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Are you winning too much?
Winning too much is one of the most common issues we see in successful people, from the executive suite to the top salespeople. The suggestion that this might be a detriment is usually followed by an incredulous look from the recipient. After all, shouldn’t everyone want to win all the time? Actually, this one behavioral problem belies many others.

Creating YOUR Top 10 List To Help You Sell More Of Your…
What's on your top 10 List? How popular is your most popular product, service or idea? Help your client and customers make a faster decision and unload your excess inventory

Lesson #4: Make The Most Of Potential Marketing Moments
“There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed,” Gillette once said. “In my travels, I have found it in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.”

The Top Sixteen Lies of CEOs
At the suggestion of, and with the help of, Glenn Kelman, here are more lies. These are the lies of CEOs running a companies that are beyond the startup phase. Startup phase lies you’ve read here before.

Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding
I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs.

On the Cutting Edge of Time - Part 2
I submitted the above to the editor and he sent it back to me telling me that I needed to write at least 250 more words. They were in a jam, they couldn’t fill the rest of the space. 250 more words. Where was I to find them?

Recruiting a New Director
In the life of most companies with an active board of directors, it occasionally becomes necessary to recruit a new director.

The Knives Your Sales People Should Have
In December, I wrote a post titled Give Your Sales People All The Knives. While I let you draw whatever conclusions you wanted from the post, I thought I’d follow through and give you a little more detail about what I meant by the statement.

When You Care Enough to Aggregate the Very Best
There is no better way to please and impress people around Christmas time than to make them something. If you can cook, make them a meal. If you can paint, make them a painting. If you can sculpt, make them a sculpture-you get the picture.

Real Live Coaching Call - Coaching Salespeople
Clients who receive sales management coaching, training and development come to know what an effective sales coaching conversation sounds like. You may not be privy to that so you might find last week's episode of Meet the Sales Experts helpful.

How Does the Salesperson Affect Price Shoppers and Negotiators?
When salespeople have a discussion about money, price shoppers usually make it very clear what their intentions are. On the other hand, negotiators don't usually advertise their intentions in advance. Instead, they'll negotiate after they have received a proposal.

Real Live Coaching Call - Coaching a Salesperson
Chris Mott was my guest and he coached a live caller for about 30 minutes. Listen to the show for a better sense of what every coaching conversation should sound like. The following email was received from the live caller the day after the scheduled sales call:

Use Christmas to promote your business
It’s getting close to that time of year again – when everyone starts to talk about the ‘C’ word and looks forward to their two week break. Before you look forward too much to your break though, I want you to stop for a minute and just think about promoting over the Christmas period.

Marketing Strategies: 7 Tips to Make Public Speaking Easier
Do you let fear get in the way of speaking effectively in public? Learn how to speak with confidence! This article gives you some great tips on how to make it easier.

Innovation minus Support = Zero Creation
There is an abundance of creativity in our world. Humanity is replete with inspirational people who have enormous value to contribute in their own ways - yet most are never seen or heard. As a collective society, we seldom encourage others to take a path of innovation because it's untested, risky, and breaks convention and related reputations.

Why We Overlook Simple Solutions
Albert Einstein said that any fool can craft a complex solution; it takes real genius to come up with a simple one. Why are naturally inclined toward complexity?

C- Level Selling -- Subtleties Make Big Differences in C-Level Selling
Just a few words rephrased, or a few actions rearranged can make huge differences when it comes to winning over C-level executives and closing sales. However, without a sales coach you’ll never pick-up what needs to change with your approach and/or delivery.

A good business opportunity for difficult economic times
When the economy is bad, what can you do? Fast food, Wally World or standing in line for the better paying jobs along with the 1000s of others? Or - maybe rethinking having your own business?

Increase Small Business Sales – Stop Asking for Referrals
Why would I tell you to stop asking for referrals when every sales “trainer”, sales manager, or sales mentor you’ve ever met tells you to ask for referrals? Oddly enough many commonly held beliefs are based on myths rather than facts...

Are You Hearing What I’m Saying? – 10 Tips That Will Help You Improve Your Listening

Ernest Hemingway once said "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." How true that is. How many times has someone asked you how you were, but doesn't take the time to listen to your response? They may cut you off, start talking about themselves, or walk away. If you're like most people, this behavior probably leaves a sour taste in your mouth. People want to be heard and listened to; they want to feel like someone cares. If you find that your listening skills are poor or need tweaking, this article provides tips on how to be a better listener.

Check Your Ego at the Door

Managers by the nature of their duties have authority over employees that report to them. How the manager exercises this authority defines them as a manager or leader of people. Leaders control their ego, in most cases, managers do not and it takes a confident person, secure in their abilities to control their ego. Ego, for our purpose of discussion is defined as and elevated inaccurate self-image of importance and using that idea to coerce an employee to complete their command.

C-Level Sales Management - Who’s Ready for More Sales
To get sales up, you’ve got to get help. Why, because you need it. If you didn’t and you knew what to do, you would have done it already, and more sales wouldn't be an issue. This article will tell you what to do.

Pressure Points That Can Help You Manage Stress and Boost Your Energy

Most people under stress acknowledge that they need to rest but circumstances at work or at home can often lead us to believe that the opportunity to really rest is just not practical for the immediate future. So in these situations is there anything is there anything else that you can do to help you manage the stress a bit better.As a stop gap measure during times of stress you can rub some of these pressure points...

Suggestions for Success
Becoming successful is really one of the main goals to starting any business. Your actions and the products or services you sell do not entirely affect your success.

Clutter is Only Money in Your Pocket
Not all clutter needs to go out to a garage sale in order to make you money. By keeping all of your sales receipts you can give yourself some more money and time.

Tips For Determining What Rate To Charge In Your Home Based Service Business
Deciding to start a home based business requires careful planning and making decisions. One of the most important decisions that need to be made is what rate will you charge to your potential clients? There are a few factors that you must take into consideration when coming to this conclusion.

Connecting with a purpose Part 1
This article is designed primarily for a health care setting. Nevertheless, the principle may be applied in any industry. This may be used as a "food for thought" item as a manager facilitates a meeting.

The Cost of Lost Sales
Accurate inventory stocking according to demand and sales history is vital to reducing lost sales and inventory overhead, thereby increasing profit, customer satisfaction, and loyalty.

How to Feel Even More Self-Motivated
If someone leaves an interaction with you feeling better than they did before, then they are much more likely to pass that feeling onto someone else. This articles shows you how.

The Biggest Mistake a Copywriter Can Make
Some copywriters keep making the same mistake over and over again. This costs them and their clients a lot of money. If you would like to find out what mistake I am referring to, please read on.

Driving With The Handbrake On! The Texas Smoothie.
Entrepreneurs get trapped - one of those traps is what Michael Gerber calls "Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it!" where the tyranny of the urgent prevents us from doing the big-picture things that made us entreprpeneurs in the first place. Jerry from Texas found a unique and idiosyncratic path out of that trap.

Buying An Existing Business Part III of IX
This section of Buying An Existing Business deals with goal setting. It suggest several critical questions you should ask yourself before sitting out on your journey to being your own boss.

Finding Targeted Keyword Phrases Your Competitors Miss
Finding keyword phrases your competition is missing is easier than you might think. Combinations of two and three word phrases are often overlooked by your competitors when vying for the top competitive terms. This missed opportunity may be a benefit to you to overcome your competition in the search engine rankings.

Surround yourself with laughter
Laughing is good for your health - and your business

Earning Affiliate Commissions Start Today
Making a living selling affiliate products on line is not only possible, it's quite common today. Start selling products online and earn thousands in affiliate commissions.

10 Small Business Web Design Disasters to Avoid
Many web designers are talented, skilled and reasonably priced, but there are also some who don’t have their client's best interests in mind. How do you avoid falling into this trap?

Short Marketing Plan Helps Entrepreneurs Take Action
Business owners who feel intimidated by the thought of compiling a traditional “inch thick” marketing plan will finally be able to take action by following intrepid entrepreneur, Staging Diva’s, easy process for creating a one page marketing plan.

The "Tilt" Thing and the Case for Journalist Entrepreneurs
People are all stirred up by my suggestion that the Valley is on "tilt". Lest anyone think otherwise, I'm not convinced it's entirely a bad thing. The Valley takes its biggest risks and does some of its wildest work when there is this "Everyone into the water" feeling about the place. More is more: More startups, more risk-taking, more experiments, more money -- more of more.

Turning a Difficult Customer into a Customer that Comes Back.
I really hate it when things don’t go as they should and you have to spend time and effort sorting it out. I have hanging onto a phone line being told that “my call is important”, when I have far better things to do.

Entrepreneurs – You’ve Decided To Build Your Business In Your Spare Time – What’s Your Plan?
You’ve got a great business idea, and are keen to get started on your new business, BUT you’ve also got a family, mortgage and other commitments. How do you get your new business running but still pay the bills and see the family and friends?

Affirm Your Financial Destiny for 2009
It is often at the end of the year that we consider what our ‘New Year’s Resolution’ will be. But in these times of economic uncertainty, the trend is to re-examine one’s financial situation.

"I’m Just a [Insert Your Title Here] Who Can’t Say No"
In my experience, most of the people I coach are truly capable of accomplishing anything they want to achieve. They are highly talented and highly gifted in their ability to make dreams become realities for themselves and for others. However, they often sabotage themselves by trying to do too many major projects at the same time.

Bridging the Gap between Your Prospects Your Offerings

The best way to get tuned into what your prospects and clients biggest challenges are is to listen to the questions they ask you that they need answers to. It seems so simple, yet we often forget to write down the thoughts, concerns and needs of our clients. Begin to make a list of the questions you hear them ask over and over again and begin to formulate pro-active responses that specifically address their needs and provide a solution to their problems.

EMPLOYEE TRUST – WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FEAR THE WORST
Have you ever asked yourself; “Is this employee being upfront and honest with me?” We may have a gut feeling or something maybe does not size up, yet we have no concrete evidence of deceit. This is a difficult situation as the repercussions of falsely accusing an employee may hinder a future of trust.

How To Wear Your Sales Message
At a recent conference session I spoke at, an exhibitor came up to me after my presentation and asked a great question: “How can I start a sales conversation with people without being obnoxious?”.

Loyalty
Are you doing what it takes to build loyalty into your life?

Top 10 Tips for Being Persistent
Top 10 Tips for Being Persistent

Sales Training -The Power of Persuasion Embedded Commands
Embedded suggestions and commands work so effectively because, being almost invisible, they operate for the most part at the unconscious level.

6 Common Objections and How to Handle Them
You as a salesperson should give every opportunity to the prospect to ask questions and make objections if he is inclined to do so. It is frequently desirable to assist in bringing out these questions and objections. Sometimes the very best arguments you can make are based on objections by the prospect, especially if you are thoroughly prepared.

Earn Money on Ebay: The Most Important Steps For Success
If you are looking for a means to earn money working from home then to earn money on eBay may what you've been looking for. eBay is still among the top contenders for easy, fast, profitable start up businesses

How to get and leverage attention from the mass media

To get mass media attention, you have to broadcast for a reason. That means your message is broadcast to a lot more people than those in your niche. This is where most people get it completely wrong, and here Joel Roberts gave some very good advice. No matter what your niche is, you have to figure out a way to frame it so that the masses will listen. If you can grab their attention for an instant, you can then go into the details. But, if you start with the details and the solution, you won’t get anywhere with the mass media.

Now Behave Yourself
One of the keys to facilitating any meeting is managing behaviour: your own behaviour, as well as that of the meeting’s participants.

How to be happy
Happiness is not luck, it’s not chance, it is a decision and it’s in our own hands!

Use a Franchise Attorney When Investing In a Franchise!
Why would you use an attorney that is a family member, or family friend....

Before you start a web site re-design...

When a company decides to re-design their web site, the effort commonly begins with the sourcing of the right web design company. The typical scenario involves someone who's assigned to the task contacting a slew of web design and development companies from the first page of their Google search and asking for a quote. If this is what you're currently doing or about to do you're heading in the wrong direction.

What Attracts More - Selling or Helping?
It’s been said that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care, and it’s true. The interesting consequence is that when you take your focus off of selling and place it on helping, you’ll attract more clients, generate more referrals, and sell more insurance.

Duty of care includes protecting employees from violence outside of work
The NSW Court of Appeal recently upheld a decision of the District Court that a Company had breached its duty of care to an employee by not sacking or disciplining an employee ("the shooter") about his outbursts at work, in circumstances where the shooter later shot another employee three times with a gun outside work hours in a street outside the workplace.

The Little Internet Marketing Tactic That Could
Learn about a powerful yet simple Internet marketing tactic that is often overlooked.

10 Business Card Blunders That Hurt Business
You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a business card that gets your phone ringing because more often than not, it’s the “little things” that make or break its attractor factor. Avoid these 10 simple business card blunders and turn those lost calls into valuable leads and referral sources.

Carbon Offsets: Creating Something Real from Hot Air

You’ve probably heard about carbon offsets. They’re everywhere these days, and it seems not a week goes that I don’t hear about a company pledging to go carbon neutral. And yet, it all seems so…full of hot air. What’s real? What do they really do? Which will make the most impact? How are the different purveyors, well, different? I have a suggestion: Take a look at LiveNeutral. This non-profit gives you a direct path to making a tangible, tax deductible difference, and can educate your company staff as well, deepening the positive impact.

Are You Risking the Relationship for the Sale - And then Losing the Sale Anyways?
Losing a sale can be disheartening, especially if you lose it for reasons you aren't even aware of.

Do You Know If a Work at Home Data Entry Job is Really For You
This article describes the essentials needed to perform data entry work at home jobs and helps determine if work at home data entry is really for you.

Take What You Need and Leave the Rest
You've probably heard the expression, "Take what you need and leave the rest." This sentiment is often heard in connection with meetings and with other people's opinions, in terms of taking what you can use from what is said, and leave the rest.

Small Business Loans Bad Credit

I’ve been asked this question what seems like a million times: Can I get a loan for my startup even though I have poor credit? Well, I’m not here to tell you that it’s not a problem – anyone can get a long. Quite frankly, that’s just not the case. As I’m sure you’ve found out by now, if you have a bad credit history, you’re at a disadvantage when it comes to getting that loan. But there is some good news. Small business loans, bad credit – the two can and often times do go together. I’m here to show you how.

The Art of Customer Service
This blog entry is a response to a topic suggestion by Douglas Hanna. It covers the art of customer service, a subject that is near and dear to my heart.

Selling Around Objections
Here's one suggestion for dealing with a situation we all face at one time or another - the lack of a feature or capability our prospect says he must have.

Red Hot
I'm sure you believe that everyone has something of value to contribute... perhaps a thought, a suggestion, or a vision. That one of the best ways to determine if you're headed on the right path is to bounce ideas off others, or that a successful business owner knows that a multi-faceted team is the best source for continued growth?

The Clinical Proof of the Power of Suggestion
The American Medical Association and US Food and Drug Administration acknowledge the effectiveness of "suggestion" in all medical treatments.

When words are not enough
The use of photography in PR is lightly covered, with the suggestion that substantial benefits can be derived from using pictures to tell a story.

Suggestion boxes and schemes
The suggestion box might seem an out-of-date concept in this technological world ... and it is fair to say that many suggestion schemes have been less than successful. This article explains what might go wrong ... and how to overcome these problems (simply!) to create effective, successful ideas to improve your business.

Suggestion Boxes in the Workplace
Suggestion boxes can be a part of a comprehensive cost control and productivity improvement effort. All of us like to have our voices heard, and these tips will help to administer a suggestion program fairly and promptly.

Groupon or Coupon in your Small Online Business - 3 Important Questions to Ask
It is interesting to see all the sites and companies that are offering coupons online, but how can you use it to your advantage? How can you even make a small business out of creating something similar? Here is a little suggestion that may give you a new business idea.

Why You should Not Do Freelance Website Enhancement or Structure - Tips of the Net Development Firm
That is a letter of suggestion for all freelance website developers on behalf of Online Advancement organizations in India.

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