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Sue Grafton is a Success Because She Loves What She Does
Successful people have a clearly defined purpose for their life. Sue Grafton's purpose is writing mystery stories that entertain large numbers of people. My purpose is helping others succeed. My friend's purpose was creating better surgical equipment. What is your purpose? It should be something you love. If you don't love it, you'll get burned out and see your work as a grind. If you love what you do, you see your work as a gift and something to which you look forward every day. As we approach the end of 2009, spend some time thinking about what you truly love doing. Then, and more important, think about how you can make doing what you love your life's work.
The Mobile Mexican Magnate: How Carlos Slim Helu Got His Start
He has been called the Warren Buffett of Latin America, but on the most recent Forbes list of the world’s richest people, the Mexican born Carlos Slim Helu bumped the great American investor down to third spot. With an estimated net worth of $53 billion, Helu is now the second richest person in the world, and just $3 billion behind Bill Gates. He is known for never cracking a smile, but Helu’s current monopoly over the telecommunications industry in Mexico must surely make him one happy businessman. With his hands now in all of the retail, banking and insurance, technology, and auto parts manufacturing industries, Helu shows no signs of slowing down.
Lesson #1: Make Your Passion Your Life’s Work
“Without passion, work is just work, a chore,” says Stewart. “Passion is the first and most essential ingredient for planning and beginning a business.”
Richard Branson Biography
Much like the public has come to expect the unexpected from this unpredictable British entrepreneur, so too is the Richard Branson biography a story of ups and downs, antics and wild behaviour, and both successes and failures. To learn about this Virgin Knight is to understand more about a man who has refused to follow convention, who has pursued and achieved his dreams his way, and who seems to have had more fun than most along the way.

Fresh Talent
These kids were bitten by the entrepreneurial bug at a young age and were able to garner great success.

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Getting your Foot in the Door - 7 steps to successful cold-calling
The most common concern managers express about their salespeople is that they're not doing enough cold-calling. The reason can often be traced to the fact that salespeople are not properly trained on the how-to's of cold-calling. The result is they use ineffective approaches and frequently get slapped with rejection. So, instead of cold-calling, sales people occupy their time with 'safer' activities like visiting with current customers and order taking. With the huge potential for boosting market share sales through cold-calling, salespeople need these simple step-by-step techniques to dramatically enhance their success ratio.
Cold Calling - Fish or Fowl?
In my last post, I talked about how marketing should be used to create leads, NOT sales reps. But what about cold calling you ask? Cold calling is a sales rep role and responsibility yet it creates leads, right? Wrong. Cold calling is actually a form of Marketing NOT sales, since it creates leads not customers. Unfortunately, cold calling is the most expensive and least efficient method of creating leads that exists.

The Surprising Truth about Cold Calling
Haven’t you noticed that the old "tried and true" cold calling techniques that were once successful in cold calling have now completely lost their effectiveness?

4 Classic Cold Calling Mistakes
Have you noticed that the old “tried and true” cold calling techniques which were once successful have completely lost their effectiveness over the years? They just don’t work anymore.

Is a Fear of Phoning Killing Relationships?
It is surprising to note how many people have a fear of calling someone to avoid embarrassment. Too often, it is especially ESL (English as a Second Language) learners who really shy away from calling when they should. This article is about a lost opportunity due to such a situation.

Smart Women Answer Their Call
Most of us have a unique gift or talent that we can offer the world. Recognizing your unique gift is realizing your true passion and purpose in life. This is the key to living your best life and to leaving a legacy that you can be proud of. It’s important to create the space and time to explore what your talents and gifts are. Then it’s essential to make sure that you are taking those gifts, talents, calling out into the world. Are you waking each day to your calling? When your internal telephone rings, are you going to answer it or put it on silent mode?
Practice make perfect when learning how to make cold calls.
I am good at making cold calls. I am so good that I stopped buying leads and started calling from the phone book. I made more sales cold calling the phone book than the leads I paid my hard earned dollars for. My dollars were hard earned at that time. I equate cold calling from the phone book with cold calling door to door. Nevertheless, I reached a point in my development that I enjoyed cold calling the phone book. I had a technique and a script that worked. There was one huge problem with this system and yes it was a system. It was not duplicatible.

As A Sales Manager, How Do You Know When You’ve Made A Hiring Error?
All this time I’ve been talking about the techniques and the right ways to manage your sales team. But here is the thing: when is enough enough? When do you get to throw in the towel and say, “Sales isn’t your true calling. I’m afraid I’m going to have to let you go”?

Being True To Yourself In the New Year
This article reminds all readers that they will live their most fulfilled and complete lives if they choose to be true to who they really are. Accepting who you are is first, then living out your destiny follows. Your destiny is calling, it's time to answer!

Cold Calling Works!
Cold calling is an inexpensive direct approach - cold calling can be an effective and powerful sales tool if it is implemented in the right manner. How well cold calling techniques works depends on how well the salesperson has been trained, and how well the script has been revised. A poorly written sales pitch will drive prospective customers away; however, a well written script will definitely get their attention.
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