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Win More Sales By Better Qualifying Your Potential Customers Also Known As Prospects
Even in the best of times, sales professionals need to qualify their potential customers (a.k.a. prospects). When times are less than positive, this sales skill set is even more necessary. However, due to some in sales feeling desperate, they are investing their one resource that cannot be replenished, that being time.

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Powerful Negotiation Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Each day we face some opportunity for negotiation. Let’s face it, negotiation is a part of our every day life and dare I say that almost everything is negotiable? So being able to acquire powerful negotiation skills so you can negotiate effectively and successfully can make a big difference in your outcomes. The use of strategic thinking is a natural fit in negotiations and is critical to successful outcomes. One of the first things you must realize to become a powerful negotiator is that negotiation is a skill and that this skill must be mastered in order to get almost any deal you want with less effort than you could imagine. To help you acquire the skills of a powerful negotiator, here are twelve (12) powerful negotiation tips from your strategic thinking business coach.

Magnetic Marketing: 7 Secrets to Becoming an Irresistible Sales Communicator With Integrity and Power
Would you like to learn the secrets of the most influential, powerful people of all time? Attract more sales and negotiate more win/win outcomes? Become a masterful communicator and a magnet for endless referrals? Despite what most books and seminars teach, successful selling is not a set of strategies, techniques or tactics to get the prospect to buy. Rather it is a state of mind – yours and your customer’s – and set of behaviors that creates compelling win/win outcomes for everyone. Read this article ONLY if you want to explode sales, win negotiations and create win/win outcomes with integrity and power.

WASTING YOUR TRAINING BUDGET
Until organizations move from “quick fix” training interventions to a willingness to define exact outcomes and engage in a long term process to reach those outcomes, most of the training budget will continue to be wasted.
Unintended Consequences of Hybrid Vehicles
I heard a "superb" cynical statement today. I have no idea if it is factually correct, have no data (empirical or anecdotal) to support it, but it is such a great potential example of unintended consequences that I thought it was worth putting out there.
ARE YOU MANAGING FOR RESULTS
If you manage others in your organization, you are responsible for identifying business objectives, establishing a clear set of expected outcomes, creating policies and procedures to guide daily activities, aligning appropriate resources, and providing the development and support necessary to maximize the likelihood that expected outcomes are achieved. How would you grade yourself in all of these areas?
Marketing is in the Details: Sears Catalogue Disaster
Marketing can make or break your business. Marketing is about sending messages. Marketing is everyone's responsibility because each staff member sends messages about your business. Often your unintended messages have a greater impact then your intended messages. What affects your marketing messages the most? Details! Are you attending to the little details that make or destroy your marketing message?
There's Opportunity in that Crisis
Quantum Theory promotes the existence of limitless outcomes for each and every situation. The outcome we experience is the outcome we choose to see. Pay attention to that. Any outcome is available to us - we choose what we experience. When we change our thoughts and expectations - we change our outcomes.
Sometimes Unintended Consequences Are A Good Thing
We’re all familiar with the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” My personal favorite is still the plastic whistles that were packaged with Cap’n Crunch cereal back in the ’70s. Blowing the whistle into your phone triggered a connection to AT&T’s long distance dialing AND by-passed their billing system. Free calls! Not exactly what Quaker Oats had in mind. (…and Ma Bell was not pleased.)
Today’s Definition of Strategic Planning
A quick Google search for definitions of strategic planning will yield numerous variations. Often these definitions point to the blatant misunderstanding of what strategic planning truly is. At other times the term is flat out misused. In the end, we find that strategic planning lacks a widely accepted definition. It seems everyone in the field of planning has a different view on the exact definition. Yet, the definitions we most embrace, convey in one form or fashion, that the idea of strategic planning is to build and sustain competitive advantage by defining desired outcomes and creating some sort of go-forward plan to achieve those outcomes. This article offers a modern definition of corporate strategic planning.
Giving Dangerously – Advice for Three Types of Female Entrepreneurs
Many female entrepreneurs want to give. They strive to find new, positive ways to do so, all the time. An unintended – and unfortunate – byproduct of this spirit is that these women end up feeling exhausted and drained. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way. This article outlines tips for three types of female entrepreneurs so they can continue giving – while replenishing their own resources.

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