or replace. Yes, great employees are what we all would like to have but everyone can not be great. Sometimes good is good enough. Remember that when evaluating individual performance in your organization. Good employees can make your company great.

Go on Vacation to Grow Your Business
If you want to improve your business, go on vacation. Vacation is a great time to decompress, not accomplish anything meaningful, and eliminate any noise coming from an alarm clock. It's also a great time to observe customer service and sales. My vacations have always left me with a few business takeaways. Here are some observations:
Striving for Greatness
Being an effective leader, striving for excellence and being inspirational is essential to creating a great company. There is no doubt that during these tough economic times that average is not good enough. Look around, if you have average performing employees that can't seem to reach the level of performance that is in alignment with your vision, "Now is the time" to do something about that. However, don't let great be the enemy of good. Good employees are not easy to find or replace. Yes, great employees are what we all would like to have but everyone can not be great. Sometimes good is good enough. Remember that when evaluating individual performance in your organization. Good employees can make your company great.

4 Secrets to Developing the Perfect PR Pitch
You might have a great story, but if you don’t know how to present it, you’re not going to grab the media’s attention. Remember what seems like a great story for you might not seem that way to the media. Building a great pitch for a TV segment or magazine article takes some time, thought and creativity. I covered some ways to develop a dynamite PR pitch in a previous article, take some time to review those but also keep the following tips in mind.
Just a Job or Part of Our Deeper Purpose?
The owner of a car wash and gas bar was at a conference where he bumped into an old employee. "Hi George. I enjoyed your presentation. You had some great ideas and insights for the group." "Thanks Charlie. It's great to see you again. It's sure been a long time." Is this little Joey?" "Yep. Joe's grown a bit since you last saw him. He's going to be taking over for me next year. If there's any business left for him to run." "Great."
10 Ideas for Less Holiday Stress
The holidays are a time filled with great expectations of joy and community along with fears of potential chaos and stress. Visiting family members are one of the highest ranked sources of holiday stress. Other stresses on the list include finding time for yourself and handling diet and food intake over the celebratory period. The key to surviving the possibilities of holiday mayhem is having a great plan. Check out these 10 great ideas on how to have less stress for the holidays.
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