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Home Based Business Spotlight--The Love Maine Lobster Claw Game
There’s nothing better than operating a business that stands out for its extremely creative product. Here is one business that has perhaps reached the pinnacle of creativity.

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Product Branding
You walk into a local convenience store in search of a refreshing drink. In front you lie more choices than your brain can comprehend. How are you going to choose between on or the other? What is the difference between the cola that promises to be refreshing and sweet versus the one that claims to be edgy and cool? Truth be told, there is probably not much that is different between them, and your taste buds would probably not know the difference. But, if any of the companies have done their job properly, you will instantly reach for one before the rest. And that is because of a successful job of product branding.

Lesson #3: Put Yourself in Your Customers’ Shoes
Hindsight is 20/20. Looking back on the success – or lack thereof – of his first Subway store, DeLuca acknowledges that his biggest mistake was its “crummy location. In February, the store was doing so bad that we were thinking of closing up.” But together with his partner, Buck, the pair decided to try something even more eccentric: they decided to open up a second store. “We talked ourselves into building the second store,” says DeLuca.

Productivity
I worked in a grocery store as a youngster. The Depression was on, inventories were limited and merchants frequently ran out of stock items. As a result, the merchants would borrow from each other until their next shipment came in. I was the "runner" for our store and Charlie Scott was the "runner" for the store across the street.

Making Your Opt-in Email List Hyper Responsive!
Getting the attention of people to buy a certain product is challenging. There were times in the past when telemarketing was at times more of a nuisance rather a convenience to people….and how about all the junk mail we get?! The same goes for sales people who would go house to house and show a product and were simply turned down….and for some odd reason there has been a huge increase in this in my neighborhood in the last year!

What Is All This Talk About Change
However, most people do not like change. In fact, one could say that the only people that like change are babies and the people who work in toll booths or the cashiers at the convenience store! In fact King Whitney, Jr. remarked, “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind...
Following the Leader Who Follows the Leaders
It started out -- as most things do in the PC/CE/communications industry -- as a "little" idea...an application store on a corner of the virtual cloud world. Suddenly you can't make your way around the web without bumping into another one. No one at Apple will say but people speculate the company has racked up $45 million with their virtual store front. Now new smartphones are coming out, every app store offers something.

Social Media – Fact or Fiction
With the hype of Social Media venues as the next greatest tool, the important question to ask from a business perspective is what is the ROI? Clearly, one of the main advantages is networking. Today’s Social Media platforms provide opportunities to connect with anyone practically anywhere to share ideas about pretty much anything. In many respects, it is like the old fashioned neighborhood where you could quickly learn who to ask what when you had a particular question. However, unlike the neighborhood where exchanges were face-to-face, social media posts can be from anyone, anywhere publishing most anything. This distinction is important when it comes to business.

Do You Have a Market Niche?
When you have a clearly defined niche to work within, you can optimize your marketing budget and you can target prospects that really need what you deliver. Offering lead generation services to an ad agency or the local convenience store is not a fit. But offering sales techniques or market research to engineering firms can be a good fit.
Government Does Not Create Jobs Or Wealth
Americans are starting to see behind the curtain, and they're refusing to buy what's behind it. Average Americans see the declining purchasing power of their dollars from the gas pump to the grocery store. They see someone in their family or neighborhood who's been out of work for over a year. They see unions tear apart state capitols for more rights to bloated salaries and benefits, and they see taxpayers stating clearly that such luxurious jobs can no longer be afforded. They see their own credit card bills and their own shaky retirement accounts. When the media asks them to believe what they're being told instead of what they see, average Americans shake their heads and worry....
Organization Structure Limits or Liberates High Performance
The CEO of a national retailer was very frustrated. His face grew noticeably redder as he told me how he had set up each store as a profit center and was attempting to hold store managers and their regional managers accountable for profitability. But when a store under performed the store manager would show that head office buyers were forcing them into stocking the wrong merchandise for their particular mix of customers. Or they would claim that the marketers hadn't put together the right campaign for their local market.

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