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What One Action Will You Take?

Posted in Things I know, tagged , , , , , on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Most business owners are only one action away from getting what they really want from their business here is a list of the ten most common that I encounter: Be better organised and systematic in their approach Outsource more (the time comsuming repititive tasks) Understand the way customers think (ie from the customers perspective) Follow up [...]

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Start with STOPPING and THINKING

Posted in Things I know, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Business success is all about Starting with STOPPING and THINKING, here are three places to start your stopping and thinking:   1. Is this what I really want? Being in business brings all sorts of challenges, changes and opportunities and sometimes we can be led in a direction that we really don’t want to go [...]

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Keep yourself nice during the silly season

Posted in Things I know, tagged , , , , , , , on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was recently reminded of the frailties of human nature and the damage a few too many champagnes can do during the silly season…

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What happened to the art of talking to people?

Posted in Things I know on October 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »

business conversation, business etiquitte, manners, conversation,

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Are you afraid of selling?

Posted in Things I know, tagged , on September 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I remember the first job I had selling I had very few sales, in fact I was the worst person on the sales team – I had spurts of sales (usually the ones that wanted to buy despite my involvement!) and sometimes I would even make my budgets, it wasn’t all bad I did have [...]

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The best way to sell to customers is to speak their language

Posted in Things I know on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The best way to sell to customers is to speak their language I don’t know or have a desire to know what a DOHC is on a car -  I want to know if the car is reliable. I don’t care what an inner coil spring made with titanium is – I want to know [...]

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