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Master Your Game: Reaching Greater Success
I hope you had as great a summer as I did. I have been busy finalizing five years of research for this next series of articles. But no need to feel sorry for me, this research was done during leisurely strolls on the golf course. The next four articles are focused on reaching greater success in our lives. I would like to share a personal experience and use my golf game as an analogy for the principles. We will explore: • Establishing your target - what do you really want to achieve? • Your technical game - what do you need to do to get to the target? • Your mental game - how important is who you are on the results you generate? • A consistent swing - what habits will assist you to achieve success?

Living an Extra-Ordinary Life
Jim Rohn has said through testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that it is possible to ‘design and build and live an extra-ordinary life'.
The Dynamic Digital Duo: How Hurley and Chen Manufactured Success
“We’re not in a hurry,” Hurley once said. “We’re interested in building our community. We’re trying to improve discovery. We’re trying to improve the experience for people on our site.” They might not have been in a hurry, but their site sure grew in one. Today, YouTube has almost half of the online video market, and is still growing. How did a university dropout and a boy who loved to draw become the industry leaders they are considered now?

Transform Your Career With Peer Support
Peer support should be institutionalized in every company, but you don't need a corporate mandate to get started. Today, I want you to reach out and find one friend at work.
Intrinsic Motivation - Getting Your Mind Into Gear
Becoming a top-notch marketer is impossible without a proper mind-set. In this article we will look at ways to change our ways of subconscious thinking by means of existing technology.
Profitable Online Home Based Business Ideas and the Recession: Charmaynes Story
My husband Wendell is usually the person to write up our articles, but today I felt like I needed to write a few things.

What to Expect When Starting a Business
What is the biggest problem in starting a business? What has the American education sytem taught us about owning a business? This article gives the author's take on what is the most important aspect for working people to understand when starting a business.
4 Tips for Managing a Mid-Life Career Change
From personal experience I have found that there are only two types of people who change careers in mid life: those who want to and those who have to. And it seems that the “have to” group is in the majority these days. With this in mind, here are four-tips for people who "have to" change their career.
The Death of Certainty...I Think!
"I think" are the two weakest words in the American lexicon. As you create your expert positioning, these words damage your credibility; yet "I think" has become the favorite filler of pundits everywhere. Let's lose these words...
7 Habits for Franchisee's
Owning a franchise doesn't qualify you as a better entrepreneur. What might be the things that provide you with the right foundations to succeed in your business and other businesses in the future? Let me suggest 7 Habits you will find quality franchisee's practicing.
Info Products Made Easy--Stand Out from the Start
Investing a little time upfront to strategically map out your ebook or info product will go a long way toward making sure you end up with a bestseller...here's some ideas for how to do that.

Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession; Persistence
I believe that next to inaction, the lack of persistence is one of the biggest reasons for failure in this industry. Lack of action and inconsistency can destroy your business before you even get started and at any time after you get started. But enacting both and staying consistent with your work habits can lead to tremendous rewards. I would like to share a personal experience on both.

Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession; Taking Action
Nothing in life happens until you take action. You can talk all you want about something changing in your life, but nothing will change until you take action. You can complain, whine, moan and even cry about the circumstances in your life that you don’t like and that is all you’ll ever do until you DO something about it.
Top Article Marketing Ideas That Produce Results! ~Part 2
There are many people who have problems with coming up with article ideas and because of that, they don't write any at all. It is really quite simple if you put your head down and take action, especially after you read this article. An elite group of millionaire online entrepreneurs shared this secret about the top article marketing ideas that produce results with me and now I would like to share them with you. Check out part 2 in this 2 part article by Omari Taylor and learn top article marketing ideas that produce results.

The Benefits Of Affiliate Marketing Businesses
With so many different ways to make money online it made me wonder why people choose to start an affiliate marketing business. We're not just talking about a few people joining affiliate marketing here and there. Literally thousands of people start affiliate businesses every day.
Ten Common Internet Marketing Mistakes, Part 1
What makes you sit up and take notice of some Internet marketing ads while totally by-passing others? A well constructed ad can be worth its weight in gold, so this two-part series looks at some mistakes to avoid as you prepare advertising copy for your next Internet marketing campaign.

Great hires / bad hires: how to tell the difference BEFORE you make the offer
You hire someone. They don't work out. They leave. What is it that you remember and say about them in the past tense? It's rarely the fact that they didn't know how to work the numbers, or that they couldn't put the pieces of a widget together. No, it's almost always their soft skills that generate conversation-their personality, character and values.

Can We Talk?
It's a life-long task to learn to extract the meaning from the words, especially when that meaning has little to do with what the words mean. The task very often involves listening with the heart and blocking out the head — particularly in very intimate relationships.
How To Turn Testimonials into Traffic
Testimonials have the magical power to slip by the conscious mind and deliver the message of an ad, without seeming like an ad. Everyone wants testimonials on their website. find out how that can mean boat loads of traffic for You.
The Pro & Con of Groupon
Groupon: The Pro & Con

As a Leader Choice Is In Your Control
Leadership is about making choices and not the choices make you. Read about a personal experience and how choices and control build leadership.
How to Create the Best Life for You
It’s likely your current work pressures are forcing you to work longer hours and pushing personal interests aside. But passionate non-work interests are as important to your life as work. You have an array of talents, triggered by passionate interests to develop natural potential. If you strive for personal growth only through your work, you are living a narrow life. But it’s never too late to change.

Garber on Business: How to lose customers through sheer stupidity
Canadian communications companies are fumbling the ball when it comes to 'upselling' existing individual customers. The reason? Too many catches, and a basic dishonesty when it comes to ease of cancellation, should things not work out as planned.
Sales Training - Top 3 Questions to Decide If Comparing Yourself Can Increase Your Sales
In sales it's so easy to compare because there of goals and quotas. When we are on a team, those goals or quotas might seem like enough of a measuring stick. In sales, whether on a team or solo, we often use another measuring stick: other people. Is it ever really worthwhile to compare ourselves to anyone or anything? What would Dr. House do?
Starbucks Franchises And Other Coffee Franchise Opportunities
If you've ever wanted to jump onto the Starbucks bandwagon, or get involved with any other type of coffee franchise, this is the article for you. Find out about coffee franchising and the best way to get started.
Public Speaking: Its Many Benefits Can Grow Your Business
Smart professionals well understand the value of relationship building in developing and keeping new business. What better vehicle to further such cause than an event at which you are a featured speaker? Speaking multiplies the benefits of networking by initiating face-to-face personal connections. By addressing a topic which illustrates something you know about, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how fruitful public speaking can be. New prospects and clients will come out of the woodwork... or at least the folding chairs!
Selling in Bad Economic Times!
When the economy goes bad, it is easy for sales people to blame their lack of results on this, and I would not pretend that it is possible for every company to make their planned sales targets when this happens. However, after working with many sales organizations in 5 countries, and as a result of a survey of some 4,000 sales people, I found some very simple opportunities for improved sales effectiveness, which, if identified and seized, can produce some amazing increases in results even in tough times. Its just a matter of focus and discipline; things many sales people are averse to!
What Have You Done For Them Lately?
Showing Employees Appreciation and Rewarding Good Performance - A Survey Summary
Dreadful Customer Dervice
In sales little things mean everything. Here's an example of how the crew on a charter fishing boat screwed up the little things which added up to a dreadful customer service experience.
Valentine, valentine, please be mine!
A look at an important people management issue with Valentine's day approaching!
How to overcome the fear of owning a business?
It’s a mixed feeling - both scary and exciting to own a business, especially when you are a first time business owner. The fear of failing can be overwhelming and in most cases prevents an individual from buying a business. However two things can help you overcome the fear and they are knowledge and self confidence. Sounds simple? It is simple. By the time you finish reading this article, you will know how to obtain the right information, ask the right questions, and how to think like an entrepreneur. All these actions will give you the self confidence you need to become a business owner.
Home Business Expert: Passion: Find A Product You Can Believe In
Passion is very important not only in life, but also in your business. That is because when you are passionate about what you are doing, you will for sure put in a lot of hard work and will have the persistence to become successful.
Get Them to Act on Your Sales Offer
How do you get a complete stranger to buy from you? That’s one of the biggest challenges you face. Your ability to overcome that challenge greatly impacts your sales success.

The Future Is Niche Affiliate Marketing
In the past affiliate marketers have chosen a product and then went online and tried to sell it. This has worked for those who have mastered the skills of traffic generation. However there is a better way to do affiliate marketing today and in this article were going to talk about niche affiliate marketing
Don't Insult Homebuyers' Intelligence with Silly Staging Tricks
The Staging Diva, exposes the silly home staging tricks that risk insulting buyers - decorative details which do nothing more than distract homebuyers and make the house staging look obvious.
Tips For Dealing With Contractors
This week we discuss how to find a capable building contractor to build out the location. And as this series has been thus far, this segment is based on my personal experience and offered to you warts and all. As with all of my columns only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, the ignorant, and the overly litigious.
Companies Stifle Intrapreneurs At Their Own Risk
I've noticed an interesting trend lately. Usually the e-mail I receive in response to this column comes from rookie entrepreneurs or established business owners seeking my input on startup matters, financing, employee relations, general management and leadership issues, policy matters, etc. Lately, however, many of the messages are coming from employees of medium-size and large companies who are interested in starting a business of their own.
Exceptional Employee Performance Review Questions
As a manager or leader in life, we often think that part of the role is knowing all of the answers when someone asks us a question. We automatically go into “solution” mode when someone presents us with a question or problem. The challenge with this approach is that we are then creating dependence on ourselves rather than creating independence for the other person.

Smart Women are Possibility Thinkers
This article is about how one can determine their outcome in many situations and in life depending on their attitude. When faced with any circumstance, do you live in possibilities or do you automatically go to the downward spiral? Attitude is the key to unlocking a life full of passion, purpose and meaning.
Have You Backed Up Today
You may have a qualified tech support person that will install an automatic remote backup for you. But if you don’t, I recommend you contact my tech, Michael Glanton. He provides quality service and you may reach him at michael.glanton@g2web.com or by phone at 214-256-4893.
Support, Developing Synergy
Synergy can only be developed through support.
Enjoy your life more!
People are busier than ever between work, family, activities and volunteering to help others. Now add your blackberry, pager, internet, and other tech savvy gadgets. I once worked with a woman that was so busy with her life that she wasn't enjoying her life. She thought everything she had going on was so important, that keeping her cell phone attached to her hip every hour of the day was a necessity. She got caught up in the rat race of everything and needed some help taking a break and getting refocused. Do any of you feel like your days just blend together with a lack of direction or purpose?
Where to get a Green MBA, and beyond (pt. 1)
Having enthusiasm for participating in the green economy is not always enough. Do you want to know where the best places to boost your knowledge and skills in this arena are? In here you'll find an overview of some of the brighter stars in this universe, with a followup article focusing on Presidio School of Management, the current leader in the green MBA arena.
Selection Considerations for Leadership Development/Coaching
My research and that of others has found that leadership development and succession planning is by nature a long-term effort and it is far from being a risk-free activity. Additionally, like most things of importance, there’s more to it than meets the eye. Too often organizations jump into leadership development and succession programs without giving thought to key issues and the criteria to be used.
Three Strategies for Coaches, Consultants, and Business Advisors to Reach Top Decision Makers
As the title suggests, this article helps business advisors reach top decision makers.
Ten Reasons Why Its Best to Accept How You Feel During Change
Change is challenging. It impacts on people and they resist. But sometimes they resist experiencing the feelings that accompany change. Yet accepting and appreciating how you feel in changing situations can help. Here's how...
Thought Conformity
People pass off others' thinking as their own. They parrot others' issues without personal analysis. And they embrace others' perspectives as if it was their original thought. But these repackaged perspectives hamper innovation, personal growth, and business results.
Human Resource Management
Ask any CEO of any Fortune 500 company what the most important part of their company is, what is the one single thing that drives their company to reach new heights of success, and I guarantee you they will tell you one thing: people. People are the power behind any company, big or small. So how do you keep your people happy? How do you ensure they are working to maximum capacity and boosting your company’s productivity? The answer comes in three not so simple words: human resource management.

Leading with Your Strengths
Making a difference starts with banishing negativity from life. Changes happen when we start focusing on our achievements and surrounding ourselves with people who support rather than disparage us. As they have unique perspectives to offer us, we, in turn have unique strengths that they need. This is what I call 'social economy' — we 'supply' them what we have to offer and 'demand' that they offer to those in their circle their unique best.
It Takes an Ocean of Emotion
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Tony Robbins Stop for a moment and think about what type of energy is driving you to put another day into your business. Would you say your motivation's coming from a painful thought - "I better make this sale so I can make payroll", or based a pleasurable thought, "I can't wait to satisfy my next customer. Be honest with yourself.

Find the right coach
You’ve heard about coaching or met people who have found coaching beneficial. You’re not quite satisfied with your life in some way but either you can’t see how to improve it or you know what needs to be done but can’t quite get started. You know that if you feel great about your life you’ll have more to put into your business and you’ll get more from it. You understand that coaching could help you sooner rather than later but how do you find the right coach?

Close More Sales by Dispelling Customer Fears
Developing and maintaining a stellar reputation for excellent quality and value-added service is the foundation for gaining people’s trust and generating valuable word-of-mouth advertising. The more positive ways the public hears about you, the more receptive they’ll generally be to becoming your client, customer, or patient.
Is Your Website Neurology Friendly?
Designing a website that is Neurology Friendly can be both fun and educational, as you try and experience how others would feel and react to the content on your website, thus enabling you to build a web site that has very broad appeal.
Direct Sales
So, you’ve got a business plan that you think is flawless, a product that you think is unbeatable, and the ambition to take your company to the top. What else do you need to succeed in the line of direct sales? Well, believe it or not, a lot more! From personal experience, I know that just being well organized and having a product that you think is great, does not mean that everyone else out there will agree with you. If you’re going to succeed in this extremely competitive field, there are some things that you should know.

Sales Force
So, your recruitment team has been working around the clock to ensure your company has the best and the brightest salespeople on board. But now what? How do you ensure that your new recruits will continue to invest their full talents and energies into your companies? How do you keep your sales force motivated and passionate about working for you? While different people will be motivated by different things, there are some commonalities that you can look to. From personal experience, here are some tips I have learned.

Click Fraud - Why It Shouldn't Scare You Away from Search Advertising
Click fraud is a serious problem. But should it keep you from advertising on search engines? Find out why it shouldn't and what you can do to make sure it doesn't take you down.

Thirteen Strategic Actions To Achieve A Positive, Proactive and Prosperous Life
At each business coaching session or Strategic Planning Team meeting, I always ask clients to share a positive business & personal experience they have had since our last meeting. Most times my clients readily share something, but sometimes they hesitate or struggle to think of something positive to share. This experience of witnessing their hesitancy and/or their struggle with my request has been extremely eye-opening and valuable to me as a business coach. It has provided me with an opportunity to coach them on how to achieve a positive, proactive and prosperous life and to recognize the many positive things that surround them everyday, which they may be taking for granted or not recognizing. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach developed the following list of strategic actions to achieve that positive,proactive & prosperous life.

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Your Circle Of Influence
Preachers, funeral directors, and a few other professions have learned “the 300 rule” through personal experience.
The Threat of Abundance
The midlife transition creates the greatest drain on your personal energies that you'll experience. There's only one way I know to re-energize yourself: spiritually.
Tips on Buying a Business- What Can You Afford?
What can you afford when it comes to buying a business? Let's do a reality check here. Unless you have some incredible experience at a top level in an industry and some kind of solid personal collateral to back you up, forget those that say you can buy a business with no money. It's not true even is you get Seller financing or bank financing. Somebody is putting up the money and your history is what gets you those people who will agree to back you. And if none of your money is involved then these are mid-market to large business transactions that require loads of experience to be considered. So unless you have that kind of experience and people to back you up with their money, you need to take a reality check and think about what you can afford. This article is a sneak peek at that thought process.
MLM Home Business Opportunity - Success Yet?
This article is a lesson in “persistence” and “repositioning” for financial wealth within this economy and the network marketing/mlm industry. It is drawn from personal experience garnered in 30 years of teaching and commercial marketing experience plus a special “Gold Rush” story is referenced from Napoleon Hill’s classic book entitled “Think and Grow Rich.”
Why Do People Behave The Way The Do?
As we all know sometimes in life things can get rough, either from personal experience or from the experience of others. In those moments many things tend to go wrong simultaneously. When you discover the fact that problems are often social in that they seldom travel alone, it can actually feel as if everybody has it in for you.
How Much Does The Customer Experience Matter?
After watching Jeffrey Pine’s video on authenticity and the power of the experience, I decided to conduct my own personal experiment. My lab was the realm of beauty salons. For the last five years, I’ve gotten my hair cut at a local salon known for its fantastic client experience. Total cost of a haircut there is typically $60. Yesterday, I took my appearance in my hands and headed to the local discount haircut chain where I paid $5.99 (with a coupon) for a trim.

Small Business and Home Based Business Owners - Why Should You Plan Daily and That Too on Paper?
Personal time in my opinion is a source of power that cannot be leveraged. I am writing this at 11 AM today. I will only get to experience another 11AM and that will be tomorrow I can never get back this same moment. If personal time is so precious, should not we do what ever it takes to use it to our best advantage?
To The Niche Market Unbeliever
I have the conflicted heart, the logical brain, and some positive personal experience…am I on board yet? When I read the description of my experience it seems like a Godly path. The niche focuses on deeper relationships, effectively helping more people, and doing better, more in depth work, which all would glorify God. So my last hold-out argument would be “But what if God wants me to help all kinds of people? What if He doesn’t want me to niche? After all, He has sent me clients in all of these areas in the past.”
Personal Branding
Personal Branding is the absolute hallmark of the top 2% of sales professionals. Most of them don’t even know that they are doing it! Personal Branding gets your phone to ring. Personal Branding separates you from all of the competition. Personal Branding puts VALUE ahead of COST. Personal Branding elevates you and thus your company/product/service in the minds of your customer. Personal Branding, quite simply, creates more sales for you!
Interested in Leadership, or Committed to Becoming a Leader?
Many managers in leadership roles have stunted personal growth. Their "years of leadership experience and learning" is formal education (usually technical and/or management) followed by a year or two of experience multiplied twenty or thirty times. Here's an all too typical dinner conversation I had with a senior manager in the middle of a two-day improvement workshop I was running with a senior management team. The company was in crisis. It was struggling just to stay even in its industry.
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