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Creating Your Advisory Board

Just like everyone else, once upon a time - luckily well before having started my own gig - I too asked the question: “Why do I need advisors at all? I know what to do.” Then a mentor of mine asked me, “Tom if you know what to do, how to do it ...

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Crunch Time Don't Forget the Upfront Stuff

Crunch Time: Don’t Forget the Upfront StuffWhat time is it… if you have two minutes to go and your team is down by 10 points?What time is it…if your presentation to the biggest possible client and sale you’ve ever had is due in two days? What...

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Get Free Publicity by Pushing the Media's Hot Buttons

Early in my TV career, a consultant from the Magid Company, the people who practically invented TV news research, told me something that helped me enormously through the years.'There are no dull stories,' she said. 'Just dull approache...

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Get Those Meetings Moving!

Get Those Meetings Moving!By Arthur Cooper(c) Copyright 2003 How many times have you been in a meeting that has become bogged down and was going nowhere? Scores?Hundreds?Maybe even thousands, if you have been around a while.Here are a few tips to hel...

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5 Levels of Decision Making

Leaders make solid decisions and commit to seeing them through. Losers put off decisions and mess around with them once they are made. A key skill in becoming a successful leader is the skill of decision making. It is surprising how many people don&a...

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How Would You Ever Know

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Net word count is 730 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © ...

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Create a Compelling Vision for Your Business

I ask you a very important question: Do you have a vision—a Technicolor snapshot in your mind of what your ideal life looks like? If not, create one. Not a goal; goals come later. Visions are more powerful than goals because visions have an emotion...

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Aw Son, Just HIT the Thing

These days my work is mostly on the Internet. But there's one principle that I use nearly every day. And I learned it from my dad almost 40 years ago in a very different line of work.My father ran a plumbing shop in the competitive western Chica...

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Effective Merchandising...How To Make Them Buy Now

Remember the promise of Internet retail, where you could access a world wide audience and offer thousands of products at incredibly low costs?Now read the sentence above and picture in your mind exactly what this means. Can you put a face on a world ...

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The Hawk and the Mouse - Retirement Saving

There once was a hawk, ferocious and swift. He was young and agile with many years of life to hunt the open ranch lands. In a nearby field, a mouse scurried about the ground. The hawk saw the hurried motion and swept speedily toward the rodent.Just ...

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