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Being FULLY PRESENT to Life
Fulfillment happens in the present moment. Most people spend their time fretting about the past OR worrying about the future. Do you know anyone like this? We live in a fast-paced world, and the concept of slowing down and appreciating each moment may seem like a waste of time. However, it is in the present moment where you will find FULFILLMENT and joy.

Getting your articles read!
Articles are supposed to be read, that's their purpose to impart your message and information. If it is not read then it is a waste of time and effort.

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The Magic and Tragic Words of Marketing
Magic words propel great ideas towards profitability. Tragic words doom great ideas to failure. Guerrillas know the difference.

How the perfect marketing plan would work
Depending upon who you ask a marketing plan is either a necessary evil or tremendous waste of time. - That’s such a shame, but I think I’ve finally come to understand why this is.

The Second Deadly Workplace Sin: Envy
Recently, I read an article from Careerbuilder.com about the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. Two days ago, I gave you my take on Pride. This morning, it’s all about Envy.

Altucher: College is "Abhorrent"
I love my friend James Altucher dearly -- and not just because his hair makes mine look half-decent, nor because he pitched in and helped last week at the Money:Tech conference -- and his column in yesterday's FT is another reason why. Blunt, smart, contrarian, empirical and irreligious, those are James's calling cards.

All Tweet and No Cattle
Today I’m going to take on a topic that may not be altogether popular in some social media circles, but it’s a message that small business owners need to wrestle with.

Stop Wasting Your Time With Social Media
If you have no precise marketing strategy, or even a simple set of marketing goals, social media participation will only serve as a glorious way to highlight that your business is precisely like every other business that says they do what you do. (That’s a nice way of saying you are doomed to compete on price.)

Working from Home in an Online Business: A Guide to Getting Started
In this day and age, many men and women are finding that working from home can provide an attractive avenue to earn an income outside of the traditional work place. This trend has become more common place in recent years, but with the volume of business opportunities out there, how do you know what is a real opportunity and what is a waste of time and money, and secondly, where do you start?

The Three Things A Job Seeker Must Know to Use Social Networking as a Job Search Tool
Social Networking is the rage right now. Using them in a job search can be amazingly helpful or an incredible waste of time. This article gives some ideas of how to use these networks successfully.

Preparing for Sales Training - Becoming Change Ready
I just took a talented group of salespeople through three days of training. Perhaps you've been in a situation just like that at some point. There are several ways this group can approach integration, application and execution at the end of the training.

How You Can Get Your Salespeople to Do What They Don't
Please read this article the way I intended to write it. First, what it is not. It is not an article about how I lost 40 pounds. Nor is it an article about why I lost 40 pounds. Instead, please read this as an article about how to get people to change.

Lesson #2: “So what if it’s just fun?”
“We were working at Odeo, but we weren’t as passionate about the podcasting service as we should have been,” recalls Stone. “We weren’t using it, and that was a problem. Twitter got started because Ev gave us some freedom to think along different lines.”

Network Marketing Secret of Success: A System
Have you ever wondered what is the secret to owning a successful network marketing / home based business? It is really as simple as having a simple system for all areas of your work at home business.

CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: Busting the Myth

This article originally appeared in The National Networker It’s time to shatter a few illusions now. I’m sorry but networking groups do not produce referrals. That may disappoint a few people who have spent a lot of time and money joining groups in the hope of generating new business. Hours spent at breakfast meetings, lunches and chatting over canapés when you could have been watching The Apprentice…..all wasted.

Your software is only a tool
Don't let your accounting software make the decisions. It is only a tool to help you to organize the data.

Are you interesting enough?
You don't demonstrate that you are genuinely interested in others by being totally self-focused. The mistake many businesses make is -everything they do and say is all about me, me, and me!

How To Break The 3 Commandments of Network Marketing Prospecting
There are 3 commandments in network marketing prospecting that have been around since the birth of multi-level or network marketing. These commandments should never be broken. I didâ€¦ you should too.

How to Hold Motivational Meetings
Motivational Managers run structured meetings with clear objectives where people have fun and resultantly contribute and get things done.

Network Marketing Industry truths

This is a view observed / established from a very early foray and the recent (four years of seriously building my networking (online business)) knowledge gained from being around the industry. Your views may differ and you may not agree, however it is my view and is not intended to offend anyone. There are hundreds of thousands of decent folks out their operating an online business from the comfort of their homes. It’s just a shame our chosen industry is marred by those that are deceitful just to squeeze the extra buck or penny from those that do not belong.

CES ... Plan, Prepare, Be Patient, Good Luck!

Every day around the globe there are hundreds of conferences, conventions, events being held -- some small, some big, some too big -- CES is a lot like the latter but after 20+ years of attending it's hard to break a bad habit of hitting Vegas right after the new year begins. Our holidays have been "interrupted" so long by getting client materials together we almost believe everyone celebrates Christmas the end of January. CES isn't just a consumer electronics show. It's evolved into probably six-seven different shows and only Vegas is big enough to handle it. While we love to watch newbies hit the strip seasoned veterans know it takes planning, focus, good shows to get the most out of the event. You can't see them all -- don't try, don't get sidetracked. Or ...knock yourself out!!!!

Social Media: Should you or shouldn't you for your business?
After speaking at a recent Womenâ€™s Network Australia event in Brisbane, and watching everyone take lots of notes, I decided to put some of my talk down into a paper. There is a lot to cover in this sphere, so here are some points to help people utilise social media more effectively.

How to be interesting

When you get the opportunity to speak with and meet a new customer, don't make the conversation all about you, make it about them. What makes you more interesting in business than your competitors is your capacity and willingness to be genuinely interested in customers. Furthermore, this interest should always transcend into a valuable relationship that benefits them in a unique or compelling way.

Intrinsic Motivation - Getting Your Mind Into Gear
Becoming a top-notch marketer is impossible without a proper mind-set. In this article we will look at ways to change our ways of subconscious thinking by means of existing technology.

Increase Productivity and Profitability by Simply Eliminating Gossip
Do your employees gossip? Have you ever considered the financial impact to your bottom line? What can you do to eliminate it?

Whada ya rates?

Please train your people in how to make proper, well intentioned business/sales phone calls - it's not difficult. A half day session in the ‘how to' will get you started, followed by some pithy little sessions with your team on a regular basis to share what's working well, etc. I know I sound like June Dally-Watkins (famous deportment teacher) but as the saying goes ‘You never get a second chance to make a good first impression'. Good manners, grace, and courtesy go a long way.

5 Good Reasons to Not Go to a Seminar
There's a plethora of great seminars out there. How do you decide if you should sign-up? Here's 5 ways to help you make the best decision.

Navigating the World of Differing Opinions For Real-World Success
What you perceive is what you experience as real. Differing perceptions are at the bottom of so many unending arguments about who is right and who is wrong, serving no purpose other than to create conflict and push people apart. Real success in life comes from the ability to understand differing perceptions.

Finely Unemployed, The True Mark Of Success for an Entrpreneur
Unemployed is the true mark of success for an Entrepreneur. When working for some one else is no longer the only option and the freedom of time and money is the new way, yes being unemployed is a good thing. Becoming an Entrepreneur is a big step and it starts with a decision not to follow the norm . To take charge of ones life and be solely responsible for the out come.

Is Personal Branding Really Effective?
Personal branding is a hot topic these days. An entire industry has grown up around it seemingly overnight. Personal branding gurus claim that branding yourself is the key to success in this new economy. And yet, there's something often repulsive about personal branding that can make it backfire if you're not careful.

Variables for Wealth Creations-The Roles of the Internet

The major variable for creating your wealth is you. Just like me, you were neither born with some millions working and waiting in the bank for you to clock 18 nor were you born with a last name that could open doors of influence, and opportunities. We share the reality of challenging the burden of today to create an endurable wealth that we can enjoy today and pass on to our coming generations. The choice between maintaining the status quo and pass it on as received or becoming a pacesetter..........

Cold Calling Tips: Check Your Calling Attitude
Many people want to generate new business in a short space of time but few relish the prospect of using the phone. The main thing holding you back is your own cold calling/telesales attitude. It's costing you business so find out how to deal with it here.

Cold calling is daunting. Got any tips?
Yes I do, in fact - Don't cold call! Not unless you are selling in a way that is radically different or fundamentally better than everyone else. Then maybe you stand a chance, but the odds are stacked heavily against you. I couldn't tell you the last time a cold caller cut-through and engaged me emotionally over the phone. In fact, I dare say I have never purchased something from a cold caller.

What are the 2 Missing Links that Guarantee Sales Strategy Failures?
Have you ever wondered why so many hopeful business owners fail in spite of having a good product or service to sell? The reason isn’t location. It isn’t even insufficient start up cash.

Pay Per Click and Search Engine Optimization – Excellent Unioin
Pay per click or search engine optimization, which one should you use? Many view PPC marketing as a colossal waste of money while others disdain search engine optimization. In reality, the two marketing strategies form a perfect marriage.

One of the Most Important Sales Skills
When it comes to selling your services many find it a frustrating experience. You are after all virtually selling thin air.

Ideas for a home based business online working on autpilot
Whenever someone looks for a home based business they have to choose between a lot of opportunities on the web, often sick and tired of chasing the “next best” job, trying one method after the another, when they only want to do something that really works.

The Impact of Mental Conditioning
Discover how your thinking, mindset, conditioning and programming will make the difference in your short and more importantly long term business success. Read on to learn more...

String Me Along Why Don’t You
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?

Staging Diva Calls Home Staging Consultation Reports a Waste of Time
The Staging Diva, Debra Gould, advises stagers to not waste their valuable time writing home staging consultation reports and shared why your time is better spent elsewhere.

Twitter - How to Write Tweets That Get Peeps to Take Action
Probably the biggest question I get asked is if social networking is worth it or a big waste of time. Well, if you're doing social networking to make money, and you aren't making money, then it most certainly is a waste of time. If you¹re on Twitter then here are 3 more tips to make those tweets as compelling and persuasive as possible.

180 and 360 Degree Assessments for the Sales Force

There are not a lot of companies that undertake 180 degree or 360 degree assessments of the sales force and that's a good thing because there are so many limitations. The 180 - The salesperson or sales manager does a self-rating on the predetermined competencies and attributes and the individual's boss conducts the same ratings. The 360 - The sales manager does a self-rating on the predetermined competencies and attributes and both the sales manager's boss and the salespeople that report to the sales manager conduct the same ratings. So the 180 and the 360 are nearly the same except for the number of people and the vertical depth. What are the limitations?

WHY THE F*** WOULD I WANT A BLOG?
The PR Guru explains why blogging IS worth the effort!

Focusing on the Outcome
Learn how focusing on the outcome, rather than your products and services, can help you connect with customer needs.

The Barter System -- Overlooked and Underrated
The barter system is one of the most overlooked and underrated forms of business development available today. Bartering is one of the fastest ways to BENEFIT your business almost overnight.

Why You Need a Success Mindset

You hear it all the time: Success is a state of mind. Some would argue that success is a natural result of proper planning, preparation and focused action – and that viewpoint certainly holds a grain of truth. But there are also many exceptions to disprove that "rule." Have you ever wondered how two people can attempt the same objective in the same way and only one of them succeed? Is it sheer luck? Timing? Tenacity? More often than not, it's a person's mindset that determines whether they fail or succeed.

No one sees a Naked Telemarketer
In my humble opinion, cold calling is a waste of time. When was the last time you purchase something from a cold call telemarketer?

In front of the customer - selling face-to-face
When we eventually get an appointment with a decision maker we will need to make sure that we maximise our chance of getting the business.

Marketing on a Shoestring
Marketing doesn't have to be costly, but it is a necessity. Here are some overall tips for getting the most out of your marketing.

How effective is your Advertising?
Have you ever heard of Guerrilla Marketing? It’s an effective way of marketing execution for mostly small businesses but its techniques can be applied in huge corporations as well.

Whats all the fuss about Twitter
Twitter, it seems is everywhere at the moment. You can’t listen to a radio show or turn on the TV without hearing something about it - and you’d be forgiven for believing that everyone is using it at the moment.

6 Critical Elements in Creating Successful Web-Marketing Campaigns
Marketing can be an extremely frustrating and expensive exercise if we mistakenly view it as merely an advertising function. Any discussion of marketing should be preceded by a definition of exactly what we mean by marketing: marketing is not just sales, or advertising, or promotion, but rather a combination of all these functions plus more.

Manage Fear of Failure
Clues from past sucesses can help up beat fear of failure.

It just didn't matter
In negative times, not all you hear need matter but if you aren't careful you can let it matter when it needn't.

Is Twitter For The Birds?
So you've signed up to Twitter. But you're unsure as to it's value. This article explains how you can get value from the social media scene and Twitter.

Five Ways Hispanic Business Owners Can Boost Sales with Promotional Products

Let's face it. In today's world, people are bombarded with advertising so it can be hard to market your business effectively. Promotional products offer a unique and affordable way for Hispanic business owners to get their name out to potential customers without being obnoxious. Promotional products range from pens to totes to key chains, all with your company's name and contact information imprinted on them. Here are 5 ways Hispanic business owners can boost sales with promotional products

DISPLAY TOOLS and MATERIALS
This article explains what every store owner needs on hand to create basic displays.

CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: The Need for a Strategic Approach to Networking
The first of a regular article based on the premise, Connecting is Not Enough. Looking at why and how to develop a networking strategy for businesses to thrive.

Leads for the Sales Force - Not
I received an email last week from a LinkedIn connection promoting his new super duper lead engine that connects salespeople with the most powerful buying influences in the world. Wow.

Start A Email Marketing Campaign For Extra Retirement Income
With the world’s economy heading for a recession and investors seeing their retirement savings taking a serious hit, many are searching for ideas to earn supplemental retirement income. Starting a Internet home business is an option many are choosing and running a successful email marketing campaign is a vital part in order to earn money from home.

How and When to Use Exit Interviews
As we come off the “expansion” phase of business and commerce in this country and face serious “contraction” with layoffs in record numbers, will companies have the wherewithal and be organized enough to collect employee feedback as part of their broader exit strategies? It remains to be seen.

Beware Gangs Of Time Thieves Are On The Prowl
How many thieves steal your time?

What Great Online Advertising Really Is!
Should there be a distinction between sales and marketing online?

3 Simple Reasons that Will Help You Sell More
Before you can sell anyone anything they must first have an unfulfilled want. Why do so many salespeople act in defiance of this simple truth? It’s a sure recipe for a lot of hard work with little to show for it. It’s an exercise in frustration, and a waste of time.

Getting the Best Out of Your Franchise Agreement

You’re at that crucial point which will start your franchising career, that moment when you put your signature down on the dotted line of the franchise agreement. Signing isn’t as easy at it sounds, though. Reading the terms and clauses in the agreement may send you into a whirlwind of second thoughts. By the time you actually get to the dotted line at the bottom of the contract, you’ll be wondering what you’re getting yourself into.

Shrink Your Reading Pile Down with a 5-10 Minute Reading Folder
I am always clipping out (or tearing out) articles from various professional and personal magazines that I will read "some day." I have been doing this for years (say, way back to those high-school days believe it or not…) I used to get so frustrated because I never found the time to get to the articles and they just kept piling up on my floor or desk. Then someone helped me!

Supply Management - 8 Tips for Keeping Your Supplies in Order
So how many push pins and paper clips do you really need at your desk? Office costs are going up by the minute and we are frequently to blame! Walking by the supply room... we grab a few boxes "just in case" not really knowing if we need the item or not. So, we end up with a bunch of stuff in our office or cube that takes up room and that we do not use! So, consider these tips for your space.

Don't just sit there, phone someone!
Many sales people dislike prospecting. For some that is face to face prospecting and for others it is prospecting on the telephone. I've identified the factors that make the difference between a successful prospector and a sales person who hate prospecting. Prospecting is a skill. Once you develop these skills, prospecting is easy.

If You Build It Will They Come
Assuming that a website will automatically attract customers is the single biggest mistake that many business owners make. It is this mistake that eventually leads them to dismiss their website as a failure and abandon their online sales efforts.

Tips on Writing Yellow Pages Ads
When most small businesses start up they automatically think: “If I get a Yellow Pages ad all will be well”. The challenge is that over the past few years the way people search for businesses has changed. It used to be that whenever anyone wanted to find a business they went straight to the big yellow books. Now the majority of people will go to their computer first.

Emotional Intelligence Training Case Study Medrad
Emotional Intelligence Training: Case Study.

Recognizing Uncertainty
Is uncertainly a bad thing? Maybe we just need to view it differently.

I Cant Use National Media Coverage
Don’t limit your PR horizons. Remember, nothing impresses the media more than media. National media establishes you as an expert. Now you're national news and you're in a position to garner local news.

Online Social Networks - Part 4: Optimizing True Social Networks Like MySpace, Facebook & Ning
The tips in Part 4 are valuable, not only for authors, but for any person or business that has a product or service to sell. Following these tips will open up endless marketing possibilities to increasing numbers of people worldwide.

Working for the Right Person
People who are winning at working work for the right person - the one looking back in mirror. That differentiation changes everything. It's easier to know what jobs to seek, skills to enhance, and opportunities to seize. It's easier to know when you should change paths, companies, or bosses. And it's easier to weather workplace stresses when you're the one holding the compass for your life.

Ezine Article Marketing: How to Use Article Marketing with Ezines Effectively?

Article marketing: A form of advertising that involves posting articles you have written or that have been written for you, on one or more article syndication sites on the Internet. Others may then republish your articles for their blog, website or ezine resulting in driving traffic to your website. Ezine article marketing is a cost saving way to promote your business that is mostly under utilized.

Start a Work at Home Internet Business - 2 Mistakes to Avoid
Do you want to save time and money when running a work at internet business? This article will show you how by letting you know 2 big mistakes you have to avoid when starting and running your work at internet business.

Creative Techniques that Make Business Writing Stand Out
When most writers think about marketing materials, press releases, and how-to writing projects, they assume creativity is a waste of time and energy. Why not give it to them straight—right? But business writing doesn’t have to all business. Business writers can borrow several techniques from their creative writing counterparts to make their marketing materials fresh and unique.

Making Meetings Matter
How to make meeting matter more.

Knowing When to Say, “Next!”
Knowing your industry, and being able to "read" the intentions and buying styles of individual customers makes all the difference. It's a skill and it can be learned. If you are in business, you are in sales. Get good at it.

Lessons from the Gym that Can Help Your Business
It's been a difficult journey toward becoming fit, but it reminded me of a few lessons that apply equally to building a business. The following are a few of the lessons I have learned from the gym.

Dispelling the green myths

As more people “wake up” to climate change we are seeing a lot of effort put towards starting to reduce our collective green-house gas emissions. Unfortunately however, there seems to be a lack of quantitative data being applied to many of these efforts, and consequently the media, individuals and business are often focusing on the wrong issues rather than putting the efforts towards combating the main contributors to our carbon footprint.

Starting a Business on the Internet
Often, retirement is the time when most baby boomers contemplate the idea of starting a second career. There are number of ways in which baby boomers can earn some additional income, one of which is starting your own online business. If you are one of those who want to have a booming online business, you may want to consider some useful tips listed in this article.

The Power of Productive Team Meetings
Recently I facilitated a strategic planning day for a small accounting practice. During the course of the day we reviewed the progress they had made since the last major planning day we had the year before. As we were reflecting on their achievements before planning the future, one of the partners made the comment on how crucial their weekly team meetings were.

How Compelling is Your Direct Marketing Message?
This article talks to how to improve your message to make it resonate with more would-be customers. It also takes into consideration generational attributes, particularly the Gen-Xers that are one of the largest purchasing audiences today.

National PR for a Local Story
Don’t be afraid to shoot for national coverage, think of national media as being local media with a huge spillover.

Here Is A Quick Way To Improve Your Performance Review
The annual and dreaded performance review. Do you prepare for it? It is a waste of time? It's your personal review...so prepare!

Maximise your PR with Thought as well as Action
How a PR pause can help you plan effective PR goals.

Stop By All That Business Your Are Driving By If You Want to Increase Sales
Most sales people drive by more business than they will ever realize. Read how this one simple strategy can increase your sales.

Make a Difference - Sweat the Small Stuff First
In 'Leadership', Rudy Giuliani makes a very important point about how vital it is to make a visible difference, however simple and even ineffective that might seem. Yet how much can we do to affect positively the businesses or organisations we lead and manage ourselves.

SEO - Paying Attention to Google's Advice
Google accounts for about 64% of all search engine searches of the Internet. This is not a search engine to ignore and certainly if you optimize for Google, you're pretty much set for good results.

Internet Home Business Tips Email Marketing
In many cases batch email marketing can be waste of time any money, especially if you are sending emails to people who have not agreed to accept emails from you. In that case it could be considered spam and lead to being booted off your internet service provider...

Domain Web Hosting

Many people think that finding a reliable and secure domain web hosting company is the most important part of starting up a website. While that is certainly an important part of it, I’m of the belief that designing your site with an eye to the viewer is of more value. After all, what good is a website that is up and running and has enormous bandwidth capacity if nobody wants to visit your site in the first place?

Success Or Failure?
Successful people just seem to get a lot more done in a day than unsuccessful people. The main reason is successful people keep the main thing the main thing. Success is not an accident.

The Secret Life of Coaches
How clients use other subjects to distract themselves and their practitioners from getting to the real problems.

5.7 The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper process: Working Out of Poverty
The ILO experience

Change Habits to Change Life- How to Shift Habits and Attain New Results
It is mind boggling that no one has ever told us to check in on our habits to see how they are serving us when ultimately they create the results we are getting day after day. Learn how to shift habits to attain new results.

Just One More Time – Breaking Rocks to Make a Sale

Several years ago when we had our new home built in Las Vegas, we immediately put in a pool and hot tub. Of course the pool company convinced us that we needed a waterfall as an added design element for the pool. Several more thousands of dollars later, we agreed. When they got to the point when they started to build the waterfall, a very large crane showed up in the street adjacent to our house, along with a flatbed truck with these gigantic red boulders. I asked the project manager what that was all about, and he said, “That’s your waterfall.” I said, “No way do we want a giant pile of rocks,” in which he replied, “Just be patient and you’ll see.” So the crane lowered these small mountains into our yard and shortly afterward a crew of waterfall builders showed up.

Need Inspiration? Get A Deadline
If you are looking for inspiration, maybe one of your best moves is to get a deadline from an editor. It will eliminate any time to fool around and waste time.

Waste Not!
Waste is not the stuff you throw in the bin. It is all the things you do in your business that waste time and money. The Japanese know a thing or two about getting rid of waste ... why not learn from them.

Marketing Your Business: What Works Now
Why would you waste one dollar or one hour on marketing that doesn’t work? It happens all the time and the reason is often just a lack of knowledge or understanding about what would work better. As small or solo business owners, who can afford to waste time or money on marketing your business that doesn’t work?

Creating a Zero Waste Office
Composting is a way to reduce the waste that leaves our office, which only accumulates in the local landfill. By creating a Zero Waste work environment, we encourage our employees to be more responsible. We can also set an example for what a sustainable company might look like; caring not only about the bottom line, but also about the environment and social benefits of eliminating waste.

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