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5 Lessons We Can Learn from Michael Phelps
23-year-old Michael Phelps is the record-breaking Olympic Swimming Champion. He is the first person to win eight gold medals in a single Olympics; the Beijing 2008 Olympics to be precise. Overall, he currently holds 16 Olympic medals; the other eight remaining are six gold and two bronze medals at Athens in 2004. What an inspiring and incredible achievement!
"Our salespeople aren't asking for the business!"
Some may find the concept of salespeople not asking for the business, strange even ridiculous given 'the close' has traditionally been a salesperson's end-game. This is analogous to a football player running down the sideline, struggling to avoid the clutches of would-be tacklers - to just sit down on their bum and scratch their head an inch before the goal line. It's just doesn't make sense, yet in sales, this type of conducts is surprisingly common.

What does a Swimming Pool and Load Creep Have in Common?
This article explains the concept of “load creep” and depreciation via a simple “abstract” example.

Trademark International Class: Class 5 (Pharmaceuticals)
All goods or services are categorized within International Classes (IC hereafter). Goods run from classes IC 1-34, while Services are in IC 35-45. Let's take a closer look at one of these trademark classes – class 5.

EXTEND YOUR BOUNDARIES
Strong boundaries are an essential element in creating your perfect work-life balance because they help you make peace and space for what you really want in your life. Boundaries are the personal rules you have for what other people may and may not do to or around you.
Selling swimming pools is the same as selling what you sell
6 Lessons about selling Lesson # 1: Make sure the person the customer talks to on the telephone is a good representative for your business. Lesson # 2: Never assume you know what the customer’s problems (needs and wants) are. Lesson # 3: Listen to the customer. Lesson # 4: Give the customer choices of solutions to pick from. Lesson # 5: Follow up, Follow up, Follow up Lesson # 6: Use the magic words – “Who do you know?”

A Blue Ocean, Empty Swimming Pools and what makes your business unique
Or the business lessons I learnt in an Italian "Piscina”, and how to position your business so competition doesn't matter
The Importance of Thinking Big in Business
There is reward and satisfaction in big thinking but it is so easy to forget when you hit the inevitable rough spots in building your dream.....The start up phase of a business is such an obsessive undertaking that we can usually only focus on what is in front of us and the next few weeks ahead. But if the business survives, the day comes when we lift our gaze from the near term goals and are forced to think in terms of bigger dreams and how ambitious we might dare to be.....
How well do you treat your customers
Think about the last time you had a negative buying experience. Did it take forever for your call to be answered? Did an e-commerce site fail to respond to your email query? Were you left with a good first impression?

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How Persistence & Patience Can Help You Succeed in Sales
Several years ago when we had our new home built in Las Vegas, we immediately put in a pool and hot tub. Of course the pool company convinced us that we needed a waterfall as an added design element for the pool. Several more thousands of dollars later, we agreed. When they got to the point when they started to build the waterfall, a very large crane showed up in the street adjacent to our house, along with a flatbed truck with these gigantic red boulders. I asked the project manager what that was all about, and he said, “That’s your waterfall.” I said, “No way do we want a giant pile of rocks,” in which he replied, “Just be patient and you’ll see.” So the crane lowered these small mountains into our yard and shortly afterward a crew of waterfall builders showed up.
SPECIAL PURPOSE ACQUISITION COMPANY (SPAC) FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Many SPAC corporations are developed from Capital Pool Companies(CPC) or the USA as” Blind Pool” incorporation. Capital Pool companies are better known in the Canadian small Cap market to raise capital as describe herein.

Small and medium Business Finance Equity Program
Many SPAC corporations are developed from Capital Pool Companies(CPC) or the USA as "Blind Pool" incorporation. Capital Pool companies are better known in the Canadian small Cap market to raise capital as describe herein.
Just One More Time – Breaking Rocks to Make a Sale
Several years ago when we had our new home built in Las Vegas, we immediately put in a pool and hot tub. Of course the pool company convinced us that we needed a waterfall as an added design element for the pool. Several more thousands of dollars later, we agreed. When they got to the point when they started to build the waterfall, a very large crane showed up in the street adjacent to our house, along with a flatbed truck with these gigantic red boulders. I asked the project manager what that was all about, and he said, “That’s your waterfall.” I said, “No way do we want a giant pile of rocks,” in which he replied, “Just be patient and you’ll see.” So the crane lowered these small mountains into our yard and shortly afterward a crew of waterfall builders showed up.
How To Reduce Your Cash Flow Problems and Get Paid On Time
How often do you hear business owners complain that their clients are 'slow payers?' Before working with me, one of my clients who has a pool building business, told me that they only asked for a 10% deposit at the start of the project and then invoiced the balance at the end of it. The process of building a pool takes weeks! In the meantime her company would have to cover wages, equipment and all other costs throughout this time. What often happened at the end, the clients were slow to pay causing them even more financial stress.

10 Steps for Your Sales Force to Survive and Thrive in the Recession
I was in the pool, playing catch with our six-year old son, when Henry began a "dialog" with me. He said, "You can't play catch in the pool. It's against the rules." I was stunned, but apologized, said I wasn't aware of that rule and removed the football from the pool. There was another guy in the pool and he mentioned to me that the pool rules did not include an exclusion about playing catch. I mentioned that to Henry and he became irate because he owns one of the resort's units, wrote the rules himself, and said, "It better be on that sign!" So what's wrong with this picture?
How to stay mentally and emotionally fit for life as well as physically fit
How do you measure mental and emotional fitness? Sprint - Rest - Sprint - Rest When I was young I was a competitive swimmer in a club. I trained three evenings per week at the local pool with my squad and I was physically pretty fit. When I was 21 I worked as a swimming instructor in London. I swam a mile every week day morning before work and I was still physically fit. These days I play football and train three times per week in Martial Arts. I am still physically fit, but several years ago I realised that physical fitness was not the only type of fitness I needed for life and particularly in business.

Swimming Naked
In a 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Chairman's letter, Warren Buffett declared "You can only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out." Depending on the context or your specific situation, one can derive a variety of different meanings from this metaphor. Naturally, I see it from a business perspective and wonder how many companies have been "swimming naked" for so many years.
3 Ways to Ruin Your Business
Everyone is looking for the magic keys to success; ways to improve, bust through, and win. Yet, we all know that the best lessons in life come from times we messed up, came in last, or flunked the big test. Think about it: did you learn more from the days you sat by the swimming pool sipping mojitos or when you fell off the bike halfway through the triathlon? Everyone has tales to tell of what they learned from missteps. Take a minute and think about the worst decisions you have made to date in your company. Are they stories you tell anyone or do they sit in the dark corners or your mind, embarrassments you don't want anyone to know.

How to Refine Your Sales Selection Criteria and Candidate Pool
Your candidate pool is comprised of the quantity and quality of candidates who respond to your online posting. If you are not happy with either the quality or quantity of your pool, then your ad, title or job site settings are to blame.
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