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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get
"Diligence is the mother of good luck." - Benjamin Franklin
Ten Questions with Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Chief Creative Officer of skinnyCorp/Threadless
Threadless is a very interesting company because of how it has “community-sourced” its product design. If you had told me that a company could succeed by running weekly tshirt design contests and then selling the winning designs, I would have told you that you’re nuts. I met Jeffrey during my tour of the Threadless offices a few weeks ago and posed these questions to him after my most enjoyable visit.
Power 3.0: Kinder, Gentler, and Better
Choose your weapon: Power 1.0 = muscle and weapons Power 2.0 = money, market share, or brain power
Ambition - Good or Bad?
An anonymous writer said that ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good. It will turn the wheels of industry and open the door of opportunity for you and countless thousands of other people. Fueled by greed and the lust for power, ambition is a destructive force that ultimately does irreparable damage to the individual in its grasp and to the people within its reach.

Sales Longevity - Free Webinar Available Here
I hosted a Webinar to introduce Objective Management Group's (OMG) newest innovation, The Sales Longevity Finding. In a nutshell, Sales Longevity is the likelihood of being able to retain a particular sales candidate through ramp-up, break-even, and 5X ROI. The attendees thought it was VERY cool! You can view the recorded Webinar here.
6 Reasons Your Small Business Needs a Public Relations Campaign
Discover six important reasons your small business needs to engage in a public relations campaign.
TakeOver Marketing: What It Is, Why You Should Practice It, And How To Get Hoards Of Leads From It
Someone recently shared an interesting story about a very successful doctor who was able to acquire 32 new clients per month. This is an astonishing accomplishment for any business owner, and upon asking him what the one strategy he used to accumulate that many clients, he said that he didn’t have one strategy that got 32 clients.

Avoid Mistakes, Take Action, Overcome Resistance
Works great in sales too. Your salespeople would have more success changing the minds of their prospects if they weren't so busy denying them of their opinions, trying to push facts and features, benefits and value propositions, and proof and examples down their throats.
Pros and Cons of Starting your own Business
An increasing number of professionals from graduate to senior management level consider setting up an own business. There is a large variety of factors underlying these thoughts and tendencies. What are the pros and cons when considering a change from a "secure" employment to running your own business?
What is a franchise?
Business format franchising in a nutshell is the documenting and replication of a proven business formula. In order to franchise a business it must not only be successful but have a good trading history under its belt...

10 Steps to See More Sales in 48hrs...or Less!
Do you have a website with excellent resources but making little or no money? This is one of the biggest challenges that most websites owners have, especially those who are still new to internet marketing. If you have a website that has great content and resources that can help others, I will show you how to increase your sales in 48hrs with 10 steps.

3 Profitable Internet Income Ideas
If you’re one of the many people looking for ways to pay your credit card bills or need extra income, then internet income opportunities should be a welcome thought.

Articles and linkbait – a win win situation
Articles, whether your own or ones you get from a reputable Article Writing Service such as The Digital Archives, are a great way to feed the linkbait machine. What’s linkbait you might be asking at this stage? In a nutshell it’s content created with the specific purpose of attracting links to your site.
Leave Your Ego at the Door, Please
It can take years to develop a relationship based on trust and loyalty. In this case it may have only taken one phone call to diminish years of partnership.
Why PR Is The Most Effective Branding & Marketing Tool
Let’s say you read an ad for an attorney in your local newspaper. The ad tells you how wonderful the attorney is, what she specializes in, what services she offers, and how to contact her. Now let’s say you read an article about that same attorney.

Home Based Business Branding To Identify Your Opportunity
Home based business branding is one of the ways you can get your business opportunity easily recognized. Usually the brand is a visual or an auditory cue. The goal is to have people recognize your brand with a glance or hearing the cue. Branding your home based business helps you to stand above the rest of the crowd. In order to be outstanding you will want your business to be recognized easily. The biggest challenge to any business is finding loyal customers who will purchase your product or service. It is worthwhile to put some time and effort to brand your home based business.
The Chakra System
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means “wheel”. The Chakra system is the belief that the body has seven spinning wheels of energy from head to toe, and each wheel offers life lessons to advance our souls if we choose to uncover them. The Chakra's are mapped out in the palms of our hands.
How to Explain your Accountabilities in your Resume
It's not what you say, it's how you say it that matters. Many outstanding candidates fail to get interviews because they are unable to articulate their accountabilities clearly in a way that engages the reader. This article provides some guidelines and hints to help you express your accountabilities in the various jobs you have had in a way that grabs attention and convinces recruiters and hiring managers of the value you can add.
First Impressions Funding
Information on First Impressions Funding
Where to Set Up Your Franchising Business
If you’ve finally settled on a franchise to get involved in and you’ve acquired all the necessary tools for it, then you’re still half way down the road of starting a franchise business. You might be wondering what the other half is. It can be summed up as one simple but very crucial word : Location.
Cut StartUp Costs By Using a Dropshipper
Dropshippers, as they're called --are an excellent way to start your e-business and, if done properly, don't have to be a costly endeavor. There are literally hundreds of companies out there that will dropship products for you, everything from gifts and housewares to power tools and furniture.
Writing An Attention Getting Press Release
Whether you are writing it for yourself or for someone else, a press release is not written like an ordinary article. The format is different and the tone can't sound like a hyped up sales pitch. It should read more like a news item. Since you are likely to submit it to a press release web site, you want to be sure it meets their guidelines.
Uncovering Opportunity
In a tough economy, it is more vital than ever that a professional firm gets a good return on its investment in growth. Like the people, the pipeline represents the future.

How to improve your business presentation skills – part 1
I used to wonder with awe at those seasoned presenters who seemed to just ‘have the gift’ of being able to stand in front of an audience and effortlessly present their ‘message’ or ‘ideas’... ...In fact, even the world’s top presenters all began their public speaking careers as rank amateurs... ...We all begin new things as incompetents - that is, we ‘don’t know what we don’t know’
How often do You Think ‘Outside the Box’?
‘Thinking outside the box’ is a bit of a buzz phrase at the moment in the business world. That said, it really is an extremely effective process. Each process (and there are usually many) in a revenue-generating, production, operational, financial or personnel activity can be improved anywhere from 3% or 4% all the way up to 100% and more. What would happen if there was always room in nearly every process for improvement... always! A process is only as good until the next idea that improves it further.

Internet Affiliate Marketing Program - Making Your Website Earn More
No man is an island. One cannot survive long enough if one decides to do everything alone. The same in the world of business, you have to learn to work with other businesses to stay ahead of the game. The more people working hand in hand in an endeavor the more likely the success will be. This is true especially in business.

The Power of Your Own Affiliate Program
Increasing sales of your products and services can come through a number of marketing tactics. One of the best ways to ramp up sales quickly is to develop your own affiliate program. Learn how to create an affiliate program quickly and easily with some helpful advice.
The Trouble With Taglines Why This Catchy Phrase Can Lead You Astray and What You Can Do About It
One of the most powerful components of a brand’s message is the summation of a brand’s position in the marketplace, the promise it offers, and the value it means to your customers; wrap that in a catchy turn of phrase in as few words as possible and you have yourself a tagline. The trouble is…

Explaining the UFOC
The UFOC should be presented at the time the franchisee is asking for information. It sets the guidelines, which the franchisee and the franchisor are supposed to follow.
Garber on Business How to get the media exposure you think you deserve
The two questions I have been asked most often over my years as a member of the working media are: (1) "How does a person get into your line of work?" (translation: "How can I get a cushy, do-nothing, get-paid-tubs-of-money job like yours?") and (2) "How can you get a columnist to give you an ad?" (translation: "I don't know the difference between an ad and a write-up, but even though I'm completely ignorant about what your job as a writer entails, I still want you to spend the time to write all about my business, and promote it for me, for free.").
Search Engine Optimization Overview
These days your website must not only look good, it has to be visible to the search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a means of ranking your website in the top results of the major search engines for certain search phrases.

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Multiple Streams of Income – 5 Reasons Why You Absolutely Need it
In a nutshell, multiple streams of income means your business has more then one way to make money. For instance, you sell products and you sell services. Those are multiple streams of incomes. Why do you need them? Below are five reasons.
10 Income Streams You Can Add to Your Business (And Increase Your Bottom Line)
In a nutshell, multiple streams of income means your business has more than one way to make money. For instance, you sell products and you sell services. Those are different streams of incomes. But that's just the beginning. Below are 10 ideas of different income sources you can use to increase your business's bottom line.
What Is Marketing?
In plain and simple terms, marketing activities and strategies result in making products available that satisfy customers while making profits for the companies that offer those products. That's it in a nutshell!
Articles and linkbait – a win win situation
Articles, whether your own or ones you get from a reputable Article Writing Service such as The Digital Archives, are a great way to feed the linkbait machine. What’s linkbait you might be asking at this stage? In a nutshell it’s content created with the specific purpose of attracting links to your site.
What is a franchise?
Business format franchising in a nutshell is the documenting and replication of a proven business formula. In order to franchise a business it must not only be successful but have a good trading history under its belt...

What is Accounts Receivable Factoring?
Accounts receivable factoring is a viable funding option for companies experiencing cash flow challenges. In a nutshell, factoring is the process of converting the accounts receivable of a business into cash by selling outstanding invoices to a 'factor' for a discount.
Sales Longevity - Free Webinar Available Here
I hosted a Webinar to introduce Objective Management Group's (OMG) newest innovation, The Sales Longevity Finding. In a nutshell, Sales Longevity is the likelihood of being able to retain a particular sales candidate through ramp-up, break-even, and 5X ROI. The attendees thought it was VERY cool! You can view the recorded Webinar here.
Competitive Online Carbon Forms Printing Services
In nutshell, the carbonless forms printing, is integral from both perspectives; office work & management and marketing. Custom NCR forms are much more rewarding as compared to the standard products.

7 Skills Needed For Effective Leadership Team Development
This article is a summary of leadership skills developed by the TIGERS-Den leadership community. In a nutshell, the leaders identified 7 positive characteristics that separate ho-hum managers from team leader rock stars.

How the Social Web Has Changed Internet Marketing
In the last few years, ordinary Internet users have the ability to upload - or publish - their own material to the Internet. And they've used that ability to turn the Internet into an upload medium. If you've heard the term "Web 2.0", that's it in a nutshell.
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