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Beware of Snark-Infested Waters
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:
Sales Management Training: 8 Competencies of Top Sales Professionals
Do you know what separates the top 1% of all sales professionals from everybody else? It's a set of 16 core competencies discovered through years of research, which lead to their extreme level of success. This article will help you understand 8 of these skills so that you can enjoy your own sales success. The next article in this series will discuss the other 8.

Expertise
As consultant and trainer I always teach the value of being an expert. There’s no doubt that as an expert it’s just as important to be an expert in not just product knowledge, but in your subject matter as well. This knowledge helps your confident in front of a customer or audience. It also gives you the ability to ask excellent and relevant questions. You can quote famous people and books to position yourself as an expert, but you can’t fake expertise very long.

Tips On Making Good Decisions
Throughout our lives all of us are faced with making tough decisions. Do I take this new job? Do I move out of state? Do I marry her/him? Do I have this surgery? Obviously some are more important than others, some are life threatening and some are less critical. Some decisions must be made quickly and some have the luxury of time. In making these decisions how do we know we are making the right choices? How do I make good decisions? Is there a process that can help me? The answer is yes. Below are some tips to guide you through the process.

Happy One Year Blogging Anniversary!
November 3, 2007 was actually my official one year anniversary as a blogger. It has been extremly fun and eductional. The goal for my upcoming year of blogging is to further merge my blogs into my offline activities. We’ll see how it works out.

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The Path to Selling Success
A Road Map: The Mission Statement The first step on your road to success is to define success. This is accomplished by writing a professional mission statement. A mission statement is like a rudder on a ship; it determines your direction. Without it your purpose can be unclear, vague or prone to change-based external influences. A mission statement is a way of accepting personal responsibility for your life. We choose who we are, or want to be.

Mission Statement and Goal Setting for Sales and Marketing Professionals
A Road Map: Your Personal Mission Statement. The first step on your road to success is to outline and define where you want to go and the kind of sales and marketing professional you want to become. This is accomplished by writing a professional mission statement. This should be a brief statement (about four sentences) that describes the person you are or the one you want to be. This is the rudder on the ship that will determine your direction. It is your road map to success. Everything you do in your sales or marketing role should be in line with your mission statement. Living your mission statement is the true meaning of success.
THE VALUE OF A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
I am sure that all of you who work in a corporate environment are familiar with your corporate mission statement? It is the one that typically hangs in the front reception area or perhaps on the wall in the boardroom. But do you have a personal mission statement and/or understand in a meaningful way what your purpose for living actually is?

TIPS OF WRITING EFFECTIVE MISSION STATEMENT THAT FITS WITH YOUR ENTIRE MARKETING STRATEGY
Many times you get into a company and the first thing that greets you is the receptionist and the companies' mission statement. The mission statement is either hanged in a huge board for all to see. It will also be on the top page of the brochure, which will be on top of the table at the waiting room. To hang a mission statement for all to see is a great thing; however I have been reading many mission statements in my visits in many offices not in one country but in many and one thing come out clearly.
Success and Your Personal Mission and Vision
Successful people define a clarity of purpose and direction for their lives and careers. Your clarity of purpose and direction should include both a personal mission (your purpose) and a personal vision (your direction). Your mission is your reason for living, why you are on this earth. It is unlikely to change over the long run. Your vision is a short or medium term goal that defines the direction you will take over the next three to five years. It will change are you grow and develop in your life and career. Your vision must be consistent with your mission.
How to Write Your Personal Mission/Vision Statement to Achieve Your Goals
Much like a business, we, as human beings have a purpose or mission in life. What if we spent as much time getting to know who we are and what we want for ourselves? A personal vision/mission statement is the framework for creating a powerful life. A Personal Vision/Mission can help propel you into a career change, finding a new job, or make your present job work better for you. The more connected your Personal Vision/Mission is to yourself, the better it can guide your career and your life.

Do We Really Need a Mission Statement?
Many organizations confuse the concept of a vision statement with a mission statement. They might say, "Our mission is to become the world leader in windows." Well, that is reallly a vision statement, not a mission statement. A vision statement is always about the future, while a mission statement is all about what we are trying to do today. It is very important to know that. This article will clarify a process to obtain a good mission statement.

What's Your "Why?"
What's your "mission?" Here are a few things to think about if you need to create a personal mission in your work, or if it's time to re-evaluate and retool your mission.

5 Keys to Your Personal Mission Statement
When asked directly, most cannot define their professional and personal mission. "Making money" is not a mission statement. It is an objective. This article defines how to create your own mission statement and core values that will define your character and leadership for a lifetime.
Get Your Mechanics Adjusted
Whether you own a business, or work as a leader in an organization, or simply make your living through investing (nearly all of my clients fit into one of those categories), you need to take personal responsibility for your own vitality. Your mission (possibly even the life of your company) depends on your personal vitality and energy. By the way: so does your own happy life....
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