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Lack of Focus
As the stock market continues to flounder around (mostly the wrong direction) and some people in the middle east continue to try to destroy each other, I woke up this morning pondering failure. I thought of another “classical entrepreneurial lesson” that we made at Martingale Software – lack of focus.

Your Life - Slip-Sliding Away?
Change yourself, and everything in your life will change. It seems so simple, but so few people are willing or able to actually do it. You have the choice; you have the chance. It's your life; you can make of it what you want.
The Compass or The Clock
David unpacks the single biggest key in stress avoidance and helps us to understand the difference between making the most of time and going in gthe right direction. READ MORE
DEBT-TO-INCOME RATIO
A small business’s debt-to-income ratio (DIR) is most easily explained as the ratio of a borrower's total debt as a portion of their total gross income. This ratio, more commonly expressed as DIR or simply “debt ratio,” measures how much you can borrow based on your expenses in relation to your total monthly income. Lenders’ experience shows that you may borrow from 33% to 40% of your monthly income, on average.
Your First Client Is Yourself
Finding new customers is like kissing thousands of frogs. Doing all that kissing is a royal pain in the behind but no entrepreneur can afford to stop doing it.

With U.S. Unemployment at 8.1%, Here’s Where to Invest Today.
Economies turn around like ships, not speedboats. Instead of trying to "pick the bottom," why not turn to what's working now. There are many Japanese Yen pairs in the forex market that appear to have bottomed in October.
Personal Success Tips - Blazing New Trails to a New Career
Reinventing yourself from one career to another is an adventure. The adventure can be welcomed or not. It depends upon personal circumstances. To some it is a deliberate intention to change. They are eager to venture out beyond their comfort zone and tap into their potential. To others reinventing themselves may be an unwelcome transition due to job loss, having to go back to work, divorce, or some other circumstance beyond their control.

Selling Online - Its All About Selling at the Right Time!
Do you know why some customers and prospects do not buy from you? What can you do to make them buy from you in the future?
How's Your Sales Software?
Are you off-track sometimes when you try to close the sale? Like today’s roads, conditions in today’s market place have changed in recent years and like my old GPS with out of date map software, if we are not operating with up-to-date mental sales software, we may not arrive at the destination we had in mind, the sale. Is your sales software (skills) up to date?
PROPOSAL WRITING STAY ON TARGET PROPOSALS WITH FOCUS WIN NEW BUSINESS
By Mike Schultz Like a Poor Marksman You Keep…Missing…The Target! - Admiral James T. Kirk If you don't know your destination, any road will get you there. When prospects for your services ask for a formal proposal, they are telling you their desired destination: a business relationship with you. And they're asking you to answer the question, “What road do we take to get there?” Since it's your job to give directions, you want to tell them the straightest, shortest, and easiest route. After all, you don't want them to get lost along the way, or so tired on the path that they give up before they get to the end.

Before you start a web site re-design...
When a company decides to re-design their web site, the effort commonly begins with the sourcing of the right web design company. The typical scenario involves someone who's assigned to the task contacting a slew of web design and development companies from the first page of their Google search and asking for a quote. If this is what you're currently doing or about to do you're heading in the wrong direction.
6 Ways NOT To Green Your Business
The amazing growth of the green economy is generating immense opportunities for entrepreneurs, but the experience of others still helps to avoid pitfalls and stay on track for success.
Creating A Unique PR Approach
Although I am suggesting that you break some of the common press release rules, don't try to be novel or unconventional simply for the sake of being different.

Breaking the PR Rules
Most experts will suggest that you stick with the traditional press release form and put your name, address, and contact information at the top. My response has always been, “why?”

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Are You Searching for the Summit
If life is pushing you in the wrong direction, a good way to get back on track is to have a close look at your values.
Before you start a web site re-design...
When a company decides to re-design their web site, the effort commonly begins with the sourcing of the right web design company. The typical scenario involves someone who's assigned to the task contacting a slew of web design and development companies from the first page of their Google search and asking for a quote. If this is what you're currently doing or about to do you're heading in the wrong direction.
How Much Copy Is Too Much Copy?
It is sometimes difficult to know how long a sales letter, brochure, or other marketing materials should be in order to effectively get your message across. This article provides some basic direction to steer you in the right direction.
We Really Should....
When you hear someone say 'We should', it's a surefire flag that we're thinking in the wrong direction

Success and Your Personal Mission and Vision
Successful people define a clarity of purpose and direction for their lives and careers. Your clarity of purpose and direction should include both a personal mission (your purpose) and a personal vision (your direction). Your mission is your reason for living, why you are on this earth. It is unlikely to change over the long run. Your vision is a short or medium term goal that defines the direction you will take over the next three to five years. It will change are you grow and develop in your life and career. Your vision must be consistent with your mission.
Dealing With Negative Criticism
No one likes to be criticized, and more so negatively. Negative criticism from members of your family, coaches, media or fans hurts and may discourage creativity and channel one's efforts in the wrong direction. Negative criticism can destroy your potential if you let yourself to dwell on what your critics say instead of focusing on your future.
Clear Direction or a Firecracker? - Insurance Sales Training
This article focuses on "direction" when making a customer call. Having precise direction will result in a measurable outcome. Are you a firecracker without direction or are you precise?
Proving customers wrong only makes them right
You better believe it! Does it really matter if you're right? Yes it does, but not at the expense of making your customer wrong. If I had to choose between being right and losing a valued customer and being wrong and helping my customer see the situation as their opportunity - I would be wrong every time.
Focusing on the Unemployment Numbers is Wrong
For some time now we have been flooded with unemployment numbers that fluctuate by fractional differences. I may be a small voice in the wilderness on this one – but the government statisticians have us focused in the wrong direction. Don’t get me wrong, we need to see an improving economy but getting people back to work under 19th and 20th century plans will not work!
How Always Be Closing in Sales Focuses Your Energies in the Wrong Direction
Always Be Closing is still a popular sales training concept. Yet, the word close potentially focuses your energies in the wrong direction. Curious, read on.

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