Posts Tagged ‘Business Building’
How to be happier
Achieving your own happiness is the best measure of how well you are living your life and enjoying your relationships. You can learn how to be happier and more fulfilled in everything you do. Everyone is different Happiness in life is like a smorgasbord. If 100 people went to a smorgasbord and each put food…
Read MoreNew Year’s Resolutions: How to Obtain Your Core Desires
People start each New Year off with a renewed desire to do better. The New Year presents a chance to start over, to let go of the past, to make the upcoming year better than the last, to achieve goals that they haven’t yet. To lose weight, get in shape, be nicer to their kids…
Read MoreThe Elevator Speech
Did your grandma ever ask you what you do? You start explaining your job, your business, what happens each day, what goes right, and what goes wrong. Then, before you know it, she has fallen asleep? What happened? What happened is that you were unable to articulate, in sound bite fashion, in language she could…
Read MoreExplaining What You Do In 15 Seconds
You’re in the elevator and your friend John introduces you to Barbara who is the CEO of one of the companies you’d like to do business with. Barbara asks, “What do you do?” Here is your chance to make a connection with a prime member of your target market. You want to get her attention,…
Read MoreTake Time to Make Time
My “to do” list grows each day. My completed list seems to stay the same. I call that stress. The consequences of stress include health problems, workplace accidents (80% attributed to stress) and employee turnover (40% attributed to stress) (Richardson, & Rothstein, 2008). Many strategies can help us with this problem—relaxation techniques, exercise (though I…
Read MoreTime is Money
In the selling profession, the old cliché rings true, if you are not talking to a prospect or customer, you’re unemployed! How effectively do you manage your time? Do you spend your time as you would any other precious, nonrenewable asset, or are you the type of salesperson who is stressed-out, constantly jumping through hoops,…
Read MoreYour Personal Party Plan: Invitations, Themes, and Games
As a business owner, you’ve no doubt made some goals in either sales or earnings as part of your business plan. Chances are you joined the business that you did because you either attended a party or felt that parties are a fun way to do business. No matter if you sell health, home decor,…
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