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Graduate and Move On

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Nobody ever considers staying in high school beyond graduation because once you’ve graduated you’ve learned what you needed to learn there. How many times can you take the same science or math class? How many times can you write the same essay in English? High school was a vital stepping stone but it was just that…a stepping stone on a journey to another place.

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One Of The Saddest Things I Heard

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I was standing in a hallway and saw a woman I recognized. I didn’t remember her name but I remembered meeting her in the same spot and having a conversation with her exactly a year ago. I was at the Be the Change Event, a gathering of entrepreneurs geared towards growing our businesses.

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Four Ways to have a Big and Bold Mindset in Your Business

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I’ve often heard speakers in delivering their motivational prose to audiences say, “the sky’s the limit.” What if we do a little paradigm shift and say, “The sky is no limit?” The latter gives you a whole new mindset and it removes the limitations we place on ourselves. Look at your business…what limitations have you been unconsciously setting that are hindering your growth potential?

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Need Some New Ideas? Consult your SWAMI!

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Creativity can sometimes seem like magic, but anyone can enhance their creative abilities simply by understanding the underlying principles and grasping one very important rule. Creativity consists of two distinct phases — divergence and convergence. Divergence is the stimulation of new thinking by diversifying and exploring. Convergence refines and chooses the best possibilities from the ideas generated by divergence. Divergence is an expansive process, with the idea being to stretch the mind in order to come up with new ideas.

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5 Benefits for Taking Action to Increase Success

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New business owners are especially prone to delay taking action in their business because the unknown outcome can be pretty intimidating. However, even seasoned entrepreneurs will put off taking action simply due to the fact they lack the free time to juggle another endeavor. So, what to do when you know that taking action would benefit your business, but you can’t seem to implement much needed change?

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How 15 Minutes Can Change Your Business

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A truly effective executive keeps his/her time commitments. Regardless of your industry, position, function, or company size, it’s critical of your reputation to be on time. In addition, I believe that if you don’t get to meetings 15 minutes early, you’re losing big opportunities. While being on time and keeping your meetings is necessary, being 15 minutes early can be a virtual gold mine.

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Greed is Still Good

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Ever see the movie Wall Street? The most famous line in that movie, which was also the tagline in the movie poster, was “greed is good.” I may be inviting Occupy protestors to install an encampment in my parking lot, but I still think Mr. Gecko is right. Greed is good, and let me tell you why. It creates progress.

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Sept. 29 Tele-Seminar Event

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Create an It’s All About Them Attitude and Business for Increased Success You are invited to attend a content-oriented tele-seminar on Thursday, September 29. You will learn 12 questions to ask yourself about building an all-about-them business that will assist you in enhancing your clients and prospects experiences in order to then produce even better results for you. These action-able, results-producing strategies will help you to: •        Get more clients •        Keep the clients you want to keep •        Communicate in a way that is truly about your clients and prospects…

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Mobile Marketing as a Strategy

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Mobile Marketing – there’s a broad topic. The spectrum is broad, and consists of texting, mobile couponing, survey response, voting, video email, QR codes (2D barcodes), LBS (location based services), mobile web sites and mobile landing pages.

While there is no silver bullet when it comes to marketing, the use of technology is by far becoming the all-important medium for advancing customer interaction. Let’s take a look at one component; mobile marketing through texting.

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Deal of the Day vs. Mobile Marketing

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The company known as Groupon has revolutionized email marketing, becoming a multi-billion dollar valued business and did it in a mere two years. Copy-Cat business models are carving their own niche into the market, but let’s face it, unless Groupon implodes, they have little change of becoming a direct competitor on a national scale. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Deal of the Day concept is terrific, and Groupon is to be saluted as achieving the unachievable; making email marketing a viable business model.

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Your Confidence Glass Needs to Runneth Over….

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Every day we need to start the day with extra confidence. Especially during these times, your clients and prospects need and take some of your confidence so if you don’t start your day with extra, they will know it and the chances of them doing business with you are less than if you have enough to give away to all that need some of your confidence during each day.

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Strategy & Execution – Factors that Prevent Accomplishing More

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Not all companies take the time to close the gap between strategy and execution. Inherently, the gap is often caused by periods of significant change, akin to the environment of change today’s companies face. Any number of factors causes the chasm to widen, typically: Insufficient performance monitoring and metrics Lack of accountability for the convergence of strategy to execution Lack of cohesion in the relationship of personal and business goals Significant strategies without sufficient staff to execute effectively Lack of effective communicating how these strategies impact the customer Shortage of trained personnel to manage the content and its dispersal to…

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