When you decide to attend a Networking event, make sure that it is a highly targeted group of people who could and would use your product or service. Here is a challenge: list every organization you belong to and ask yourself these
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Right now, there are potential customers who are looking at your business and comparing you with your competition. If they don’t see much difference, then clearly you won’t stand out as the obvious choice.
Whenever there is a discussion about Values, Integrity comes up as a fundamental necessity upon which to build a business and the relationships that are so necessary. The meaning of Integrity is described as Honesty, Trust, Keeping Your Word.
Do you know who your best colleagues and supporters are? Can you list them? Do they know that they landed on your Cheerleader List? If “Sally” serves as a Cheerleader for you and your business, how does she do that? Does she open
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We celebrate Customer Service week during the first full week of October. Signed into law by President George Bush in 1992, the focus is employees! “Attention is devoted to recognizing the importance of customer service and to honoring the people who serve and support
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What was your first work experience? Not your first job. When I ask this question, the answers range from delivering newspapers, picking vegetables on a neighbor’s farm, babysitting, cleaning out the horse barn for a neighbor, caddying at the local golf course
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Yes, it’s confirmed. We are still in a recession although recovering. There’s no avoiding that reality. And, if you read recent news features, you will see gloom and doom articles warning us of a bigger recession on its way by the end
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Too many small business owners are stuck in the “once and done” style of doing business. You know, make a sale and then find someone else to sell to. One way to get customers to become steady clients is to create and
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Would you consider yourself to be a Networking Ninja? The Ninja Networker Developing some of the qualities of a Ninja would greatly enhance your Networking toolkit.