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How to Think and Dream Creatively: The Magic of Thinking Big
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| The only difference between a successful person and a non successful person is in the way that they think. Knowing that, if you could learn how to think like a successful person, wouldn’t that be a good investment in time?
In re-reading The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz I realized that it is one thing to say “think like a successful person,” and it is another thing to know just exactly how to do that.
“When you believe, your mind finds a way to do.”
Schwartz suggests the following ways to help teach yourself how to think and dream creatively as successful people do:
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The Magic of Thinking Big: Developing the Power of Belief
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| I recently re-read a book that I read many years ago. It was a great reminder of the power of the mind. It’s like I tell the people that I coach, “If you think you are a winner you’re probably right. If you think you are a loser, you’re probably right.”
The Magic of Thinking Big is a great book that will help you recognize that you’re thoughts and belief in yourself are the aspects that are propelling you forward or holding you back. Knowing this is probably nothing new to you however the tough part is to learn how to develop the power of belief.
Schwartz suggests three ways to develop belief:
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The Magic of Commitment
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| Commitment has always been a HEAVY word to me. It tampers with my sense of freedom, and always seemed to limit my choices in life. Yet, I’ve come to experience the magic and power of “commitment”, as it brings focus, energy, resources and a different kind of freedom. |
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Is There A Little Tarnish on the Adobe Magic?
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| If you have ever used any Adobe software, you know that they make a variety of really useful and cool products. Adobe hasn’t made it to the top of their profession by accident.
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Oh You Love Amazon but They Have a Big Secret
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| If you’ve used Amazon, like I have, then you probably love this website. Amazon can manage to get goods to your house so quickly that it almost seems like magic at times. Their regional delivery centers combined with a fluid interface between their web ordering software and their warehouses make them a well-oiled machine. |
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Turning the Magic On: How Johnson Built an Empire
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| “You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.” |
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The Confused Entrepreneur: Lost On the Way to Nowhere
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| So many business people I have met over the years were lost on their way to nowhere, unclear about where they were going, consumed by the business of their endless days, wishing business could be easier, that people would be more responsible, that something, anything, would change for the better, that work didn’t have to be so hard, so boring, so tedious, so…well, you get my point. |
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The promiscuity paradox
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| Marketers of all stripes are discovering that acquiring a reputation and permission to market to people isn't as expandable as they might hope. |
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Could you work without a staff?
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| The Internet has made working, collaborating and sharing down right simple. With it many businesses are living the dream of running multi-million dollar business without any permanent staff. This magic is done increasingly at the hands of a growing world of workers known as virtual assistants. A virtual assistant is someone who is set-up to complete tasks remotely for a fee |
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Sorting out
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| Gavin Potter says, “The 20th century was about sorting out supply, the 21st is going to be about sorting out demand.” |
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A Small Set of Simple Moves
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| I heard the phrase “a small set of simple moves” a few weeks ago from someone and it stuck in my head. Since then I’ve been thinking about it regularly as a fundamental operating principle. |
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Life on Earth Versus Pandora
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| Have you found yourself caught up in the rat race, forgetting to notice all of the magic that constantly surrounds you? This may be costing you a rich and fulfilling life! |
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6 Questions That Uncover Your Brilliance
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| When I work with clients, I use a series of processes that leads them directly to the magic of their work that they can express in their Signature Talk. Today I want to share with you six of the questions I use with clients that will help you explore the message that underlies your brilliance. |
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How to Get Business to Drop Out of the Sky
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| I think it's both predictable, phenomenal, and fulfilling. I'm talking about the magic that occurs when you and your salespeople leave their comfort zone and work hard to perform the very work, activity, behavior and actions that, left to their own devices, would choose not to do. Whether it's a salesperson who finally: |
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Network Marketing Prospecting Tips:How To Sponsor Quality Reps With No Income Claim
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| This simple network marketing prospecting tip will shed the light on a BIG misconception when it comes to sponsoring reps. No longer do you have to compete against bogus income claims.
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Is it Really Possible to Make Money At Home?
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| Is it really possible to make money at home? What does it take make money from home? Can I really earn money from home? What is involved? Here are some answers to your questions about making money from home.
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Shift Your Marketing Now For Success in the New Year
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| Prepare now for success in the new year. Shift your focus from tactical marketing to transformational marketing. Inject that new attitude into your PR campaign, your internet marketing, and into all of your promotional efforts... |
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A great leader's tale
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| Success in business and a good life are more than a checklist of achievements, acquisitions and qualifications. |
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Create Headlines That Raise the Dead in Home Business
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| The first thing your reader sees can mean the difference between success and failure. If it comes across as boring or not even half-assed related to what they want, prospects won't give it a flying chance. |
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Business and Marketing: Breakthroughs for Writer's Block
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| Whether you love to write or not, the written word is still one of the most influential ways to reach your audience, get your message out to the world and give people an opportunity to resonate with you. Staying focused on the energy of your writing will help your writing contain a crisp, clear marketing message that will leave people wanting to hear more. |
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How Powerful are your Press Releases?
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| A Press Release is an important element of your promotional campaign. It helps in driving traffic to your website but also in generating lots of back links and thus kicking your Google Page rank higher. As a direct result your website is selected easily by other major search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, etc.).
This article will go into the fine details of creating a successful Press Release and what it means for your business as a whole. |
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Using Web 2.0 to Customize Your Sales Process
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| Usually, you have a long block of text that tries to appeal to several types of people at the same time. You can use the power of Web 2.0 to create a path for each person to follow so that they only view text that's appropriate for them. This way, they don't have to read as much, and they're more likely to go through your entire sales page and go on from there. You can also use their route through your site to determine which up sells or down sells to offer them when they check out. |
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Despite What You See on TV Home Staging is Not Physical Work
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| The Staging Diva®, sets the record straight for aspiring home stagers worried that a career in home staging means a lot of heavy lifting and other physically taxing duties. |
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What would your sales-role and business be like with less fear?
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| If you remove fear from your sales-role and your customers experience your business will transform magically and only limited by your vision. Furthermore, if you can help your customers find or apply a sense of meaning to their lives the same magic applies. |
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If You Talk the Talk, You Better Walk the Walk
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| Walk your Talk. Someone will find out when you don't. Thanks to Web 2.0 - that bullet can be shared around the world. Besides, it's the right thing to do. Keep your integrity and do what you say. You may not win all the time, but you'll win more than most. |
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Starting an Online Business - Affiliate Programs Make it Easy
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| If you have been longing to start a business online you may be coming across terms you've never heard before. You may also have found the opportunities available are overwhelming. Where do you begin? |
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Article #28 Looking For A Business That Works Fast In As Little As Six Months?
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| That is the ultimate question. You look for a business and join the team. You put a few ads and wait. And you expect the Internet fairies to do their magic and send you some cash to your paypal account. Well, if you find a business like that then more power to ya. Any business that works fast and in as little as six months would be a business that takes work. |
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The Most Powerful Marketing Strategy You will Ever Learn
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| Every business owner is looking for that golden marketing strategy that works like magic to grow their business. Well, I hope you’re sitting down because I am going to tell you the most powerful marketing strategy you will ever learn. The strategy is called split testing. |
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Leadership Strategy - One Size Success Does Not Fit All
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| If you are very successful, by whose standards do you feel successful? If you are not getting up in the morning looking forward to the day and the contribution you will make, that is a sure signal trying to get your attention There comes a time when you know there is another way and something else is possible. |
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Tips and Techniques for Finding the Right Ad Agency
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| Creative agencies, whether they specialize in graphic design, advertising or web, are just what you would want them to be – creative. And that includes snappy presentations that can wow you with lots of bells and whistles. But a creative presentation won’t necessarily get you the partner who is best for your project.
Selecting the wrong creative partner is a waste of money and time that can turn an exciting project into an exercise in frustration. Sure, you want a firm with outstanding creative skills. But you need an agency that bases their top-notch creative work on a solid foundation of strategy, knowledge and understanding of where your organization is trying to go.
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THE HEART AND SOUL OF RETAIL SUCCESS
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| There's more to retail success than putting stuff on shelves and hoping it will sell. This article goes into the more personal aspects of feeling successful and how that impacts your business. |
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The Serendipity Factor
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| Incredible things happen independently of those you personally create. I call these serendipitous blessings. When you're pushing hard on door A, someone or something opens door B. Often, when you look through door B, what's behind it is much better than what you were going after in the first place. However, you wouldn't have seen door B open if you hadn't been in the hall pushing on door A. Get in the here and now and look for the other opened doors, or go open some doors on your own. |
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Why We MUST Reinvent The Wheel
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| "Don't waste time reinventing the wheel!" How many times have we heard this from software vendors trying to convince us their product is exactly what we need? Of course the wheels on offer come in many different shapes and sizes and we'll be lucky to find one that fits properly and performs well in our business for the next 5, 10 or 20 years. Unfortunately in the real world every business is unique and ours is no exception. This means we really have no option but to "reinvent the wheel" if we are to make the most of what computer technology has to offer in the long term. |
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Up Sell you way to a Better Turnover
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| Up selling - selling a more expensive but better item than the customer first wanted.
Simply show the customer a widget that's better, bigger, or faster than the one they was considering -- but with some special consideration such as a substantial discount, more favorable payment terms, extra options, or accessories.
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How to write headlines that electrify and tantalize customers
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| In print advertising, the headline is so important that it is considered to be 80% of the power of an ad. The reason for this is that five times as many people read a headline as read the body copy of an ad. Consider how you read a newspaper or a magazine. If you are like most people, you... |
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Growing Your Business: Why Separating Business and Personal Finances is Good
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| Growing Your Business: Why Separating Business and Personal Finances is Good -
This article is NOT about finances! It's about growing your business. When you separate your business and personal finances, you'll create an environment for faster and more effective business growth. Curious? This article tells you the three reasons why business growth can happen when business and personal finances are separated, and it will show you some best practices to help you separate your finances easily.
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Creating Success
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| My system of creating success in 7 steps. |
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BEYOND CONVENTIONAL SELLING
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| Having just returned from Copenhagen where I've been working with my favourite client; I realised that between us we have created an oil company version of 'The Tipping Point'. Essentially, you could describe this as an insatiable learning epidemic that is beginning to invade the entire global organisation and the reason for this success is so obvious, so simple that anyone could do this. |
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Focus on Revenue
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| The first item on the list was "Focus on revenue, not the economy". You'll get what you pay attention to. If you pay attention to how bad things might become, you'll get lots of bad results. If you pay attention to how well you must do, you'll get good results. |
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Pointing Fingers In Sales And Management
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| Remember, when you are not accomplishing what you set out to do, if you point your finger at others and always think that YOU got the short end of the stick there are ALWAYS 3 fingers pointing back at you! |
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Inter-personal Inter-ruptions
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| When difficulties arise in interpersonal relationships, you have choices. These choices are less about what you choose to do about it, than how you choose to interpret it. |
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5 Secrets to Attracting More Business Whenever You Open Your Mouth
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| Are you comfortable with your 30-second sound byte or "elevator speech"? Does it stimulate emotions and positive responses in others? Or, does it fall flat and rate a "0" on the interest scale? Learn about a 5-part formula you can use to create a 30-second sound byte that'll get people saying, "Yes!", I want to work with you!
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I Dont Want PR I Just Want To Be Successful
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| Effective public relations isn't about wanting to be a star or simply appearing in the media - it's about success. It's about establishing yourself as an expert in your field and zooming beyond your competition. |
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Hit or miss does not work in selling
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| Many sales are lost because salespeople assume they know what the customer wants. Sales people like to made assumptions of knowledge about what the buyer wants and needs, or sometimes more important why the buyer might be motivated to buy. Using one’s instincts and sixth sense is fine in the equation of success, but it should be only part of your expertise. |
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How To Be Irresistible and Irreplaceable
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| For many years I've been doing something that has been so natural that I had no idea it was a "marketing strategy". I think of it more as a spiritual strategy that has been working like magic to attract and retrain clients.
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Give yourself a magical life
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| Do you fall into the trap of caving in to negative thoughts most of the time instead staying positive, well most people do, in fact about 95% of us do and the we reason do it, is because we just conform to what we believe everybody else is thinking. Well it is time to stop and get that Magic back into your life. |
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The Truth About Celebrity Branding(tm)
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| A Note from Nick & Jack: This month to celebrate the launch of our book, Celebrity Branding You™ we decided to include the first chapter of the book for you to review. Although we are giving it to you for free, please don’t think that is has no value and just throw it aside. Please use this chapter to get you started on the path to creating your celebrity status. We hope you enjoy it and welcome any feedback you may have! |
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Book Review: Endless Referrals
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| As a small business owner, I’m always searching for ways to build my list of referrals. Two previous books I’ve reviewed (Brag! and Networking Magic) also described strategies for building referrals, but this book is my new favorite. |
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Slow Down to the Speed of Caring
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| Mindful Leadership is at the core of an engaged workforce |
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Africa + Nollywood Makes the List of "Eighty Things to Watch in 2008"
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| JWT, "the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and the fourth-largest full-service network in the world,yesterday, [r]eleased its list of 80 things to watch in 2008." Africa was #1 on their list to watch for "foreign investment and development in." Borrowing Kelly Rowland's line from her hit song, "bump like this," we say "Africa told ya'll they were gonna bump like this, ya'll didn't think that they could bump like this."
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Ask Me Another - Just One More Thing
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| Building strong relationships is all about having two sides appreciate each other and want to build a bond that works both ways. This can generate the enormous benefits of collaboration. Here are twelve benefits why... |
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Do You Know This Secret Way To Connect With Your Prospects
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| If you had a magic wand the one thing you'd wish for was to be able to connect with your prospects easily and affordably. With this secret you can. |
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Gratitude is Attitude
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| The magic of gratitude is the more thanks you give the more you will receive to be thankful for. |
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The Perpetual Pitchman: How Popeil Became a Multi-Millionaire
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| There are some who say that what Popeil has been able to accomplish in his career is nothing short of magic. To create an empire out of seemingly nondescript kitchen wares is without a doubt an impressive feat. It was not, however, magic. The secrets behind Popeil’s success are as simple to follow as the instructions on his Veg-O-Matic. |
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How To Attract Clients: The Magic Formula
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| Ah, those magic words – "Attract Clients". Virtually every professional I know loves the idea of attracting clients, and would be even happier if there was a “magic formula” for accomplishing it. Well, actually there is a formula that works like magic for attracting clients to you. And I’m going to |
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SEO Page Rank - It’s not about Who YOU Know… ...It’s About Who Knows YOU
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| Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is part science and part magic. Well, maybe not REAL magic, but there is a lot going on behind the curtain that most folks never get to see.
Scoring a Top 10 listing in Google requires a scientific approach towards getting a lot of little pieces set up correctly. And then there’s that hunk of magic.
If we were to give that magic portion a name, it would be called “Page Rank (PR).”
PR is the technical term for an unknown, unrevealed, unpublished “magic formula” that Google uses to measure a website's link popularity on a scale from 0-10.
So how does Page Rank (PR) get calculated?
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Taking Stock of What's Happening
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| There's a lot going on these days. People are stressed, no two ways about it. I'm observing a 'tired' group of executives whose staff are looking to them to 'fix' things. Well, no one has a magic wand, or... does everyone have a magic wand? |
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How did Joe Girard use the 'Magic' word to become the world's greatest retail salesman?
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| This magic word made Joe Girard the world's best retail salesman for 12 years in a row. You too can easily use this magic for your business. |
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The Magic Bullet of Marketing
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| Marketing on a local level must be a process.
Almost all of the restaurant owners, operators and managers I work with in the trenches discuss marketing as an "event" or a "series of events", designed to produce instant sales and instant gratification.
They search for the magic bullet.
The promise of this magic bullet comes as a trojan horse from the advertising sales reps that hammer them with terms like "saturation", "shelf life" and other such sales tactics. Sometimes the magic bullet suggestion comes from an advertising agency hired to boost sales quickly. These agencies like to throw around concepts such as "branding" and "image building."
These magic bullets begin to get expensive. And any results that come in are very short-lived.
Eventually the truth sets in...you can't purchase a magic bullet for marketing your restaurant,no |
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The Magic of Measuring
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| When you hear the word magic, what's the 1st thing you think of? Peter Pan? Harry Potter? For me, magic immediately evokes something so powerful that even I can't screw it up. And that's exactly how magic numbers and measuring work. My goal with this article is to help you get a perspective quite different and apart from what your accountant or financial adviser may suggest. And it's probably the best thing you could ever do for your business - making it fool-proof. Even better, it's MAGIC! |
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The Magic of Sales and Marketing
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| Sales and marketing is like magic when it comes together and works well. Does yours? Keep focused on your vision and persist in being excellent in order to discover the magic of sales and marketing! |
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Did You Forget Your Magic Wand?
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| People often poke fun at the thought of having a magic wand. But the fact remains that most folks aren’t picking up their magic wands often enough. If you’re not asking for what you want internally and externally on a moment-to-moment basis, the greatest your life will be is ‘fine’. |
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Get Your Sales Force to Perform Magic and Make Sales Appear!
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| I just finished a great novel called Law of Nines. A traveler from another world visits Earth in hopes of saving her own world. They have no technology where she comes from but they do have magic. Alex, the main character, just can't wrap his hands around the magic. Jax, the alien, tries to help. She said, "that little black thing you talk to where messages appear - in our world, that would be magic but we would do it without the black thing. That box that brings you up and down in a building - to me that's magic. Those enclosed carriages without horses to make them travel? Magic."
Neither world could live without what they have but they simply have different names for them.
We don't talk about it much but sales has a lot of magic to it. |
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