What Can You Do To Beat Your Competition?
By Edward Charkow - 1/4/2008
In many cases when you start a new website you are really starting at the bottom of the barrel. Your competition probably has more money than you, they certainly have better rankings and more repeat visitors. How can you compete with that when you are on a shoestring budget? First off, you need to ...
Partnering for Performance
By Jenny Kerwin - 1/4/2008
?The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ?Go!? ? a leader says, ?Let?s go!?? -E. M. Kelly * Are you a boss or a leader? * Do your employees see you as part of the team or as looking over it? * How would your team members define your management style? I ask these questions as a chall...
Increase Your Selling Confidence
By Neil Greenberg - 1/4/2008
1. Be on time. In fact, arrive a few minutes early, so you can mentally prepare for your sales presentation. When you arrive on time, your professionalism shows your prospects that you value their time as well as your own. 2. Ask specific questions. Find out exactly what the prospect needs and wants...
Words that Sell
By Dawn Josephson - 1/4/2008
We all know the English language contains hundreds of thousands of words. But did you know that only 21 of them can easily sell your clients? Yes! It?s true. When you know what these proven words are and how to use them to your company?s benefit, you?ll save both time and money when selling to prosp...
Top Five Tips For Designing Marketing Strategies That Get Results
By Adam Urbanski - 1/4/2008
?But this won`t work? said Steve. ?I?ve tried it in the past and had no response.? Does this sound familiar? My newer clients often resist implementing certain strategies based on past experiences. However, I usually find out that it wasn?t the strategy itself ? but how it was implemented that cause...
Keys to Personal, Team, and Organizational Transformation
By Jim Clemmer - 1/4/2008
Daniel Boone once said, "I can`t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." Many team and organization transformation and improvement efforts are lost or badly bewildered. Besides riding in smelly cabs, eating rubber chicken (or guessing the day`s mystery meat), and racing throu...
New Year`s Revolution
By C.J. Hayden - 1/4/2008
No, that`s not a typo in the title. Resolutions are easy; most of us make them at least once a year. A revolution, on the other hand, is something you may not have made since you started your business. Starting a business is actually quite revolutionary. When you began yours, there were probably man...
PR Essential to Your Success
By Robert A. Kelly - 1/4/2008
Whether you are a business, non-profit or association manager, your success will depend, to a large degree, on how well you positively impact the behaviors of those outside audiences that most affect your operation. You need to create external stakeholder behavior change ? the kind that leads di...
Risk-taking - Get Your Feet Wet!
By Althea DeBrule - 1/4/2008
We often use the phrase, ?Get Your Feet Wet? when we are just beginning to learn how to do something or are about to pioneer a new initiative. When we participate in a project for the first time, there is usually a hesitancy to step out into the unknown. There`s no better way to learn than by doing...
Turnaround or Terminate? How to Deal with Problem Employees
By Anne Alexander - 1/4/2008
Do you struggle with a "problem" employee? If so, join the
crowd! Many of my coaching clients - businesses owners or
managers - tear their hair out over one or more toxic
employees. In our business environment, we tend to recreate
the dynamics of the family we grew up, so no wonder problems
develop....
Recruitment - What You`re Really, Really Looking For
By Alan Fairweather - 1/4/2008
Imagine that you`re a sports coach and you need a new player
on the team. Would you walk up to someone in the street and
say - "I want you to come and play for my team. I`ll train
you to become the best player in the country." Sounds a bit
ridiculous doesn`t it? What you`d probably do is watch playe...
The Fundraising Letter PS: 25 Powerful Things To Say There (Includes Examples & Samples)
By Alan Sharpe - 1/4/2008
Donors read postscripts. This is a sad but important reality in fundraising. Sad because the PS is stupid and belongs in another millennium. In this age of word processors, no one needs to add a PS anymore. But important because a donor reading a PS is a donor looking for information. And that?s you...
The Added Effectiveness of Promotional Products in Your Marketing Plan
By Ethan Woods - 1/4/2008
Recently, I stopped by a new car wash in my town and while preparing to insert my six quarters into the machine to start the cleaning process, the owner came over to me and thanked me for stopping in. He also handed me a pen that had the name and address of the car wash imprinted on it. The fact t...
Wealth And Your Net Worth
By C.C. Collins - 1/4/2008
Most people know it`s important to keep and organize all of your vital financial information. But knowing you should and knowing how are two different things! Once you know the reasons for being very organized with your financial data (and keeping it all in a very safe place) I hope you will put or...
Writing Articles Is the Fastest Way to Build Traffic
By Bill McRea - 1/4/2008
I am not a very good writer, but I know I want to communicate with people, and I know that articles are the quickest way to do it, and build traffic for my web sites. Most of the traffic that visits my sites comes from the many articles I?ve forced myself to write and post at various article directo...
The Arizona Desert Museum
By Carolyn Wright - 1/4/2008
The vast beauty and richness of the desert can be easily seen in one place in Tucson, Arizona. Known as the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum [?Desert Museum?], this gorgeous and convenient site is host to a cornucopia of plants, birds and animals native to the desert. Home to more than 300 animal specie...
Photo Equipment Lists
By Carolyn Wright - 1/4/2008
You arrive at your photo shoot excited about the images you are about
to take ? that is, until you realize that you have left an important piece of
equipment at home. You now will have to improvise, spend extra money
or time to replace the item, or go without it for the shot. One way to help reme...
Lesson 69 - When Networking Events Fail
By Melvin Murphy - 1/4/2008
The Story In a quest to create strategic alliances, coalitions, and partnerships, we don?t usually allow ourselves to imagine our efforts failing. We don?t imagine faltering at building relationships with people, since working with others comes naturally to most people. It?s even harder to imagine t...
Cisco Certification: Introduction To ISDN, Part I
By Chris Bryant - 1/4/2008
From the CCNA to the CCIE, ISDN is one of the most important technolgies you`ll work with. It`s also very common in the field; ISDN is frequently used as a backup connection in case an organization`s Frame Relay connections go down. Therefore, it`s important to know ISDN basics not only for your p...
Boost Your Leadership Skills Simply By Answering The Question, "What Does Our Organization Really...
By Brent Filson - 1/4/2008
The difference between leaders is ears. Good leaders not only ask good questions, but they actually listen to the answers. Ask people in your organization: "What does our organization REALLY reward?" Listening to the answer may help you achieve marked increased in results. Rewards and punishments ...
3 Reasons Your Website Might Fail To Attract Enough Customers
By Mike Cheney - 1/4/2008
Virtually all website owners concentrate their efforts and energy into getting more visitors. With business owners this effort is spent on getting more and more new customers. What many people forget - with both their website and their business - is that getting new customers (or visitors) is only a...
The Differences Betweeen the Wealthy and Everyone Else
By Jim Young - 2/6/2007
I recently received an e-mail from a young lady who had doubts about the principles of wealth found in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". She mentioned a couple of past failed investments, and wanted to know what I thought about investing and financial freedom - whether it was just a myth, or whether it could be...
How to Use and Select Stock Photography Services
By Roy Barker - 1/26/2007
There are two main types of photography to sell, that is assignment photography and Stock Photography. Assignment photography is taking photographs of a predetermined event, and stock Photography is taking photographs in the hope that you will be able to find a future buyer. Most professional photog...
The Prosperous Affiliate Merry-Go-Round
By Rosella Aranda - 1/22/2007
In the affiliate world, just as in the rest of the world, what goes around comes around.
Here`s where I`m coming from . . .
I just finished reading one article too many where the author proclaims that people don`t like to click on what appears to be an affiliate link.
Why not? Well, here is...
4 Step Dynamic Sales Letters
By Allyn Cutts - 1/21/2007
You, like all marketers have a million and one things to do today! At the top of your priorities is marketing... finding more customers and raking in greater profits. If you?re looking for a simple, proven model to create sales content without spending hours hunched over the computer, try the AIDA (...
Eight Success Tips for Your First Trade Show Booth
By Rena Klingenberg - 2/10/2006
Exhibiting in a trade show can involve a major investment of money and time. But the financial returns for your business can be excellent if you learn some of the secrets of trade show booth success before signing up for a show and investing in your displays.
If you`re considering setting up at a...
Delegate to Accelerate Success!
By Ed Sykes - 2/9/2006
Recently on the television reality show, The Apprentice, Donald Trump would give the ultimate winner the dream job of working for him, running one of his divisions and earning $250,000 per year. On the final episode, the choice came down to two candidates, Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson, for the ?ult...
Masterminding Your Way To Greater Success
By Lora J Adrianse - 1/20/2006
Napoleon Hill coined the concept of the mastermind alliance in his classic book Think and Grow Rich. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other`s success.
The old adages still hold true today, "the sum of the whole is greater th...
