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You May Love Your Job, But Dose Your Job Love You?
I say this to people all of the time, know one’s job is guaranteed for life. Let me tell you a true story, a good friend of mine who love’s her job so much she took the time out to learn everything that there was to know about the job.
Lessons in Customer Service for Target
A true story about the importance of customer service
Hiring the right people
Bought some stuff at the Container Store yesterday (this is a true story, btw).
Spontaneity
In his inspiring book Be A People Person, John Maxwell tells a true story about an important game of rugby that took place between two English schools. During the closing minutes of the contest, a boy more gifted with enthusiasm and school spirit than with experience, was sent into the game for the first time.

Empathy
A flurry of unsolicited questions came in on Friday, including two "please review my blog" letters, and a "please review my book" package. (For the record, I'm totally useless at reviewing your blog, sorry.)
How Does the Secret of Happiness Affect Sales Motivation
OK. So what kind of a dynamic does this create for salespeople? Salespeople must be happy in order to succeed but we also know that they must want more than what they have in order to be motivated. What is the balance between being happy and being dissatisfied?
How to reform from MLM lead stalker to Professional Attraction Marketer
I want to tell you a true story about my former MLM life. I am a reformed MLM lead stalker. I have to admit, it didn't last more than a year. I absolutely hated it. The truth is, it just wasn't me. After doing some research, like you, I stumbled onto new information about how I could generate my own leads, and have the internet work for me 24/7. This system was like a gold mine, and I haven't looked back.

A “Cautionary” Christmas Carol
"A Christmas Carol" for employers based on a true story. We hope that you enjoy your holidays & never lose your good will toward others.
Is Your Bank Ready to Call Your Loan?
In today business economy, financing is more difficult than ever to obtain and banks are looking for ways to increase their liquidity by shedding some of their "problem" accounts. Here is an actual story of what happened to one business owner. It will give you insight into your own banking relationship.

10 Lessons from the Sales Candidate Who Smelled Like He Peed on Himself
It was quite the claim. I remember telling my client that the next candidate we were to interview was the best sounding candidate I had ever spoken with on the phone. Robert, the sales manager, went to the lobby to get the candidate and returned, an ashen look on his face. Ray, the candidate, followed Robert into the conference room and suddenly, I had the same ashen look on my face. It seemed that the best candidate I had ever spoken with by phone was, well, a bum!
The powerful skill of listening
Out of the mouth of babes a lesson is brought concerning the forgotten skill of listening. It is amazing how one small child teaches more in a few moments than what can be gained from hours in a professional seminar. A exercise to be carried out in a small staff meeting is included.
Connecting with a purpose Part III
This article provides a glimpse into the heart of one person. He has the potential to move far vocationally. He chooses to remain in his role as a customer service representative on the telephone. Here's why.
Bad News Doesn't Improve with Age
Got bad news to deliver? Start talking! It’s almost impossible for a leader to over-communicate during such difficult times as impending layoffs, leadership shakeups, news-breaking scandals, and mergers and acquisitions. This article provides a cautionary tale of waiting too long to share bad news.

Key To Success: Showing Respect To The People You Make Contact With Daily
To achieve success in life, we need the help of other people. We cannot do everything we need to get to our goals ourselves; neither can we own all the resources we need to achieve the success that we are longing for. We definitely need the support of other people in our circle of influence.
Taking Risks on Both Sides of the Bridge Leads to a Goldmine of Possibilities
Great achievement requires risk
To Make Money OnlineStart By Giving Away The Farm Real Life Examples
As I talked about in parts one and two and three of this series. A friend wanted to get starting in business online. She was truly concerned about everything from the high cost of gasoline, to the election, to stock market crashes. She started the conversation with, "I don't know what I would do if I lost my job." I understood exactly how she felt because I have "been there...done that" and so I spent about two hours telling her how to make money online. ...And it all starts and ends with the word "Free."
With a Lease The Devil Is In The Details
This week we'll discuss the most important aspect of the process: signing a commercial lease (insert dramatic music here). One of the biggest mistakes many entrepreneurs make when leasing commercial space is not reading the lease. Forget reading the fine print. When it comes to a lease its ALL fine print
Planning for Web Site Disaster
Do you have a corporate site where the content is written by various in-house staff members, the pages are managed by your freelance web designer and your SEO campaigns are outsourced? Read on to put in place plans to prevent web site disaster.
Unscrewed: The Consumer’s Guide To Getting What You Paid For
Unscrewed: The Consumer’s Guide To Getting What You Paid For (by Ron Burley) provides some strong tactics for resolving customer service problems where you know you’re in the right. It’s a great way to learn how to market your needs to an organization, guerrilla marketing, and also how to improve your own business’s customer service.
Controlling, angry men, How counselling, can help you.
This is a clients reflection on how the counselling process helped her. This client tells us how she experienced a relationship with a man she considered to be abusive, angry and controlling.

A Positive Story
Sometimes, the smallest things in our lives can reap big rewards, often when we're not looking for them. I tell this story in hopes that it makes others remember similar stories in their lives.

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telling stories the brand connection
Today, we're interested in stories, and not particularly interested in facts. Every story needs facts, of course, but they are secondary. The facts are there just to provide some ballast for the story. There are always so many facts that don't fit into the story, and insofar as they don't fit, depending on our commitment to the story, we have a tendency to disregard them. Every good story has some connection to the truth of our experience, but the story's the thing.

Proof Positive: A Good Story Can Be Telling
In today’s business world, boring facts and empty stats simply won’t make the impression on customers that a story about someone “just like them” will. True stories are much more compelling and better-remembered than other information. So to get coveted word-of-mouth advertising, start by telling your company or product story. When you do, you’ll find that story-telling is a powerful tool that differentiates you from your competition. Here are ten steps that most people miss.

Hiring the right people
Bought some stuff at the Container Store yesterday (this is a true story, btw).
Resist the Interpretation Addiction
Sometimes we adopt a story and unknowingly our emotions get swept up in it. And 99% of the time we don’t really question or inquire into the story we create. We treat our story as what actually happened. The problem, of course, is that the story influences, in part, the action you take in subsequent events. This article is about identifying the stories you may have created, working around them and managing them.

The Most Important PR Secret
What most entrepreneurs and companies don't understand is that often the main job of the PR firm is to find the right story. It's often not the obvious story that works, because that's the same angle that the competition will be pitching. Without the right story and tone, you have a weak campaign, at best. Finding the right story, that's what it all comes down to.
Build a Purpose Driven Website
Imagine for a minute, if you will, that you have just heard an incredible story about a new product on a news broadcast. The product sounded amazing. Almost too good to be true. The story you saw really piqued your interest and, although your confidence is low that it’s as good as they say, you decide to do a search on Google to find it. Well what do you know …. there it is … the top listing.
Lessons in Customer Service for Target
A true story about the importance of customer service
Make Your Story Add Value to Your Clients Bottom Line
The purpose of your story for a workplace audience is to improve the bottom line. Even in those employee appreciation programs where entertainment may seem the focus, there is an undeniable expectation of increased productivity after your story is heard. The question to ask yourself when using your story is: What is the point of the story and how does the story improve a client's bottom line?
Never Assume Anything!
A true (and funny) story and a lesson learned.
Did He Really Lose on Price?
A true story about how one salesperson lost a sale while inadvertently helping out the other guy. Too often, when we lose a sale because the other guy was cheaper, we throw up our hands and blame it all on price. We start crying about lack of quality, lack of service or lack of ethics in the other guy. What a bunch of babies! This is war today and the one who tends to win is the one who hustles! Read this true story and see if you agree!

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