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Leadership Truth #2 - Great Leaders Live Their Vision
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| Great leaders are congruent. They live their vision all the time. Consistency is a trait most great leaders have in abundance. Why is this trait so important? |
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Reinforce Candor or Speak Truth to Power?
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| My Trust model highlights Reinforcing Candor as the most powerful tool to build trust in organizations. Some people might think this is the same as Speaking Truth to Power, but it is really very different. |
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10 Paths to Accessing Peace
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| Accessing peace is essential to expanding our ability to receive and live fulfilling lives. Therefore, the quicker and more easily you can return to peace, the better. Below are 10 strategies to utilize when you would like to consciously increase feelings of peace inside of you, whether you are in turmoil or already at peace. |
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Integrity as a Catalyst
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| Integrity has always been one of the qualities I admire and respect most in others. The definition of integrity is: The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness. Simply put, someone who lives in integrity honors their personal values - actions and choices align with an internal code. There is nothing inside that is divided; they are whole. Honesty is another dimension to integrity -- spoken words reflecting the inner world without distortion. Integrity is also about honoring your word and following through with commitments. defi |
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Truth-Telling Game
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| Intimacy is one of the most fulfilling aspects of relating with another. In opening oneself and revealing your innermost thoughts to another creates intimacy, understanding and deepens any relationship. The feeling of "being known" and "knowing another" authentically is fulfilling.
One fun way to stir up the intimacy quotient is by playing the "Truth-Telling Game". It’s simple and easy, but not for the faint of heart. It’s about connecting to your truth in the moment, and then sharing that with another |
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Taking Leadership On Adequacy By Following Up
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| Adequate is a term that should be reserved for streets, sewers, mops and fast-food restaurants. Yet, we dream: “If we could just have adequate schools … if only.” Nevertheless, it is good to have the “adequacy studies” to confirm for us (and others) what we knew and hoped for. |
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Catchy Cleaning Business Names
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| The myth is that you need to have your name as close to the front of the alphabet as possible. That's not exactly the truth. Most people will bypass "AAA Cleaners" because the thought is that if someone doesn't care enough about their business name to present themselves, they will not care too much about the quality of service. While looking for names in the phonebook, most people look at the ads first. What you really need is an ad in the local yellow pages that stands out. For that ad to stand out, you will need a catchy name. |
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No Cost Mortgage Refinancing – Transferring Your Mortgage
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| If someone is paying mortgage rates that they are unhappy with, there's no need to be kept these terms. Many times a person will not wish to switch lenders or refinance their mortgage because they are afraid it will end up costing more money in the long run or be a difficult task. The truth is, with so many lenders available, there is certain to be a better deal out there for you. The key is to look beyond dealing with the lenders yourself, which can take an extremely long time to research in order to find the best deals, and instead to utilize the services of a knowledgeable mortgage broker who will be able to obtain no cost refinancing. |
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Interdependence, The Truth, Love, Self Respect and Interpersonal Competence
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| I look for inspiration for these articles in a number of places. Sometimes I feel as if I am running a clipping service for people interested in career and life success. Oprah’s magazine is one of my favorite places for source material. I particularly enjoy Eve Ensler’s “A Million Was to Save the World” column.
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Mortgage Canada Rates – What’s Out There that the Banks are not Telling You?
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| For those consumers who are out there shopping for a mortgage loan, they may think that they are limited to going through an official Canadian bank. However, there are only five major banks in Canada, but over 70 lenders, giving people much more of an option than they may have initially realized. This is a secret that the banks prefer to keep. The truth is that these lenders offer mortgages at a far more competitive rate than do the major banks, including Scotia, RBC, TD, CIBC, or BMO. These rates are not available to consumers, unfortunately, but certified mortgage brokers have access to them. |
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Seven Cold, Hard Truths about Social Networking
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| Every time you turn around it seems someone is shouting about all the wonders of social networking and how easy it is to use it to market your small business…On the flip side, a quick online search will turn up plenty of articles wondering how, or if, you can actually make any money from Twitter or Facebook.
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Effective SEO can comes cheap
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| Search engine optimization or SEO is the hottest way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Maximizing the benefits of a well optimized website will yield lots of earnings for the marketer. However, optimizing your site might cost you thousands of dollars if you are not skilled in this area. But to tell you the truth, you can essentially get information on low cost SEO anywhere in the Internet. But only several really show you how to work out an affordable search engine optimization endeavor. And those few that really inform include this article. |
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Your Brain - The Ultimate Smart Bomb
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| The brain is like a smart bomb. A smart bomb is given a target and then as wind and resistance take it off target, it self corrects to hit its target. The difference is, the subconscious takes for truth what it hears the most.
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Creating a Long Term Marketing Action Plan
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| Many entrepreneurs and business owners think of marketing as an extra, an afterthought, something to focus on when there is extra money to spend on incidentals. The truth is that for a company to be successful (first and foremost) marketing matters. It is a business essential. The question should never be if a company should market, but how. |
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Go to Gemba!
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| There are times when it is not enough to listen to what people tell you about a situation .. and especially a problem. You have to see, smell and feel for yourself what is really going on. |
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Multitask Your Way To A Shorter Life
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| Most of us think that having the ability to do several things is a gift or a blessing that helps up to get more done in less time. But the truth is that you can drive yourself crazy while trying to multitask and obsessing over every little problem.
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Can We Handle the Truth?
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| Whether we can handle it or not, it is time for a major dose of truth. |
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Time and Money
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| We’ve all heard the timeworn adage that Time is Money. Like most timeworn adages, this one—
at its center—has a real practical truth for all of us. Most of us go to work each day and spend
eight-to-ten hours or more in exchange for a paycheck. While many of us enjoy our jobs, if we
are honest or even practical, we will admit that we are exchanging our time for someone else’s
money. This makes sense to us in the professional area of our lives, but too many of us miss the
time-and-money equation as it relates to our personal lives.
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Find Those People
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| The Emperor's New Clothes was a favorite childhood story of mine. It made me laugh. I couldn't believe all those adults were standing around, watching the emperor make a fool of himself and not telling him the truth. When I grew up and went to work, I discovered it wasn't that easy.
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Lesson #5: Ignore the Critics
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| “When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts,” says Ellison. Indeed, there has never been a single point in Ellison’s career where one critic or another did not lambast him for his business strategy. But, learning to ignore them was an art Ellison would soon master |
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Lesson #5: Invest Your Best Capital in Your Customers
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| “Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business,” said Barnum. “Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.” In growing the most successful circus in the U.S., Barnum came to learn that it was not enough just to get the sale. Instead, what was important was making sure that customer would come back time and time again. Barnum was a master promoter, but he knew there was no advertising as valuable as word of mouth recommendations. |
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Chris Gardner Quotes
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Lesson #4: Every Entrepreneur Needs a Little Brand Aid
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| According to Clark, the secret to Baby Einstein’s success has been “a good concept and a brilliant branding strategy.” |
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Overcoming Fear
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| Fear has been correctly identified with the acrostic False Evidence Appearing Real. The truth is that if we think something is to be feared, that perception becomes the cruelest form of reality. |
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Look for the Loose Brick
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| I hear salespeople say that speaking to a particular prospect was like "hitting a brick wall." The prospect's guard was up in full force. The prospect seemed to get bored or, worse yet, to actually become defensive or offensive, as the case may be, every time the salesperson mentioned a product benefit or feature. It pains me to hear this, as I've known exactly what it feels like to be in such a position. |
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The Trump / Kiyosaki Road to Riches
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| An exclusive look between the covers of our new book, Why We Want You to Be Rich. |
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A Letter To The One Who Wants to Know
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| Dear Voyager, Dear Dreamer, Dear Friend…
The reason you are reading this letter right now is because you have expressed an interest. An interest in business, an interest in more life. You are interested in improving your business, or creating a new business. You are interested, most of all, in improving your life.
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Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Colonel Flagg
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| Everything I know about business I learned from M*A*S*H's Colonel Flagg:
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Updated: The Age/Entrepreneurship Myth
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| I pretty much entirely disagree with Fred Wilson's implication earlier this week that age is an obstacle to entrepreneurship. It may be an obstacle to a particular kind of entrepreneurship -- venture-backed companies where you give up equity to parental figures with money -- but implying anything broader than that is silly and counter to the facts. |
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Gossip
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| We frequently hear little jokes about gossip, like the two people who were talking and one said, "I can't tell you any more. I've already told you more than I heard." In that line is much of the tragedy about gossip, which can and often has destroyed a person's reputation. Gossip always damages relationships and specifically with the person you are gossiping about. For example, once you have said something unkind about a person, you will feel uncomfortable around him or her and your relationship will suffer. |
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Take the Hit
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| Take the responsibility. Take the hit. If you do that, you will have no need to blame others or continually find fault with them. |
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Is Your Life Working?
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| Success depends on facing facts.
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What you say, what you do and who you are
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| We no longer care what you say.
We care a great deal about what you do. |
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Who Tells You the Things You Don’t Want to Hear?
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| Today's tip is a crash course on one of the key ideas in the new book - lifeline relationships. |
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Behind Every ‘Problem’ is a Bigger You in Waiting (But Only If You Believe It)
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| If you think having more money means you’ll have fewer problems, then think twice about wanting to be a millionaire. Problems and obstacles don’t stop, you just get a new set of them. |
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Why Dying makes one Smart?
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| The thought
Have you noticed, every movie you see which has a specific case in which someone dies and returns back as soul, they are always smarter. Why this so much Fuzz about dying and being greatly near truth after experiencing it. What lessons can we learn from this. |
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Come and See
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| The statement of “come and see” is the primary means we have to prove things to others. Normally what a person sees will establish the validity of any situation. |
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Live the Example You Teach
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| How often do we listen to someone give instruction on a subject and later find out they don’t follow their own teaching? These instances are most often noted with ministers in religion but can occur in every area of life. |
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"The Truth About Coming Out of Denial"
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| Denial is a word that most of use choose to ignore or want to choose to ignore. Ironically thought, facing our denial can be one of the most empowering experiences. However, when we are in the middle of denial we don't always see what is going on. We miss the signs that when we look back appear so obvious. Read on to see if there are any signs that you are missing. |
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Today, The Best Day of My Life
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| Stating, “This is the best day of my life” may sound unusual but if we consider the basis of it we realize it is a truth that cannot be debated. We are living in no other day except this one and have only it to spend. |
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Be Prepared For A Job Change
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| My client, John, had recently lost his job. What was most puzzling to him was that up until he got his notice his manager had given him very positive feedback about his performance. The truth was the company had eliminated the budget for his job function. His work was good but they decided they did not need that work done any more.
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Evidence Defeats Misbelief
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| The evidence of the facts will always defeat any misbelieve you encounter. The beliefs you have that are not supported by truth are only yours and will never prosper. They may influence others but when they are found to be false, you and them will suffer the loss. |
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Why not me?
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| Tune into your inner GPS! You cannot find your success using plans produced by others. One must follow their dream to fruition despite outside interference. |
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Ontario mortgage interest rates - Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Dwelling
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| Have you looked at the truth that your annual mortgage, taxes and policy costs can total between 25% and 40% of your total annual income? This is a vast investment you are thinking of producing for yourself and your loved ones! If you are in a position to secure the best Ontario mortgage rates of interest, it will not only be a large investment, but a smart and beneficial one as well. Taking the time to understand exactly what the best Ontario mortgage rate is for your situation will save you huge sums of money throughout the length of the expression. As you go through this procedure, you should steer clear of the top mistakes that people make when they choose not to work on a dealer to secure financing for their new home. |
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Are Some People Born Lucky, Or is it Just an Attitude of Mind ?
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| What is it about luck and good fortune - how much of it is fate looking out for us. In truth, spotting those opportunities as they come along and making them work for the us is an important factor in many peoples success. |
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How To Calculate Mortgage Interest Rates To Discover The Truth In Your Payment Rate!
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| When is a mortgage Interest Rate of 3.75% really 67.5%? When it is the mortgage on your home! |
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How To Calculate Mortgage Interest Rates To Find The Truth In Your Payment!
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| See how to calculate the true interest rate on your mortgage loan. |
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Moving/Relocating: Updating Your Insurance After A Move
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| There is so much involved in moving. Many people fail to think of the task involving letting their auto insurance company know that they have moved. The truth is that it is necessary to alert your car insurance carrier of a new address after you move. Why this is the case and what is involved with it are outlined in the following paragraphs. |
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Where to Begin When Starting a Home Based Business
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| Have you ever been interested in opening a business or starting a home business? The truth is, many people want to start a home business or work from home. Many just do not know where to begin. Learn how to get your business started. |
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Height Weight Chart - Gauging Your Life Insurance Risk Factors
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| Health questions and inquiries are common practice amongst life insurance agents and companies. The truth is the healthier lifestyle the prospective life insurance member has, the more benefits and lower premiums they qualify for. Height and weight queries are generally found on all life insurance forms. Whether requesting information online, or going the traditional route and visiting an agent or a life insurance facility, your height and weight will be used to determine what kind of policy you qualify for, and how much you are going to pay in premiums because of that height and weight. |
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Will you Stand up for the Truth?
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| I've been struggling this last week with a sticky situation. Actually as I write that, I realize it doesn't have to be a sticky situation. It's only sticky because of fear. My own fear, which has been fueled to a flame by the fear of others. |
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Set Us Free
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| We sometimes dread stepping up for the truth - especially when it's an unpopular position. We fret and fear, wonder how people will react and then finally - when we do step up - we feel so much better. And usually people embrace the truth much better than we expected. |
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From Sharecropper's Daughter to College President
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| My mother used to say, "As the twig is bent, the tree shall grow." I believe that Ruth Simmons, once president of the highly-prestigious Smith College in Massachusetts, is the classic example of the truth of that statement. She is currently serving as President of Brown University. She is also the epitome of the American Dream and living proof that it is still alive and well in America. |
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The Gravity of Doing
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| Taking stock, reflecting on our business, its opportunities and issues - being in the reality of our business versus doing and doing and more doing - that's the way to Defy Gravity thinking and see with a fresh perspective. We simply cannot be in our reality, see our truth - when we are so busy doing. |
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What Customers Really Want & Why Finding the RIGHT Copywriter Matters
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| Putting your marketing message in the wrong hands can be hazardous to the health of your business. Take precautions to ensure that your copywriting is being handled by the right person for the job. |
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When Agreement is Really Disagreement - Happy Ears for Salespeople
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| Happy Ears or Effective Salespeople? It all comes down to training, coaching, observation skills, commitment and practice. When put that way, there is as much burdon on you as there is on your salespeople. Are you up for this challenge? |
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The Importance of Persuasion in Entrepreneurship
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| Being able to persuade others and allow them to see your vision is the key to running a successful business. Below, you will find some persuasion techniques. |
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The Confidence to Let Go
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| It’s a challenge to really let go of our own private agendas. In working with clients, I often explore each opposite: “I want it my way” and “I let go”. These two points of view can fight it out within all of us and show up in our relationships with others. |
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The Difference Between Selling to Negotiators and Selling to Price Shoppers
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| Selling successfully to both the negotiator and the price shopper takes good strategy, effective tactics, and timing - you must know when to employ them. |
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Make Money with Feel the Fear & Do It Anyway¡K¡K..by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
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| Tips on How to Build a Successful Business Online Even If You are New. |
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Produce A Large Home Based Business Income Without Trying!
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| Have you heard of the snowball effect? If you know anything about marketing then you've heard this before. An you've heard of people producing large home based business incomes without even trying. That's because of the snowball effect. Small marketing efforts that overtime turn into a large massive avalanche of marketing. An that's when you produce that large home based business income without even trying. The unfortunate thing is, is that 97% of people online can't even get the ball rolling. So to accomplish a large home based business income hears what you do. |
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Website Traffic Generation with Video Marketing
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| A great method of generating website traffic is by posting videos online. What stops many people from using this methods is they do not know how to do it. |
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Why 97% Of All Marketers Will Never Become A Top Producer In Their Primary Business!
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| Let's face it, Internet marketing is not an easy game to play. It appeals to the masses because it appears simple yet very lucrative. People see the stories of the average person making millions online and immediately think to themselves, "If they can do it, I can do it". This is absolutely true but unfortunately when you enter this game you really have no idea what you are getting yourself into. The dreams of living in the fancy house and driving the expensive cars come to mind, excitement and urgency are some of the emotions that they feel. But once the initial "work" is started all motivation is lost and those once positive emotions turn into frustration and doubt. This article will explain how I was able to become a top producer in my primary business. |
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How to reform from MLM lead stalker to Professional Attraction Marketer
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| 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.
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Evolve Your Strategic Mindset
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| Get your mind right and your business will follow |
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Let Time Bear Dividends for You
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| I have heard so often from people that “I don’t have time” or “There is so much to do, I just can’t catch up.” The truth is that we all have the same amount of time: 24 hours x 7 days. This is the only resource that we are given equally. The only difference is where and how we spend it. In my opinion, where and how we spend our time has the greatest effect on the results in our life.
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How To Convert Internet Marketing Leads Into Sales
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| So you've done a great job with your lead generation, now it's time improve those conversions and put more money in your pocket. Read this to learn more |
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How to Get Results from Inside-Out
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| Would you like to be able to get results you want without having to take constant massive action, getting overwhelmed and exhausted in the process?
The success secret I teach my clients is a process that helps you to get results from the " inside out". We all have dreams, desires, and goals that we aspire to right? That's a good thing! Our desires help us to focus our attention, which leads us to take inspired actions and enjoy the results. Perfect, right?
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Social Networking Strategies Or Just Good Manners in the Social Web?
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| Social Networking Strategies is the new buzz term for marketing to individuals through social networking sites online, and numerous industries are certainly abuzz about it right now. The concept of networking incorporates the social interaction taking place online as well as various forms of networking between consumers and organizations with strategies to connect people, ideas and products. |
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Network Marketing? You Can Only Go So Far on "Stretching the Truth!"
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| Don't "stretch the truth". I can't tell you how many marketing campaigns I see that "stretch the truth" to sell their products. Ok, perhaps I can, it's a lot. A whole bunch. A gigantic number. But just because they do it doesn't mean you have to. After all, I would like to still believe that at the end of the day honesty, truth, hard work, and a good product win. Perhaps that is "old fashioned" but I don't care. |
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Are There Any Legitimate Work from Home Jobs?
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| Many people are looking for legitimate work from home jobs. Are there any? What are your options? What alternatives do you have if you want to work from home? Here are some guidelines to help you with your search. |
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A False Assumption Made by Too Many Aspiring Entrepreneurs
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| In his best selling book, The E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber said that most people fall victim to the most disastrous assumption anyone can make about going into business. He calls it 'The Fatal Assumption'. That Fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work. In other words, don't assume that if you know how to bake pies (technical work of a business), it means you know how to successfully run a business that sells pies (business that does that technical work). |
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The Power of One Great Idea
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| I've met a lot of great people with great ideas who take actions to work toward their dreams. But somehow, these people never realize what they set out to achieve. What is it that prevents them from success? These people have great attitude. They have good ideas. And they don't just sit on their ideas doing nothing. They work hard on their ideas. But they just don't seem to be getting anywhere. |
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Web Analytics that Lie
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| Make sure your web analytics are telling you the right story. |
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How to Handle a Spontaneous Response Successfully - As an Introvert
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| Have you ever been called on in a meeting to give your thoughts about the discussion but felt unprepared? Or maybe a brainstorming session is almost impossible for you? Even though we know an introvert's brain works differently than the extrovert's, we actually can prepare and plan for spontaneity! |
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••••••>Get Me On Top Free SEO Tip of the Day: Refrain from Duplication of Content When Performing SEO Techniques
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| Major search engines utilize duplicate content filters to determine if you have repeated content on your website or any other website on the Internet. This is done in an effort to reduce the deceptive measures that some webmasters use in order to receive higher page rankings in search indexes |
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PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
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| One group of addictions that have been underestimated is prescription drug abuse. There seems to be a different mindset with regards to this addiction mainly because prescription drugs are seen as helpful, not harmful and that they are given to us by doctors so they are safe. This could not be farther from the truth. |
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Do you feel lucky?
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| Luck has come up a lot in conversation in the last week or so. How much of our business success do we put down to good fortune and to what extent are we able to create our own luck?
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Are You Suffering Unnecessarily?
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| "Life means suffering."
Truth #1 of the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism
I've been pondering about the amount of suffering there is in the world these days. Perhaps my awareness has been heightened by these turbulent times, coupled with an increase sense of compassion that has grown in me with the years.
I realize that, as Buddha said, that there is suffering in life, but it seems to me that it's useful to look at it as either 'necessary suffering' or 'unnecessary suffering.' Of course, this is a somewhat artificial distinction but it still seems a useful distinction to make. |
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Use Your Journal To Record Your Experience.
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| As you grow and expand yourself or your business, it is important to record your experience. If you do not journal already, please start right away. It is critical to understanding yourself.
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Can You Say “This Is It” for Yourself?
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| I am profoundly inspired... in a life-changing kinda way. I saw the new Michael Jackson movie, This Is It, yesterday. It blew my white rhinestone socks off! (Truth be told, I had tear dewbies at several points in the movie - it is that powerful!) As an entrepreneur, and a soul-driven person, it spoke to the depths of me. |
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Mindset is the First Step in Creating a Successful Business
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| Overview of the online business industry. Free advice and tips on avoiding the pitfalls included within the article. |
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Deliberately Choose How You Want To Live Your Life
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| This article asks the question, "Is your life worth living?" This simple question, when asked often, creates more abundance in your life. Here are practical tools to remind yourself that you are in control of creating a wonderful quality of life regardless of your circumstances.
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Warren Buffett Owner Principle #5
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| In this principle, we are concerned mainly with the significance of numbers of running a business. Which ones are relevant? ROI,EBITDA, Earnings, Sales? The Consolidated Earnings statement is one that every incorporated and publicly traded company must render annually. The Number One goal to keep in mind is the earnings of each of the major businesses of Berkshire Hathaway. Also closely observe the industry and the business environment in which the business is functioning. Keep in mind that Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company model with little or no debt and huge cash reserves. |
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No Time........Really??
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| I love to pay attention to the language I use and also the words my clients choose. Being aware of our own language provides a window into where we may have blind spots, fears or beliefs standing in our way.
I often catch my clients using the phrase, “I just don’t have time.” It’s a sentence that suggests that we have no power over how we spend our time. And the truth is, we do. Certainly there can be negative consequences to choosing to spend our time in one way over another. And avoiding those negative consequences can drive our choices, but, at the end of the day, we are choosing! |
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The Land Of Purposeful Paradoxes - The Birthplace Of Your Divinely Inspired Life Purpose
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| Paradox is defined as something that appears to contradict itself, two statements that say opposite things and yet are both true. Something that seems to contradict itself and when heard together form a Truth. If there is such a thing as Truth in the cosmos, one of the most interesting places to find truth is in a paradox because like we said in our definition of a paradox, a paradox contains multiple truths. We as humans tend to want to see things as either/or, black or white. We are often uncomfortable with two things being true. We tend to want things one-way or the other. Do you have a FAVORITE paradox? Here are a few examples: "The more you learn, the less you know." Or "The more things change, the more they stay the same".... Or one of my personal favorites from Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". |
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DOES HOPE FLOAT?
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| Charlie Brown, the little neurotic fellow we have all come to know and love is an eternal optimist when it comes to kicking a football. No matter how many times Lucy pulls the ball away he always hopes that the next time she will let him kick it.
In a way we are all like Charlie, no matter how often we hope, regardless of the outcome we always come back to it again and again. Because we have come to know that on those rare occasions we realize our hopes.
There is another reason though for clinging to our hopes, a much more powerful reason in fact
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3 Keys To Success Online!~ EXPOSE SECRET
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| Everyone who has an online business wants success online but few people ever do. Most likely these 3 keys to success online wasn't shared with them. Well you won't have to worry about falling in that 97% of people who fail online after you read this article because you'll know exactly what to do to guarantee your success online. |
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Do You Need Your Salespeople to Love and Respect You?
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| The sales manager I coached had some very human needs. When he connected with his salespeople, they shared details of their lives, plans for their weekends and he felt loved. When salespeople praised his coaching or said that his advice helped them on a sales call, he felt respected. And when he assured the higher-ups that good things were happening, he truely believed that business was on the way. |
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Your Truth and Accountability is Helping Our Planet!
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| Everything we do either has a positive or negative effect on our world. And, now even more, our world needs our help! It’s time to really step it up. It’s encouraging to know that my own daily actions can help our world. Taking accountability is a representation of “truth” and “right action” which impacts the frequency of the collective consciousness and our own personal empowerment.
Everyday occurrences, even being aware and accountable for the small occurrences makes a difference. There have been times that we may have made excuses in our mind, told small white lies or pretended we were not responsible for something by making someone else accountable.
The planet is correcting itself now, and needs our help. As you have noticed, anything that is not set with a foundation of truth, honesty, kindness and oneness is coming up to the s |
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How To Say 'I Don't Know' With Confidence
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| No one knows the answer to every question. No matter how diligently you study up on your products or offer, there’s bound to come a time when you face a question that you can’t handle off the top of your head. Don’t become paralyzed by the need to know everything about your product or offer, you can’t know it all. Someone’s always going to ask that one question that makes you say to yourself, “I should have known that.” |
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Therapy Should I or Shouldn’t I?
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| When I tell people that I’m a therapist/counsellor I usually get a couple of different reactions. One stereotype that abounds is that I deal with ‘crazy people’ and I work like the psychotherapist in the ‘Sopranos’. Another thing that happens is people start to tell me about ‘their friend’ who is having problems but doesn’t think it requires a therapist because their problems are that of ‘normal people’s problems’. This could not be farther from the truth. |
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Leadership Is What People Buy Into
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| Free advice and guidance on what it is people are looking for when researching online business opportunities. |
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Helping Staff Recover After A Layoff
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| Layoffs are wrenching for companies in many ways. First, there is the sobering reality that layoffs are necessary for the bottom line. Next come the anguishing decisions about what areas to cut, followed by the unpleasant task of sharing the news. No wonder company leaders want to wash their hands of this matter once they hand out the severance packages. |
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Mining Your Soul for Gold
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| Everything that you are seeking right now is already within you. That's a big statement but it's based on my belief that we are here as a physical representation of Divine energy. That is, the Universe lives through each of us, and that (naturally enough) includes living through you. |
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Keys to a Successful Home Business
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| The keys in a Successful Home Business is as simple as goal setting, but there is more then just setting the goals, it is achieving them. This article helps you with your mindset of how to set and achieve your goals to become successful in your home business. |
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The Secret To Internet Marketing Success
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| The Secret to Internet Marketing Success is not surfing for the next big thing. It is about finding what works and sticking to a focused plan of action. It's nothing sexy, nothing you can't do. It's about the 100 hour and 500 hour rule. |
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The Art of Manifesting the FLOW of Money In Your Life
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| You may know we all have the potential to have millions of dollars, and live the life of our dreams. As an entrepreneurial business coach that utilizes universal laws, I observe this to be true very often. I would go as far as to say - it's a FACT.
FACT:
Money is "currency", it flows in and out of our lives like the water we drink .
So, how does money FLOW? And what do you need to know to allow financial giving and receiving to happen with ease. |
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INSIGHTS ON WHY ALL MANAGERS SHOULD ATTEND EMPLOYMENT LAW TRAINING
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| Managers are often promoted without being trained on how "to manage". This article spells out why employment law training is so critical for managers to not only avoid liability for the employer but also for the manager. This article covers all aspects of a manager's job including hiring, firing, managing leaves of absence and explains how the employment laws impact every decision a manager makes. Learn about all the important employment laws including the ADA, FMLA, laws that prohibit sexual harassment such as Title VII as well as state anti-discrimination laws. An important article that managers won't want to miss. |
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Profitable Online Home Based Business Ideas and the Recession; A Message to Men
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| We are living in a time of great turmoil, both financially and politically. At the same time we are witnessing a business and economic shift with tremendous opportunities the likes of which mankind has never witnessed before. We live in the greatest country in the history of man, with more opportunity than ever before. Yet so many people are failing in life. I believe it’s time for men to stand up and just be men. |
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Set Your Goals and Hop Back on That Bandwagon
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| Falling off the bandwagon is difficult on everyone. This is very true when it comes to your business as well. Knowing how to set goals and why you need to set them is an important part to becoming secure on that ever-going journey towards a well established business. |
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Self-Efficacy: The First Requisite for Success
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| The term self-efficacy is the brain-child of Albert Bandura, Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology at Stanford University. Hisresearchhas shown that individuals with high self-efficacy are more likely to put a greater effort in achieving specific outcomes; they also attribute any failure to things that are within their control, rather than blaming others or the conditions surrounding them. Most importantly, they are able to recover quicker from setbacks and are, therefore, more likely to succeed in realizing their goals. |
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4 Marketing Basics Will Get You to 6-Figures and Beyond
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| There are four key areas where many business owners let fear make their decisions for them instead of tapping into the grace and ease of Divine Guidance. Discover a simple checklist for quieting fear and self-doubt to create a 6-figure (or beyond) business. |
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The Secrets to Small Business Success
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| I was delivering a one-on-one coaching call tonight and my client asked me the question of, 'How did you become so successful so fast?' and at first I paused and thought about that. How did I become successful in just three and a half short years? The first thing I thought of was, 'Am I successful?' and that question alone could have taken me ten minutes to think about an answer to so instead of ponder that, I moved on. I thought about what I had done over the course of my time in business and I thought about what had allowed me to achieve so much in such a short time. |
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The Magic Bullet of Marketing
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| Marketing on a local level must be a process.
Almost all of the restaurant owners, operators and managers I work with in the trenches discuss marketing as an "event" or a "series of events", designed to produce instant sales and instant gratification.
They search for the magic bullet.
The promise of this magic bullet comes as a trojan horse from the advertising sales reps that hammer them with terms like "saturation", "shelf life" and other such sales tactics. Sometimes the magic bullet suggestion comes from an advertising agency hired to boost sales quickly. These agencies like to throw around concepts such as "branding" and "image building."
These magic bullets begin to get expensive. And any results that come in are very short-lived.
Eventually the truth sets in...you can't purchase a magic bullet for marketing your restaurant,no |
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Why do Ad Agencies never Advertise?
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| Because they know that it doesn't work! |
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Why Trying Is Just Failing Without Taking Responsibility
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| When pitching my business opportunity I often hear “XYZ company? I tried that before, no thanks!†And therein lays the problem, all this “trying†that people do, free trial offers are the bane of our society. They’ve created a “life is a smorgasbord†culture. |
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When You Want to Sabotage your Successful Home Based Internet Business
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| Why would someone deliberately sabotage their own business? You may not even be aware of your ability to sub-consciously ensure your failure in your home based online business. The combination of a negative outlook and poor discipline can have lethal consequences for your enterprise. |
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Time Off: Do Small Business Owners Get Any?
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| Time Off: Do Small Business Owners Get Any? -
People might become business owners because they want to get ahead. However, once you're living the life of a small business owner, you quickly discover that you have a much shorter-term goal: Trying to take a vacation. Business ownership is busy and a vacation may feel like it will cause serious business disruption. But there is a way that you can enjoy a vacation. In this article, you'll learn how some businesses are breaking out of the entrepreneur time trap to allow the owners to enjoy some renewing downtime.
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The Internet killed the Telemarketing star
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| How many times have you picked up the phone expecting to speak with a potential buyer - to only hear the desperate words of a seller introducing themselves and asking for the owner of the business? Yet another selfish salesman hell-bent on taking your valuable time and energy to try and sell you something you don't need or ever want. |
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You're not that interesting!
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| Truth: You're not exciting or interesting enough for your customers go to the trouble of seeking you out. Why should they? You're predictable, measurable and safe - just like all your competitors. Your insights are second hand and you don't bring any WOW factor to the table. In fact, you're at the dinner table but you have nothing of any value to say. |
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Don’t Let a Grade Determine If You Can Be a Home Stager
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| Expert home stager, Staging Diva, discusses why home stagers who have failed to obtain the required grade from another training program should not be discouraged. |
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3 Easy Link Building Tactics
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| Link building services are the most commonly outsourced aspect of SEO. This process involves locating qualified and thematically relevant one-way linking partners who will link back to your website. As the online market place continues to warm up to the idea of SEO, link building has become main stage as it tends to be the most time consuming and important part of any internet marketing strategy. |
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Can Using Twitter Make You More Efficient?
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| Improve efficiency using Twitter? Really? It's all about connections. Read and learn! |
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Profitable Online Home Based Business Ideas and the Recession; Why Most People Fail in MLM’s
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| In this article I would like to compare the success rates of a profitable online home based business and the average MLM. Most MLM’s don’t want the public to know that around ninety seven percent of individuals coming into their business will fail. Those are not very good statistics. It does not necessarily mean the MLM is a bad company. I believe it has everything to do with the marketing concepts and strategies of the traditional MLM. |
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Beware of Home Staging Training Snake Oil
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| The Staging Diva®, warns aspiring home stagers to think twice about choosing a home staging training program because of the credentials it offers. |
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Top 10 Reasons Why Financial Disasters Are Inevitable
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| Proper money management and at least basic financial education is one of the biggest assets you can possess. It's not so expensive or unattainable as most people imagine. |
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Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession; Building Relationships
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| In the online internet based industry it is very easy to forget that we are still in the people business. People by the millions from all over the world want to create their own profitable online business. They all have fears and concerns. Which system do I choose? Which MLM is more reputable? The list goes on and on. But the biggest fear or concern that they all have in common is; the need to be associated with caring and honest people. |
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Try Lying to Build Your Legitimate Home Based Business
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| You're just starting to build a legitimate home based business and you've been told to promote yourself as an expert in order to build followers. Well, you're new at this, so how do you do that? I guess you have to lie. |
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How Does Google Search Engine Works?
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| Google is the undisputed king of the search engines. This leads to the question of how does Google work? |
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Summer Lovin' Happened So Fast...
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| Disclaimer: Before reading Brian Sullivan's "Lessons from Danny Zucko," it is necessary that you have seen the movie Grease at least two times. If you have not, please close this article immediately as its contents will make absolutely no sense to you. If you have seen the movie more than eight times, than there is absolutely nothing I, or my articles can do to help you. Your problems run much deeper. |
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Rediscovering the Classroom: How to Make Learning Fun
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| Studies have shown that people, both adults and children, learn best in different ways, ways that correspond to the ways they see the world. So how do you learn best? It's easy to discover your individualized learning style and change the way you feel about learning something new. |
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Lead On: Leading By Self Expression
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| There's nothing extraordinary about leaders. They simply know how to make it easy for others to work and interact together. |
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So Who The Hell Am I?
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| Many facets of life, business, and even the perception we hold of success, are based on the foundation of our special relationships and our judgment. Special relationships can be used to endorse �I am loved and wanted� or �I am dismissed and/or unimportant�. So, for example, if I am not invited to the party or I don�t get the promotion, or the bank won�t extend my overdraft I can use my special relationships to evaluate my own worth in a negative sense.
Rather than getting in touch with our own sense of who we are, we look to our special relationships to define us.
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Warren Buffett and his Effect on the Stock Market! Part 2
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| Buffet is indeed one of the greatest investors to ever walk the face of the earth, and his strategies and ideas carry tremendous weight. He influences the influencers and very often his beliefs are taken out of context and therefore misunderstood and lead to stock bubbles.
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Secrets For Making the Law of Attraction Work For You
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| There's been a recent explosion of awareness regarding "The Law of Attraction." The Law of Attraction takes the concept that like attracts like and applies it to conscious desire. In other words, your thoughts determine your experience. If you are already familiar with The Law of Attraction you may have already begun to apply it to your life. |
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Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession: Keys to Success Part 2
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| In the last article we discussed the need for change. Without the willingness to change, nothing will change in our life and circumstances. We can want change or things to change all we want. We can want change or desire for changes in our life till we are blue in the face, but nothing will happen till we take a step towards that change. You hear people all the time talking about wanting things to change in their lives, but sadly nothing ever does. Why? They seem to want things to change. They agonize over the things going wrong in their life, but nothing changes. In truth, things usually get worse. |
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Conversations with The Barefoot Millionaires presents #73: Employee = Sucker
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| The most terrifying and dangerous thing about being someone’s employee is that your future is entirely in their hands. Are you crazy?! I’m honestly asking! Why would you ever give someone that kind of power over you? |
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Introvert Myth - Are Introverts Aloof Or Something Better?
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| If you're an introvert you may be accused of being aloof, snobby, stuck-up, rude or seeming disinterested. Years ago this would happen to me and I believed it. All I could do, without the understanding I have now, is apologize. Today, I would be able to take the accusation and explain it. |
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I Know How to Do This!
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| I thought I had pre-paved a happy-go-lucky attitude towards being a mother. I had intended to let my son, Lucky, follow his own path and my job was to get out of the way. Ahem! Well, my little controller side came out in full force in ways I had not expected.
I started out by trusting that Lucky would find his own sleeping pattern. That didn't work. So, when he was four months old I swung to the opposite side of the issue. My child would forever more be on a sleeping schedule. This potentially could've worked if I were more relaxed about it. But I wasn't. I was in huge conflict with my mate, Steve, about my schedule and method of putting Lucky to bed. |
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See You on Venus...
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| The message is simple: you have the power to bring together the parts of your self that have become fragmented and to become one daring and truthful realisation of the perfect star you truly are |
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Slow Down to Make MORE Money
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| If you are sick of twittering till your thumbs fall off, facebooking and blogging until you have a headache, and networking neurotically, you have to read this article!
I can't tell you the number of entrepreneurs I speak to who will tell me all they are doing to "chase success" and then ask, "What else should I be doing?" While I admire their stamina, the truth is that their schedules are already staggering. They already have so much going on, it made me tired just listening to it! But we are ALL busy these days. And if we are NOT experiencing success, doesn't it make sense that we should ADD something to the equation?
Not always. Sometimes (most of the time) MORE is simply too much! Sometimes (most of the time) we need to slow down... to make more money, to accomplish more, to succeed wildly! |
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Crazy Talk or Clear Communication?
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| Most people have learned to hide their feelings. They've learned to be guarded because dropping the mask and being emotionally honest can lead to feeling vulnerable. In the heat of the moment, it can be hard to see how honesty and vulnerability might be good, how completely disarming they can be and how important they are to building trust and compassion. |
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How does a skeptic make money online?
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| How does a skeptic make money online? The answer to that question is "they don't". Once a skeptic, always a skeptic. Can a skeptic be reformed? Yes, with an open mind. This is our story about a skeptic that was converted into a successful home business owner.
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Working from Home the Barefoot Millionaire way. Today’s topic: HONESTY
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| Successful work-from-home entrepreneurs are often faced with the difficult dilemma of being brutally honest about a friend's new MLM opportunity or dancing around the truth to save his feelings. |
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Warren Buffett and his Effect on the Stock Market!
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| When Warren Buffett speaks, people listen. However, when he is misinterpreted or taken out of context his words carry so much weight that they can have a large negative effect.
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SEO Tips
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| I often have people asking me for tips on SEO. I never know what to say, because SEO focuses on a wide spectrum of areas. Would you like tips on the optimisation of meta-data, SEO link-building or perhaps keyword research? The fact of the matter is that SEO covers so many areas, and even so-called SEO experts don’t always realize just how many factors have to be taken into account. |
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Is It Nagging Or Is It Persistence
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| There is definitely a fine line between nagging and persistence. Who wasn’t told to stop “nagging” when they were a child? The truth is that children are the very best salespeople. They take the art of persistence, and oftentimes nagging, to impressive levels.
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Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Power of Duplication
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| Most people never see their online in-home business as a way to duplicate their own time and efforts. But if they have involved just one other person in their business, that is exactly what they have done. They have just doubled their own time and efforts. You can do that over and over, and teach the ones under you to do the same. Thats the power of duplication |
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Competency Based Interviewing
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| An article that explains the benefits of Competency Based Interviewing |
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This is why only a few people make money on the Internet
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| Have you ever wondered why only a few guys are really making money on the Internet compared to the millions of people that are signing up every day to some sort of home Internet business ?
What are these guys doing to make a success of it ? That is an important question and the exact opposite of what the majority are doing that cause them to fail within the first 30 days of any Internet business ? |
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Profitable online Business Ideas; Success and Failure Part 3
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| Why do some fail and some succeed? I believe the core reason is: desire. When you have a burning desire to achieve your goals, you will almost always succeeed! |
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Start a Gold Star Business Online – 3 Things You MUST Do to Succeed
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| Thousands of people are launching new businesses online every day, most of which will fail within their first year. How can you be in the 3% who will succeed? Why do most fail? What are the 3% doing right that everyone else fails to do? |
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Maximizing Results with Reward and Recognition
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| Does reward and recognition work? Want to learn how to squeeze that little bit extra out of people? Improve performance and increase results, read on to learn how... |
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Build Your Business with Networking
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| Being successful in business is less about having all the answers yourself than knowing where you can access expertise. Since you can't know everyone, you often rely on your friends or trusted colleagues for referrals, which is where your professional network comes in handy.
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String Me Along Why Don’t You
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| How do you avoid being strung along by customer and prospects? Why does this happen, how can you position yourself to minimize this aggrivation and what questions could you or should you be asking? |
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How To Separate Yourself From The Masses By Perfecting This Million Dollar Skill
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| Why did you click on this article? The easy answer is because you wanted to know what it was about, which of course is true. However, the deeper reason why you clicked on this article speaks to the very content that I'm going to talk about today. Words in print have tremendous power and if you can learn this one powerful skill, you can literally make money anywhere and at anytime. That skill is copywriting. |
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Learn to say ‘NO’
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| Giving away the margin and undercutting your prices because you can't say ‘NO' is no good for anyone. It devalues you, your product, and your market. If done on mass then customers expect ‘cheap' all the time, not fully appreciating the real value of the products or services they buy. All you do is risk devaluing you and your business. |
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Are your self-promotion tactics ethical or not?
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| Today it's not uncommon for some people to stretch the truth in order to get a job, get a sale, get ahead or just get noticed, but this behaviour raises some important issues about the good, the bad and the ugly of self-promotion... Proactive self promotion is essential in sales today because good work does not speak for itself anymore - You DO. So are your self-promotion tactics ethical or not? |
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Two Minute Truth: HOW to AVOID DEATH in a TOUGH ECONOMY
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| Learn one quick strategy for surviving a tough economy! Um.... not appropriate for the very sensitive animal rights activist or the chronic excuse maker! |
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Does It Pay To Advertise In The Yellow Pages?
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| As a marketing coach, one of the most common misconceptions that I run across in my business is that marketing = advertising. I've even had potential clients tell me (regretfully, of course) that although they need new clients to reach their sales targets, they can't afford to advertise, so they can't afford my services. |
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Who Is Your Ideal Client (And Why You Should Know)
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| One of the greatest misconceptions of new entrepreneurs is that "everyone" will want a certain product or service. While this may come as a shock to some entrepreneurs, there is no product, service, or idea that has ever been developed for sale that appeals to everybody. |
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Michael Jackson’s Comeback – Why You Can’t Wait to Show Your Gifts
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| Love him or hate him, Michael Jackson left a huge legacy in the world.Jackson’s sudden death shocked the world and it also made us realize that we can be here today and gone tomorrow. Find out how Jackson's legacy can inspire you to show your talents to the world. |
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Get Up Again When You Get Knocked Down
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| Why do we fall down? To learn how to get back up again. I remember hearing this in a movie not so long ago. We all have our set-backs and some of us take pretty hard hits. Encouragement along the road is part of the game. |
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Financials for Business Owners: More Than A Look In The Rear View Mirror
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| Financial reports are the least understood piece of business information for most business owners. Yet everyone expects a business owner to understand his financial reports. Banks want them and they're needed to prepare tax returns. If you're not an accountant, you probably don't know how to use them to manage your business.
Accounting is the language of business. The reports tell the story of how well your business is performing. Once you know what your financial reports can tell you, your accountant can provide the information in a format that makes sense and is quick and easy to read, even for a non-accountant!
This is the first in a series of articles that will put business owners back in control of their company and reduce the stress that comes from not being certain how well your business is performing. |
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LIVING A PURPOSEFUL LIFE
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| As a personal coach I am surprised and still taken aback by how often I encounter people who regardless of their age, station in life; their position, the power they wield, influence and money they possess, are not in touch with the very essence of who they are and by extension the purpose or meaning of their lives, or to put it more succinctly the very essential reason for their existence. |
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Pace The Race
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| Let david Oliver enlighten you with this practical method of stress management. Learn why athletes know it and lemmings apparently do not. |
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Lead Marketing- How to Work a Lead
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| Every entrepreneur knows he needs leads. But lead generation is only half the battle. What you do with the lead detrermines if you have a sale. |
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Saying Yes Always Means Saying No
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| In this short look at family work tension, David Oliver helps us look at the implication of saying yes too often and provides practical kesy to saying 'No' |
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Do You Wake Up Happy or Anxious?
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| Do you wake up anxious every morning? Discover what might be causing your anxiety and what to do about it! |
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"Proof, Confirmation and Marketing Success"
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| Let’s face it. We’re slammed each day with so many marketing messages that we stop believing most of them.
It’s easy to become anesthetized to the onslaught of infomercials, email blasts, and radio spots from corporations and entrepreneurs alike. |
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7 Tips for Building Relationships & Guaranteeing Repeat Business
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| Would you like to have customers return again and again to buy? Would you like to be first in line for additional orders and repeat business? Would you like to keep your customers for a very long time? |
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Having Inner Strength
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| Sometimes we hear things rattling around in our own minds or coming from our own lips that aren’t true. Have you ever made an off the cuff disparaging remark about yourself in front of someone and have them counter what you just said? This article helps you change your inner dialogue and beliefs about yourself into positive messages that will help you succeed instead of negative messages that will hold you back. |
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Let your mouth say what your heart wants to without your brain getting in the way
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| We waste so much time in business and in life because we aren’t straight with each other. We don’t say what we mean or ask for what we need for fear of being judged, ridiculed or even fired. It takes courage to speak from your heart and to speak your truth.
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Improving Morale After Redundancies
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| When the actual redundancy process is complete and the unfortunate employees are made redundant there remains the issue of low morale that inevitably continues for some time. Without close monitoring this can become a very serious issue to any business.
Once the reduction in employees has taken place the staff that remain will probably be expected to achieve more and may have additional responsibilities placed on them.
How do you get the best from your staff now that they feel uncertain about their future and how do you improve morale?
There are five key areas that need to be considered and worked with carefully on an ongoing basis.
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7 Tips to Overcome Cold Callin Jitters
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| Think of cold calling or telemarketing as having meaningful conversations where you may be able to add real value to a client. If you don't ask, you don't know! Also people can't love you/your service if they don't know about you! |
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The Art of Listening
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| Really listening to someone and caring about their feelings is a great gift, but it is important to understand when listening is appropriate and when it is not. |
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Fail Your Way to Success
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| The selling profession is not generally considered a high-risk profession, yet salespeople face big risks every time they speak to customers and prospects. What do they risk? They risk uncovering the truth. They risk finding out their best customer has just changed the rules of doing business. They risk discovering the prospect with whom they have invested so much time doesn't really qualify as a prospect at all. |
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The Incredible Four:4 Underestimated But Effective Ways To Grow Online Business
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| Have you noticed how some internet marketers seem to easily achieve more success than others in their online businesses? Regardless of how long they have been in business and the type of online business they start, they just become effortlessly successful. These internet marketers simply manage to redefine success in whatever they do! What is the secret for these successful internet marketers? What unusual strategies and tactics do they use which helps them become very successful? |
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The Importance of Uncovering Your Core Desires
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| If it seems that success and achievement are still eluding you then you are not alone. I often encounter people who tell me they feel discouraged and that they feel those things are unattainable for them. |
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Make it Happen!
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| If you want succeed at anything, there is only one way to make it happen. This article explains how to utilize that one thing to optimize your results. |
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Real Estate Marketing Strategies - Are You a "People Pleaser" or Are You Committed to "Win/Win"?
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| Are you letting your desire to please people get in the way of your business? Take control! Here are some tips to empower you and help you commit to "win/win" interactions. |
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PR for Musicians
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| Perhaps the most difficult question that a musician has to answer when it comes to public relations or marketing is - why? Isn’t having created the art enough? The short answer to that is no and particularly not now. If you want to reach your public and get your art exposure, you need to take control of your marketing and your career. This is particularly true in the music world. |
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STRESS & How to become Stress-Free Quickly !
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| This article is a first aid kit against stress. It provides fast solutions to handle and get rid of stress. |
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Can Honest Copywriting Succeed?
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| Honest copy is more effective than "hype copy" if it treats the reader as intelligent. Readers will believe honesty but see through hype. And yet, a good honest marketing piece can be just as captivating as hype, with none of the negative baggage. |
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Seven Reasons Why Ethics Helps Your Business Succeed-And Five Easy Action Steps
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| Top 7 reasons that ethics will help your business succeed. |
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Life Coaching | Business Coaching: How To Clarify Your Values
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| As people get busier and busier with their lives, career and work, often the things most important to them, get neglected. The path to a more fulfilling life is to honor your values on a daily basis. But how can you honor your values if they are not crystal clear to you, or if you have not even thought about them in a long time? |
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A Life Can Be Changed by a Few Simple Words
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| One way to become more aware of what we are doing day in and day out is to affirm the goodness that surrounds us and the goodness we can do for others. |
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How to Exterminate Mental ANTs
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| Have you ever had your day ruined by ants crawling around in your head? No, not the insect type, but rather the Automatic Negative Thought (ANT) variety. Everyone is bugged by ANTs at one time or another, but some people have more trouble holding off the infestation than others. |
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How to Write A Compelling Marketing Letter That Actually Gets Read.
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| Getting your marketing letter read hinges on the ability of the very first sentence to intrigue your reader and make them want to learn more. |
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So Why Do You Do What You Do?
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| In today's society we often put a lot of emphasis on HOW things are done. Present a plan with lofty goals to the board of directors of any company and surely they will ask you how you suppose those goals will be met. Apply for a mortgage and you will be asked to demonstrate how you plan to pay it off. Give a professor the correct answer to a complex question and chances are you'll be asked how you arrived at your conclusion.
The HOW is often so predominant that the WHY is sometimes completely forgotten, as if the WHY is of less importance. Nothing could be further from the truth. WHY you want something is infinitely more important than HOW you think you're going to achieve it. |
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A FEW SELLING DOS AND DON'TS
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| DO match and mirror the speed, tone and volume of the other person's voice.
DON'T speak in a monotone.
DO call for a specific reason such as to provide some information of value.
DON'T call just to check in.
DO go the prospect's web site first to see if they fit your ideal prospect profile.
DON'T randomly send out expensive (your time, material costs and postage) literature.
DO tell the truth even if you do not have the answer to a question at that moment.
DON'T try to fake like you know the answer to a question you don't.
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Being Present To Your Inner Brilliance
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| Learn key questions to ask when considering important business and life decisions |
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The Sales Force with Over Achievers Who Don't
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| I think that many CEO's are in denial.
Despite the struggles of their sales force, they continue to look at the pipeline and say to themselves, we'll be okay as soon as these deals close. But the deals aren't closing and with each passing day companies are less okay then they were the day before. |
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The Four Agreements at Work: An Inside Job
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In his book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz distills the essence of Toltec wisdom into four principles for living a life of value:
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
How elegantly simple and, as some might say, a “no brainer!” But simple wisdom isn’t common practice. While most of us believe we are impeccable with our word, we know others who are not. And most likely, others, from time to time, consider us far less than impeccable. |
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Are You Building Your Personal Brand?
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| The term personal branding is relatively young, but the concept is nothing new. Before the advent of the social web and its many opportunities for personal branding we just called it our “reputation.” If you’re old enough to remember building your career before the Internet became social, our reputation followed us from job to job. We used personal referrals through the relationships we built to maintain our reputation. Our reputation was built by our achievements and the relationships we built throughout our career. Those relationships included our peers, bosses, subordinates, customers, trade association colleagues and people in our community. |
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Doing MY Thing Minding MY Own Business
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| Does worrying about what others think of you, or what you are doing cause you anxiety and sleepless nights? Do you tailor your actions or behavior to the opinions of others? If so, then have I found a book title for you! I have not read the book by Terry Cole Whitaker, but when I saw it, it really struck a chord. The title is "What You Think of Me is None of My Business". How cool is that?! Doesn't it make you go, "hmmm"? |
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What Impact Are You Having On Others?
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| An article of 1432 words explaining how to make the impact you want in the lives of those you meet along your journey through life. |
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How to operate in 'I'm Okay' Mode
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| In the knowledge that your circumstances are never you, be aware that the world you see is not the world that is you. Open your heart to a readiness and a willingness to say ‘I can change my world’. |
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Who Are You?
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| Your sense of personal greatness is never more than a thought away. Start to see yourself as your own hero. Be the You you truly want to be and make your decisions based on the You that is connected to your inherent greatness. |
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A Website Is More Than A Shopping Cart
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| I had the pleasure of interviewing Christina Hills "The Shopping Cart Queen" in a live teleseminar for Wonderful Web Women. I asked Christina what were the most important things people should consider when setting up a shopping cart on their web site. Her answer showed why she has earned her reputation as an authority on using this software not just to set up a shopping cart but to build a strong business. |
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4 Golden Rules Of Affiliate Marketing
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| If you can provide solutions to people's pressing problems then you've got yourself the basis of a great business. Easier said than done right? Follow the 4 Golden Rules of Affiliate Marketing and your customers will love you (read: you make great money). |
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Leaders - Sometimes Their Own Worst Enemy
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| Leaders are often tempted by the tendency to pretend that "all is well" and the challenges are for others. Such could never be further from the truth and this mindset can prove to be their worst enemy. Learn how to combat this temptation in your journey for excellence |
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Tips to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking
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| Most people equate public speaking with large audiences packed with experts just waiting to challenge every word you say. The truth is, everyday public speaking is just the opposite from an adversarial environment. So why do so many people fear doing it? If you quake in your boots at the mention of public ppeaking, The Speech Wiz has three tips to share on overcoming this fear. |
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Can your customers be as loyal as a big brown dog?
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| Because most businesses monitor new sales as the key measurement of healthy, existing customers are often forgotten about until they "shop" again. While focusing on new business is important, so is building a relationship with those you've already sold. So, how does a business foster loyalty with its customers? Take a lesson from from the dogs... |
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Should I Use Article Marketing or Not?
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| Assessing whether article marketing should be used or not, by internet marketers, based on a few positives and negatives of the technique. |
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General Contractors Liability Insurance, Certificates of Insurance, the Misnomers
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| General Contractors Liability Insurance, Additional Insureds, Certificates of Insurance, the Misnomers.
Regarding General Contractors Liability Insurance and General Liability Insurance Certificates, there is a grand misnomer running rampant through the construction industry in NY, NJ and MA.
I only speak about these states because I am familiar with their laws as they apply to the insurance, construction industry and the labor law. Please check your federal (OSHA), state, city and local government for laws as they apply to the construction industry and the labor law. |
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How to Stop Wasting Money on Your Marketing
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| What would it be worth to you to know the most cost effective way to attract clients? The great news is that it doesn’t cost a thing and it’s easy to figure out. |
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Coping With Volatility In Your Business
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| When the volatility of the world is taking its toll, you may feel you have no other choice but to give in to it. But the truth is, you do have a choice. Here are some steps to consider.
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What evidence do we need to see in order to take action?
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| It takes passionate truth spoken by trusted individuals to change the status quo. |
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Succeeding With Clear Intent
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| This article looks at the need to develop clear intent in our lives and how this can move us beyond struggle and fear to help us fulfill our humanity while we are creating success in the world |
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The Art of Attraction Branding How to Receive Fun Charismatic Chatter About Your Brand
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| I admit it! In the past, I have fallen prey to a lot of the marketing hype. About a year ago I took a hard look at who my customers really were and how they found me. I realized that I need to stop hype and start being true, real and authentic with my core. |
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New Times
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| About community and how important we all are in creating these support systems of the future |
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So Be You
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| Instead of blending in, try standing out from your competition. Get it - so be you!
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Seven Key Words for Success
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| These seven words, when used properly, hold the key to finding answers and solutions to every problem, obstacle, or barrier you will encounter. When you are faced with a problem, look at this list to determine what you need to do or be to solve it.
1. Change
To make things different in your life, you have to make one or more changes. Change happens all the time, and there is nothing we can do about it. Few things in life are static or permanent, and the "status quo" is never permanent. There are only two things in life that never change: truth, and the fact that everything else changes. Regardless of your background, you can become more. |
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A Life Worth Living
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| To achieve your Core Desires-whether they are earning more money, enjoying more intimacy, or having more joy in your life-you need to grow, become more, learn, and change. How fast you grow is within your control; you can experience great growth if you desire it. But you can't just sense a need to change; you can't "sorta" want to be more or have more. If you are willing to grow, life as you have known it will never be the same. |
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Leadership and Reaching the Boiling Point
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| Leadership lesson, actually RELATIONSHIP LESSON for all of us: Learn to tell the truth without blame, judgment, or attack at the right time or be ready for the boil over, for it will come when you least expect it!!!
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Truth Is Stranger And More Exciting Than Fiction
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| “Gone With The Wind” is the classic. “Scarlett” is the follow-up to the classic. However, the original story had more than just a kernel of truth in it. There was a Rhett Butler, but his real name was Rhett Turnipseed. Scarlett O’Hara was Emelyn Louise Hannon. |
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The Truth of You
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| Become aware of and free yourself from how you are allowing other people, circumstances and events to manipulate your thoughts, actions and feelings.
Write your own 'Declaration of Independence' |
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No Excuse!
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| Find your excuses. Who or what are you blaming? Who or what are you using to justify staying stuck or unfulfilled or limited? It doesn’t have to be that way.
Be honest with yourself and identify one area of your life where you are using a reason (truth) as an excuse. Take responsibility for your own happiness. |
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The Art of Being Fearless: Knowing and Overcoming Fear In Everyday Business Life
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| After years of working with hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business, I know the #1 reason of failure is... fear. I believe if you procrastinate, feel stuck regularly or just plain direction-less… you are experiencing fear on some level. |
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Social Media Mistakes
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| With so much talk about social media these days, everyone is jumping on board and trying it out. We are seeing some common mistakes out there and I thought it was important to address these mistakes to help eradicate them in the future. |
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Keeping Your Word
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| I think most people will agree that keeping your word is a good thing. I know that when someone tells me they are going to do something that will positively impact me in some way, I want them to follow through. Deliver the goods as you have promised. |
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The Art of Attraction Marketing: What Persists, They Can't Resist
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| What persists, they can’t resist! How to market your business with consistent marketing messages.
This isn’t anything new for you hear -- I’m sure. The bigger question is… why? Why aren’t your marketing messages with consistent? |
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Take Charge to Create a Healthy Financial Future
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| An article of 1670 words detailing the beliefs systems that operate currently in our society that are leading us down the wrong path and will need to change if we are to build a healthy future economy |
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What Are You Waiting For?
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| There is no time like today to get started with a plan. Taking action is the only way to get you to your goal. |
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Breaking the Loop
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| Set your self from free self-defeating patterns and detach from your past. |
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Do Customers Really Buy Price?
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| We hear it all the time... but is that what they really buy? |
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First Sell What the Customer Wants; Not What You Want to Win More Sales
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| Keeping the sales tunnel or what others call funnel full is a never ending challenge. Yet, many sales professionals still attempt to sell what they want to the customer and fail to sell what the customer wants. This behavior ends up making the sales professional work harder and not smarter not to mention upsetting many potentially qualified customers. |
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Marketing Mythology Putting Lipstick on a Pig
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| So stop listening to those who offer well-meaning advice that doesn't feel like you. Don't change your website colors just because some study shows purple isn't seen as a power color. |
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The Evolution (Not Death) Of SEO
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| There is a lot of talk about the “death of SEO” and “the death of ranking reports” lately. It all stems from some sessions at PubCon in Las Vegas. |
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Questions On Guest Loyalty
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| A readers question about guest loyalty. Is it really an effort to encourage guest loyalty or just a frequency scheme disguised as a loyalty program? |
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Don't Feel Guilty For Getting Childcare Help To Do Some Work
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| If you're a mom who works from home and wants to be successful as a mother and at work, you've no doubt felt the competing tug from both your children and your work. It's easy to lose concentration on your work when you have little ones vying for your attention. |
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When is it okay to lie?
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| Tell your clients the truth so that they'll have a reason to trust you. |
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Growing Under Pressure
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| Courage is sometimes defined as “Grace under pressure”. |
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The Art of Email Marketing Campaigns Wealth Creation via Email Connection
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| Email marketing isn't about purchase this from me - today - now. It’s about writing, sharing and giving information to real people. It's about cultivating real relationships and providing incredible services to them. If you can offer authenticity, personality, humor and valuable information, subscribers will become eager to read your information and purchase products from you. |
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The Art of Asking the Right Questions
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| The truth is, most of us don’t know how to ask good questions, or when we do ask a really great question, it is by accident. There are several ways to ask questions. Some people seem really good at it, while others use a random, what-ever-pops-into-head approach.
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Whos in YOUR wallet A Power Networking Strategy and Year End Inventory
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| Do you know who the key people are in your network? Do you take them for granted? Make time to identify your highly effective connections, create strategies to strengthen those ties, and ultimately increase your bottom line!
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MAKING REQUESTS GRACIOUSLY
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| Much of my work focuses on encouraging people to acknowledge and harness the gifts and talents they already possess because I believe that kind of thinking leads to excellence and success. Part of acknowledging our strengths is making peace with our areas of weakness. This article teaches you how to graciously make requests of others in those situations where your own personal gifts, talents, time, money, etc. just aren’t enough to get the job done alone. |
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Encouragement
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| Encouragement helps people to be their ultimate potential. |
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"I’m Just a [Insert Your Title Here] Who Can’t Say No"
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| In my experience, most of the people I coach are truly capable of accomplishing anything they want to achieve. They are highly talented and highly gifted in their ability to make dreams become realities for themselves and for others. However, they often sabotage themselves by trying to do too many major projects at the same time. |
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Stuff - Yours and Theirs
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| Creating harmonious and fulfilling relationships is a challenge at times for all of us - in spite of our best intentions. It’s the human path. Stepping stones toward greater wisdom are provided in those tough, relationship moments by asking: “What is the learning for me in this?” |
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Taking Down Walls
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| Our walls or protective shields are the focus of this month’s article. The use of the word “protection” here is different than what would show up in an insurance policy, house alarm company, or in an article about practical ways to prevent physical harm. What is being explored here is the use of ‘protection’ in the feeling sense. |
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What matters most to the franchisors about the potential franchisee
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| Before you step into the 'searching for the perfect franchise' waters, it is good to know what they want to know about you. In this article we reveal the 6 vital questions that every franchise wants to know about you, the typical order of importance and most importantly 'WHY" they want to know. Having this knowledge will better prepare you for your search for your "Best Franchise Solution". |
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Do You Just have to be Brave to Sell?
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| It really steams me when some of the “sales gurus” suggest if you want to succeed in sales you have to overcome your fear of selling. They make it sound like a character flaw or something. Let’s separate the truth from the bunk. |
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Building a Highly-targeted Opt in List: When Money Lies Beneath the Lists
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| Having a website is not a guarantee that your online business will succeed. How will you succeed if people will not realize that your business exist online? The key to marketing is to get your business noticed… |
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Has Your Site Been Banned From Google?
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| Does Google Forgive? Forget the Sandbox – when you are in the doghouse, will Google ever “forgive” you and release your site back into the SERPs (search engine results pages)? |
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How to pass psychometric tests
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| 65% of employers use psychometric testing in recruitment and this article gives an insight into whether to cheat yours or not. |
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Improve Your Sales Training By Changing Fuel
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| Is your sales training where you want it to be? Maybe it is time to change fuel? |
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DON'T LET OBJECTIONS BE THE "KISS OF DEATH" TO YOUR SALE...
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| After more than 40 years in sales, and 30 years training sales people from more than 300 different industries, I’ve reached the conclusion that most sales people lack the vital skills necessary to handle objections. |
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“SEO On A Budget” Tips
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| It is true small businesses face some challenges that large companies may not. Small businesses typically have smaller budgets, less staff and more pressure as they try to get as much done as they can with a small team. It is true that those things do present a challenge however they do not preclude you from getting top rankings. |
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Entrepreneurs don’t take risks
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| What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
We often hear that being an entrepreneur requires taking great risks. I would like to explore a different point of view. |
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Becoming A Selling Machine
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| Discover the 10 steps that will transform you into a selling machine. Why be ordinary, when you can be extraordinary?
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Top Salespeople Secret #5 During a Down Economy: Treat Yourself
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| With so many demands in work and personal life, how is a salesperson to have time to treat themselves? And treat to what? Top salespeople take time off to plan; during down economy talk salespeople who plan from an inspired state have their sales accelerate. |
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Why I Left My Insurance Agent
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| I decided to switch because my new agent not only cared, but he helped me improve my existing coverage’s, which I was willing to do even if it meant paying a higher premium. (After all, why have insurance at all if it doesn’t protect us the way we want it to?) We connect with people for who they are |
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WHY CHANGE DOESN'T HAPPEN
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| While so many people seek to become more effective, more successful and more fulfilled, so few actually take the steps to implement the necessary change? Why? In this article Jonathan Payne explores on of the primary reasons for change not happening. |
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CANADA IS A COUNTRY OF MEDIOCRITY
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| Having been closely watching the American presidential race with a great deal of interest, and have to say being fascinated even enthralled by a number of the speeches, I recalled having read an article in the newspaper last year quoting a study or report that concluded Canada was a “country of mediocrity.” It stated that we are not particularly innovative, creative or willing to step up and take risks to move our society forward and become more of a leader in the world.
Just what is really being talked about here? |
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Who Are You?
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| After all, they’re HABITS. So once again, the best way to make the changes that we want is to enlist the help of people around us. Ask those people you trust to point out to you when you fall into those old habits that you want to break. |
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Businesses that provide what is needed and wanted
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| What would happen to your business if:
- you knew what the market needs and wants
- you knew what they were willing to pay for it
- you knew how to deliver it to the market and make a profit
In this article, I introduce the concept of providing what is needed and wanted as a foundation for Business. |
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