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Lesson #1: Work Hard and Plan for Your Dreams
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| When Johnson was a young boy, he would frequently visit his father at the General Motors plant where he worked. “I would sit in the chair behind the desk and dream I was the CEO,” he says. But it was Johnson’s father who told him that he had to do more than just dream about what he wanted; he had to work hard for it. |
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“A Business Coach’s Top Ten Tactics for Marketing Professional Services”
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| Marketing professional services is a real and difficult challenge. The challenges of marketing professional services are different from those of marketing products. Two major reasons for the differences are that clients cannot see or touch professional services before they buy them and the professional services are often produced and consumed simultaneously. And another reason is that marketing professional services is split among marketing, sales, professional and management staff instead of a dedicated marketing and sales force.
Based upon my research and my own professional experience, I developed a Top Ten Tactics for marketing professional services.
My top ten tactics for marketing professional services are:
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No One Ever Tells Us/No One Ever Asks Us
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| The Seattle Sonics, a National Basketball Association team, are having problems. This is nothing new for the Sonics, nor for many professional teams. The same could be said for many businesses. The actual problem is universal.
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Responsibility
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| Before he won his first national basketball championship, Hakeem Olajuwon, the all-pro center for the Houston Rockets, knew that he needed to improve his 15-foot jump shot.
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The New York Knicks and the New York Yankees – What Can They Teach Us About HR?
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| With basketball season about to head into playoffs and baseball season just about to start, it's a very exciting time in the world of sports. It's also very exciting to see just exactly what professional sports can teach us in HR. |
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Ah, The Sweet Taste of Victory!
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| Ah, The Sweet Taste of Victory!
Do you remember those high school days and how you felt when your football team walked all over the biggest rival, or the basketball team walked away with the coveted state trophy? The energy... the excitement... the thrill of the win! I recently watched a movie, the Glory Road, which was the story of a basketball team who won the state championship - a victory against all odds. It was a poignant story that has spun around in my head for days now and finally settled in during another one of my crazy "shower moments" this morning!
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Michael Jordan Inspires Greatness At The End
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| I write this as the greatest basketball player ever goes into the Hall of Fame, Michael Jordan. It feels to me that an era for me is now gone and my childhood is now over, but I could not help but notice the greatness again in Air Jordan. |
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Looking Beyond the Short-Termers
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| The search for life lesson’s goes beyond the boundaries of a specific discipline, expertise or interest. Few would argue that, in recent years, the world of business and sports have operated less like Mars and Venus, separate but equal, and more like Twin Peaks, separate, but connected by a common base. The most recent NCAA basketball tournament has been a bizarre display of predictions gone wild. Yet, what has been interesting has been some of the surrounding dialogue that pertains to building blocks, teamwork, consistency and the ultimate prize. In doing so, the NCAA basketball tournament has provided some unique insights that have a direct bearing on how a business can achieve consistent success. |
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What Michael Jordan Can Teach You About Success in Sales
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| From the lessons learned from Jordan's mastery of the mental game of winning we can find paths to the same level of success in professional selling. The key to doing so is in finding parallels with the mental game of winning in sales and learning to to apply them with the same intensity that he applied them to the game of basketball. |
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Kid’s Have Stress Too
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| Childhood has changed. Instead of pick-up baseball and basketball games on the corner lot, there are competitive travel leagues for kids as young as seven or eight. |
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Wooden You Like To Be Successful?
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| John Wooden is known as one of the finest basketball coaches in America. He took his UCLA team to the NCAA playoffs 10 of 12 years and was named coach of the Century by ESPN. John Wooden was a great teacher and coach.
The brilliance of his teaching is that he focused on the mental aspect of the game as well as the technical skills of basketball. John Wooden repeatedly told his team that controlling emotions was at the core of winning the game. |
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