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Let’s Face It --- The Economy Sucks
Let’s face it --- “The Economy Sucks.” But, being in a recession is not something most of us havn’t ever experienced before. Simply put, there are good times when things are going well and it’s easy to make money, and there are bad times, when it’s much more difficult to make money. When this recession started, officially at the end of 2007, we enjoyed an extended period of exceptionally good business conditions. Revenue and profits exceeded most of our expectations. During these times leadership and success often came much easier than it should have. Too much good can often dull the edge necessary to excel in tougher times.
Building Resilience
How to bounce back from the letdowns and life happens situations, 6 steps that work.

Count your chickens
Everyone I am speaking to, at least, are aware they are working in a softening market. Some businesses of course are counter cyclical, meaning they can make money in these tougher times i.e. outplacement firms for all the obvious reasons, but they are more the exception. If you market is softer or heading or a down turn it doesn't have to be all gloom and doom. It's true now you have to earn your real money through proactive sales practices. So with on the agenda, one of my clients in regional Australia kindly sent me a great article on "The three basic sales strategies in a softening market".
Create your own opportunities
Just one idea can positively transform your life, career, income and wealth. As I have written before, in uncertain times, we can let the negativity of current events and others consume us or we can continue to look for opportunity. Excessive worry, however, can often cause us to lose sight of our goals and can limit our creativity and problems solving capabilities just when we really need them.

The Problem With Plans
You'd change course rather than fly into a thunderstorm, wouldn't you? Even if that storm wasn't in your flight plan? Markets change, customers change, people change - plans should change too.

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Performance Management - By Assuming Nothing
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Overcome The Tough Job Market With This Cover Letter Secret
The world-wide job market is getting tougher and tougher every day. More people are being made redundant every day. Less jobs and vacancies are becoming available every day. In fact many are saying the job market is the toughest it’s been in several years.
Internet Marketing Businesses Can Be Strong Even In Tough Times
The internet does offer some unique advantages when it comes to promoting an internet marketing business that an offline business has a tougher time doing. In this article let's take a look at 5 ways to market an internet business even when times are a little tough.
Small Business Survival Tips For THIS Economy
Has the turbulent state of the economy got you and your business down? Why not change your perception and start CREATING instead of REACTING. Your business can not only survive in THIS economy, it can thrive! You can be "tougher than the times".
6 Tips To Thrive In A Down Economy
So the market has gone from tough to tougher. What are you going to do, quit? No way! Remember, the quickest way to get to the top is still a long road indeed. So roll up your sleeves and get to work. Choose to be the one who excels during times when the rest are making excuses and doing little to nothing. Choose to get ahead and be even more successful than you thought possible. Here are 6 tips to help you thrive in any economy. Get busy!

Tapping Your Untapped Market
There is a whole world out there that is in need of your services that you are not taking advantage of. There are a variety of niches and demographics that are left without pursuit. Especially in tougher economic times, this is just money being left on the table. Below are a few different areas that businesses should consider to expand their client base.
Let’s Face It --- The Economy Sucks
Let’s face it --- “The Economy Sucks.” But, being in a recession is not something most of us havn’t ever experienced before. Simply put, there are good times when things are going well and it’s easy to make money, and there are bad times, when it’s much more difficult to make money. When this recession started, officially at the end of 2007, we enjoyed an extended period of exceptionally good business conditions. Revenue and profits exceeded most of our expectations. During these times leadership and success often came much easier than it should have. Too much good can often dull the edge necessary to excel in tougher times.
Refuse to Lose!
When times get a little tough in selling, we often hear of some people (myself included) stating that they “refuse to participate in a recession.” As a matter of fact, this has been said so often that it is becoming a bit cliché. However, we do need to REFUSE some of the things that hold us back during tougher economic times. We do need to REFUSE to suffer mediocrity from ourselves or our people. We do need to REFUSE to drop our prices but instead raise the bar on our value. We need to REFUSE to let our customers get a better experience buying from a competitor.

Communicating Challenging News
Communication is tough at the best of times and even tougher when it is challenging news on a departmental or company level. Most sales leaders do not communicate challenging news well. Learning to improve their communication tactics will help them face less resistance and facilitate a smooth transition when changes are to be made.
Cold Barn Warms Me To The Bones! Can Blessings Really Warm More Than Our Hearts?!
Most of us believe a special blessing can warm our hearts. But do you think savoring a blessing, really capturing it, can actually warm our bodies? At least for a little while?! Read about my experience, think about one of your own 'toasty' times and then you can decide what you think. Here's my 'toasty' time story... I was just tweeting about getting myself all 'psyched up' to get 'bundled' up to head outside into the freezing cold. It was chore time, a.k.a. dinner time. Our barnful of big, furry and feathery pets needed hay, grain and water-again. More feeding times and harder work now that winter was here and the pastures were all covered with snow. Because I was so snuggled up and because it was colder tonight, I knew it was going to be tougher to get going this time. But I knew I had to go. I started lifting my blanket..
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