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What to do with the Stock Market Rally
Currently the S&P is at 870. That means it is up about 30% from its bear market low of 670 on March 9. Quite a rally and the question is: Is this sustainable?
Anger - the Hidden 'Gotcha' of Midlife
The infamous midlife crisis exhibits a confusing tangle of emotions. At its core, the central feeling is anger. Until that's resolved, you're most likely going to stay stuck.
How Much Can You Make in Franchising?
Franchisors often don't give straight answers to franchisees asking the question “How Much Can You Make in Franchising?” due to the numerous legalities involved.
Web Hosting Provider
If I had a penny for every nightmare story a customer has told me about their web hosting provider, well, needless to say, I’d be rich. From rushing to sign an agreement too early to not even reading what they’re signing, entrepreneurs looking to get online often do not take the time they should to understand what they’re getting themselves into. So, how can you avoid their same fates?

Sensory Overload
It's been called sensory overload, infomania, 24/7 stimulus. We're bombarded with the stuff of media and our addiction to the internet, black berry, and I-pod. But it's those pesky e-mails that keep us tied to these devices. A recent study speaks to the problem, so here are some ways to battle it.

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Training A Salesperson?
Many companies and sales managers remain blissfully unaware of the primary reason to train employees. The most common answer is to help them sell more. A very good answer but not the best answer. The best sales training works because it helps salespeople become continuously successful.

Explode Your Sales Success
In the last several years, I have had a revelation about the art and science of sales. The answer to sales success is within all of us. The answer is simple but the key to unlock the answer is elusive.

And Just What Does That Mean?
Any & all definitions can be found at the USPTO but I thought it'd be nice to take it a step further and put these explanations in easy to understand language. The material in quotes is straight from the USPTO's mouth while the text underneath is straight from mine.
The "100% Commissions Motivate" Myth
There's a good reason why over 97 percent of progressive companies and service industry firms that I've consulted, use a form of a "hungry base plus commission" compensation plan for their sales professionals, rather than employing a straight commission pay structure. The reason is simple, straight commission pay plans demotivate many more sales professionals than they motivate. Straight commissions reward a specific type of sales professional--the top three to five percent of the sales professionals in the top 20 percent bracket.

Do Cheap Bookkeepers Save Money?
As with any service today, there's always potential clients surfing the internet to find the cheapest bookkeeper. The short answer is that the cheapest bookkeeper is probably one who is straight out of college and has got a piece of paper to say that they can do bookkeeping. The cheapest bookkeeper may have recently completed a MYOB, Quickbooks or other accounting software course. But are they ready to start their own bookkeeping business, and more importantly would you feel comfortable exposing all your financial to their level of inexperience?
Breakfast on the run.
Picture this, your alarm screams at you at 5 or 6am. You think to yourself you’ve got a full on day ahead and need to get to work NOW. You skip breakfast and just grab a coffee as you run out of the door or at one of those drive throughs on the way to work. You get to work and are straight into it. Ten o’clock arrives and you are fading fast, your energy is below low, you can’t think straight and you are ready to eat the first thing that walks past you.
Non-linear Career Progression
When told that the ‘shortest distance between two points is a straight line’, this familiar maxim has an, inherent, link to the topic of avoidance. A straight line helps us to avoid wasting time, digressive conversations, subtle references to a certain attraction and political malfeasance. The straight-line reference is a way of avoiding behavioral meandering so as to stay focused on what’s in front of you. In the business sector, the phrase ‘cradle to grave’ contract was used to describe the linear progression of a career path. Career advancement reflected a climb up a ladder of a silo in which professional perspectives were shaped by the boundaries of that narrow focus.
The Straight Line to Mediocrity
I came out of Business School believing that all business success was really a straight line. The idea that we can create a straight line to success is 20th century thinking.
Relationships Are Money
What's your excuse for not following up with new contacts at networking events? I'm going to be straight with you now - coming from a loving place of course. I don't think it really matters what your answer is to that question because the correct answer is there is no excuse for not following up.
The Greatest Business Growth Strategy
Let’s get straight to the point: if you have any hope of building a successful business, then you must be able to answer this question: what makes your company different from everyone else? The answer you give is vital, not only to your success, but it will be a critical factor in determining whether your prospective client wants to use you above everyone else!

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