| 3 Steps To Immediately Increase Sales |
| Want to increase sales within your company? It’s not as hard to do as some might have you believe. Though we as a nation are in ... |
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| 21 Questions To Assess Your Readiness For Time Management |
| How many of us are guilty of “Putting the cart before the horse?”
Much is written on HOW to manage your time (the load in th... |
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| 25 Ways to Find Companies to Buy |
| When you start your program to purchase your “ideal” company, you quickly realize that your ultimate success will depend on two ... |
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| 27 Tips For An Effective Presentation |
| So you’re not a professional speaker. That’s no excuse for NOT giving a professional presentation.
You have a great product ... |
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| 15 Ways Salespeople Can Get Motivated |
| First, recognize that motivation is an inside job. The word motivate means to impel, inspire, hope, stimulate, incite, propel, s... |
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| 3 Money-Making Reasons to Display Your Newsletter on Your Website |
| Seeing is believing. Unless your website visitors can experience your newsletter and appreciate its value, they’re unlikely to j... |
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| 3 Simple Keys Will Make Your Customers Stick |
| Do you spend a lot of time and energy courting prospective new customers, hoping to pump up your bottom line? If so, you're prob... |
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| Accountability In Trading |
| I recently heard from a trader who told me he has been having problems with discipline in his day trading. He knows how to trade... |
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| 3 Tips for a Great Summer- Developing Life & Business While Having a Blast |
| As the last day of school arrives I feel the same tendency I had as a child... to drop everything and scream “let’s go play!” Af... |
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| 4th Quarter 2003 Publicity = 1st Quarter 2004 Prosperity |
| As the year starts to wind down, many businesses and entrepreneurs are making plans and budgets for the year 2004. Those plans c... |
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| 4 Customer Service Mistakes Companies Should Avoid Making |
| 1) Being placed on hold endlessly. Don't you just love it when you call a company and they place you on hold, leaving you to lis... |
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| 35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting |
| 1. Play “find the meeting” by changing the location and time of your meeting at the last minute.
2. Don’t bother to book you... |
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| Are You Too Busy for Your Kids? |
| In his recent newsletter “Happy Kids”, parenting expert Michael Grose (yes he is an expert with three kids of his own) said:
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| Affirmative Inaction |
| One of Abraham Lincoln's claims to fame is the fact that he is best known for abolishing slavery. While he may have felt some pe... |
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| 4 Simple Steps to Successful Delegation |
| Last month, my featured article was about creating a “Stop Doing” list. Hopefully, if you followed my suggestion, you now have a... |
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| Advanced Hosting for the Mission Critical Web Presence |
| As companies that conduct their business online have proliferated, hosting of those websites that provide the primary point of c... |
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| 6 Steps To Laying Out Your Competitive Strategy |
| Why do so many companies languish and watch as their business turns into a zero profit zone, while others seem to thrive?
Wh... |
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| 7 Ways to Use Website Audio in Your Marketing Arsenal |
| Most visitors to your website are using computers with audio capabilities. Recently introduced techniques make it easy to take a... |
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| 5 Ways To Protect Your Bond Portfolio From Rising Interest Rates |
| The Federal Reserve recently raised its target federal funds rate for the first time since March 2000. This could be just the ti... |
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| 7 Reasons Why Law Firm Diversity Intiatives Fail |
| Many law firms understand the importance of building a diverse workforce. The changing demographics within the United States hav... |
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| 3 Simple Filing Guidelines |
| One of the most basic ways to find papers when you need them is to retrieve them from an effective filing system. A good filing ... |
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| 8 Point Checklist, Evaluating Online Vendors |
| Here are 8 things to consider, when evaluating lenders online:
1. Website Design
2. Privacy Policy
3. About Us
4... |
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| 12 Ways to be a Confident Public Speaker |
| Speak from your heart. If you believe in what you say, than others need to hear it. All confident speakers fall in the P2 (passi... |
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| 7 Tips for Starting a New Business in a Small Town |
| Q. I am transitioning to a new career after sixteen years to spend more time with my family. We moved to a very small town (less... |
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| Affiliate Programs 101! |
| Joining an affiliate program is one of the easiest ways to... |
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| 9 Ways To Outsmart An Identity Thief |
| Identity theft statistics are shocking, to say the least. And it's not going to get better any time soon. But there is no need f... |
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| 11 Moments of Truth |
| These moments come when a customer or client…
1. Hears someone else praise you or your work.
2. Likes your physical pres... |
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| Achieve More in 2004 |
| Another year is upon us and if you are like most people you have hit the floor running without planning a clear objective for th... |
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| Addressing Terrorism and World Peace with Ideas: Global Commerce & Communication Announces Worldwide Competition for New Ideas |
| Minnesota-based Global Commerce & Communication today announced a worldwide competition for new ideas. This competition titled "... |
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| Adding Art to Business Spaces |
| Larger companies have learned that collecting art adds something special to its overall corporate image. An art collection may i... |
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| 7 Bits Of Critical Information You Can't Afford NOT To Know About Your Customers |
| If you think customer relationship management is just a piece of software, you're dead wrong. Customer relationship management i... |
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| 7 Strategies for Handling Last Minute Meetings |
| Have you ever found yourself having to scramble to organize a meeting at the last minute? Wouldn’t it be nice that if and when t... |
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| 5 Tips for Customizing your Resume |
| Gone are the days of the bland, generic one-page resume. Employers these days are more impressed by a resume that is customized ... |
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| Are You Using the Right Form of Energy? |
| As we near the end of summer, here is a question I have for you, “Are you using the right form of energy to grow your business?”... |
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| Anchors Away! |
| If we want to fill our heads with the doom and gloom society seems to thrive on, all we need to do is turn on the local news at ... |
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| Are You a Marketing Octopus, or a Marketing Worm? |
| One of the greatest challenges to effectively marketing a business is determining which marketing method is best for your busine... |
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| Are You A Google Junkie |
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| Are You At The Mercy Of Computer Geeks? |
| Many business owners are sabotaging their business without even realizing it. They are completely out of the loop when it comes ... |
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| Are You An Innocent Victim of These Popular Myths? |
| Misconceptions, misinterpretations and just plain “untruths” are floating about income taxes. Believing them could be costing th... |
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| Are You An Expert At What You Do? |
| One of the most common refrains I hear from people is, "I can’t create information products…I’m not an expert!"
Yet what is ... |
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| Are Homeowners Due A Refund |
| According to U.S. Government Auditors more that 45% of all home mortgages and 75% of home equity loans contain miscalculations o... |
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| Are Cellular Phones Just a Fashion Accessory? |
| Cellular phones are used by millions of people in the United States and around the world. They are such a great device! With a <... |
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| Alternative Legal Billing -- Win Win Strategies |
| In the old days of legal billing, lawyer's invoices — usually a single page of elegant letterhead—contained only the phrase, "le... |
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| Angels, Are They Real? |
| They're real, but few survive. High risk investing is dangerous to your bank balance. The process toward extinction is that an a... |
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| Are You a PR Chowderhead? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Alarming Marketing Trend |
| One key discipline of successful direct marketing has been to test marketing communications tactics to continually improve resul... |
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| Are You The Worst Enemy of Your Business? |
| My 14 year old son attends classes at a martial arts center. The martial arts center is run by a 30 year old man. He is by all m... |
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| After July 8, Pay This Amount... |
| You undoubtedly go through this, too. A few times a month you gather up the bills coming due and write checks or pay them online... |
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| Are You Throwing Good Time After Bad |
| We've all heard the old saying "throwing good money after bad" referring to losing more money on something rather than cutting y... |
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| Are You the Culprit? |
| Are you a manager who pretty much ignores your organization’s important outside audiences?
If that’s you, do you realize how... |
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| Are You Sabotaging Your Career? |
| My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up... |
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| Are You PR-Challenged? |
| Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy woul... |
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| Are You Overlooking Your Best Referral Source |
| Studies show that current employees can be the number one source of candidate referrals. As a bonus, candidates referred by empl... |
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| Are you looking for a Small Business Loan? |
| A small business loan is designed for a wide range of UK small, medium and startup business needs including the purchase, refina... |
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| Are You In It For The Long Haul? |
| Do you own a home business? Now I'm not talking about the twice yearly yard sale. I am talking about a legitimate home based bus... |
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| Are You Brand Worthy? |
| Branding is one hot topic, although it is wildly misunderstood. To make things even more confusing, branding is often tossed in ... |
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| Are You A Work Addict? |
| Work addiction is very common in our society today, yet it is not one that is not highly recognised.
An interesting article ... |
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| Anxious About Your Public Relations? |
| Shooting from the hip always creates anxiety.
Especially when managers order a communications tactic here, another there, bu... |
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| Are You In The Right Online Business? |
| Did you select the right online business to pursue? People that are struggling find it difficult to admit they are possibly in t... |
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| Are You Worth Investing In? |
| Do you realise that if you're green you're growing and if you're ripe you're rotten? So says Winston Marsh, Business Marketing G... |
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