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Lean, Green Sales with the S.H.A.R.P. Sales TrainingTM System
Increase Profits while Reducing Wasted Time, Energy & Dollars - The Philosophy: By providing sales and customer service agents training, support and direction on a consistent basis, they will feel empowered, motivated and willing to take ownership over their own, as well as the organization’s, success. - The Result: Increased profits and revenue as a consequence of improved customer relations; shortened sales cycles; and reduced employee turnover. - Intertwined with the steps normally associated as part of the sales process, such as developing best practices for win-win solutions, the philosophy and psychology often employed by successful sales professionals will be shared in upcoming articles.

Networking ROI
Are you one of those people who spend hours of travel and meeting time in order to network your products and services? Do you expect an ROI on your investment of time, energy and money? Find out how to rate your ROI networking events and find out if you are getting a return for your investment.

SYSTEM – Save YourSelf Time Energy & Money
How many yellow sticky notes can you juggle before they mysteriously start crawling away? In desperation, you start doing things the same way each time and voila you’ve developed a system! Let’s take it to the next level; actively search for routines you can systematize.

Give Something Back
A great philosopher once said, whatever you want more of, give it away. The best way to ensure an ongoing flow of abundance into your life is to share with others the wealth you receive. I am a big believer in tithing -- giving away 10% of your income to your church and favorite charities. I believe that it does indeed come back multiplied. This has been demonstrated in my life and the lives of Chicken Soup for the Soul readers over and over again.

How to Motivate Yourself Financially
I once knew a guy who had terrific ideas, would talk them up at hurricane force, and then go off and putter away at something else. He would lose his momentum before he even got going. What's the point?

What is Marketing in the First Place?
Marketing is absolutely every bit of contact any part of your business has with any segment of the public. Guerrillas view marketing as a circle that begins with your ideas for generating revenue and continues on with the goal of amassing a large number of repeat and referral customers. The three keys words in that paragraph are EVERY, REPEAT, and REFERRAL. If your marketing is not a circle, it's a straight line that leads directly into Chapters 7, 11, or 13 in the bankruptcy courts.

Guerrilla marketing erects monuments to follow-up, honors it, and practices it.
But effective follow-up is a rarity among small businesses. It pains me to know that over 60% of leads--leads that took a lot of time, energy, imagination and information to generate--will slip through the cracks. What's even more tragic is that a stunning 68 percent of the leads that convert into customers will be ultimately lost after the sale due to poor follow-up.

Smarter Business Marketing: Stop Falling Into the Marketing 'Do Over' Trap
Many women entrepreneurs waste so much time reinventing their products and services instead of repurposing the great info they already have. With a few simple tweaks you can have a fresh, new way of offering your products or services, saving you a ton of time, energy and money compared to creating everything from scratch.

Using Social Networking Sites to Build Your List of Followers in Three Simple Steps
There's a lot of talk about social media marketing and a lot of debate about the ROI but here my take on why you should invest time, resources and energy into building a profile across different social networking platforms and how you can use your profile to drive traffic to your website. With so many social networking sites out there it's easy to get lost in the woods, struggling to find your way around and find yourself camped out, talking nonsense with the social media fools, freaks and geeks sending postcards, virtual drinks and all those other latest social applications floating around the social media universe.

Rising Fom Disappointment
You don’t know what it meant until you have had a high expectation on the outcome of, say, a project, a result or even a journey. You experienced a feeling of joy; you are elated and have even started dreaming of how to spend a hard won holiday. You dreamt of a scented embrace from your love, you saw your kids running to meet and embrace you. And ... suddenly it all came crashing down.

How Do You Feel?
The more you check in with how you feel throughout your day, the more in tune you are with your inner landscape and outer progress.

Stop Wasting Your Time Chasing Network Marketing Prospects-Have Them Come To You
Learn the secret of getting an endless supply of network marketing prospects. Stop chasing your friends and family and start attracting quality people to your business.

A Life Of Success And Fulfillment Starts With Appreciation
There is a habit which all successful entrepreneurs use daily. It's a habit so powerful that without it, small success will never grow into larger ones. If the vision of your life includes becoming successful in a business of your own, then start practicing this habit today and learn to practice it every day from now on.

Express Your Independence
Learn to love and accept yourself and "get" that you have the power to manifest any kind of life you want. This article shows you how.

Marketing Strategies: Hate to Make Cold Calls? 5 Tips to Make it Easier
Hate picking up the phone but know it's an important part of your marketing strategy? This article gives you some great tips on how to make calling prospects easy.

The Zen of Ease
Effortless success in your business is also as much a state of mind as a set of specific actions that you need to take to experience higher income, fewer work hours, more freedom, time, energy, etc. This article explains why.

How To Develop Clear Objectives That Work Every Time
Whether you are developing goals and objectives for a grant application, during a strategic planning process, or for your staff members or team, it is critical to create goals and objectives that are easy to understand and implement. This article highlights four items to consider when developing goals and objectives.

Ideas for a home based business online working on autpilot
Whenever someone looks for a home based business they have to choose between a lot of opportunities on the web, often sick and tired of chasing the “next best” job, trying one method after the another, when they only want to do something that really works.

Hyperconnectivity Stress
Are you on Twitter? Facebook? MySpace? LinkedIn? Other social networks? Posting regularly? Checking your email every 15 minutes (and immediately responding)? Check your RSS reader daily? Is it helping your business? Cellphone on all the time? Is it helping your quality of life?

Can Cold Calling Kill your Company?
Years of practice have led to everyone having Caller ID and highly effective spam filters; "attraction marketing" is a more viable long-term solution for lead generation.

Your Service Pricing: Get Ready For the Recovery
Wondering how to price services as the econmy recovers? Have you been pricing your services below value just to get and keep clients? 8 essential elements to raising your service prices as the economy recovers.

Sales Success Begins with Defining What You Value
What does sales success mean to you? How does your success relate to what you value?

Increase Sales by Remembering Your Footprints in the Sands of Business
Many individuals know the poem “Footprints in the Sands.” In business and especially in sales, we leave our own footprints. With the economy expanding from local to global, our footprints in the sands of business can quickly disappear.

Sales Success Begins with Defining What You Value To Better Understand What Motivates You
What motivates you each day to increase sales? Have you ever considered what motivate you is what you value?

JIT
This articles gives an overview of importance of JIT (Just in time technique)

Promotion Panic
It happens every day in the corporate world, good individual performers are promoted before they are ready to take on a leadership role. And, if these new team leaders, supervisors, and managers receive any leadership development at all, it is a short training class covering operational procedures and the major employment laws. In a poll, one in five business leaders ranked promotion as the most challenging life event they have had to face – more challenging than the death of a loved one, divorce, or moving. This article offers some advice for newly promoted leaders.

Top 3 Ways To Earn Money Working Online
The creation of the internet and the mass production of computers in the late 80's changed the way we live our lives forever. Now, everyone has the potential to be their own boss whether you are a student, a stay at home mom or an accountant.

7 pointers for success in a franchise
This article gives you seven pointer on how to succeed in your own franchise business.

Think Big, Start Small! – Take Your First Step Towards Achieving Your Goals Today
Do you have a goal you want to achieve but are feeling overwhelmed or stuck, and not sure how to proceed? If so, this article provides the basic steps you can take to break your goal down into easy, manageable steps, making goal achievement possible and easier.

Ideas and Action
Anyone can have a great idea, lots of them: million dollar ideas; ideas that will change their life; ideas that will change other people’s lives; ideas that will change the world. But any idea that stays on the chalkboard is worth only the chalk it's written with.

Energy Vampires Are Sabotaging Your Organization
The search for external power has created the fears, habits and perceptions that set individuals and corporations against each other. It is the same struggle that creates conflict, chaos and wars.

Why Employee Suggestion Boxes Don’t Work
What does your employee feedback program look like? Do you have one of "those boxes in your office that sit in the corner of the break room with napkins piled on top of it? How do you really gauge the mood of the employees in your organization? Do you really know what’s getting in the way of your people’s performance?

Women Entrepreneurs--Step into Your Power
Over and over I see women entrepreneurs who are multi-talented, brilliant, hard working, warm, loving, humorous and passionate. Often overwhelmed and unsure, they have been selling themselves short. What are they missing?

Big Isn’t Necessarily Better
The temptation is strong for writers to devote all their time, energy, and money to pursuit of the biggest, most impressive publicity prize when they’re promoting themselves and their work. But you can utilize practical marketing options that may ultimately bring bigger payoffs.

5 Sales Tips to Maximize Oceans of Opportunities and Leave the Sales Seas of Doom and Gloom
Are you tired of all of this doom and gloom? Here are 5 quick tips to help you begin to see the oceans of opportunities available as you continue to increase sales.

Are You One of Those Coaches Who Engage in Overkill?
Are you a sales coach, business coach or a small business owner who is experiencing some less than stellar sales results? Possibly, you may be engaging in overkill and thus hurting your own opportunities to increase sales?

Build Value Not Discount To Avoid Becoming A Commodity in Your Industry During Good or Bad Times
Many sales professionals to small business owners to C Level executives believe that by discounting their products or service during good or bad times that they can increase sales and maintain customer loyalty. However, what these folks are really doing is just the opposite because they have turned their products and services into a commodity.

The Plan 4 Steps To A Website Brand
You read all the blogs on website design, you know all the ins-and-outs of search engine optimization, and Google Adwords. No one is going to pull a fast one on you. You know your business, your market, and your needs. Or do you?

Do Your Prospects Have a "Crush" on You?
Do Your Prospects Have A "Crush" On You? Here's the deal lady. When sales are sluggish it can be very easy to drop your "customer filter" and start taking any old business that knocks on the door. Sometimes those prospects want to pay you far less than you're worth - and sometimes those prospects are just not the right fit (but you're tempted to take the biz anyway). Because this can very dangerous to your profit margins, time, energy and possible frustration levels - let me give you a Sales Diva warning.

How to Establish Yourself as a Sales & Marketing Expert at Work
Regardless of your industry, experts make more money, have more contacts, and are sought out more than every other employee. If you want to see your earning power skyrocket you must establish yourself as an expert. It takes time, energy, and hard work but the end result is well worth it.

Increase Sales By Staying True to Your Core Business
During swings in economy, many businesses leave their core businesses to increase sales because they must survive or thrive. Taking this action spells disaster for any business.

Check With Your Company Before Marketing A Direct Sales Business Online
Do you run a direct sales business? If so, and you have been searching for ways to increase your sales through marketing options, the Internet can prove to be a wonderful avenue. The web is fast, efficient and gets your product or service in front of thousands of people who might not have had access to it otherwise.

Reminders Put Your Keys in Your Fridge
The other night I was staying at a hotel because I was delivering a workshop this morning. As we always do when I'm traveling, as I get ready to go to sleep my husband and I talk on the phone. He opens the conversation with this: "My keys are in the refrigerator." Of course, that caught my attention and I was curious, so I asked him why he might have chosen that particular location. . .

Work Life Balance: C.P.R. for a Balanced Life
Do you feel over-worked and under-appreciated? Are you struggling to balance work & family? Are you too busy taking care of everyone but never have time for yourself? Whether you want to have more balance, more inner peace, or more time for yourself, I offer these tips in my signature workshop "C.P.R. for a Balanced Life".

An Attitude of Gratitude for Your Business
An attitude of gratitude in your business world means being grateful for what you are doing, for the vision of doing it, for the people who are doing it with you, and for the people who are buying your products or services.

Willpower, the Only Cure for Gravity
As men get older, their health becomes less of a concern, just when it becomes more critical to their quality of life. All it takes is willpower.

Keeping Web Sites Busy, Safe, Profitable
You can't turn a virtual page today without reading, watching something about social media. It sets your heart to twittering (excuse the pun). But from a business' perspective what is its goal? Right! We want you to visit the website, check the products/services, buy something, recommend us to others...lots of others. The problem often is that the website is in total disarray, less than helpful to the visitor because people are having too much fun with their Facebook page, their Twits. People come but they escape as quickly as possible! Here are some hints (easy, honest hints) that can improve, enhance the value of the website for the visitor.

Super Simple Increase Sales Secret
Do you ever feel like you must be making things harder than they are? You very well might be.

Is There a Perfect Job?
Many people come to coaching in the search for a better job. Some want help in locating the perfect job, others want help in writing their selection criteria and application and still others want to build their skills in interviews.

Your Questions Determine Your Success
Allocate resources so your most important projects get your best efforts. Do the most important things when you are awake, rested, focused and eager. Arrange you budget so there is enough money, enough time, and enough "space". First things deserve the very best of your key resources!

What if Prioritising Was One of the Main Keys to Success?
I have discovered two things that many business owners tend to find rather challenging when running a business. These are... ...So… when it comes to your priorities, 20 percent of your time spent on the important ‘stuff’ will give you 80 percent of a return on that time... In the area of customers, it is vital to identify the 20 percent who account for 80 percent of your business...

Reignite Your Passion at Work
Finding your passion early in a career is easy to do. Later in a career, you may need to redefine what it is that stirs your passions and makes work worthwhile beyond a paycheck. Find out how to do that here.

Coaching Tip: Creating a “Rough Day” Strategy
We all have those days that challenge us to stay centered, optimistic, productive and connected to ourselves. Learn how to develop a strategy to shift into a more positive and productive mindset.

Are You Kissing Frogs Or Making Sales?
Most of us were taught "You have to kiss many frogs before you meet the handsome prince." The problem is you've probably applied this philosophy to getting business as well! When I first started selling years ago, I was told the exact same thing. My boss actually threw the Yellow Pages on my desk and said "Go Get 'Em Kid!" (I kid you not)

Ready, Fire, Aim To Improve Your Sales Strategies and Selling Techniques
If you are not talking about sales and revenues 80% of the time, you are not doing your job as an entrepreneur. Sales and growth are the ultimate measurement. You cannot build your company or your business without achieving those goals. Focusing on sales is not bad; it is not evil – it is almost required. Michael Masterson says it very clearly: if you’re not even selling it yet – don’t think about making it better! Think about how to sell more of it. As a perfectionist, I know how it feels to have 10 ideas to make something better even before it’s released to the market, but sometimes you have to realize that it’s the last thing you should be doing. It’s not about making something better, but about selling something, selling a lot more of it, making the sales process better, and then improving it based on what your customers say

10 Affordable PR and Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses
Great low-investment techniques to market your small business online and offline Small and emerging businesses are constantly striving to meet their bottom lines and increase profits while struggling with a stringent marketing budget. This article contains ten proven techniques to market your business with very little investment. The only thing that can hold you back in implementing these for your business is your imagination.

How Can I Help You? Building Powerful Business Relationships That Sky Rocket Your Success
Adopting the intention to help others succeed is a sure-fire way to create your own success. Learn why.

How to Breakthrough Your Glass Ceiling
You are working your buns off every day, with the pedal-to-the-metal and yet, the realization has sunk in, you can't squeeze any more in. You think to yourself," There has to be a better way." There is. It's called delegation. And it's your new secret weapon.

Why Buy an Existing Business or Franchise
Why buy an established business or franchise rather than start from scratch? There are many advantages for an entrepreneur. First of all, there is a savings in time, energy, and money when buying an existing business or a franchise. The lengthy process of researching and creating business plans and models has already been done for you. Usually when individuals decide to sell a business they prepare a business plan or offering summary for you. Also, if there is financing needed for your purchase, it is not as difficult to obtain since a lenders are more likely to finance a business with a proven track record.

PAPERWORK Making molehills out of mountains
Are you feeling overwhelmed by your mountain of paperwork? Does it take you ages to find what you need because it's lost in a mountain of paper? Here are some tips to help you get back on top.

Managing Change - Get it Right
Managing change in organisations is a challenging, process driven exercise, unless you have been courageous enough as an organisation, to be enlightened and multi-inclusive in decision making.

Time Off - A Sound Business Investment
To have a successful business you must be smart. That is not stating the obvious because you have to be smart with regards to your personal effectiveness. Put simply you need to take the time off to recharge your self employed batteries!!!

Self Assessment Test: How Healthy Are You?
Without good health, achieving your goals will be difficult, if not impossible. Now that's not to say that you can't have a handicap and be successful. What we are talking about is being in good health, free of illness and having enough energy get through the day.

YOU Are Your Businesses Greatest Asset:
Whether you're in the early stages of creating a business or have been in business for a decade, it's a good idea to revisit the basics and make sure you have a strong personal foundation for your business to thrive upon. It doesn't matter how good your products or services are if you don't stay in good shape, mentally, emotionally and physically eventually, you're out of business. Statistics tell us that most small businesses fail in the first 5 years due to lack of capital. While this is true, in my experience the other reason businesses fail is from owner burnout!

10 Steps to a Stress-Free Holiday
Shift into action and get things done, then sit back, relax, and enjoy the holiday season. Get clear on what is most important, know what you need to do, what you need to buy, and what you want to create this holiday season. Take these steps to a stress-free and joyful holiday.

Selecting an Online Home Biz
When selecting a online home biz you have to use common sense, research, and your conscience. The Internet is lambasted with so many under the table schemes, at times, it seems impossible to find the correct Home Based Biz for yourself. How long has the search...

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5 Steps to Organizing Your Business
Women entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs have a tough time focusing on business opportunities when their time and energy is taken up by too much to do! Here are five ways to get more time and energy so you can focus on business profitability.

Energy suckers vs Energy feeders.
The biggest source of energy suckers in your life is yourself. You are the one cutting corners by not respecting your own needs, eating well, exercising or making time for fun in your life. Anything that takes the fun out of your life is an ‘energy sucker’ and anything that puts the fun back into your life is an ‘energy giver’ and feeds you energy. Identify your ‘suckers’ and replace them with ‘feeders’ that feed you with energy and enthusiasm.

The Priorities Game
Each one of us is a valuable resource and we all have gifts we are meant to use in service to others. There are demands on our time constantly. How do we pick and choose where we will use our time and energy? It’s tough! The Priorities Game can help. I use it with many of my clients. Just apply these few simple questions to any demand on your time before you make a decision. You will be more intentional about your choices. Follow through based on your answers and you’ll experience more focused energy and peace.

Green Water Heaters Will Save You Money and the Environment
Would you like to save money by reducing your energy consumption? Then next time your building or renovating, consider an energy efficient water heater.

Nobody's Inspired By The Blame Game
Too much time and energy have been spent by the major institutions of our country (news media, infotainment, government) in debating who or what was responsible for the shooting of Gabby Giffords and others on January 8. It hasn't inspired anyone. Not enough time and energy have gone toward considering who or what is responsible for her recovery, described by her own doctors as nothing short of "miraculous"....

Your Renewable Energy
Are you fueling your life and passions with “renewable energy”? Renewable Energy is considered to: be energy generated from natural resources; or energy that is replenished at the same rate it is used; energy coming from sources that can be replenished; or even energy produced from inexhaustible sources. As I thought about this topic and thought about Winter in Michigan, staying indoors or bundling up to go out, I was reminded that Spring will be here soon.

Ten Ways To Spring-Clean Your Body
It's time to get healthy! If you've spent the winter in sedentary mode, it's time to use the change of seasons as an inspiration to change your health habits. You need to ramp up your vitality and energy so that you'll be at your best to handle the challenges ahead. Here are ten ideas for revitalizing your energy this spring....

Green Power; A Home Built Headache?
One of the primary focuses of anyone looking to live a greener lifestyle is of course, energy. Energy consumption is something that we simply cannot avoid. At home and at work, we are almost always using up some form of energy. The goal of many people ( and hopefully yourself) is to find alternative energy sources for the energy we need. Ideally, this green power source should not only be more environmentally friendly, it should also be cheaper than the current energy source. So just where do we find these alternative energy sources?

Inspiring Local Success - April 2011
Take your business from good to GREAT by fueling your business with “renewable energy.” Renewable Energy is considered to: be energy generated from natural resources; or energy that is replenished at the same rate it is used; energy coming from sources that can be replenished; or even energy produced from inexhaustible sources.

Managing Energy with Stories
I am very aware that managing your energy is a lot more important than managing your time. If you run out of energy, it doesn't matter how much time you have. This month I would like to share a new way to manage your energy. Stories are a powerful way to communicate and now here is a another thought

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