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Recovery or No Recovery? That is the Question.
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| James Dicks examines the discrepancies of what economists are telling us about a possible technical economic recovery and what the American public is actually experiencing. |
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Launching a Job Search and Effectively Landing in a Turbulent Environment
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| Launching your career search should be a very serious and focused project as there is so much on the line. Then, why do so many of us fly by the seat of our pants when it comes to getting prepared for all the things that need to happen prior to launching our search? |
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"Acceptance"... and growth
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| Acceptance simply means "EMBRACING WHAT IS". Acknowledging the "what is"...may include yourself, your spouse, significant other, job, house, health or a set of circumstances. With ACCEPTANCE, we embrace PEACE. And, it's in this peace that miracles happen.
For those of us that thrive on personal growth and are constantly looking for ways to improve, and better ourselves, the idea of "accepting" ourselves may feel like embracing "mediocrity" or "settling". Won't I get complacent if I totally accept myself? Will I lose my edge or drive? If I "accept" my significant other just as he/she is, does that mean I'm encouraging them to stop growing? NO. NO. NO. |
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The Six Biggest Applicant Lies Encountered in Employee Screening
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| Why do background checks? Because employee screening has revealed that a very high percentage of resumes are works of literary fiction. Screening firms’ routinely uncover fibs in applications that are just not true. It is one ting for an applicant to accentuate the positive and put themselves in the best light possible. But when resumes go beyond fact into the world of make believe, then employers need to be careful. After all, if a person is dishonest in the way they got the job, there is a concern they may be dishonest once in the job. This column outlines the six biggest lies seen on resumes applications. |
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Finding Your Niche in Life -- Live with Passion and Purpose
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| Many of us go through life following the path of least resistance. This may mean having a job that pays the bills, but that we don’t actually like. We know what to do and it is comfortable to be there. But where’s the passion and the excitement in life? Where is the challenge that makes us feel alive and able to do anything? Do you want to get up every day with energy and ready to face the day? That is what finding your niche in life can do. It can bring a new dimension to your life.
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Compensation and Performance
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| Does compensation really drive top performance? Well we've certainly seen a lot of people being paid a lot of money for not performing so what's up? If you have someone who is the right person for the job and they have shown promising results then it is probably a good investment to up the compensation. But compensating the wrong person is never going to make them the right person for the job. And your results will suffer in 9 different ways. What questions should you be asking yourself as you consider executive compensation approaches? |
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FREE everything needed to start home business
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| Now anybody can start their very own home based online business. The problem is that most offers one finds in the Internet gives you one or two free features only. Other features or the ones given tend to be free trials. This means that after a few days if you want to keep the features you have to pay a fee. Others offer free very limited functions features. If you want to really have the feature or tools functioning to have a profitable business you have to pay an upgrade fee to get that. Now there is an opportunity to get all these tools completely free to have a profitable online business. What are those tools? That is the theme of this article. |
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Is Keyword Research really all that Important It surely Is
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| Stressing the importance of keywords in everything on the Internet that we do. From website copy to content for a article, blog posts' marketing online involves alot of print material all of this is keyword based and driven it is these keywords that allows the search engines to find your content and rank it based on how good of a job you did with your keyword research |
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Job Interview Criteria
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| Some suggestions for conducting an efficient and effective job interview. |
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New to the job
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| This article has been written to assist new-leaders of local government. However, the information is just as useful for anyone who has moved into a management role. Rules and regulations change from state to state and country to country but one thing doesn't change: you have to know how to fit-in with your new group and how to manage constituents or employees. |
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One small step for you: One giant leap for your Organization
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| Times are tough in the business world; very tough in some countries. Regular reports indicate that this is the worst Global Financial Crisis we’ve experienced since WW11. It has made leaders stop and rethink the way they have been doing things. It has made them reevaluate their systems and processes in order to ascertain just how successful they really are. Performance Development Programs (PDP’s) are one way that your organization can improve workplace productivity. Implementing new systems and processes is laborious at first; however setting up and using PDP’s is essential if you are serious about increasing business productivity. They don’t have to be complicated, in fact the simpler the better. When done properly they are a valuable resource for not only you but for your employees as well. |
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You need one, I need one: we all need a break
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| In the current economic climate the mantra is to work harder and harder. This is a global phenomenon and we are told it regularly. There is no time for a break; you just have to keep pushing yourself. Everyone else is doing it - so of course you must follow suit. It's expected that this behavior will impact on productivity in all the right ways and that the organisation will go from strength-to-strength. Those in leadership are not immune from this pressure. It is not only difficult to continue to work harder and harder, it is impossible because there comes a point when the bone has no more meat on it. While sustainable for awhile, over time issues start to emerge. Pressured, exhausted leaders can experience a loss of confidence, self esteem, lack of clarity and mental and/or physical health issues can appear... |
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Beware of Job Scams
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| James Dicks discusses the possibility of being scammed on the Internet when look for a job online. |
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Compartmentalize-How do you do it?
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| James Dicks explains how he handles all of his problems through compartmentalizing |
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Create a Personal Financial Survival Plan
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| James Dicks examines the need to prepare for financial hardships ahead of time. |
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Diversification is the Key
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| James Dicks explains the benefits of diversifying your personal financial investment portfolio. |
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Engaging your Employees
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| the importance of an involved employee base |
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Exceeding the Standards
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| James Dicks examines what it takes for business and individuals to make it in today's tough eocnomy |
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Finding a Fresh Path for the New Year
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| James Dicks reexamines what is important in light of the holidays and this past year's recession. |
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Guarding Your Thoughts
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| James Dicks examines the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in today's tough economic times. |
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I Made More Money with Bad Credit Paying 18 Percent and 5 Points
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| James Dicks shares his strategies and methods of making money in Real Estate. |
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I Need a Job - Not Stimulus
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| James Dicks presents his own method of solving the nation's economic problems |
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Lessons of Leadership
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| James Dicks discusses the importance of leadership traits in the business enviroment |
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Let's Give It All We Got
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| James discusses volunteer service in the US |
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How to Lead with Determination and Still Have Compassion
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| How can leaders stay clear and strong about what you need and yet still show compassion for the stress and anxiety of today’s marketplace? Read on to learn three important lessons to be clear and strong to empower your employees to get the job done. |
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Simple Tips For Internet Marketing Success
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| Working from home with your own successful business that is bringing in a salary more than your boss could ever offer you is considered a dream to most people. Many find it easier to go to work every day being told what to do for a fraction of their earning capacity as a '9-5 job' can become one's security blanket, being seen as much easier to earn 'a living' rather than to put some effort into research to make things happen with a successful business in which you could live in that dream reality. Success in this field takes motivation and persistence, but once mastered it will pay off and make a dramatic positive change to your quality of life. |
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Seven Skills You Need To Stay Employed Or Get A Job
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| Whether a college graduate or a non-degreed individual, the expectations placed upon the current workforce, and those who will enter the workplace, are indeed becoming very high. A list of the “basic skills” is provided which is important to employers today because they believe both current and future individuals who occupy positions at virtually any level within the workplace will need them to survive. |
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COMMUNITY WEB, INTERVIEW, JOB AND TALENT
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| Today the greatest challenge in front of leaders is to find the right talent for their organisation. It has become quite difficult to get the best talent for their team. Leaders need to find ways in order to find the best and the right talent for their purposes. |
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Are you fishing or hoping for a free boat ride?
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| This morning Joanne and I were talking to some locals on a tiny island where we’re hanging out for a few days. We saw a fishing boat come in right after a pretty violent storm. There were probably 20 guys hanging around the edges of this very small boat. No one is paid for their services – they all fish and keep track of their catch. Typically, they pay the captain and owner of the boat 2 pounds of fish per day for the privilege of fishing from his boat. |
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Work From Home to Earn More $$$
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| While it is easily accessible to ditch your boss and work from home, in some cases it is just not an option to quit a well paid job to start a new business from the bottom and work it up. Anybody can, however start their online business working after hours while remaining in their money security blanket’. In a sense, keep paying the bills, mortgage while building a formidable business that one day may actually allow you to sack the boss! |
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Clarity Through Panic
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| June ‘04. I had just quit my job selling mufflers at Midas. I went for 6 weeks without making a single dollar. It was one of those wonderful warm summer weekends you get in the Midwest… yet it was as though I couldn’t sleep, eat or breathe. The pit in my stomach grew daily, I was terrified. I took a leap of faith, quit a decent paying job, to pursue a full time career in online marketing and almost like a little bird who decides to jump out of the nest a just a couple days too early, only to find the ground is patiently waiting to reach up and smack him in the face. |
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Business Plan and Implementation Principle 1
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| Let’s say you are my employee, and I ask you to build a puzzle of 1,000 pieces. The challenges are that there are no square edges, you cannot see the picture of what the puzzle will look like in the end, and most of the picture is pure black or white. Oh, and by the way, I am going to give you extra pieces. How motivated are you to build this puzzle for me? Welcome to the typical business. This is how the majority of employees feel in most organizations and why most employees only do the minimum expected to keep their job. |
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How To Find Your Dream Job -- Even During The Worst Of Times
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| Career transition expert and VocationVacations founder, Brian Kurth, offers up his top tips to pursuing a dream job even during challenging economic times. |
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Finding Your Dream Job In Your 50's
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| Career transition expert and VocationVacations founder, Brian Kurth, offers up dream job pursuit tips for the 50+ generation |
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So, You Think You Want To Become An Entrepreneur?
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| VocationVacations Founder, Brian Kurth, provides five key questions to ask yourself prior to becoming an entrepreneur. |
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How to Solve the 3 Major Problems with
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| The network marketing industry is expanding at a greater rate than ever before. Financial situations, the economy, and job loss are just a few of the contributing factors leading to this steady increase in entrepreneurs looking to become involved in the network marketing industry. The fact is 95% of those starting in the network marketing industry will fail if they do not find a solution to the three major problems being faced by beginner marketers. Let's go through the three major problems and how we offer the only solution possible. |
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Its A Shame That You’re Not Making Good Money --- When Regular People Are Doing It So Easily
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| You’re probably asking yourself, “What is it that separates those that are successful and those that are not?” You’re not alone. Many people are asking themselves this very question every day, especially now with the drastic changes in our economy. Seeking out a “Plan B” is now the main priority of many individuals that are now jobless, on the verge of losing their job, in foreclosure, and just afraid of how this economy will impact them in some way. But still, there are those that are flourishing in their financial status. What is it that they are doing? |
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How to Set Yourself Apart From Other Affiliates online job from home
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| How to Set Yourself Apart From Other Affiliates online job from home It is very essential for you to have your own website in considering affiliate marketing as your professional online job from home career. Secondly, potential customers primarily go to websites in order for them to search and sometimes purchase items they were looking for. For the same reason that it is much easier to remember than a certain URL that you may be using and you can just point to your visitors the affiliate page in your website. |
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Why You Should Promote Job At Home Residual Affiliate Programs
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| With affiliate marketing, you won't need to worry about the products you have to sell. All you need to have is a website with sufficient contents that are related to the products of a certain online company offering Job at home affiliate programs. By becoming a member of the program, or by becoming an affiliate, you can start earning a certain amount of money right away! |
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TRUTH IN INTERVIEW - Part II
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| From PART I: Somewhere, we learned that if we hire an applicant with the skills we need, the results will be an employee who will do a great job. WRONG! Skills simply means the applicant can do the job, it does not mean they will do the job better than anyone else. Making hiring decisions based on skills leaves job performance a mystery until after the hire. Interview-savvy applicants have made it tougher for interviewers to accurately assess motivation, often causing the misjudgment to favor applicants who are NOT High Performers. |
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What the High Performer DOESN’T Know!
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| In tough economic times, like we are experiencing right now, many people are still afraid of losing their job. For employers who must cut back, they have to choose who stays and who goes. For some companies, the deciding factor is based on performance - top performers get to stay. Right now could be the perfect time to learn how High Performers are able to produce better results. Interestingly however, it's what the High Performer doesn't know that just might provide the greatest insight. Whether you are a job seeker or an employer, understanding how the high performer is able to achieve better results while others are not is knowledge everyone should have. |
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HIRE TOO FAST and / or FIRE TOO SLOW ©
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| Like A Bach Piano Contest? One small business owner shared this experience: “When I hired Sharon, my wife asked me, ‘how well do you know her?’ Two years later, I spent $150,000.00 in legal fees and a month in court. I will never forget my wife’s question.” There are fundamentally 25 different ‘Behavioral Characteristics’ that once known will precisely prognosticate how a person will perform on the job. The results have nothing to do with intelligence, knowledge, experience, personality or education.
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The Heroes Direct Their Business
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| To direct, direct yourself. Think about what motivates you. Is it much different from what motivates those you need to direct? Employees who are properly stimulated, who are motivated, poked and provoked to surpass their job performance expectations will help you reach the company goals. They teach you things of value along the way. "Here is how you do it" is learned day by day as you do it. |
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Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing.
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| The job of entrepreneurs is to lead change. |
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Work Stress Now The Major Cause Of Heart Disease
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| Stress at work is often dismissed as an inevitable part of the job. New research is now showing that heart disease now may become an inevitable part of work stress... |
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Are You Too Good for Your Job?
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| When we don't believe the job at hand is our best option, we need some blueprint by which to measure and behave. Are you concerned you're too good for your job? Are you an entrepreneur concerned about key team engagement? |
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Career Advice: Five Secrets to Creating Your Dream Career
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| There are countless career opportunities in this economy for you to create your dream job. Why be unhappy with your career when you can create the perfect job that leads to a happy fulfilling career using a little creativity?
The following are seven secrets to creating your dream job and very successful career. |
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Do You Know What Online Income Business Opportunities Are?
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| Coping with the financial challenges that these times bring is not exactly a walk in the park which is why you should get all the help that you can get from every chance you can find to make your livelihood a lot more stable. Having a job is no longer a guarantee of a good life because you can lose it on any given day and finish up with nothing to live on for the next few months. |
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Make Article Marketing Easy and Quick for Your Legitimate Internet Business
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| Article marketing is an excellent and cost effective method to use for advertising your online business. If you struggle to write articles then following these 7 steps outlined here should make the job faster and easier and more rewarding for you. |
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Have You Thought About Starting an Online Business to Earn an Extra Income?
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| If you have ever thought about giving up a job and becoming your own boss by running an online business from home or just would like to make some extra money by working on the internet, this is an avenue that many people are now considering. |
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Don’t Let the Fear of Failure Limit Your Potential
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| I hear people all the time complain about their employment situation over and over. I know a few people who have had the same job since I've known them and even though they've stayed at the same place for as many as 30 years, every time I see them they tell me how much they hate their job. They complain about how their boss doesn't treat them right and about how tedious it is.
I don't get it!
Why would anyone stay in a situation that brings them nothing but unhappiness? I've even heard these same people tell me about how they are always looking but just can't find a job "as good as" the job they currently have.
Huh? Are they kidding? |
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Owning a Small Business Can Be Like Living Alone On An Island
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| Can you remember when you decided to start your business? I am sure you felt the same nervous excitement I did!
I remember when I first told my plans to my Mom. She said, "That sounds exciting Pete, but wouldn't you rather get a job with a big company so you can work hard and have a pension some day?"
My response was, "No Mom, I don't want to be in a position where I know exactly what my paycheck is going to be each week." I wanted to know I had the ability to build something that would produce a large income, and perhaps one day I would build it to a point where I could sell it for enough money that I could retire to an island somewhere and drink pina coladas in the sun every day. |
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Capture Your Competitors' Customers - Even When The Boss Says It Can't Be Done
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| As a Sales Manager, you often hear your President and other Senior staff members try to bolster the sales staff with confidence that you can win any job. On the other hand, have you ever had the President of your company tell you that there is "NO WAY" that your company could win a major project with seven other major approved suppliers from your industry? |
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Hiring to Sustain Growth in a New Economy - 2 Things You Should Look For When Hiring New Employees
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| Two issues that must be addressed so the probability that you will hire and retain the right employee increases significantly...
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10 Tips for Managing Your Career
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| Here are some tips for those just beginning a new career and career changers. If you have been in a job for a while, these tips may be helpful in revitalizing your career or in focusing your attention on the need to make a change.
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A New Way of Working
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| The job front is changing. Full time secure jobs may be a thing of the past. What does this new work environment mean to the employer and to the employee? How can you best prepare right now for this change? |
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Don’t Let Your Business Needs for Artwork or Graphic Design Hinder Your Dreams
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| No matter what idea you have for a business or a product that you want to market online, there is a way to use freelancers to get that job done. I am very high on using freelancers to tackle your business needs. |
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Don’t Let Your Need for Artwork or Graphic Design Hinder Your Dreams
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| No matter what idea you have for a business or a product that you want to market online, there is a way to use freelancers to get that job done. I am very high on using freelancers and with good reason. |
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3 Employee Training Tips for Managers
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| If your job involves managing people, it also involves training them. Find out why teaching is something every manager must do and learn how to improve the effectiveness of your employee training. |
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Why is Getting a Good Night's Sleep so Important to Your Workday?
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| I used to have so much trouble sleeping. In 2008, when the economy starting going bad, it caused a lot of people to have sleepless nights. For our good health, we all need a certain amount of deep sleep every night to revive our bodies and minds. If you go long periods without sound sleep, it can seriously affect your health. I suffered the loss of my job. In the process of looking for work at home, I received a tremendous invitation and explanation of an Internet marketing business that also told those 50-60 K income stories but got past those "eye-catchers" and explained their business to me. No more sleepless nights for me except that I enjoy working at this business so much that I am not keeping regular 9-5 hours. I can work whenever and wherever I please. |
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What is it About About.com That You Don’t Know?
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| There is actually quite a bit about About.com that you don’t already know. When I lost my job as a mortgage broker back in 2007, I knew I had to do something, anything and fast to earn money. My job was gone, my car was gone and I was definitely feeling the heat. |
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Are you watching your Article marketing stats?
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| On many article submission websites you have the ability to watch your article marketing stats. These stats tell you things like views, comments, and maybe a “thumbs up” for a great job. Unfortunately many people just throw an article together, submit it online and forget about it. I would like to educate you on a few thoughts that I have on article marketing and why you would want to watch your stats. |
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Mindset - How You Think will Always Determine Your Level of Success
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| Your mindset is the set of beliefs that you have that determines what actions you'll take in every situation every day. If you're a person who's content to work a job every day and go home and drink beer and watch television every night with no desire to better your circumstances, you'll probably never even see this article...so I'm not talking to those content to be drones. I'm talking to YOU. You who have a burning desire inside of you to be better, achieve more, have more success in life than you've ever had or can even imagine. I don't mean just financial success; I mean a successful LIFE. Financial success will be a by-product of your life's success if you can just get your mindset right. |
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Employers: Embrace the part time/ interim work force
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| Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource discusses why employers should embrace the part-time/ interim workforce and the benefits this can bring. |
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Employers: Choose the best person for the job, regardless of their age.
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| Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource, discusses why employers should choose the best person for the job, regardless of their age. As the population gets older, wants to work loger, or work more flexible, employers need to realise this and take advantage of the experience these older workers can bring. |
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Love your job
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| Getting up and going to work each day is something that most of us do for many years. Yet few of us jump out of bed each and every day and can't wait to get there. It seems that we have to whine and moan about it to keep up with everyone else. It does not need to be like this and it is preferable that it isn't. When employees love what they do, they will go that extra mile for their boss and a far more positive culture will be created. This in turn can turn into increased productivity and profits. |
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The Unconventional Approach to Gaining a Job Promotion?
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| I provide strategies to gain a promotion in the workplace with the quickest and most effective ways. |
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The Queen of Porn: The Early Years of Jenna Jameson
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| Most people know her name, although admitting to it is an entirely different matter. Jenna Jameson has gone from being a victim of abuse and a no-name stripper to one of the world’s most famous porn stars, and it is not just because she is good at her job. Jameson flexed her entrepreneurial muscle to create a porn empire. What began as her own simple website has morphed into Club Jenna, a full-fledged adult entertainment company with revenues of more than $30 million. But while she may now be the fantasy of boys and men around the world, Jameson’s early years were anything but dreamy. |
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Lesson #1: Don’t Deny Your Passion
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| “My first six years in the business were hopeless,” said Lucas. “There are a lot of times when you sit and you say ‘Why am I doing this? I’ll never make it. It’s just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job and try to survive’.” |
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Lesson #5: Help Others to Help Yourself
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| “Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other,” says Lucas. “We have the tendency to lose it when we forget that, as a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals.” |
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Lesson #1: Be Fierce
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| “Always look out for yourself,” says Trump. Never one to back down from a challenge, Trump has made a career out of being ruthless when it came to his business. Trump realized early on that he would only reach the heights of success of which he dreamed if he was willing to tackle whatever or whoever stood in his way. He took no prisoners when it came time to make a deal and did whatever it took to get the job done. |
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Lesson #1: Make Your Passion Your Life’s Work
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| “Without passion, work is just work, a chore,” says Stewart. “Passion is the first and most essential ingredient for planning and beginning a business.” |
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Lesson #5: Know Your Enemy
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| “A man always has two reasons for doing anything,” Morgan believed. “A good reason and the real reason.” Morgan was a mastermind when it came to knowing and being able to read his enemy. He knew his limits but he was able to sense theirs as well. He was thus able to navigate himself through the competition to end up on top. |
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Lesson #2: Do It Yourself
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| “I love my product,” said Lauder. “I love to touch the creams, smell them, look at them, carry them with me. A person has to love her harvest if she’s to expect others to love it.” Because of Lauder’s love for her company, she took a very hands-on approach to its operations, getting her hands dirty in everything from production to marketing to sales. She understood the importance of hiring a good team, but her desire for perfection and quality drove her to want to control all aspects of her company, at least until it got too big for her to handle alone. |
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Mark Cuban Quotes
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Michael Dell Quotes
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Dave Thomas Quotes
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Lesson #4: Never Stop Running Scared
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| “The secret I learned early on from my father was to run scared and never think I had it made,” said Watson Jr. “I never felt I was completely adequate to the job and always ran scared…The fundamental for our success was running scared. I've seen us go by companies whose chief executives used to make me shake in awe." One of the biggest keys to IBM’s success was Watson Jr.’s inability to sit still, to accept his success and ride it out. Instead, Watson Jr. always kept his eye on the future, always looked for improvement, for the next big opportunity and he refused to settle. |
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George Lucas Quotes
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Ted Turner Quotes
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Lesson #1: Become a Remorseless Marketing Machine
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| “Our job is to wake up the consumers” says Knight. “If we become predictable, that’s not waking them up.” |
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Lesson #2: You’re Only As Good As The People You Hire
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| “None of us is as good as all of us,” Kroc would say. A strong proponent of teamwork, Kroc understood that his growing company could only continue its meteoric rise up if it had the support and the dedication of its workers behind it. In order to ensure staff loyalty and motivate his employees, Kroc did his best to guarantee that they were treated with respect and were able to operate on an equal playing field. |
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Lesson #3: Focus Your Sights
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| “Here is the prime condition of success, the great secret,” said Carnegie. “Concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it; adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.” |
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Lesson #4: Quality Questions Create a Quality Life
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| “Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential,” says Robbins. “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” |
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Lesson #2: Make A Commitment To Be The Very Best
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| “My first ambition in life was to be Miles Davis,” recalls Gardner. “I didn’t want to be a trumpet player, an artist or a jazz musician – I literally wanted to be Miles. My mom said to me, ‘Baby, you can’t be Miles. There ain’t but one, and he got that job.’ But I made a commitment at an early age that I wanted to be world class at something,” |
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Chris Gardner Quotes
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Lesson #4: Learn to Expect the Unexpected
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| “Whatever future you’re building, don’t try to program everything,” says Omidyar. “Five Year Plans never worked for the Soviet Union – in fact, if anything, central planning contributed to its fall. Chances are, central planning won’t work any better for any of us.” |
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The Dough Starts Flying: Domino’s Takes Off
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| “We had no idea what we were doing” recalls Monaghan of his and his brother’s first venture into the pizza business. “We opened up without an attorney. I didn’t even collect sales tax – didn’t know I had to.” Initially, the plan was for the brothers to each work half nights. However, when Monaghan’s brother refused to give up his job as a full-time mailman, Monaghan traded his Volkswagen for his brother’s half of the business. |
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Lesson #1: Think Big About the Little Guy
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| Growing up in the produce store of his stepfather, Giannini was surrounded by farmers, merchants, and other labourers. He got to know them, their businesses, and their business needs, in what proved to be an experience he would not soon forget. In fact, the lives and stories of these workers would come back to haunt him when he first took the job with the Columbus Savings & Loan Association. For, it was during this time that Giannini began to recognize that there were entire groups of people – workers – who were readily denied access to bank loans and credit. |
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Inside Intel: Success Factors of a Company that Inspired an Industry
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| Today, Intel is ranked 49th on Fortune 500’s list of the top revenue grossing companies. Noyce and Moore may no longer be in charge of the daily running of the business they first founded in 1968; however, their impact on not only the company, but also the entire industry can still be felt. The maker of motherboard chipsets, network cards, flash memory drives, graphic chips, embedded processors and more, Intel is an innovator and a leader in the world of electronics and computing. How did two scientists who knew nothing about business become two of the most successful examples of entrepreneurship in history? |
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Li Ka Shing Quotes
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Lesson #3: Create Long-Term Value For Your Shareholders
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| Before Schwartz ever made a decision to acquire a company or not, he would always ask himself one question: what can this company become? Schwartz was not interested in making short-term profit. Instead, his number one goal centered around creating value for his shareholders. “Every decision Onex makes is made on the basis of creating long-term value,” says Schwartz. “Our philosophy is to operate like a forever owner of an asset.” |
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Lesson #2: A Strong Team Leads the Trail to Tomorrow
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| “I’m only as good as my team,” says Ramsay. “Building a team is part of the foundation of a good business.” |
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Lesson #2: Being Stubborn Is Fair Play On The Road To Success
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| “You know, I’m lucky enough that I’m just sort of stubborn and sort of immature,” says McFarlane. “That thought of, ‘Todd, how come you’re successful?’ never occurred to me. I don’t listen to anybody. I’m like a five year old kid. I’ll hold my breath if I don’t get my way, and it served me.” |
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Lesson #5: Tap Into Today’s Top Talent
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| “I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done,” says Musk. “Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.” |
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Guy Laliberté Quotes
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Lesson #1: It Is Never To Late To Get Your Start
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| “When we began to make $10 a day, [my ex-husband] thought that was enough, thought I ought to be satisfied,” said Walker. “But I was convinced that my hair preparation would fill a long-felt want. And when we found it impossible to agree, due to his narrowness of vision, I embarked on business for myself.” |
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Lesson #5: Take Time Off to Tune Up
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| When Orfalea first rented his little $100 per week garage near the USC campus, he was told his venture would never work. It was a pipe dream, they said. It was a business that would flunk as fast as Orfalea had in school. Still, says Orfalea, “I didn’t listen. I knew what I was going to do.” |
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Joyce Hall Quotes
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Lesson #5: “Success seems to be connected to action.”
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| Marriott never stood still or took the time to reflect on his successes. After all, there was no time to indulge in such things. “Successful people keep moving,” he would say. “They make mistakes, but they never quit.” |
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Lesson #1: “There’s no genius behind it. It’s persistence and listening to people.”
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| From its onset, Craigslist was born from the ideas and suggestions of its users. When Newmark began sending out his email list in 1995 to a small group of interested subscribers, almost immediately, he began receiving emails back with suggestions for job and apartment listings they hoped Newmark would add to his list. |
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Lesson #5: “Hard times are an opportunity for growth”
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| If there is one lesson that Wilson has carried with him since he was a young boy it is this: every opportunity, whether missed or taken, represents another lesson to be learned. |
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Build Your Reputation
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| I’ve been building the Trump brand for several decades. But from time to time, landmarks do come along. |
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Remember The Little Things In Life
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| Think about it. If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much--unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes is a lot. |
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What You SAY is What You Get - How to Speak Your Way to Success
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| If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. You have to believe you have the right stuff, that you are able to pull it off. You have to believe in yourself. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-assurance, it is a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes – the abilities, inner resources, talents, and skills to create your desired results. |
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One, a few, most or all
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| There are four kinds of marketing situations, and the approach to each is radically different. Yet most of the time, we lump them together as just plain 'marketing'. |
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Marriage
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| As the 10th of 12 children, my older brothers and sisters obviously got here many years before I did. Two of my older brothers and two of my older sisters had failed marriages. Since I was at the bottom of the production chain, my younger brother and I had the benefit of what my mother had observed and taught us. She pointed out that we should never date a girl more than once or twice if we discovered we would be unwilling to have her as the mother of our children and be unwilling to take her wherever we were and introduce her with pride to anyone. I listened intently to what my mother had to say. I chose carefully. |
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Teachings of the Wii Generation
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| Nice post from DailyTech on the democratization of technology, and what we can learn from the surprising success of the Wii game system. It is easy to forget how many people thought the wildly successful Wii was set to fail. |
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Careful Consideration and Analysis
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| Most organizations view business development opportunities as a threat. |
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Five New Rules for Marketing
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| Marketing is part art, part science and part business. Because it's such a subjective thing, there are few hard and fast rules. But here are five new ones to guide you in your quest to boost your profits with a minimum investment and avoid nasty surprises along the way. |
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Chaos, Confusion & Catastrophe: The Three C’s of Small Business
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| I just have to get this out of my system. I have had so many negative experiences n the past few weeks with “service companies” who simply have no idea -- none, zilch, completely vacuously zero – of what service is, that I simpl could not restrain myself from writing about it and sharing it with you, given how committed you are to fulfilling the vision of entrepreneurship. |
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Marketing time
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| Smart marketers already know that marketing is more than advertising. Here's one tactic that might be overlooked: time. |
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Your Vulnerability Is Your Strength!
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| At conferences and trainings, we're always trying to get people to have deeper, more meaningful conversations, to let their guard down and share their vulnerabilities and passions -- the stuff that makes us all human! I've heard so many touching stories recently from people who had the courage to try it. Two examples: |
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A business without a dream is like a life without a purpose
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| I launched my present company, E-Myth Worldwide, in 1977 to transform the way small business owners do the work of growing their companies.
Since then we have coached, trained and taught over 50,000 small business owners in more than 145 countries on how to transform their business to produce consistently better results.
What we learned from those 50,000-plus owners could fill a dozen books.
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Trimming Startups, One Inscrutable Position at a Time
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| From Lucy Kellaway in the FT, a rule that I'm going to apply at more startups:
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Wrestling
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| Recently I did something that was totally out of character for me. I always talk about taking chances - whether in business or in life -- and this time I really took a big one. I agreed to take part in a huge WWE wrestling extravaganza, headed up by an amazing man named Vince McMahon. He can put on a show the likes of which I’ve never seen. |
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Change is Good
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| Sometimes we love change and sometimes we hate it. Regardless, it always takes a little bit of courage to leave something familiar and try something new. Why is change difficult for most of us? Because change necessitates that we move out of our comfort zones. |
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Guerrilla Planning
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| The first thing to know is that guerrillas plan backwards, beginning with
the attainment of their loftiest goals in the future, then working back
to the present. If you can allow yourself to visualize success, the path
to it will be easier to find. Most companies see the beginning of the
path in front of them, but don't see where it leads in the distance.
Their short-sightedness gets them in trouble when change or unforeseen
circumstances occur. It even impairs their ability to function when
confronted with success. |
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Rosie
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| Lots of people have been asking me why I took such a harsh stand on Rosie O'Donnell. |
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Marketing is What You Do and What You Say
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| A lot of marketers get caught in the trap of figuring out what to say to get the sale. Then, well, then things go south a bit. |
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Managing Difficult People
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| One of the biggest challenges candidates face on The Apprentice is managing difficult teammates. Even the most talented of project managers often struggles when he or she has to lead individuals who are disliked or disruptive. It drains energy from the rest of the group and it can make the work environment a divisive one. |
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Never Quit: A Lesson from The Apprentice
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| I was shocked after a recent task on The Apprentice, when a candidate resigned instead of taking her chances in the boardroom. After having a tough time as project manager - and knowing her teammates certainly didn’t like her - Michelle threw in the towel and quit. |
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An Apprentice Lesson in Leadership
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| Recently on The Apprentice, I had to ask a member of the winning team Kinetic to volunteer to go to the losing team, Arrow. |
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What You SAY is What You Get: How to Speak Your Way to Success
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| In the previous issue of Success Strategies, I talked about how in order to be successful, we must first define what success means to us, and that means getting CLEAR about what you want, writing it down, and thinking BIG! |
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10 Rules for Being a Great Panel Moderator
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| Having moderated many conference panels, and participated on many more of same -- and suffered through even more as an audience member -- I've decided to share some words of advice on moderating a panel (I offered rules for being a panelist in a prior post). Being a moderator is nowhere near as easy as people seemingly think, and most people are crummy at it. |
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Act to Create It
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| If you want to live your dreams, not only must you decide what you want, turn your dream into measurable goals, break those goals down into specific action steps, and visualize and affirm your desired outcomes -- you must start taking action. |
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Office Romances
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| This season on The Apprentice, two of the candidates - Tim and Nicole - had what I guess you would call “an office romance.” The romance ended up hurting Tim because he couldn’t figure out if his loyalties were to Nicole or to his team. Plus he couldn’t really concentrate on what he was doing. |
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People You Don't Like
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| I’ve been asked many times, “How do I build a relationship with a person I just don’t like?” And typically, we’re talking about the workplace – a customer or boss or associate. My answer is usually, “Not everyone is going to be your best friend, but if you’re forced to deal with a person, why not make the relationship more personal and real? Wouldn’t you want a better relationship for the sake of success, mutuality, and most importantly, less angst and more joy?” |
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Moms Not Working
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| For years, career women have heard that it’s fine for them to quit their jobs in order to become stay-at-home moms. They’re told that it’s the best thing for their children and eventually they can make their way back into the workforce when their kids get old enough. |
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Q&A: Dealing with an anti-NeverEatAlone workplace
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| A great question from a Never Eat Alone reader: |
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Build Your Boats Before You Need Them
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| A lot of folks thinking about starting a business spend all their time doing the typical start-up stuff like incorporating, finding office space, and designing business cards. All good and needed steps mind you, but don’t neglect the most important step. |
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Advice du Jour: Do Whatever Gets You Tenure
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| I was recently talking to a CEO friend of mine who is having trouble with his board. He thinks there is a very good chance that he will soon be fired. |
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When you are ready to stand up to speak
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| Perhaps you should consider sitting down. |
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What Not To Say To Your Boss
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| If you’re smart, you’ve learned what not to say in a romantic relationship. You’d never tell a woman she looked fat in a dress or tell a man he was losing his hair. But have you learned what not to say in a business relationship? |
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Tip 106 - How to Thank Your Valuable Employee
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| Your greatest asset is the people who work for you. While bonuses for a job well done are nice, so is showing your appreciation with a few words to let your employees know that you care about their successes. But don't just say, "Hey, thanks." Go deeper. |
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Money with Meaning: Living Your Life “On Purpose”
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| Why are you here? Why are you on the planet right now? Many people believe we each come into this life with a purpose, a reason for living. Considering that every element in nature has a specific purpose for existing, and we are an integral part of nature, it stands to reason that we have a purpose too. |
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What are you hiring for?
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| If you're trying to hire someone who presents well to strangers, creates documents without typos, is good at seeking out interesting new opportunities, can think on her feet in an interview and can network with strangers in search of a goal, your current hiring system is probably perfect. |
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Sue Your Boss
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| Sometimes I just can’t believe the stuff I read. |
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Secrets of Email
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| Most people read their email with their finger on the delete key similar to the way we sort through our mail over the trash bin to facilitate the process of throwing our junk mail away. If your email is not opened, you have exactly a 0% chance of getting a response no matter how fantastic the contents of your email may be. |
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Talk to Your Boss about Your Next Job
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| Guess what? If you've built a strong relationship with your boss, you should be talking to him or her about your next job. It's stupid to pretend you will be at your current job forever when everybody's thinking about their next move. |
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The Person Responsible for Your Success
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| It's time to meet the person who has been responsible for the life you live right now. |
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How to create a great website
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| Here are principles I think you can’t avoid: |
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Use Examples to Encourage
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| It's well established that good leaders praise their employees, but there are different ways to go about it. As a manager, one thing you can do is to point out to the whole team how well an employee does a certain task. Then others can follow that best practices example. |
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Connect for the Success of Your Child
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| You attended Back-To-School Night and you're on helping-with-homework duty, but that's not all you should be doing this new school year. |
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The Best News
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| There are many different attitudes. Roberto de Vincenzo, a golfer from Argentina, beautifully displayed one of the best ones many years ago when he won the Masters Golf Tournament but was denied the coveted green jacket. I say he won it because he had the lowest score at the end of four days. But his playing partner who kept the score had inadvertently written that he had made a five on one of the holes when in reality he had made a four. De Vincenzo signed the card, and when an incorrect card is signed, the player is disqualified. He had not cheated, but the rules stood. What was his reaction when he learned he was disqualified? Did he blame his playing partner? No, he said he made a stupid mistake. He accepted full responsibility himself. Now what kind of man is he?
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Responding
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| When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative. Example: you get sick and go to the doctor. Chances are good that after an examination he or she would give you a prescription with instructions to return in several days. When you walk back in if the doctor starts shaking his head and says, "It looks like your body is reacting to the medicine, we're going to have to change it," you probably would get a little nervous. However, if the doctor smiled and said, "You're looking great! Your body is responding to the medication," you would get excited and feel much better. Yes, responding to life is good. Reacting to the incidents of life is negative - and that's bad. The next example validates that fact.
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Paying Kids to Study (An Early Business Lesson)
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| In a pilot program in metro Atlanta called “Learn and Earn,” several schools are paying kids to study. |
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Beware of Snark-Infested Waters
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| 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: |
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Job Number One
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| Job Number One in email marketing is to grab the reader's attention. |
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Keeping your employess in the light
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| When asked to list the most important factors for considering a job number one and two was having the right tools and the information to do the job well. Income was down the list a bit. The best selling book - First Break All the Rules - does a great job highlighting this reality. |
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Pure Evangelism: How to Get Great Candidates
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| Any article that starts off by advising you to tell potential employees that working at your company is a stepping stone to great jobs in other companies is okay by me. Penelope Trunk does this in "Memo to Human Resources: New Ways to Get Great Candidates." Her recommendations include: |
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Higher Gas Prices = Lower Worker Productivity
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| As gas prices climb higher and higher, the costs hurt people in more places than just their wallets. |
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Attractive People Inspire More Teamwork
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| If you are running a business or even conducting a meeting, here’s the ticket to success. Have a lot of attractive people around. |
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The Art of Sucking Up
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| There is an art to sucking up. Done too blatantly it will backfire. Done too weakly, you won't get what you want. The perfect suck up contains the following elements: |
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Rejection - Not By You, Really
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| Rejection isn't failure. I've been back from vacation for five days (including the weekend) and I've send out around 100 50 (if felt like 100, but I went back and counted and it was slightly more than 50) rejection emails to deals that came into my inbox while I was on vacation. It's part of my job - and I try to always at least give a little context as to why something isn't interesting to me. But 50 in five days (really 10 days including the vacation) starts to be a little discouraging. |
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Appearance
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| Okay - I admit it - this one is extreme. Several years ago before I realized that my body retains ice cream, my wife and I were in our favorite ice cream parlor. An unusual-looking young man walked through the front door. In my lifetime I have never seen anything like it. His hair was sticking out in every direction and came to a point at the top so sharp that it was dangerous. He had every imaginable color represented - green, purple, orange, red, lavender, black - it was really a sight to behold! |
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Get Your Shine On
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| One of my most frequent mantras for small business is “Strategy Before Tactics.” In other words, you must develop a solid marketing strategy before you ever consider the what and how of the tactical side. |
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Fixing Problems
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| Question: Can you remember a day when you did not have some "problem," irritation, disappointment, defeat or set-back of some kind? It might be having to make an unexpected stop at the service station because your mate drove your car and neglected to refill it. Or maybe your boss gave you incomplete information on an important project and now you have to start all over. |
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Are You Waffling?
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| Politicians are often accused of waffling between stances on issues in an attempt to broaden or redirect their appeal.
Well, I’ve run across a small business or two plenty guilty of the same. |
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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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Kick-Start Your Priority Focus
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| At a conference earlier this year, I was handed a copy of Les Hewitt's "Power of Focus" workbook, an awesome little spiral bound book that contains dozens of exercises to help individuals FOCUS in on goals, and not just any goals, but the right ones. Hewitt is the co-author with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of The Power of Focus (more info at thepoweroffocus.ca). |
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Help Them Problem Solve
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| As you already know, people do not buy shampoo; they buy clean, great-looking hair. That means selling a benefit. A way that some shampoos have achieved profits is by reassuring people that the shampoo cleans hair, then stressing that it solves the problem of unmanageable hair -- a benefit and a solution to a problem. |
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How far away is your emergency?
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| It's amazing that people have so much time to fret about today's emergency but almost no time at all to avoid tomorrow's. |
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If You Were Laid Off
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| Of course no one likes to think about it, but if you were laid-off from your job tomorrow how would you fare financially? With today’s volatile economy and job market, unfortunately it’s something you have to consider. |
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Collaborate or Die! Me, Seth Godin and John Jantsch
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| Here are two great tips on collaboration – a major theme in WGYB – from marketing whizzes Seth Godin and John Jantsch. Seth and John will be joining me in the first of several FREE teleseminars – go here to sign up for the call, June 8 at 12ET. To see the list of other great authors involved in the WGYB calls, visit my blog. |
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Twenty Keys to Success
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| In this article I'm listing the twenty most crucial marketing tactics, urging you to be aware of all of them, then try every single one of them and keep trying them. They're all going to work for you and we don't even have to get into that silly conversation about getting a bang for your buck. |
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The scientific method
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| In most interactions, we take a defensive posture. We try to defend the brand, or our turf or our job. The problem with defense is that it's static. The best way to get smarter, to embrace and to cause change and to triumph in times of market turmoil is to adopt the scientific method. |
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Get To Or Got To?
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| Every morning for several years, promptly at 10:00 a.m., a prominent business woman visited her mother in a nursing home. She was close to her mother and loved her very much. |
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The Perfect Interview Test
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| Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon, authors of I Hate People!, have figured out a quick way to interview job candidates. |
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Graphic Design Goal
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| Graphic design is based on objective goals, not subjective opinions like "I like red!" The design of your ads, brochures, newsletters, proposals, and web site should be determined by the image you want to communicate.
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Two Important Qualities
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| There are a lot of similarities between business and baseball, and in ways they are interchangeable. I played baseball in high school and became captain of the team. I learned a lot about how teams can excel with the right leadership and with regard to the specific talents of each player. It was a great education. |
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The Victim
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| Does your job happen to you? |
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Leaders Are Communicators
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| There is an old saying, “That which can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.” This resolution, passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi, in the mid-1800s brings that into focus. “Number one: Resolved by this Council that we build a new jail. Number two: Resolved that the new jail be built out of the materials of the old jail. Resolved that the old jail be used until the new jail is finished.” |
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Be the CEO of Your Job
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| Sometimes a person says one sentence that just sticks with you and is so perfect that it defines a whole category of behavior. Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, riffed on the phrase “be the CEO of your job” in a board meeting a year or so ago. It stuck with me and I’ve thought about it many times since. |
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Sign Your Own Checks
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| I like signing my own checks and not pressing a computer button. |
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Where the Jobs Are/Will Be
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| Not surprisingly, the job growth in technical fields will exceed the increases in the non-technical. |
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Beyond Your Tasks
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| Ever hear the story of the two masons working side by side at a building site? They're doing the same work under pretty much the same conditions. One day a stranger comes along, approaches one of the men and asks, "What are you doing?"
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Using Pre-Employment Tests Can Save You Money
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| Pre-employment testing is a way of determining the degree to which a candidate possesses and can demonstrate the knowledge skills and abilities required to successfully perform in the position. Any tests that are used must me job related and valid and comply with the “Uniform Guidelines on Employment Selection Procedures” issued by the EEOC.
Some of the most commonly used types of pre-employment tests are...
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How to Reinforce Your Successful Teambuilding Efforts with Summer Interns
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| School is out for the summer and many college students, hopeful to land a job now that hiring indications are more positive, have secured internships for the summer. How do you make this a successful teambuilding solution for your team and a rewarding experience for the intern? This article provides 7 tips for creating collaborative success.
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Entrepreneurs Thanking the Recession
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| Though most of the world may be grieving because of the ill economic effects of the global recession, a lot of entrepreneurs may actually feel the exact opposite. A number of opportunities have opened up to entrepreneurs which actually helped them make millions despite the hard times. If you're aiming to become an entrepreneur, it may be a great option depending on your traits and passion about the job. Here are some tips and tricks. |
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Successful Networking Top 10 Tips
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| Networking - we all have to do it, but some of us fear it more than a manual labour job. It is probably connected to our fear of public speaking and fear of public rejection. Here is a neat list of the top 10 things you can do to ensure your networking event goes smoothly and comfortably and produces results for you. |
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Your current job: should you stay or should you go?
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| Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource gives advice on whether to move from your current job and points for consideration prior to making a final decision to leave or stay. |
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Basic Feedback Should Be BASIC
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| One of the key skills of supervisors is giving feedback to employees about their performance. Feedback, of course, includes praise for a job well done as well as constructive observations about how things could be done better. Apprehension about providing feedback to employees is particularly acute among newly promoted supervisors. This is often the result of a lack of the supervisory training. |
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Leadership and Love
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| Do all employees hate their jobs? Is it possible to love your job? What can a supervisor do? |
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Moving Up With Mobiles: Ilhan Makes Good
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| It was 1987 and having had enough of working with Ford, Ilhan decided to accept a job at Strathfield Car Radio, where one of his close friends also worked. Strathfield was becoming a market leader in the young telecommunications industry. Ilhan saw the potential and wanted to get in on the action while he still could. |
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
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| James Dicks examines the need to make some critical decisions that will affect your future financial life. |
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What are the Financial Benefits of Starting an Online Business?
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| In today's tough economy people are looking for more financial benefits by starting an online business. Many people start looking for two reasons; they lost their job and are looking for a way to make a living or they are working on a Plan B. |
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Is it Really Worthwhile to Have Legitimate Online Businesses?
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| Many people when comparing the benefits of running legitimate online businesses from home against a regular job will tell you that you will have the kind of freedom that a normal job will never give. Although this is great it really is impossible to measure accurately between the two. |
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Control Your Mind and Forget The How
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| Perhaps you've been dreaming of quitting or changing your job, moving to a new city, playing in a band professionally or starting up your own business. Or perhaps the dream is writing a bestselling book and going on tour. You love the idea of it, you imagine yourself on Oprah. Sitting on her yellow leather sofa, talking to her and her live studio audience. |
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Growth: The Human Component
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| Most entrepreneurs are loners intent on following their own intuitions and desires, guarding their business like secrets. Sharing information will, apparently, spark decline when a unique idea o product is stolen. In reality, if entrepreneurs want an enterprise to grow to its potential, they must learn early to share the work and delegate responsibilities. Enter the human component.
The single most important factor in business is people: not only the owner/operator but also everyone who is involved in the planning and running of a business. Certainly the assertive, confident nature of the beast is needed in the early days of establishing an enterprise, but entrepreneurs must move beyond the belief that no on else can perform the job better or as well as they do.
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Accountability for your Career
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| Being accountable to someone else is constraining. You can't just do anything you want. You must do it the manager's way and in the manager's time frame. After you’ve left a job being accountable to only yourself does feel freeing. But eventually reality sets in and you will need to figure out how to motivate yourself to take some steps forward.
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Writing Articles Is A Simple But Lucrative Work From Home Career
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| If you’ve recently lost your job, or are just looking for ways to supplement your income, then chances are you have resorted to the net. If you have a talent for writing, article writing is about one of the easiest means to earn on the Internet. Many Internet writers have gone from writing for extra grocery money to a full time writing career.Give it a trial today and rip the rewards tomorrow. |
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Be Prepared For A Job Change
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| My client, John, had recently lost his job. What was most puzzling to him was that up until he got his notice his manager had given him very positive feedback about his performance. The truth was the company had eliminated the budget for his job function. His work was good but they decided they did not need that work done any more.
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Are You Engaged in the Work That You Do?
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| Why is being engaged in your work important? First and foremost it makes your work interesting and fun. You are more likely to be making significant contributions to the work you do and thus your job is more secure. You are the employee everyone wants to hire! |
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Sales Leader’s Job in Perspective
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| Sales leaders must recognize their role within the context of the sales organization. They have to remove their personal attachment to the sales team, and approach sales from a business perspective. This creates clarity and helps them focus on their main objectives as team leaders: Increasing revenue and encouraging the growth of their sales team. |
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Organisation structure and job specifications
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| It's important that in any business, people know what everyone's roles and responsibilities are. Developing your organisational structure is best done by drawing an organogram that can help you visualize your staffing structure. |
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Happiness Is Doing Meaningful Work And Having A Supportive Community
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| When you lose or leave your job, you will need your friends for emotional support. Will they be there for you? Read this article to learn about building a support system that stays with you even after you lose your job.
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How Do You Find Meaningful Work? - 10 Questions to Ask Yourself To Get A Good Fit
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| When looking for meaningful work, most people focus on the responsibilities of the job to find a good fit. There are three other pieces of the equation that should not be overlooked - your fellow workers, your manager, and the company. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself when you are seriously considering a particular job. |
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Interview Preparation Gives Confidence
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| Preparing for an interview. There is a lot to think about when you have an interview for a job scheduled. Here are some tips to keep you confident and well prepared. |
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Build your Future for yourself not Your Boss – Start Your Own Business
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| When you start your own business, you are in control and are free to manage your tasks your way. You might even make much more money than you were paid in your job. Last but not the least, when you are self employed, it is you who gets the credits for your achievements and not your boss.
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It is your Resume or your Obituary?
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| I know you. You are a business friend or associate who has recently found themselves in the job market. I know you are a professional who has an array of competencies than have produced good results in the past and have the desired skills or abilities to produce more excellent results in the future. You should have companies competing for your services except you made one mistake. You sent them your obituary and called it a resume! |
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The #2 Interview Question That Candidates Find Most Difficult
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| Knowing what interview questions are likely to be asked is half the battle – the other half is answering them in a way that lands you the job. |
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The #3 Interview Question That Candidates Find Most Difficult
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| Knowing what interview questions are likely to be asked is half the battle – the other half is answering them in a way that lands you the job. |
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The #4 Interview Question That Candidates Find Most Difficult
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| Knowing what interview questions are likely to be asked is half the battle – the other half is answering them in a way that lands you the job. |
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Executive Coaching for Emotionally Intelligent Leadership - 3 Steps to Positive Leadership
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| Are you feeling fully appreciated at work? Do you have the chance to do what you do best every day? Do you know what is expected of you at work? Does your manager know you and focus you? Fully engaged people at work can answer these questions with a resounding yes!
Most of us start a job motivated to perform our best, but sometimes working for a poor manager can be de-motivating or worse. Positive leaders provide leadership to help people unleash their creativity, improve performance and fully engage. Optimistic leaders rally people to a better future. They have a strong sense of significance. Who do you serve? |
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Business Opportunity: Evolving From Employee To Entrepreneur
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| Business opportunity is finding its way into more homes than ever before. Employees tired of the rat race and the uncertainty of the job market are choosing to to work at home. Others prefer the familiarity of working for someone else, earning a paycheck and leaving the work behind at the end of the work day. Some people just do not want the responsibility of managing their own business. Working from home is not a new concept. There have always been people who have chosen to work from home for a variety of reasons. Flexibility and being able to schedule your hours of work is one of the biggest reasons people give for starting a home based business. Be totally honest with yourself about how you feel about your job. Your attitude to creating income is the first step to determine whether you want your own home based business opportunity. |
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Business Opportunity in a Recession
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| Business opportunity is often the last thing people think about during a recession when it should be one of the first. With 1000's of people losing their job every day the competition for any advertised jobs is fierce. For many people a home based business opportunity is one of the best viable options. |
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Positive Leadership for Optimistic Leaders - The Problem-Seeking Mindset
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| Do you regularly feel fully appreciated at work? Do you have the chance to do what you do best each and every day? Do you know what is expected of you at work? Does your manager know you and focus you? Fully engaged people at work can answer these questions with a happy yes!
Most of us start a job motivated to perform our best, but sometimes working for a poor manager can deflate your career mojo or worse. Positive leaders provide clarity to help people unleash their innovative spirit, improve performance and fully engage.
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Focus on Positive Leadership - When Things Go Wrong
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| Are you appreciated by company managers? Do you have the opportunity to do your best work? Are you clear on what is expected of you at work? Does your manager provide employees focus? People at work who are fully engaged can answer these questions expressing gratitude with a happy yes!
Most of us start a job motivated to perform our best, but sometimes working for an ineffective manager can negatively affect your motivation. Positive leaders help people tap into their intrinsic motivation to improve performance.
Optimistic leaders inspire people to a shared future. They have a strong sense of significance. Are you a positive leader in good times and bad? |
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Likeability: It's an Inside Job
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| Likeability is so important that it can trump competence! This article provides 9 tips for developing genuine likeability. |
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Why is there a growing interest in managerial and executive onboarding?
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| Research shows up to 40 per cent of promoted leaders fall short of expectations in the first eighteen months and the figure is higher for newcomers to the organisation. There is a growing awareness that the cost of failure is too great to leave successful transitions
to chance. Executive onboarding programs improve retention and reduce the risk by providing a formal process beyond orientation, giving new leaders the best start possible. |
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The Least Common Denominator
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| I have always believed and often teach the virtues of hiring the best person for the job. My naivety has also led me to believe that most "right-minded" managers agree with this simple premise. Organizational talent is the foremost indicator of long-term success in the game of business. The team with the best players will win the most games. Blah, blah, blah!
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You May Love Your Job, But Dose Your Job Love You?
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| 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. |
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Workplace Coaching: Selecting a Coach
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| When choosing a coach for your employees, you have before you a number of options. Selecting the wrong coach can lead to disaster. Use the pointers in this article to help you decide on who would make an effective coach in your workplace. |
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Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money
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| You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold? |
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Making the Team
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| There is something special about the challenge young people face when attempting to make the team. This healthy competition ignites a desire to perform that cannot easily be replicated for this young generation of Americans. Regardless of the sport, the desire to achieve and play is a remarkable source of motivation. Imagine the organizational potential if an organization could replicate this as source of motivation on the job. What would happen to key organizational metrics like attendance and productivity?
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EQ Vs. IQ-It is not what you know but what you show that counts!
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| How much you know may get you the job but what you do will determine your success. What and how you do what you do is greatly dependent upon ..... |
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Health Insurance for Teachers
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| While teachers may seem to occupy the perfection job; a cushy pension, a solid and rewarding career and employer provided health insurance, the professionals in charge of educating America's young mind are facing a sobering reality regarding health care and insurance. |
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Build a Financial Plan “as you see it”
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| My goal is to help you achieve that kind of discipline, so that you can move from where you are to where you want to be. That means slightly different things for different people-there's no "one size fits all"-but that is the fun and beauty of financial independence.
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Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 1
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| I thought, you can go where you want to go and do what you want to do, when you want to do it. What I had to discover-and in fact didn't discover for many years-was that having the money wasn't as important as knowing what to do with the money once I got it. In reality, as it turned out, money was only a tool. |
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First Step-Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 2
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| To take your first step and set your mind on the course to financial success, you must begin to dream. You must begin to envision the kind of life you desire. For some of you, this will be easy, because you have dreamed all your life. For others, it will be more difficult. Why? Some people simply don't know how to dream-they've never tapped into their imagination deeply enough to let their thoughts run free. |
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Multiply Your Leadership Magnetism to Win over your internal customers
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| Marketers, do you love your job, love your business but there are some very challenging people who you must serve who take the shine off your day?Now I know this can drive you crazy and/or leave you totally deflated and undervalued. However, if your internal customers do not respect your expertise and opinion, its time to ask yourself what YOU can do to change that. How do you begin to adapt and find approaches that win them over? Here's how: |
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Secrets of Dealing with Difficult People - The Art of Listening
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| Almost every day in my coaching practice someone shares a story with me of how someone at work is driving her up the wall. Some very good people have had it with the difficult individual and decide to quit their job. Improving your listening skills and developing empathy can often help rapidly deteriorating workplace relationships.
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Dreaming is fun, isn’t it? Part 3
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| Someone once said that what the mind can see, the body can achieve. I believe it. I go a step further. I believe that the mind must see it before the body is able to work for it. Look at another realm of human endeavor: sports. When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, he saw it long before he did it. Over and over in his mind, he later recalled, he visualized doing what had been deemed to be impossible. Interestingly enough, once Bannister did what no one else had ever done before, others quickly succeeded in doing it. |
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A millionaires dreams
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| Financial freedom is your dream. As long as you can dream, you can continue to succeed. Show me a person who has no dream, and I will show you someone who is poor. A millionaire dreams, and then sets out to make those dreams real. Once you stop dreaming, you stop the magic. That’s because you have created the world you wanted. You stop moving forward, because your dreams have ended. Either you are content to live with what you have or you are constantly frustrated because you don’t have enough-or you learn to dream again. |
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Principles of Wealth Creation
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| To accomplish your goal of becoming financially free, you will need to master specific principles of wealth creation. No, these aren’t some magical set of principles we found scratched in papyrus scrolls in the ruins of an ancient temple. They’re contemporary, commonsense principles. At the same time, though, they are magical, because they create the basis for a sound foundation of wealth creation. |
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Breaking up is hard to do: Ending the employment relationship
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| As human resources consultants, it’s our job to keep up with HR law so that you don’t have to. However, there are many legal areas employers need to be aware of and while we don’t claim that reading this will provide the answers to all, we do hope that it might open up some discussion.
We’ll start with the often tricky topic of ending an employment relationship. |
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Focus Your Dreams to Make Them Come Alive
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| What will you be interested in after you buy all of those lavish things you always thought you wanted? What’s beyond the bigger car, the faster boat, and the fancier house? Whatever they are, those are the really important things. |
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How to Recession Proof Your Job: Ten Job Secrets for Career Success!
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| Economic times constantly change and organizations adapt to these changes. For you to find career success, you must be pro-active about your job. What are the career secrets of those who soar to the top in their careers no matter what the economic environment is in the world?
The following are ten career secrets you can use to “recession proof” yourself and find career success no matter what the economic situation is. |
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Five Career Advice Secrets for Being the Perfect Employee Everyone Wants on Their Team – Part 2
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| The following are five career advice secrets for being the perfect, motivated employee that everyone wants on their team, putting your career on the fast track, and creating great relationship with management. |
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Achieving Success When Working From Home
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| With many businesses adopting a more mobile work force, the dream of working at home is a reality for many business employees.If you have the opportunity to work from home, there are many things you can do to make the work at home experience as successful as possible for both you and your employer.
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When You Are What You Do
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| Are you an extension of your job or is your job an extension of who you are? |
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Focus on the Most Fascinating Thing
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| Professionals who have well defined and carefully crafted areas of self marketing expertise will ultimately be more successful, because they never run out of interesting things to talk about.
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10 Sales Personalities and How to Manage Them
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| manage and they aren't really personalities as much as they are characteristics. You might call them one or two word descriptions of people instead of characterizing them as personalities. Following are 10 Sales Characters and how you can manage them more effectively. |
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The Importance of Persuasion in Entrepreneurship
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| Being able to persuade others and allow them to see your vision is the key to running a successful business. Below, you will find some persuasion techniques. |
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How to Refine Your Sales Selection Criteria and Candidate Pool
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| Your candidate pool is comprised of the quantity and quality of candidates who respond to your online posting. If you are not happy with either the quality or quantity of your pool, then your ad, title or job site settings are to blame. |
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The Confidence to Let Go
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| It’s a challenge to really let go of our own private agendas. In working with clients, I often explore each opposite: “I want it my way” and “I let go”. These two points of view can fight it out within all of us and show up in our relationships with others. |
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Top 5 Sales Recruiting Observations of 2010
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| Today, I'll make some observations about the sales recruiting activity taking place this summer that either reinforces some of the things I've said in the past, or modifies my original stance.
In no particular order, but of equal importance:
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You Might Have A Job Today But…
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| You may be fortunate enough to have a job today, but with the history of the job market, that may not be the case tomorrow. That is unless you make yourself stand out from the “crowd.”
There are five basic keys to keeping the job you have. Even if it is one you don’t enjoy, you can use that position as a launching pad for your ideal position in the future by using these suggestions. |
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The Magic of Jiffy Lube, Sales Adaptability and Plagiarism
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| Perhaps you've noticed that while driving past a Jiffy Lube during (slow times for them) your commute there may be a mechanic out front, holding a sign, offering a discount, hoping you'll pull in. I don't know about you, but I am not particularly moved by a guy in a jump suit waving for me to stop. But it made me wonder, does this work? |
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Why You Should be Scared When Your Salespeople are Closing Lots of Business
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| Sales managers get caught up in the excitement of a closing frenzy when they should be taking a step back and asking themselves, what's wrong with this picture? |
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How To Find The Highest Paying Internet Based Business Opportunities
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| One thing I quickly learned online is there are many extremely high paying internet based business opportunities available. The trick is to not waste your time on low paying opportunities when you can make just as much on high paying ones. |
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Working From Home Online – Why Can’t It Be Free? Why Does It Cost Money to Join an Online Business Opportunity?
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| Working from home online – Why can’t it be free? Why does it have to cost money to join an online business opportunity? Answers to your questions about starting an online business opportunity. |
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Copywriting Secrets:How To Become The Best Internet Network Marketer
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| Learning online copywriting secrets can help shorten the learning curve for any internet network marketer. If you can master this simple 3 step formula when marketing you can write your own check in life. |
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Network Marketing Tips: How To Get Your Spouse On The Same Page
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| Here is a network marketing tip that most people don't even talk about. If you want to know the secret of getting your spouse to like this industry again, this is for you.
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Why Can't We Change
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| The challenges we face in setting goals for the coming year, why do our goals not work, what are the barriers? |
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Self-Coaching Tip: Measure Your Self-Coaching Abilities
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| Most people measure their success by externals: their job, income, number of cars, size of their home, etc. There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, in this country, it is encouraged. |
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Management Development - About Experiencing the Sharp End
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| As managers, it's easy to get busy doing the managing, quite understandably. Yet there's a lot to be gained from taking a little time where the real work gets done, where you team members are active - at the sharp end, where the action is. |
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Why 97% Of All Marketers Will Never Become A Top Producer In Their Primary Business!
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| Let's face it, Internet marketing is not an easy game to play. It appeals to the masses because it appears simple yet very lucrative. People see the stories of the average person making millions online and immediately think to themselves, "If they can do it, I can do it". This is absolutely true but unfortunately when you enter this game you really have no idea what you are getting yourself into. The dreams of living in the fancy house and driving the expensive cars come to mind, excitement and urgency are some of the emotions that they feel. But once the initial "work" is started all motivation is lost and those once positive emotions turn into frustration and doubt. This article will explain how I was able to become a top producer in my primary business. |
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