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Lesson #5: “I let negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back.”
Growing up, Foreman’s life was not an easy one. He experienced one setback after another, each threatening to veer him off course towards greatness. Foreman, however, managed to overcome. From acknowledging his own weaknesses to avoiding the destructive power of negativity, Foreman’s career is evidence that greatness can often come from a path of greater struggle.

Follow-Up or Fall on Your Face
Guerrilla marketing preaches to the skies the importance of customer follow-up and prospect follow-up if you have even the vaguest notion of succeeding in business. Why do most businesses lose customers? Poor service? Nope. Poor quality? Nope. Well, then why? Apathy after the sale. Most businesses lose customers by ignoring them to death. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to apathy after the sale.

Growing Geometrically
Guerrillas don't try to grow only in linear fashion by adding new customers. They grow geometrically by mining current customers.

Guerrilla New Business
The obtaining of precious new business is a whole lot easier than you may have imagined -- but only if you have the mindset of the guerrilla
Setting Up for Attraction Marketing Success
Once you have a solid understanding of what attraction marketing is, the next step is to put it all into action for yourself. To get started, determine if you will do the writing work yourself or if you will hire someone else to do so. For efficiency, and time savings for you, it may be best to hire an inexpensive writer.

Goal Focused - Home Business
Suggestions that can help you make positive changes in your life, ideally to start and run a home based business successfully.
Online business: Build a reputation
When someone is making a decision to do business with you, they want to know about your reputation. A well built reputation will inspire confidence in you. Your service or your product is part of your reputation. Standing behind your product or service helps build a reputation for your online business. Since many online businesses depend entirely on the internet for marketing purposes, your reputation matters.
How Can You Succeed If You Don’t Make Mistakes?
If you’re like I used to be, you look at people and organizations you consider role models and see (mostly) their successes. Then you look at your own career or business and wonder what you’re doing wrong. Read how taking risks and learning wisely from inevitable mistakes can make a difference in your career or organization.
How to Affirm Peace and Life Balance
"It's really the space between the notes that makes the music you enjoy so much. Without the space, all you would have is one continual noisy note. Everything that is created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness." Dr. Wayne Dyer

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The Art of Firing
A few weeks ago I covered the topic of laying people off. In a sense, this is an easier process because it usually happens in bad times, and it doesn’t single a person out. A firing, by contrast, can occur in good times as well as bad times, and it’s highly personal.
Stress-Free Selling® - How to Make it About Them
You've heard a million times by now to make your sales About Them. But how do you do that???? Here's one easy way how. Take a look at a recent letter or proposal you wrote. Count how many times you wrote "I" or "we." Now count how many times you wrote "you" and "your." If you're like most people, there are ten times more "I's" and "we's" as there are "you's" and "your's." Reverse that! When you write in "I" terms, you write about yourself.

5 Public Relations Musts During Economic Tough Times
So, times are tough. First thing to keep in mind is this will pass and better times are ahead, but even more importantly, realize that tough times don’t have to signal tough times for you and your business.

Success Strategies for Tough Times
There’s just no getting around it. Times are tough. Yet there is opportunity for growth in the midst of these economic hard times. While it might go against intuition, success in difficult times calls for holding true to basic tenets of effective behavior. With the proper attitude and approach, you can indeed thrive in the midst of uncertainty. Here's how...
How to Hold The Sales Team Accountable Under the New Rules of Sales Engagement
If you read yesterday's post, there was a comment from Teicko who asked how you can hold the sales team accountable under these new rules of sales engagement where you must work three times harder, three times longer, be three times more effective and have three times more opportunities in the pipeline to get the same results as you used to.
Rules of Sales Engagement for the Recession
We also discussed the economy - of course - and right now, there are some new rules of engagement. You simply have to work three times harder, three times smarter, find three times more opportunities and be three times more effective just to sell what you used to sell. That's it? No. In order to be three times more effective you must refine your strategies and expand upon your tactics. You must be more creative, quicker on your feet, more resourceful and more persuasive. You must ask better questions and more of them. You must be more powerful than ever before. Do that and you will survive. Do that consistently and you will thrive when the economy turns around and money loosens up. In the mean time, no short cuts!
Marketing in a recession can really help your small business
The most important thing a business can do in these challenging times is marketing. It is ironic than that this is often the first budget that companies cut when times get tough. Small businesses can really take advantage of this and learn to survive and thrive in these challenging times.
Keeping Staff Motivated
Keeping employees motivated in the 21st century, especially during difficult times or times of organizational change is not impossible. There are methods an effective manager and leader can employ to ensure they are offering an encouraging environment that communicates stability and value during challenging times.
It Gets Lonely at the Top
Being a President, CEO or the owner of a company can get lonely at times. This is true even if you are an excellent leader and have developed a top notch executive staff. Often times you face decisions, challenges or just thoughts that you can't even divulge to your most trusted employee. Some CEOs use executive coaches to help them during these times. I personally do some executive coaching. Often times coaching is just affirmation and validation of one's own thinking but it is important to have that outlet.
#1 Killer of Small and Medium Business
In these challenging economic times it is easy to take your eye off the ball. Many times we fail to stay focused on something that is taken for granted when times are good but crucial to stay on top of when times are challenging.

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