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It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re going.
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| Oh the Holidays… The crisp snap of the winter breeze, lights emerging from every corner imaginable; illuminating the evening skies like the sun just squeezed itself through the screen door. It’s a time for celebration, a time for reflection. For smiles, and long overdue embraces that have sat on shelves collecting the dust of neglect.
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Beware Southern Drivers During Snowstorms
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| First of all, there are no snowstorms as far south as I live even though the slightest flurry causes everyone to rush to the store and clean the shelves of bread, milk and batteries. It is not safe to be on the road with these fanatics. You may risk getting struck by a driver trying to join the hoards running to stock up on food stuffs they will be unable use in the event there really is a major storm. The scenario is always the same. Mr./Mrs. Weatherman swears up and down that we are going to have snow and the entire city turns into a bunch of lunatics. |
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Lesson #5: Take A Second Chance
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| World War II proved to be a turning point in Chanel’s career. Despite being wildly successful, Chanel decided to close up shop in 1939, when France declared war on Germany. She closed the doors of her stores and stopped designing altogether. While other couturiers were leaving the country, Chanel decided to remain in her beloved Ritz Paris apartment. It was here where she would live out the controversy that was soon to surround her life. |
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Lesson #5: Create the Market Where There Is None
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| In 1950, the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation had a problem on their hands. Morita and Ibuka had finally conceived and designed Japan’s first tape recorder by grinding up magnets and sticking the powder to strips of paper that they had covered with rice paste. The product worked, and they believed it had great potential, but as of yet, there was no demand. |
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Lesson #4: Cutting Costs Can Save Your Company
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| Penney was born and raised on a small Missouri farm. His father, a Baptist minister, was a well-respected member of the community. But, as it was an unsalaried position, the family rarely had the wealth to accompany that status. As a result, Penney grew up in a household that stressed the importance of self-reliance and self-discipline, especially when it came to financial matters. Penney took that attitude with him into the business world. Indeed, much of Penney’s success can be attributed to his willingness to penny pinch wherever he needed to. |
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Lesson #5: Set Goals No Matter How Unreachable They May Seem
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| “Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history,” said Penney. “Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” Penney understood the importance of deciding where he wanted to go, and striving to get there no matter how difficult it may have seemed at the time. His career is characterized by his ambition, his focus, and his refusal to give up in the face of difficulty. |
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Lesson #3: Get Word Of Your Business Out There
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| “We didn’t spend any money on marketing and advertising,” recalls Aigner-Clark. So just how exactly did her basement operation become the billion dollar industry leader that it is today? What it all came down to, she says, was her ability to hit the streets and get people talking about her business. |
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Ready to Wear: Lauren Launches His Line
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| Lauren’s handmade neckties were flying off the shelves. It was a conservative time in the fashion world and Lauren’s ties, showy as they were, were making a splash. But Lauren knew that if he was going to stick around in the business for much longer, he had to follow that up with something else – and fast. In 1968, with the help of a $50,000 loan, Lauren founded Polo Fashions. He chose the name not because he liked the sport; indeed, he had never played polo before in his life. But to Lauren, the name symbolized power and style – an image he wanted his clothes to project. |
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Leaving His Mark: Hall’s Company Takes Off
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| Hall’s postcard company was doing well, but he quickly began to worry about his future. Could sales keep indefinitely? No, he decided. It was time for a change. |
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Lesson #4: Know Your Opportunities - and Your Limits
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| Entrepreneurship begins with a dream, and it means having the courage to follow through on that dream. But the danger that lurks for ambitious entrepreneurs is in not knowing how far to take that dream, and when it is time to call it quits. |
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The Finishing Touch: How to Craft Titles that Sell
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| When you’re perusing the shelves at your local bookstore, what’s the first thing you notice about almost every book you pick up? The title! |
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Web Design & Conversion
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| One of the most important yardsticks to measure the success of any web-based venture is its online conversion rate. Getting people to your site is all good and well, but the real measure of your website’s design and content is whether you are able to turn the casual browser into a paying customer. |
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5 Ways To Get A Job
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| No more simple career advice. You're smarter than that. You deserve honesty. |
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6 Tips on What To Do With Cards on Desktops, Shelves, and in Rubberbands!
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| What are you doing with all those business cards? I know I watch my friends and when I ask them about their system I get all kinds of responses. One will hand me a stack with a rubber band around them. Another will throw them in a pretty woven basket. Another just makes piles and piles and piles and piles on all the shelves in their office. What are YOU doing with all those business cards?
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Find the Real Tools and Reduce Your High Tech Costs
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| Find the Real Tools and Reduce Your High Tech Costs -
Like most business owners, you're probably overwhelmed by marketing messages telling you to buy the latest business device or cutting edge electronic toy, perhaps because it is supposed to be invaluable to your business. In this article, you'll read about three types of technology that you'll encounter and you'll discover some questions to ask yourself to determine whether you really need it or not.
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Staging Diva Home Staging Tips for the Basement
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| The Staging Diva®, shares her expert home staging tips for the basement. |
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Are Macs and Wal-Marts a good match?
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| Apparently, there are plans afoot for Wal-Mart to sell Macs, as well as iPhones and iPods, in at least some of their stores. I'm not sure that's a good idea, but it's worth pursuing, at least on a trial basis.
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Vendor Improvements
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| Vendors can make or break a retailer, or at least be a part of either the winning or losing team. Make sure to optimize your vendor interactions to save time and money. |
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Creating A Store That Sells Through Education and Entertainment
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| Ever been lost and confused in one of these shops where the product is either unfamiliar or fairly technical – like home electronics, mobile phones or medicines? I regularly see customers in these places (and I am often one of them) that are just going through the aisles looking bedazzled, faced with rows of identically looking objects with some technical jargon words written on labels...
Simply putting stock on shelves and hoping that customers will buy it does not work, a different approach is required. |
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Spring Cleaning For Your Business.
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| Everyone has different workstyles. While some people are comfortable in chaos, others can't get anything done if one paperclip is out of place. No matter where you fall in the spectrum, the important thing to take into consideration is how it effects your customers, clients, and co-workers. Are THEY comfortable in your messes? If not, then these Spring Cleaning tips will help get you on the fast track to an orderly office and business. |
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The two greatest problems facing all small business are;
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| The two greatest problems facing all small business are;
* How do I get more qualified leads?
* How do I convert more of those leads into customers?
Focusing on the second issue, if you have got that vital first meeting, you should really be in with a very strong chance of closing it. You will need to have 3 to 5 power questions prepared in advance,
So why do so many business owners and sales people alike, have problems securing the deal with a hot prospect. This article helps you unlock your magic code, to securing far more business at sales meetings. |
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Upselling with Complementary Items
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| Increase "same customer" sales with creative packaging and upselling with complementary items. |
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Work at Home as a Custom Rug-Maker
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| As a Custom Rug-Maker, I have operated out of my garage as well as a light industrial workshop. Let's take a closer inside look at working from home as a custom rug fabricator.
Ok, first things first: it's time to clear out that garage and have a garage sale. The hour has come to rid yourself of all those dusty treasures that you've been stashing away for years.
Here's the logic: Why not generate some income with this space? |
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Home Based Business Spotlight--American Vending Systems
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| The key to successful business is taking a good idea and making it better. Here is one business that has taken that idea to heart, taking two good ideas and making them better by combining them. |
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Packaging: dressing your product in a fashion conscious market
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| Packaging. It’s something most people don’t necessarily think about, perhaps partly due to the fact that it is so overwhelmingly pervasive. Even just picking up groceries for the week, in a single forum we are subjected to the end results of thousands of individual design and branding endeavours; some good, some bad, and the rest forgettable. |
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Save a Tree Create Profitable Products with a Punch that are Downloadable
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| I don’t know about you, but if you have school age children, they’re getting quite an education on saving the planet and you can’t turn the TV on without seeing that Corporate America has jumped on the Green bandwagon as well. I tell my friends that I’m living in a “dark house” because my son is constantly shutting off lights to prevent global warming; in the meantime, my eyes are being strained! |
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6 Good Reasons To Start An Online Affiliate Marketing Business
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| As an affiliate marketer you are required to drive targeted traffic to a merchant's website and make sales for them, which results in commission for you. Getting paid to sell other people's products is known as affiliate marketing. There are many advantages to running an online affiliate marketing business compared to a traditional off-line business. |
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Specialists Win More Referrals
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| If you claim to do everything, your clients won't rely on you for anything. |
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Business Owner Has Cleared the Clutter and the Stress to Find a More Productive Business
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| At one time, Cathy considered herself an organized person, but life has happened since then. Having twins and starting 2 different businesses has changed all that. Even still, she felt she had it pretty together and was progressing positively with her career
But in her husband's eyes, Cathy's strategies did not work. He saw documents, products, toys and boxes stacked in corners of her office and a frequently time-challenged wife. “He had a mission - he has been trying to organize me for the past year. He would get frustrated and I would get frustrated,” Cathy said, referring to her husband. He had tried several approaches including rearranging things himself, but nothing would stick. |
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Why doesn't every bookstore carry my books?
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| Many new authors will be so excited about their debut book that they don't ask their publisher the right questions about distribution. Many assume that their books will get automatic placement in every bookstore across the country. Then the sad reality hits them. |
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Low And No Budget Home Based Businesses Any Woman Can Start Part Five
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| Starting a business of your own with little or no money is actually easier than you might think. So if you are sitting around worrying about what tomorrow will bring, think about taking your fate in your own hands with one of the easy to begin businesses detailed here. Maybe one of them is the perfect low budget business for you, and even none of them are just quite right, maybe they will help you decide exactly what business you do want to start. |
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Selling Is All About The Whys
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| Make more sales by asking the right and answering the right questions that will help you establish trust and cultivate prospects. |
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Your Going Out of Business PR Plan and how to avoid needing it
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| A small business owner struggled to keep her head above water in a bad economy - right up until she decided to close the store. Her going-out-of-business promotional efforts brought in a ton of business, and she cannot understand why. The secret is simple: She finally put promotion into everything she was doing. |
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Starting A Home Based Business Online? Things To Consider
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| It can be fun, yet challenging starting a home based business online. For most, this will be the first time they aren't working at a company with a boss watching their every move. If you are tired of an overbearing boss, the idea of starting your own business from the comfort of your home can be very tempting. |
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Do You Suffer from 'Guru Syndrome?'
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| You know you're buying too many online programs when you open the door to your office cabinet and a huge information marketing binder falls on your head.
It took me a year to recognize I was suffering from the newest 21st century symptoms - Guru Syndrome. And, this syndrome stymied my business, made me second-guess myself and spend too much money.
Find out if you suffer from these symptoms and if you don't, discover the secrets to avoiding this 21st century affliction. |
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Why Time Management Is Overrated
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| If you visit any library or bookstore, you'll see shelves full of books on time management. It seems we all want to "manage" our time, "get control" of our time, and start doing "what we're supposed to, when we're supposed to." |
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Why Time Management Is Overrated
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| If you visit any library or bookstore, you'll see shelves full of books on time management. It seems we all want to "manage" our time, "get control" of our time, and start doing "what we're supposed to, when we're supposed to." |
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THE HEART AND SOUL OF RETAIL SUCCESS
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| There's more to retail success than putting stuff on shelves and hoping it will sell. This article goes into the more personal aspects of feeling successful and how that impacts your business. |
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Creating A Store That Sells Through Education and Entertainment
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| Ever been lost and confused in one of these shops where the product is either unfamiliar or fairly technical – like home electronics, mobile phones or medicines? I regularly see customers in these places (and I am often one of them) that are just going through the aisles looking bedazzled, faced with rows of identically looking objects with some technical jargon words written on labels...
Simply putting stock on shelves and hoping that customers will buy it does not work, a different approach is required. |
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6 Tips on What To Do With Cards on Desktops, Shelves, and in Rubberbands!
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| What are you doing with all those business cards? I know I watch my friends and when I ask them about their system I get all kinds of responses. One will hand me a stack with a rubber band around them. Another will throw them in a pretty woven basket. Another just makes piles and piles and piles and piles on all the shelves in their office. What are YOU doing with all those business cards?
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The Finishing Touch: How to Craft Titles that Sell
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| When you’re perusing the shelves at your local bookstore, what’s the first thing you notice about almost every book you pick up? The title! |
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Beware Southern Drivers During Snowstorms
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| First of all, there are no snowstorms as far south as I live even though the slightest flurry causes everyone to rush to the store and clean the shelves of bread, milk and batteries. It is not safe to be on the road with these fanatics. You may risk getting struck by a driver trying to join the hoards running to stock up on food stuffs they will be unable use in the event there really is a major storm. The scenario is always the same. Mr./Mrs. Weatherman swears up and down that we are going to have snow and the entire city turns into a bunch of lunatics. |
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It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re going.
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| Oh the Holidays… The crisp snap of the winter breeze, lights emerging from every corner imaginable; illuminating the evening skies like the sun just squeezed itself through the screen door. It’s a time for celebration, a time for reflection. For smiles, and long overdue embraces that have sat on shelves collecting the dust of neglect.
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How to Develop Your Best-Selling Book Idea
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| Everyone has at least one book in them-I firmly believe that. But bookstore shelves are packed with titles, all competing for readers’ attention. So how can you tell if your book idea is ready for the competitive publishing business? |
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Start Your Own Makeup Line - Here's How
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| If you want to start your own cosmetic line, first decide on a specific and unique solution that you will provide to your customers. There are so many cosmetic products on store shelves today that unless you have a unique selling proposition, your product will get lost in the market... |
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Successful Corporate Race Sponsorships with Inflatable Product Replicas
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| You're in charge of a big launch for a new brand of snack food – the hottest thing to hit the shelves since chips in a can. You've got a great product, now you need to generate a bit of buzz, and fast. Thankfully, that's just what inflatables do. Coupled with a corporate race sponsorship, inflatable product replicas can give a much needed boost to your marketing campaign. |
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