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Do Your Homework (Really)
Before I meet with any new prospect I've been thinking of introducing myself to, I make damn sure I do my homework. And when I say homework, I mean more than checking to see if the company has a website by typing www.amazon.com to do research on a marketing executive at Amazon. Sure, you should be up-to-date with the major news about the prospect's company. But what you really want to know is more personal. Think of it this way: A good salesperson does research on companies; a great salesperson does research on people.
100 Ways to Succeed #90
For the Sheer Hell of It!
Do you put your living on hold?
Do you put living on hold because of the needs/demands of everyday life? What are your excuses?

Being an Online Entrepreneur the Right Way
Anyone can be an online entrepreneur in the sense that anyone can start up a business online. However, that doesn't mean that everyone will be successful at that business or achieve any kind of online success. The best way to see success with an online business though, is to be an Internet marketer.

MLM Downline Building Secrets: How To Master Building A Profitable MLM Dowline
Now more than ever is the most riped time to absolutely explode your MLM downline. Why? Within the next 5 years over 70 million people are looking to start a home based business. But you will not be able to capitalize on this unless you read this article.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Work Life Balance
In the thirteenth century, Dante listed the Seven Deadly Sins on the pathway to Paradise: Gluttony, lust, greed, envy, pride, anger and sloth. Now, almost eight hundred years later, people are still committing these seven sins in Work Life Balance. So let me share with you the Seven Deadly Sins of Work Life Balance ... and how to avoid them.
Why Your Website Designer Should Know Business
When Should You Fire Your Website Designer
Build your business on the Pillars of Profitably
Most businesses don’t maximize profits. Indeed most businesses fail - usually because owners and managers are reacting more than focusing. “Crisis-fires”, daily and hourly, command their attention and consume the day. As a result, they find themselves staying busy, instead of being highly productive.

Get your finances in order for 2009
Over the past 30 days our economy went on a series of “oohs” and “awhhs”. The media is to blame for this massive panic. Everyone is encouraged to turn off the TV and focus on their small business finances for the next quarter – Q1 of 2009 is rapidly approaching, are you going to have the finances to get into the groove?

Make Fewer Cold Calls and Get Better Results
Cold calling, the old way, has to be the most painful form of sales work you can experience. There’s a lot of rejection, fear, and deflated hopes.

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Hate Something
Perhaps for you, things haven’t gone pear shaped before and you are reading along just for the ride. I hope you never find yourself being forced to make cold calls. No matter how impenetrable your titanium shell, customers can still hear the tremor of desperation in your voice. Then things go from bad to worse.

The 5 Things People Really Buy
No matter how many shiny, cool features and benefits you cram into your marketing messages, brochures and presentations, you better find ways to help the prospect get what they really want. And, no matter if you sell heating and cooling services, legal services, hand painted greeting cards, or consulting, at the end of the day, your customers all buy some variation of the same five things.
How To Use "Law Of Attraction" For Your "Business From Home"
The law of attraction states that like attracts like. All things, people and circumstances in your life were – to a degree - attracted to you by your way of thinking. No matter if we are talking about bad things or good things. It works for both.
Why Harvesting Your Thoughts Can Make the Difference in Winning and Losing
People go through thousands of thoughts each day. It's just a matter of deciding which things should remain in the brain and which ones are forgotten to be remembered another day. It is very helpful to practice some mental exercises so that you can harvest your thoughts very well and focus on your goals and objectives better. You may find that you can accomplish more things and be really great just by gathering thing in your head.

Speak and Think the Positive
To often we fail to speak and think the positive, instead we are negative about things and that only brings us more discomfort. No matter what area of life we consider, being negative about it only makes things worse.
It's Not the Size that Counts
Little things matter - big time.
8 Be-Attitudes of Holding People Accountable
The phrase "We've got to hold our people accountable" is uttered in every organization every day. The sad thing is that, in most cases, it carries a negative connotation. It means, "We need to catch our people doing wrong things and tell them those behaviors are not acceptable." I believe we can change the meaning of holding people accountable to one that is more balanced and not nearly as punitive. It is not just a matter of spin, it is a matter of attitude. I have a set of eight "Be-Attitudes" that can make a big difference if they are consistently applied.

Like it or not – Success is about being able to sell YOU
No matter what you do in life. No matter what your job/function/career. From CEO to stay at home mom/dad. From high level engineer to clerk at the local store. No matter what, to be successful, you have to sell yourself. Face it. Believe it. Grasp it. Make it part of your life and watch what happens. Success in all things comes to the person who is able to sell himself/herself and their ideas, desires, wants and needs.
Three Secrets to Getting a Promotion
No matter what type of industry you work in, no matter what level of position you currently hold, if you want to move up to a more fulfilling position with more pay and opportunity, there are three things you can do right now to grow your career.
Are You Ready for Next Year?
Are you putting together a plan that you will execute successfully next year? Do you have a budget put together and a process to manage budget to actual and take corrective action? Are you doing some new things – some different things, some things outside the box? Have you determined what is working and have you put together a plan to do more of what is working? Some things you do work very well – you need to do more and spend more money on them. Some things you do are not working, no matter how much you like them. Dump them.

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