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How often have you tossed and turned with an important decision but failed to act because you felt like your feet were locked in cement, at night it feels as though your backbone is chewing on your stomach, you don’t decide, you worry, you delay important decision making even though this one ... Views: 755
Have you ever wondered why business … and life … can be so tough?
Good question and one that can be answered very easily. It all has to do with you. You are fully responsible for the result in your business and life, whether you like it or not.
So, let’s look down to the basics to find the ... Views: 786
We’re into the first quarter and by now, most of you, have closed the books for January and are able to see your progress to date for the beginning of this business year. Are you happy about the results thus far? Have you figured out a better way for the remainder of this year?
Good points ... Views: 721
A Word of Caution: If you think your business revolves around you. This article may offend you.
When the bottom fell out of the construction industry in 2007, I wrote an article that stated we would see an immediate colon cleansing of many construction businesses. This was not a difficult ... Views: 895
Do you want to achieve big results online for your business? Do you want time freedom as well as a good income? If you answer yes to these questions, there’s no doubt you need to start thinking about outsourcing your business or website if not by yourself, then by someone professional whose work ... Views: 523
You’ve heard the expression, “You’ve gotta have skin in the game,” right? Sure you have, and you know it means that in order to make something worth doing, you need to have a piece or part of the activity. Doing so ensures that you share in the success and/or failure of the outcome. When you put ... Views: 831
TEFL is an acronym used for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. It is different than teaching English as a second language because it is taught to people who do not live in an English speaking country.
Every year, many people choose to become TEFL teachers to embark on an exciting, new ... Views: 767
I was recently asked to speak to a team of independent distributors for a health and wellness company to give them some step by step action steps to get them ready to tackle a 90-day challenge that will help them achieve their next level of success. The challenge involves giving away 90 ... Views: 2348
Inspiration of the Day
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
- Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political and Spiritual Leader
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When starting any enterprise or business, whether it is full-time or part-time, we all know the value of ... Views: 1358
I was at a recent local chapter coaching event where again I had reinforced for me the concept of “gaining perspective”. The session itself introduced to those present a coaching model that many of us had not seen before. It included seven different chairs, each with a label as to a role a ... Views: 944
There are plenty of opportunities for long-term employment positions in the field of English teaching to non-native English speakers. Some of these positions involve not only teaching English, but also administrative positions. If you are interested in making a career out of teaching English as ... Views: 765
Key Performance Indicators, or KPI’s, are quantifiable measures that tell you how your business is doing. The numbers should measure your overall company goals and objectives which is one important element of a business plan. If you don’t know what you are working toward you have no way of ... Views: 1379
Could the idea of keeping a lid on your organization’s growth be a real sustainable paradigm? Today’s economic climate demands innovation and greater creativity to solve current problems. Fortunately, all of our organizations can tap into the diversity of thought that resides within our human ... Views: 1521
Running a business is the art of managing people in a way to collectively achieve productivity and accomplish certain goals. One of the most important of those goals is making a
profit. A company that isn’t making profits will not survive for long. There are many challenges every business ... Views: 1001
If you are a Heart-Centered Entrepreneur and are seeking to start or grow your business, it is important to be very clear about your niche. What holds many people back in the area of attracting clients, is trying to make connections with people who are not a good vibrational match to their ... Views: 1588
When a part of a firm that employs more than 300 resources, who are spread out in Sydney, New York, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong, you know that it will be more than difficult to minimise your resourcing costs while maintaining high levels of efficiency. For example, you are a project manager ... Views: 901
As my most loyal readers and customers know, I’m a huge fan of and believer in retaining and growing a business’s current customers. Then again, who isn’t? Yes, new customer acquisition is important to building and scaling a business, but cultivating current customers offers the truest ... Views: 1320
For many years, developing trust and rapport was considered the hallmark of a great sales process. Driving sales required exposing your sales team to a maximum number of prospects and developing trust and rapport with those prospects. As such, the primary objective for most salespeople has ... Views: 1039
Adopting a proactive management style is a highly recommended way to grow your business online! By being proactive you may take risks but when you do they're typically calculated! On the other hand by simply reacting to or waiting for things to occur, the chances for growth are usually minimal! ... Views: 765
Creating success in your business is much like following a recipe. In order for it to turn out successful, you must have the key ingredients in place. Once you have established these key ingredients and built the required foundation, creating results will then become easily obtainable by ... Views: 1371
It is not uncommon at this time of the year for people to feel they have less energy than they do at other times of the year. We’re well into the period after the end of year holidays. Unless you live in a warm weather climate, spring type weather is several weeks away. Hours of darkness ... Views: 833
Data management has definitely created a huge impact on how businesses operate today. With a wide-scale definition, data has been known to be the most significant part of all business functions being implemented today. Data that later becomes “information” creates knowledge that would flow in a ... Views: 1491
One of the things most self-employed business owners, entrepreneurs and solo professionals dislike is confrontation. What I have seen time and again in my personal business coaching practice is that avoiding confrontation very often causes problems to fester, grow bigger and ... Views: 935
There are several ways you can build your credibility as an expert. Develop a presence of being a go-to or knowledge expert. People are looking for people who deliver results. You must be confident in your abilities and be able to demonstrate this to others both on-line and off-line.
Educate ... Views: 2278
There are many different types of businesses out there that may be interested in using a conveyor system in order to speed up their production process, have better accuracy when putting together in manufacturing their products, and also increase the safety of their workers. There are many ... Views: 654
What do the job seeker who is having an interview and a person who runs a business and has a product or service to offer have in common? They are both attempting to influence the person with whom they have come in contact that they are the right person to provide them what they are seeking. ... Views: 1741
If your business works on Mac computers and you have deleted something that you need to recover, you may want to consider getting in contact with a data recovery for Mac company. These are businesses that specialize in providing recovery services for computers such as Macs. They allow you to ... Views: 674
Many people spend much of their life searching for a calling through which they can find meaningful happiness. You may be one that can relate to that feeling. We, as humans, have a natural yearning to feel needed and to be of service to other people. It is important to us to feel that we ... Views: 818
No matter if you are searching for Engraved name Tags or Plastic name Tags for your business, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind. This may not sound like a big deal, but most people learn soon enough that nothing could be further from the truth. If you are the person in charge ... Views: 791
When you are a person who is dedicated to creating value for your organization because you have a passion for your work then it is very important for you to be a contributor to the organization’s success. One of the toughest challenges that workers face is that there is so much competition for ... Views: 983
“No legacy is as rich as honesty.”
- William Shakespeare
To live fabulously with integrity, honesty and authenticity you must first embrace the qualities of each, match your beliefs internally to them and continue to make a daily decision to live by them through your words and actions. ... Views: 2122
A lot of BPO companies, especially those that provide IT outsourcing services, deal with more contracts today than before. It is due to the outstanding and tremendous demand seen from the last few years, specifically in 2012, and from the huge increase of the available service providers from ... Views: 1538
Today I was invited to attend the Success 2013 Conference with Les Brown, Bill Cosby, Larry King and other motivational speakers/success coaches. All the speakers had something meaningful to contribute, but I connected with Les Brown in a profound way.
This was my first time hearing Les ... Views: 2499
If you are really serious about improving your practice by getting more new clients to come in through those doors, you need to have a great marketing plan in place. Marketing for chiropractors is such a great plan because you get to use marketing tips for chiropractors that focus on spreading ... Views: 621
Today is Day 6 of my "25 Days 'til Christmas Plan" and I'm merrily on my way to holiday bliss.
With my husband's office party right around the corner, I started thinking about all of the funny things that have happened over the years at these events.
Luckily, I have not been involved. ... Views: 1613
One of the biggest problems that many businesses run into his they expand, is the fact that they have to hire an IT department in order to oversee their operations, but do not have experience hiring individuals that you with information technology. When your businesses completely unrelated to ... Views: 611
It is getting more and more difficult to plan ahead with any degree of accuracy and relevance as our ever-changing world continues to move more quickly and develop ever greater complexity. We need a new means of engaging that my mentor, Dr. Michael Picucci, describes as a creative and fluid ... Views: 1090
Interested in promoting your business in Mauritius? If yes, then free classified advertising is the best way to start with. The island nation has got immense scope for a variety of businesses including tourism, financial services, textiles, healthcare and education etc. So if you have also set ... Views: 2196
Ever doubted yourself and your gifts? Well I have. In the course of my awakening journey, “my shadow or my dark side’ showed up several times. My dark side that tells me that I suck, that I am not good enough, that I don’t deserve to be successful, that I am not qualified to help others, that I ... Views: 975
Every successful entrepreneur and business has a BRAND, The one thing you must have if you want to be successful is Branding that is consistent with you and your business.
Branding separates you from your competition and gives you credibility. It's what makes people want to tell other ... Views: 1537
What is Media Transcription? The process conversion of any digitally recorded media such as Interviews, Videos, Podcasts or Conference calls into text is called media transcription. It is usually a 3 step process which starts with the preparation of a draft transcript. The next step is ... Views: 1658
The opportunity to earn from or make more money using the internet continues to pique people’s interests. This is one reason why programs like e business courses are here to stay. E-business training gives you the competitive edge when you want to get the most out of any e-business endeavor. ... Views: 2072
Not all markets are created equal. Some are bigger, better and more lucrative than others. Knowing how to evaluate a market is like knowing where to go fishing for a great catch.
Use these 11 characteristics to evaluate any market with ease so that you can take your business where there are ... Views: 1234
Desire: A strong feeling of wanting to have something.
Activate desire, and you are in business.
How do you activate it?
First, discover what people really want. Also, discover the language, feelings, colors, sounds, textures and other neural representations they use to describe and ... Views: 1282
In business, the basic idea is to lower costs, without sacrificing quality, and to keep doing so.
To achieve that goal, you must have a very good, clear understanding of costs. That starts by understanding the nature of the three types of costs. Strictly speaking, there are two types, fixed ... Views: 1503
The typical mistake made by most people in business is to get a product, build a business, and then find a market. I don't know why, but the natural way for almost all of us is to think of getting a product, building a business, and then finding the market.
However, the right approach is to ... Views: 1209
A man walking into a hardware shop is not interested in buying a hammer; he is interested in making a table for his dining room. That is what you should market to him; the ability to make a table, not the hammer. A man who wants to make holes in wood is not interested in drills; he is interested ... Views: 1313
In marketing, this is the golden number: Lifetime Customer Value (LCV). Yes, very, very few businesses know what their LCV is.
Knowing your LCV can enable you to be extremely competitive, it can allow you to take very good calculated risks on your marketing, the kinds of calculated risks that ... Views: 1078
In business life, most of the time, there are only four ways most businesses can increase their revenues. Knowing this very clearly, and knowing the details of each of those 4 methods, allows you to strategically plan revenue growth in your business.
Let us look at the four ways you can ... Views: 1113
Sometimes, in business and in life, it pays to look at the bigger picture, and to see how the small parts connect and relate to the whole. In business, pricing is something that concerns and confuses a great deal of people. The simple question, 'how much should I charge for this?' is loaded with ... Views: 1110