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Are You An Entrepreneur Who Takes Action? Take The 4 Trait Test
Entrepreneurs are independent people who set themselves apart from others by being innovative action takers. Entrepreneurs know how to solve problems and see opportunities that others miss. In today's uncertain economy entrepreneurs are needed more than ever because they are the ones who are willing to do the tasks and follow through despite obstacles.
Delegating Diligently
Are you enjoying running your business or is your business running you? Too many business owners and other leaders try to control work outcomes by doing everything themselves. Burnout and personal and staff ineffectiveness is the result. This article outlines the proven benefits of being proactive by delegating diligently. Read on to learn about 8 tips you can use for delegating effectively.
Lesson #4: In Order to Get Ahead, You Must Take the Lead
“It's not like you just sit back and eventually it's going to happen,” says Case. “It's going to happen when people make it happen, and you have to kind of have a strategy that is pragmatic at one level, so you can hang in for the long run, but proactive in another level, so you can actually try to accelerate the pace that it's going to take for something to take off.”
How to Stay Energized in Your Job Search
Several people have written me recently asking the same question: How do I stay energized and keep my confidence up while I'm looking for work? I know it can be hard, but try to focus on the idea that a period out of work is an opportunity - a time to home in on what's important, both personally and in your career journey. To help you (or someone you know) with that, I've put together some relationship-centric tips to help job hunters stay proactive.

The Reactive Life
Are you living a reactive life? This is how most people live, doing things as a response or reaction to an outside force. They act only when it is required, merely waiting for the next call to action.
Help! I Want to Dump My Partner
Struggling with a weak or floundering partnership? Read this article to learn what others have done in similar situations.
Men's Health Insurance: Staying Healthy
One of the best ways for men to combat the rising health care insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses is to obtain, retain and use the benefits and opportunities available in health care coverage. Taking charge of ones own health and being proactive in healthy lifestyle choices, making and keeping regularly scheduled doctors appointments, and being a dynamic force within a personal wellness plan are all methods to help decrease the long-term cost of health care insurance.

Will Your Organization Survive?
For over 2 years now, organizations have been reducing employee count and attempting to get more from fewer resources. Times change. When the future becomes clearer the cash, on the sidelines will begin to enter the game. When that happens expect the greatest "talent rush" of our lifetime. Here is how to prepare to take advantage instead of being taken advantage of.

Deliberately Choose How You Want To Live Your Life
This article asks the question, "Is your life worth living?" This simple question, when asked often, creates more abundance in your life. Here are practical tools to remind yourself that you are in control of creating a wonderful quality of life regardless of your circumstances.

Smart Women Live A Proactive Life
This article is about living a life that has a clear plan to take you where you want to go. Rather than “react” to our days, it’s more beneficial to be “proactive” about our days. It leads to a calmer life with goals being achieved. Being “Proactive” allows you to think ahead about your life and your goals week by week, day by day.

Marketing Strategies: Are You Proactive Enough?
Are you reacting to your circumstances or creating them? Learn how to switch that focus! This article gives you some great tips on how to be proactive.
You're not that interesting!
Truth: You're not exciting or interesting enough for your customers go to the trouble of seeking you out. Why should they? You're predictable, measurable and safe - just like all your competitors. Your insights are second hand and you don't bring any WOW factor to the table. In fact, you're at the dinner table but you have nothing of any value to say.

Extroverts excel at working from home, research says
Working from home or in a freelance career is an attractive prospect for many employees – but is this arrangement suited for everyone? An article in Business Week explores the personality traits that successful home-based workers typically possess.

The I's Have It
Staying on the radar screens of clients and prospects is more important than ever for salespeople. With demand for products and services only now beginning to pick up as the worst recession in decades slowly dissipates, it has become absolutely necessary for anyone involved in sales to be persistent, proactive, and patient. How can this best be achieved without also looking desperate?

You're a Manager. Now What?
Congratulations....you’re a manager! Now what? You’ve gone from being managed to doing the managing without benefit of the “how to” book and no...manuals rarely work. As an executive coach you know I’m going to say experience beats any book. So how do you make that transition?

Foot Canvassing
An article discussing the benefits of Foot Canvassing
Selling and managing are not the same
I wrote recently about sales burnout and the challenges many SME business owners have of being all things to all people including, usually, the main sales person and sales manager. Like many people, I have known that selling and managing are not the same thing. They are two very distinct jobs with different demands and expectations.
How to recreate yourself by identifying, packaging, and marketing transferable skills to a different industry and guarantee steady employment.
In the business world we have a short list of traditional sources of interdepartmental friction. One of these "hot zones" is the intersection of HR and managers, who can easily find themselves at odds.

Selling Strategy: Start-Stop-Change
A well-rounded selling strategy should include avoid making these 2 big mistakes.

My Sales Force Needs a Make Over
One reader emailed that he just inherited a radio station in Honduras, has never sold before, and he and his salespeople aren't able to book appointments. Another reader is the Sales Director for several well-known magazines and said that her top producing team is down 50% from last year. Yet another reader wrote and wanted to know how to chop her 2-3 year sales cycle down to 2-3 months. And one President fired all of his salespeople, is back on the road selling and wonders what he can do to thrive. What do all four of these scenarios have in common?
Business Planning - Acknowledge the Old Goals First
An article about business planning and how to acknowledge what might be getting in the way with helpful coaching questions to guide your business planning efforts.
When Things Go Hardest...
During times of economic downturn, life and work become increasingly difficult for virtually everyone. Organizations and their people tend to flounder in a sea of uncertainty, while struggling with their decision making processes. Those leaders who have historically preceded us in troubled times, provide key insight into the aprropriate attitudes and actions which can sustain us through the current recession times.
Earning a Living in Real Estate
Buying and selling real estate is an intricate business. You have to make sure you are always being proactive and on top of your game. Having a background in real estate will go along way in this business. When it comes to earning a living in real estate for a company or as an independent realtor, there are a few key things that you need to know in order to be successful. This information will ensure that you sell homes faster and for more money. Learning more about real estate practices will guarantee you a thriving and profitable experience that will benefit you in all ways possible.
Adding Value to your Corporate Christmas Gift
Choosing the right promotional product to give your customers and staff can be a complicated process which is why JEM Promotional Products have written an article about Adding value to your Corporate Christmas Gifts. We have focused the article on three main methods of adding value to your corporate Christmas Gifts which are Personalisation, Picking an appropriate Product and Attention to Detail. We hope that it makes picking your gifts easier this Christmas!
Five Effective Link Building Strategies
If you’re a small business owner with a website, the best way to increase your organic traffic is to write interesting and compelling content that is focused towards your target market. This article outlines five simple strategies you can follow to increase your inbound links.
Your Vision is Your Leadership Calling Card
Leadership is motivated by a vision. Success is not happenstance. Behind leadership and success, there is a vision. A vision provides a compass. It includes your values and what you believe for yourself and others.

10 Steps to Create More of a Sales Culture
I spoke to a very lively group of 130 CEO's in Cincinnati today and the question about creating more of a sales culture came up. There are ten steps to accomplishing this:
How Much Is A Three Dollar Customer Worth
Do you really know the value of your existing client base? You can spend a huge amount of money on promoting your business, and still see little result. The best (and cheapest form of advertising for a small business owner is word of mouth. It's reported that if you do the right thing by a client, they'll tell a handful of people. Do the wrong thing, and they'll tell over twenty people. So do you know how much a three dollar customer is really worth?

Turning Order Takers into Salespeople
Salespeople need to make adjustments. New competition, new buying strategies, unfair competition, price competition and the resistance brought on by the recession all change the way they need to play the game and they need to make adjustments too. They need to be quicker, sharper, more strategic and much more effective with their use of selling tactics (skills, not tricks). This article explains how.
Making the Most of Networking Events
Many people attend networking events, but they don't necessarily make the most of them. This article shows you how to make every networking event a success.
'Playing the Game' or 'Politics'. How do women approach networking in a large company?
Is it a manipulative game, using people for one's own ends? Or simply a key part of building a career, of particular importance for a woman in a male-dominated world? Andy Lopata looks at the importance of networking for women in corporate life.

Can the Law of Attraction Ideas in "The Secret" Really Help You Succeed?
Actually I've been talking about the law of attraction for some time. I just called it something different–the Entrepreneurial Mind Set. It's extremely powerful, but just like anything else worthwhile, you have to work at it.
Intentional Marketing - It’s Easy, Fun & Lucrative
If you have a business, you market. Anytime you tell someone the impact of using your products or services, you’re selling. Marketing and selling may trigger resistance for you but I guarantee you’re doing it. How would you like to do marketing that makes a huge impact on your audience, is easy and fun to create, and will have prolific results?
Business Killer Mistakes You Cannot Afford
One advantage to thousands of years of history to look at, is there are things that work in business, and things that don't. This is not a history lesson though, it really a look business killer mistakes you don't want to make, and solid principles that will guide you to success in any economy. With the serious threat of recession looming, this is even more important.
Managing Change
Managing Change in an organization is not an option. The only option leaders have is whether to be pro active or reactive. Should you want to learn how to become pro active and effective with Managing Change, review this article
Why Succession Planning
Succession planning is not just a nice thing to do, but rather it is a necessary process that should be in place to protect the overall health of the organization – big or small. Who is going to step into your shoes when you get promoted, have a major medical problem or leave the organization? What is your retention strategy for the individuals who are important to the success of your organization?

Business Opportunity - Leverage Your Employees!
For business to be successful, you have to take every step possible to make sales, control costs, be profitable. Yet there is an asset that so often gets looked over. The very people you employ. And if you work it right, they can bring in rewards like you never thought possible.
It is All Your Fault
What makes your business stressful? The huge volume of work? Having copious different projects to monitor? The long hours? Always thinking about work? Is it the bills? No. Actually, it's you! We are evolving into a population of complainers who want to stay 'under the radar' of responsibility, through avoiding conflict, negating ownership and persistent procrastination
How to Build a Mastermind Group
A Mastermind group is a supportive group of like-minded people who collectively brainstorm ideas, strategies, techniques and concepts to help people move forward in their business/life and become 'unstuck'. A Mastermind group is not a social gathering of friends, neither is it a session to air your complaints about life and feel sorry for yourself. To make a Mastermind group work, it has to be made up of people who are positive, self motivated, proactive and have a desire to help others reach their goals......

17 Questions to Ask Existing Franchisees
Visiting a franchisee is most likely a two step process. The first step is to visit the franchisee unannounced during their peak hours. Be a “secret shopper”.

Are you Reactive or Pro-active
Are you making things happen or are you watching things happen? Are you taking control of your life or are you watching it go right by you? These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves, this day and everyday. I hope you all know what a pinball machine is. I know it is old school but I still see them around in most arcades. In a pinball machine you have a little silver ball that gets shot up into the machine. It then gets bounced from one bumper to the next, it gets pushed. Then it gets flipped from one side to the other, it goes crazy. Just reacting to all that is happening to it. And then finally just falling down into the hole, only to start the process all over again. How about you? Do you feel like that pinball? Are you reactive or proactive?
Good News Travels Fast
This article is full of opportunities staring you in the face. If you don't believe me, write and tell me so--and by doing that you'd be proving me right. That would make you a proactive marketer: spotting a marketing opportunity in an everyday activity.
Good News Travels Fast
This article is full of opportunities staring you in the face. If you don't believe me, write and tell me so--and by doing that you'd be proving me right. That would make you a proactive marketer: spotting a marketing opportunity in an everyday activity.
Are You Really “In Control”?
Prevailing wisdom says that leaders and successful people says they are proactive and in control, but no one really has control over circumstances. Instead, people can choose to interact wisely with circumstances to reach desired outcomes.
Auto Insurance Quotes
In a 2006 survey, it was discovered that more than 1,500 prospective customers were searching online every day in their quest to find the best auto insurance quotes available. The industry is becoming increasingly cutthroat, and there is no better place to see that than online, where people are trying to get the most bang for their buck. In my view, however, that is a good thing. The more proactive you are about making any purchase, and the more you shop around, the more you are likely to get the best deal out there.

TAKING THE POWER BACK
In sales technology can be your best friend or worst enemy...this article uncovers ways to use technology successfully.

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What Is Value-Added Selling?
Value-added selling is a proactive philosophy. Value added salespeople take the initiative to add value. Value added salespeople do not wait for the customer to complain about the price and then say, “Hold on a minute while I whip some value-added selling on you!” Value added salespeople build more value in on the front end so that price becomes less of an issue on the back end. Being proactive with customers means you never have to say you’re sorry.

Becoming a 'FIT' Networker
Do you have a strategy to develop referrals for your business? Or do you just leave it to your customers to refer you if happy? Most businesses will admit that referrals and recommendations are their most effective source of new leads, but most do anything proactive about it. Business Networking Strategist Andy Lopata looks at how you can be more proactive about generating new leads through your existing network.

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.
Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to take ownership of worklife balance discussion
The mantra of the late 90’s and the first decade of the 21st century is “Be proactive.” And corporations are doing a fine job of being proactive in claiming ownership of the “work-life” discussion. They’re doing this because when they launch the discussion first, they get to define the parameters—they get to make the rules. Entrepreneurs and small business owners should not try to emulate what large corporations do. Instead, you should look towards owning your own work-life discussion.

What Is Business Networking, Anyway?
It's more than showing up and shaking hands; it's about being proactive.

Get Proactive or Face the Consequences
The key to avoiding a midlife crisis involves looking ahead beyond the immediate crises that sap your energy and attention. Being truly proactive is your only effective way forward.
Marketing Strategies: Are You Proactive Enough?
Are you reacting to your circumstances or creating them? Learn how to switch that focus! This article gives you some great tips on how to be proactive.
Smart Women Live A Proactive Life
This article is about living a life that has a clear plan to take you where you want to go. Rather than “react” to our days, it’s more beneficial to be “proactive” about our days. It leads to a calmer life with goals being achieved. Being “Proactive” allows you to think ahead about your life and your goals week by week, day by day.

HR Horrors Part Deux: Workers Comp
More HR horror stories... When it comes to workers comp, how proactive do you need to be?
Reactive vs. Proactive & Core Beliefs
All of us are on one of two sides of reality: Reactive or Proactive. Leaders are proactive by taking these critical steps to their success.
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