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111 Great Last Minute Gift Ideas For Clients

Corporate Gift Ideas

Not everyone is a super shopper, especially me, and super-especially when it comes to great gift ideas for clients. Some of us need months to come up with the perfect gift for people we know and love. So what happens when we need a last minute gift idea to say, “Thanks!” or “I appreciate your [...]

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The Best Thing To Systematize In Your Business

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Systematizing your business is the key to unlimited success and growth.  I know you know that. But many people struggle with the “where to get started” part.  Do you need to systematize everything first and then cut the business over?  Or do you simply automate the stuff you are doing already?  The answer is no [...]

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The 35 Ways To Find What Your Real Talent Is

Find Your Secret Talent

What are your secret, real talents?  Secret talents are those special skills you have that you may not use on a regular basis. Everybody has at least one secret talent. It doesn’t matter what your secret talent may be. What matters is that you know it’s there. The talent is yours to use as you [...]

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People Buy Experiences

People buy experiences

I don’t care if your business makes a product or delivers a service, at the end of the day, people buy experiences. That soap your company makes, may be delivering the experience of cleanliness.  Your competitor’s soap, assuming it is marketed differently, may sell the experience of wakefulness.  Another may sell the experience of confidence. The [...]

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Improve Sales Through Split Testing

Split Test

If you aren’t familiar with split testing, it is the closet marketers (that’s you) can get to omnipotence.  In other words, it is the scientific method to discovering customer demand.   Instead of guessing what customers and prospects will react to split testing gives you complete clarity by measuring their real world actions.  Do you sell more of [...]

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The Best Office Pranks Of All Time

Office Pranks

One of the pros for working for someone else is that you have co-workers to prank. There are the great office pranks, like covering your bosses’ office in Post-It Notes, or wrapping a cubicle in plastic wrap and filling the space inside the cubicle with everything from balloons to empty soda bottles or packing peanuts. [...]

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7 Ways Bad Economies Are Good For Business

bad economy is good

7 Ways Bad Economies Are Good For Business I got the memo, but I chose not to attend any of the, “The economy sucks and my business is ruined,” pity parties people are throwing around me. I know all too well that economic issues have beaten businesses in this country with the ugly stick for [...]

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How To Be The Master Of Professional Persistence

Mouse Head

I regret giving one business acquaintance of mine my cell number. He calls constantly, wanting me to help him or to order from him or do something for him in some way. Every time his number comes up on caller ID, I cringe. He has failed at professional persistence and has become a professional pest. [...]

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The Best Business Voicemail Greeting

Business voice mail

There is a 97% chance that your office voice mail greeting stinks. That’s because there is a 97% it sounds exactly like this: “Hello, this is (insert your name blurted out too quickly to understand). I am unavailable to answer your call at the moment, but if you leave your name and number, along with [...]

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The 51 Best Customer Service Tips For Entrepreneurs

Customer Service Tips

Few things are truly more important to entrepreneurs and small business owners than getting and keeping customers. After all, you’re not even in business unless you have products or services to sell and paying customers to buy them. So for many of us, customer service is no small thing. But we sometimes minimize its importance [...]

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How Passion Leads To Success

Passion Leads To Success - Smiley Face

A guest post by Rodrigo Laddaga of EMyth en ESPAÑOL   Passion is a topic that is covered by many authors and gurus in these past decades, but I still see that many people “don’t get it” yet. When we talk about entrepreneurship and small business success or any kind of success we find that in each [...]

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Welcome To The Creativity Economy

Color Splash - Creativity

Say goodbye to the status quo. The past economy was about industrialization. If you could make the same thing, consistently the same way, you won. The new economy is The Creativity Economy. The money is now being awarded to the most innovative companies, the most creative people, the rule breakers. Are you breaking the rules [...]

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5 Easy Steps To Find Your Hidden Talents

find your hidden talents

5 Easy Steps To Finding Your Talents Is talent born or made? The dictionary says talent is a “natural endowment” of a person—so we’re all born with our talents. It’s up to us to grow and develop them, but the seeds are in us at birth. Talent is an ability or natural capacity or potential [...]

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