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Pre-written emails to the rescue
Email is awfully invasive, no way around it these days, but it’s also awfully effective for all types of communication and response.
GAPS, SWOT and Segments, Oh, My
SWOT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. When performed normally, this type of analysis yields almost cursory and useless results. Typical responses when looking at an organization as a whole include comments about having good people (a strength), lacking suitable space (a weakness), growth of a business in a strong economic market (an opportunity) or the presence of a competitor (a threat). This provides a brief snapshot of where an organization is and what might be on the horizon in very high overview. This approach contains only the singular dimension of flat area.

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How To Cost Effectively Double Your Client Base
It seems everyone I talk to says that it is getting harder to get responses from their marketing.
Why paying attention to where you are in the business lifecycle will help you - part 3
In parts 1 and 2, I discussed the first 4 phases of a typical business lifecycle; from its very first days to reaching maturity. In this article, the last of the series, I’ll discuss typical characteristics of a business that has developed to a stage where its owners are expanding. I’ll also discuss how to identify a business that has reached its peak and is now declining and the merits of reviewing exit strategies for its owners.

GAPS, SWOT and Segments, Oh, My
SWOT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. When performed normally, this type of analysis yields almost cursory and useless results. Typical responses when looking at an organization as a whole include comments about having good people (a strength), lacking suitable space (a weakness), growth of a business in a strong economic market (an opportunity) or the presence of a competitor (a threat). This provides a brief snapshot of where an organization is and what might be on the horizon in very high overview. This approach contains only the singular dimension of flat area.
Persistence.
I’ve often been curious to hear the responses given by individuals of substantial success when asked about their methods or secrets. The secrets of the wealthy, the winners, the business elite. Over the years, I’ve heard some remarkable responses, and some quite simple doctrines as well. I once at a conference listened to a rather engaging older gentleman profess that his secret was writing goals on a small piece of plywood, and then sleeping with it under his pillow. Honestly I thought to try it, once, no more than twice, but the idea of an inordinate amount of splinters ravaging my cheeks kept me from running to Home Depot for sharpies and 2×4’s.
Profitable Online business Ideas and the Recession; Increase Your Income
In these economic hard times everyone senses a high degree of fear and unrest. The typical reaction most people have is to “tighten your belt!” Many people will seek a part time job. Others will cling ever tighter to the job they have. Cutting corners and shaving the family budget is surely the norm. All of these things are a typical reaction. But is there another way?

Ask These Questions Before Becoming A Franchisee
Recently I took a short business trip which required some air travel. My traveling companion on the way back, not getting my subtle hint of isolation that my Ipod Touch and headphones projected asked me about my trip and then my profession. What followed was a series of questions that started out in very familiar terms: "You know, I have always wondered about getting into business for myself but I'm not sure I'm qualified or that it's right for me. " What followed was most of the following questions that are commonplace and typical. So, in only a mild order of importance or, more to the point the way they seem to flow, are my twelve or so typical questions people have burning in their bosoms about franchise business ownership. Check them Out...
Why DO Idiots Eat Their Young? And, Is it a Bad thing?
If we compare the typical "idiot" in business to the starving family patriarch in the cruelest of winters, interesting parallels start to surface. Consider the challenge of feeding a family to the typical business leader that must financially feed his or her team. Imagine the bad winter as analogous to the challenging business climate and the story starts to sizzle.

No is a Positive Outcome in Sales
There are numerous studies that reveal that 87% of sales people working the telephone give up after the first attempt. By extrapolation this means that only 13% follow up more than once. Another 10% give up after a second call. Only about 3% of reps follow up more than twice. Which do you think have a higher rate of success? To get more positive responses you have to hear more nos. You hear more no’s (and more positive responses) by following up every lead and every opportunity. To get more positive responses you must be tenacious on following up leads. Get the ‘no’s’ out of the way. Being perseverant and persistent is the key and it requires two things: a follow-up system and self-discipline.

Marketing Accommodation Options to Mature Age Prospects.
An Article I wrote with the provocative title "The End of Retirement Villages? Yes Please!" generated a few robust responses from Australian providers of community-style accommodation for the 55+'s - which they typically choose to market as "Retirement Villages". Those responses have confirmed I need to clarify the concerns I attempted to raise in that article - firstly the importance of selecting, and communicating, the right name and market position for your accommodation option's target, and secondly, changing the reality of the lifestyle your accommodation option offers to prospective residents.

Do you work with jerks?
Did you ever wonder how much time is spent being annoyed (or annoying others) at work? A whopping 93 percent of workers report being negatively affected by an inability to deal with conflict on the job. They are told to "forget it", "deal with it on personal time" or "it's no big deal". Fortune 500 HR executives spend up to one-fifth of their time dealing with litigation activities. And a typical manager spends about 30 percent of a typical day dealing with disgruntled employees.
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