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Using Your Talents
Read and learn from this depressed, overweight housewife who blossomed into a professional speaker and writer. At barely five feet tall, Pam Lontos weighed over a hundred fifty pounds, was spending most of her day in bed, and was under the care of a psychiatrist who told her that she would always need counseling.

Knowing When To Say YES Or NO
With so many invitations and opportunities to grow your business, make money, enhance the quality of your life, knowing when to say yes or no can be confusing and overwhelming. Learn how to make wiser choices.
The I's Have It
Staying on the radar screens of clients and prospects is more important than ever for salespeople. With demand for products and services only now beginning to pick up as the worst recession in decades slowly dissipates, it has become absolutely necessary for anyone involved in sales to be persistent, proactive, and patient. How can this best be achieved without also looking desperate?

CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: Will you be my Friend?
Have you experienced that strange sensation recently? A feeling of importance, of celebrity, of previously unmatched popularity. It’s the feeling that the lucky kids at school all understood but that the rest of us could only dream of. All of a sudden everyone wants to be your friend. From Facebook to LinkedIn, from Plaxo to Fastpitch and from Xing to Friendster, people are asking to be friends. And they’re not just people we know, have met or who share mutual friends. They are people from all over the World, with varied backgrounds and different interests. Yet they all want to be our friends and share in our lives.

Networking With The Media
7 tips to keep you and your business top of mind with the media.
BlackBerry and Outlook Tips
Conflicts, repeats, disappearing and reappearing meetings and tasks in BlackBerry and Outlook calendars... infuriating and problematic! The key: Outlook is King. That's really all you need to know - but for good measure, this short article outlines how to deal with calendar items in ways that prevent these problems. (For users of BlackBerry Exchange Server).
Ideas For Starting Your Work At Home Career
If there is one thing you will see a lot of online it is work at home job opportunities. Advertisements are all over the place and you probably received at least one email this week promoting this very thing. You may have images in your head of clicking ads for pennies a day or some type of pyramid scheme; however there are real work at home careers out there. You simply need to know how to find them.
Learn How Old Fashioned Networking Can Grow Your Home Business
Networking has been around a lot longer than the internet has. Could you imagine how difficult and different it was 20 years ago when people needed to get the word out about their home based business? Now there are many people who think the only way to network and promote their business is via the internet.
Conversations for Effective Action
In your work, and in your life away from work, you participate in conversations. People speak, and people listen. And more is happening - promises are made, requests are made, invitations are issued, proposals for new projects are presented. Things happen in conversations. In fact, it is in conversations that people make things happen. Only four things can happen in a conversation. We call these Basic Linguistic Commitments. The four linguistic commitments for action are requests, promises, assertions and declarations, and they happen in conversation, and this is all that’s happening.

Where Is Your Life Calling For Courage?
Do you face each day with trepidation about what the unknown might hold? Peek inside for some valuable insight into day-to-day lessons that will help you experience the truly meaningful and rewarding life you have within you to live.
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.
What Really Creates Sales Excellence?
What really creates sales excellence? No one thing - ever. A combination of things - always.
The Scene is Set
Business Scene has set itself the task of becoming 'The Ticketmaster of Business Events'. Andy Lopata looks at the growth of a network of networks This article originally appeared in The National Networker
Three-Step Dance to Success
The third step to total success is a commitment to make life better, easier, and richer for as many people as possible. I love Zig Ziglar's quote that, "You can have anything you want in life if you find a way to help enough other people get what they want in life." What a wonderful challenge!
Time, Money and Life Balance, Part 1
Highly successful people seem to be less busy than most every one else because they arrange it that way. They join fewer clubs, make fewer promises, run fewer errands and waste less of life's most precious commodity.
Knowing When to Say, “Next!”
Knowing your industry, and being able to "read" the intentions and buying styles of individual customers makes all the difference. It's a skill and it can be learned. If you are in business, you are in sales. Get good at it.
Sexual Harassment victim wins $100,000 in damages
A trainee neurosurgeon has been awarded $100,000 in damages after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that she was sexually harassed by a doctor during the course of her employment.
Are Multiple Supply Chains Important (Survey Response 4)
A 2006 Report made the following statement: "Designing and operating multiple supply networks to meet the needs of specific market segments--supply chain innovation and the use of multiple supply chains will be important to future revenue and market share growth." Based on your own experience is this an accurate assessment? If yes, why? If no, why?
Part I: Can LinkedIn Increase Your Sales?
Wondering if social media sites like LinkedIn are worth your time & effort? If so, you've come to the right place. When you read this article, you'll discover how others leverage this unique tool to connect, create opportunities and more. Make sure to check all four articles in this series.

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Life’s A Journey Not A Race Or An Event
Imagine looking at your life as a series of invitations to be fully alive in each moment. See those situations that stretch you out of your comfort zone as healing and growth opportunities - blessings in disguise. Savor the people and moments that bring you joy. Slow down and bring your focus out of the past and future to the present moment to appreciate and receive the daily gifts that come your way.
Conversations for Effective Action
In your work, and in your life away from work, you participate in conversations. People speak, and people listen. And more is happening - promises are made, requests are made, invitations are issued, proposals for new projects are presented. Things happen in conversations. In fact, it is in conversations that people make things happen. Only four things can happen in a conversation. We call these Basic Linguistic Commitments. The four linguistic commitments for action are requests, promises, assertions and declarations, and they happen in conversation, and this is all that’s happening.

Want an Effective PR Campaign? Write the Book
The “book” is the key to establishing a lasting leadership position that delivers significant benefits, from frequent media interview requests, oftentimes paid speaking invitations, etc
Knowing When To Say YES Or NO
With so many invitations and opportunities to grow your business, make money, enhance the quality of your life, knowing when to say yes or no can be confusing and overwhelming. Learn how to make wiser choices.
How to Build Customer Relationships – Create Connections, Cultivate Trust
It used to be that building relationships with your customers meant utilizing email or periodic newsletters to keep your customers up to date on the latest products or services that you offered. Invitations to special events and cards commemorating their “anniversary” dates were used to make them feel valued and appreciated. Today, how to build customer relationships features direct, interactive communications such as live posts on a social networking site, or a quick tweet. Reaching out to customers and showing them a friendly face is key to your success in the virtual environment created by the World Wide Web.

Positioning Yourself For More Speaking Engagements
With all due respect, love and admiration, why do you, some of our planet's best teachers (professional speakers) think that all you have to do is throw up a website to get invitations to speak? What's with the trend to try to build relationships only over the Internet? Can you imagine the response of a meeting planner if the author of the best-selling "how to" book actually picked up the phone and called the CEO of an organization to suggest a way in which she/he can solve at least three of the organization's five challenges?
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