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5 Tips to Surviving the Holidays or Anytime Alone
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| Many things cause lonely feelings during the holidays making it such an extremely difficult time for many to get through. You may be too far away to see your relatives; you may be in a nursing home with no one to care about you; you may be dead broke during this “happy” time; many grieve the loss of a loved one, accentuated by their disappearance during a time when others are preparing for big family gatherings, although those events can even make you feel lonely. When so many of our people are deployed and families are separated, unless the one left behind has family to shelter them from the throes of loneliness, it can be depressing.
Just as there are many ways for someone to feel alone during the holiday season, there are many activities that need you and will help you feel better as you brighten the day for someone less fortunate |
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Who Do You Want To Be This Christmas?
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| What kind of person do you want to be this Christmas? You get to choose! |
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3 Better Ways to Get Wows From Your Holiday Season Business Networking
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| Assuming you are still networking over the holidays, there are at least three categories of how you can impress and influence the people you want to attract more of, through the "give without stings attached" strategy. We're reviewing good, better and best ideas that you can easily put into action. Here are three better ideas. |
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Special Days
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| We have birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays to celebrate. But, wouldn't it be nice to be honored on just an "ordinary" day? |
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Boosting Holiday Sales – 5 Mistakes to Avoid
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| How to make money with the holidays.
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On the Lighter Side
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| What a tough year. I am sure most of you are glad it is over. The recession has had an impact on every one of us. But, now is the time to look back and be grateful; grateful for who you are and who you want to become. December, unlike years of the past was very busy for me. This is only because in prior years I always took the month of December off. This year due to the tough economy that just didn't seem like a good option. So, I spent time in Cleveland, Dallas, Tampa and Montreal. I froze in Cleveland & Montreal, didn't take a coat to Dallas and should have and I went to Tampa during Florida's coldest temperatures in years. Over the holidays Tracy and I visited friends in South Carolina and got to see a calf born on a cattle ranch and took our dog to the ocean. (It was way to cold to even consider swimming.)
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Leadership-Its in Everyone of Us!
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| This time of the holidays before we are headed into a new fiscal year let us not forget to try and plant our feet firmly on the ground because 2010 will be a great year on the Internet for many leaders. |
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10 Ways to Refresh Yourself During The Holiday Rush
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| We get so busy during the holidays sometimes we don't have time for ourselves. I notice that when that happens to me I get cranky and resentful. Here is a list of what I do to refresh myself during the day as I rush to complete all my work and preholiday tasks. |
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A Proposal for the Thanksgiving Non-Holiday Holiday
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| It's holiday anarchy the day after Thanksgiving here in the U.S. Some people are on holidays, some people aren't, and most of us have no idea how to know which things & people will be open vs. closed. You're open? You're not? Whaa? |
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How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless
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| Pontificating, theorizing, and terrorizing abounds these days in tech startups. Here is a simple test to help you figure out if the startup you work for is in trouble. All you have to do is listen to your CEO talk to people for a week and determine if she uses these lines. |
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Moment of Good Financial News Zen: Shark Attacks Down
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| Here is your moment of good financial news zen, or maybe we should call it optimism porn: |
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Saving Money During the Holidays
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| Tips to save money during the holiday season. |
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Can PR Produce Miracles? Maybe!
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| It's a question Christians ask themselves every Christmas: How to keep Christ in Christmas? And some have turned to PR for answers. |
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Marketing Strategies: Seven Tips to Thrive This Holiday Season
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| Do you think holidays are something to survive? Learn how to create your joy this season! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive during the holidays. |
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Staffing needs in the Holiday Rush
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| Let your retail point of sale system save you time and money by reducing your staffing needs this holiday season |
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Why is Taking it Easy so Hard?
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| The real reason why you find it hard to take it easy is because (drum roll, please) you THINK it MUST be HARD. Seriously, that is the ONLY reason life feels hard. When you choose to believe that life has to be hard because that’s just the way it is, then you are deliberately (even if maybe unconsciously) creating the experience of difficulty in your life. In order to take it easy in your life, you simply need to come from a place where you believe it’s possible. Now, I know it isn’t always comfortable to change which is the main reason we get caught up in staying in situations that don’t feel good. However, I promise you that deliberately creating a love that you love is more than worth the initial discomfort. |
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Holiday Rush?
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| 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! |
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The Top 10 Home Staging Ideas During The Holidays
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| Selling your house during the holidays brings up many questions from the sellers. Can you decorate for holidays when your house is on the market? Read on for some of my favorite tips and ideas to sell your home fast during the holiday season using professional home staging techniques. |
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Depression
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| February is considered the most depressing month of the year. The festivities of the holidays are over and there is no break in the weather for what seems like forever! This combination of decreased sunlight and bitter weather conditions helps manifest depressive feelings in many people. |
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Stressed Out? Purposefully & Playfully Pivot through the Holidays
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| “Deck the halls with boughs of holly-- Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. 'Tis the season to be....stressed and overwhelmed - What? That’s not how the song goes. Maybe not, but it sure is how the season seems to go for so many folks.
Do you become stressed and overwhelmed during the holidays? Maybe you become confused and befuddled, perhaps to the point you’re frozen in your life - like a deer in the headlights. If so, here's a simple and effective tool that will help -- the Interim Purpose Pivot. You can use it every day, even several times a day whenever you’re feeling off purpose, or as to use a technical coaching term, feeling icky. |
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When should you send a press release? Here's 25 great reasons.
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| When deciding whether or not to send a press release, you need a reason. How do you know if your reason is good enough? Well, here's 25 reasons that are. |
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Marketing Opportunities in Difficult Economic Times
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| "Business as usual" is NOT the most effective strategy for surviving/thriving during economic downturns. Consumers don't stop buying during tough times but they do buy more cleverly. And they spend A LOT more time researching their purchases, seeking advice from friends and associates and otherwise doing their homework. Recession Marketers need to refine their tactics as well.
In this article we share 7 essential tips to help you sharpen up your offerings (and actually most of these tips contain useful advice for marketing more effectively in ANY economy, good or bad).
You won't blossom in 2010 simply by acting as if it's business as usual. Nor is it a time to hide your budget under a bushel. As one major advertiser summed it up: "When times are good, you SHOULD advertise. When times are bad, you MUST advertise." |
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A “Cautionary” Christmas Carol
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| "A Christmas Carol" for employers based on a true story. We hope that you enjoy your holidays & never lose your good will toward others. |
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5 Tips to Get Your Relationship Through the Holidays
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| A dirty little secret about the holidays is that many relationships do not survive them. Many couples break up during the holidays because all the stress gets under their skin and they can’t take it anymore. Below are five easy and highly effective tips to help get your relationship through the holidays. |
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Promote Your Home Business On Facebook To Get Tons Of Free Traffic
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| It was started as a social networking site but Facebook has quickly become much more and offers a home based business a powerful tool to attract potential customers. Facebook currently has 300 million active users and at least half of them log on to the site every single day. |
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Make Up Instead of Break Up: Holiday Relationship Tips
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| Sometimes holiday stress can be too much for a relationship. If you feel your relationship is teetering on the edge, here are five effective and very do-able relationship tools you can use now to prevent a relationship break up. |
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Coping With Holiday Stress
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| For many people the holidays are the saddest time of the year. The holidays are meant to be a time of joy, warmth, excitement and anticipation of the year ahead, and for some people this is indeed the case. But many of us live most of the time with unresolved conflicts, loneliness, a need to be understood and loved-and the holidays only serve to exacerbate our private feelings of quiet desperation. Some of the problems and emotions, which we hold in check during most months of the year, tend to surface during the holidays. |
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Guide To Start Your Home Based Business
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| There are so many reasons why people start their own home based business,and especially with the current economic situation.Things are very hard,they are uncertain ,people always look for alternatives to jobs. |
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The Many Faces of Rest
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| There is something very powerful about the word, 'rest'. In its many different faces, this word (accompanied by a body sense) can significantly influence the quality of our lives, thereby, supporting us in fully claiming Life. |
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Self Employed: What Goes into Your Billable Hour?
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| How do you determine what hours are billable? Click here to find out what billable hours you can charge to the client and what are the overhead hours. |
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What is flexible working anyway?
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| The way we work is changing but employers often find it hard to understand what its all about. This article explores what flexible working is and provides a challenge for us all to cease the opportunities that this new way of working can provide. |
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How To Use Database Marketing To Skyrocket Your Online Profits
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| Database Marketing is the gathering and storing of specific information about your prospects or customers. This information is usually stored in a database program on your computer. You would then use the information to market and advertise to them. It can save you time and money because you can target your promotional efforts to your best prospects or customers.
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How To Increase Your Online Sales Anytime
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| Hold a discount sale on your web site. Use the sale to get rid of excess inventory, gain new or repeat customers, and increase your sales. Most businesses pick a theme for their sale, like a Halloween Sale.
Below are six unique sales themes you could use:
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Keeping Online Customers Away From Your Compettition
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| Are you having trouble keeping the leads that you've worked so hard to get? Here are 6 simple steps to keep your customers for yourself. |
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10 Tips for Coping with Holiday Stress
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| Even though the holidays are an exciting time of year, they can also be a burden. Many people feel a great amount of stress, anxiety, and worry while trying to create the perfect holiday. Learning skills for coping with holiday stress can make a big difference. These coping skills can be useful whether you’re dealing with a major stressor or things on a smaller scale. The ability to cope with holiday stress will help you to enjoy the season and all of the treasures it brings. |
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Making the Most of Your Contacts
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| Those contacts in your Outlook are worth their weight in gold, if you know what to do with them. Use these tips to convert contacts into sales. |
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Your Initial reaction - is it valid or fair
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| Sometimes we react with a habitual response. In testing times this can be both unfair and/or invalid. Learn to test you reactions before you pass the messag on. |
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Make down times up TIMES by investing in YOU
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| Cutting costs is NOT always the solution. Sometimes we need more skiils, more training, a better environment or inspired leadership |
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Plan for Success
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| The new year is such an exciting time for businesses. Owners normally find themselves rejuvenated after the holidays and ready for an even BETTER new year. The desk gets cleared, the blank pages come out, the pen is poised and the first question that comes to mind is, “where do I start?”
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What is Social Media Marketing?
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| As a marketer, I find this topic overwhelms and confuses many business owners. Quite frankly, even in the marketing world - the jury is still out on the trends. But rest assured - social media is not going away. As our children grow up and take over corporate North America, the names of the tools may change, but the overall usage will only become more and more in use. |
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Earn Christmas Money By Taking Internet Surveys
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| This is the time of year that a lot of people are looking for some extra cash. There are bills to pay, presents to buy and there never seems to be enough money to do everything on your list. If you are worrying about having enough money to make it through the holidays or even recoup from them, take a few steps to earn money this Christmas by taking Internet surveys. |
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10 Personality Traits Needed To Work At Home
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| It's no surprise that people are seriously looking for work at home opportunities to supplement, and sometimes even eventually replace, their income, especially in hard times. But, before you embark on an official plan to work at home you need to figure out whether or not working from home is something you'd really like to do or if you are even cut out for it. |
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What Are You Waiting For?
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| There is no time like today to get started with a plan. Taking action is the only way to get you to your goal. |
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Four Marketing Ideas for Client Retention
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| Your success as a business owner or executive will be largely determined by how many high quality clients you can attract and retain. It is getting more and more difficult to do this because clients have so many service providers to choose from and there are less dollars to go around in a down market. Following are four sales and marketing techniques that will help you retain your clients, even in a difficult economy like the one we're experiencing right now. |
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Entrepreneurs Want To Open A Resturant And Make Sure It Succeeds
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| Your dream has always been to open your own restaurant. But the restaurant business, like many businesses, is very cut-throat. You recently read that more than 50% of new restaurants fail within the first 3 years of business. That's pretty intimidating... Here’s some advice on how to beat the odds and become successful? |
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End of Year Thoughts From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach: Looking to Success in 2009 and Beyond
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| As we enter the month of December each year, we often wonder where the year has gone, how quickly it has passed and what we did or did not accomplish. He end of each year finds us thinking about holidays, gifts, parties and friends, as well as the closing out of another business year. The end of the year is a time to look back on the previous year and look forward to the next.
And while reflecting on the past year, Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach would like to suggest that you take time to remember and to give thanks for the great things that happened in your business. And to build on all of the positive things that you accomplished this past year and carry that positive momentum into next year.
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Sales Training – Top Ten Departed Traits for Winning Sales
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| November celebrates a Catholic holiday called All Souls Day, a time for remembrance of friends and loved ones who have died. Salespeople might want to have a day of celebration to put to rest any attributes that are holding them back from winning more sales. |
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Survive a Winter and Holidays On a Bums Budget
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| The coming winter of 2008-2009 will test ALL!!! The bad economy means one thing you have to be resourcefully some things will be easy some you will have to just grin and bare. Being a Baby Boomer like me Helps most of us came from large family's and did not have a lot of cash but had the survival methods used and passed down just like the clothing! So bad times are sometimes the best why? Well in the effort to stretch the buck and stay warm we have a habit of coming closer together which can in turn make for a Winter and Especially a Holiday Season that will not be forgot for a long time all done on the budget of a BUM even though we are just normal people trying to survive a economy we did not plan for. |
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Are the Holiday's Getting Greener?
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| This is a bad year but there are some ways to brighten up the season thats right around the corner! Is having a Green Holiday Good Yes and NO so just a short story and please send your comments at are website. Happy Green Holiday's |
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Discover the secrets of what makes people tick
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| Understanding what motivates each person who works for you is the key to their involvement and commitment. Here are some tips on getting the best from the people who work for you. |
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Should you handle your own SEO?
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| Everyone is trying to save money in today’s economy – but sometimes when you think you are saving money you are actually losing so much more than you save. |
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Handling Business During The Christmas Rush
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| Although the Christmas rush can definitely bring your business more profit, along with it comes stress and the most hectic time of you. While it is anticipated by many businesses, you'll find that it is a dreaded time of year as well. The last thing you want is to fall short when it comes to handling the Christmas rush. |
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Small Business Tips To Ensure Your Business Survives Christmas
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| In Australia many small businesses go through a very quiet period from about mid December until the end of January. It is when people go on holidays, focus on Christmas parties and generally do anything except think of work.
Many small businesses close down after Christmas because they failed to adequately plan in terms of cash-flow or how to maximise the use of their time. Instead of planning and taking action, they sat and worried about lack of customers.
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Coping with Holiday Stress
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| Forget the day to day stress of juggling family and career - what about the stress of getting away from it all? Yes, even holidays can be a time of stress. |
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What Instrument Do You Play In The Symphony Of Life?
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| It is sometimes hard to figure out your place in life. What is your purpose? What are you meant to do in life? I like to think of life as a large symphony. Each player in the symphony plays a certain part. There are different instruments in each section –piano, violins, cellos, flutes, trumpets, percussion. Each section seeks to play in harmony with the other. |
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Five Myths that Slow Down Sales and How to Avoid Them
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| Time is money, yeah, yeah, we’ve heard that before. But if time really is money, why do so many professionals squander it chasing anyone with a pulse, including their most horrible prospects? Because they still embrace one of the Five Myths of selling, common mistakes that drain profit and energy from a sales organization. Read on…
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Back to the things that worked
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| Is it time for you to go back to the ways you use to promote your business and sell your products and services?
USA TODAY: 10/3/07
Sears Reviving holiday Wish Book
Fourteen years after shelving its venerable catalogs, Sears is reviving the
holiday tradition as it struggles to attract new shoppers and revive business. |
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The 4-Hour Work Week: What Would Excite You?
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| I have just finished reading The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.
The book concentrates on how to reduce your working week, how you can work from anywhere and how you can become rich, so you can do the things you really want to do. |
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The Managers Most Useful Tool
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| Many, many years ago, I remember my mum saying to me:
“Whatever you end up doing son, always ensure you buy the best shoes you can afford and keep them clean. You can tell a lot about someone through their shoes.”
That statement has stuck with me for the past 30 years and I adhere to it, even today. |
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Holiday Craziness Leave No Time for Thankfulness?
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| We are quickly headed towards the hustle and bustle of “The Holiday Season”. With the holiday right around the corner and the to-do list mounting… how will YOU find time to be THANKFUL?
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10 Reasons To Start An Internet Based Home Business
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| It is well known that building an internet based home business takes time and that is why we so often hear how important it is to have a very strong reason why or a burning desire that will spur us on through thick and thin in order to succeed. |
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Freelancing as a Career Option - Neha Kashyup
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| A good freelancer must be a forward-thinking, self-motivated leader who is comfortable taking initiative in unfamiliar environments. Freelancers should be able to make new relationships easily and spot potential clients wherever they go.
For those of you who want to take the plunge, here are some tips for starting and growing your business:
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The Top Rankings Fairy Tale
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| Are top SEO rankings a fairy tale? |
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Why Holidays Make a Great Occasion to Email Your Prospects
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| Smart sellers can use holidays as an occasion to reach out to their prospects via email… especially contacts that have been hard to reach in the past.
They give you an easy reason to reach out in a personalized, non-sales approach to reach those elusive prospects on your list. |
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HOW THE LAW OF ATTRACTION CAN HELP YOU SUCCEED
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| Can you create the life and business that you want? Can you live the life of your dreams and realise all of your business goals? I believe you can – and one of the key elements to creating a great life is to use the Law of Attraction.
This article looks at the theory of The Law of Attraction and also how to put into practice to begin both changing your life and your business. |
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HOW TO PLAN A REALLY GREAT LIFE!
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| Does your life just go with the flow? Do you ever sit down and think what it is you would like to achieve in your life? I wrote this Tips article reflecting on a recent holiday to Greece, where I realised just how much time, effort and planning I had put into this one week out of the 52 in the year. In this tip I share with you how to start putting together your own Life Plan. |
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Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics
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| To motivate your employees, it is vital that you start off with understanding that there are some things that need to be fixed first, before you can get on with the above the line actions which develop a strong and engaged culture... |
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Tips on Creating New Resolutions and Personal Goals
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| Tips on how to make your New Year Resolutions Work and align them with your personal goals |
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The PR Power of Statistics and Numbers
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| People love statistics and so do the media. Statistics (percentages and numbers) seem real, whether they are or not. Stats are great to offer to producers, writers, editors, bloggers & media outlets. It gives them a hook, something to work with. They can use your stats and then your quotes to come up with interesting, off beat and fun sound-bites, articles, and segments. Using statistics in your pitches is an excellent way to give an editor or producer a good media hook, and garner media coverage for you and your company.
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3 Step "Success Factor" Exercise
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| December is time to take some time off for reflection and planning for the upcoming year.
In that spirit, I want to share with you a 3 Step "Success Factor" exercise that can help you remember your successes...this will boost your confidence as you plan your goals for 2012. |
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