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12 Reasons to Follow-Up with Your Clients, Customers and Colleagues

And twelve reasons why not to take it personally if they don't return your call or email, miss an appointment, or fail to acknowledge your communication. In the past month I have failed to respond to people for the following reasons. In all case...

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Presentation Pitfalls Top 10 Content Management Mistakes

Top 10 Content Management Mistakesby Melissa LewisHere, David Letterman style, are what I consider to be the Top 10 most common mistakes presenters make when organizing and preparing their content: 10) Not setting the stage. An introduction should be...

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Why Choose a Virtual Assistant versus a Temp

So much to do… So little time. This is an all to familiar phrase to so many people, especially small business owners. There just never seems to be enough hours in the day to get all the revenue generating tasks done, not to mention the abundance of...

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The 3 Greatest Prosperity Books Of All Time

I'm fascinated by prosperity.This year I've been reading numerous books on the topic. Here are mythree favorites:"Seed Money In Action" has stood the test of time. This forty year oldlittle booklet has gone through 53 editions, sold 1,000,...

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Do Some Yard Work To Improve Customer Service!

Yes, yard work. What I mean is that you may have to do some weeding in your garden of employees to improvecustomer service. Imagine that you are pulling weeds out of your flower garden so that your flowers don't become choked off. Huh? "Just go ...

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The Five Ingredients for Success...No Matter What Business You're In!

1. Have a plan. There's a reason you've heard that linerepeatedly - because IT WORKS. There's an old expressionthat goes like this... "If you don't know where you'regoing, ANY road will take you there." Doesn't that make...

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JIM FINUCAN’S BILL COLLECTING Q & A Issue 2

Dear Jim,I have a client who, for the most part, is an excellent customer.However, I’ve run into a problem. He has refused to pay a $7,500Bill, claiming that the services we provided had to be redone bySomeone else after we did the job. I have spen...

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Advertising Your Home Business on a Budget

When you are starting out in a new home business and no one knows who you are, one of the greatest challenges you will face is how to drum up new business. If there were not people in your community or marketplace that you knew who needed your produc...

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10 Sales Tips for Small Business Owners

Running a business is easy compared to the act of selling. As a small business owner you started your business to deliver a superior product or service, not to become a salesperson. None-the-less you must master basic sales skills or risk losing your...

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How to Make Sales by Going the Extra Mile

An interesting thing happened today. I had a "newbie" marketer email me with a question. Although I knew the answer to his question, I didn't feel super confident in conveying it the way it needed to be said.I had just finished reviewing an eboo...

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