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The Build Your Business with Encouragement Experiment

The Build Your Business with Encouragement Experiment

According to Zig Ziglar, “Encouragement is the missing ingredient in too many lives.  We are capable of greatness when we are given encouragement.”  After giving his words some thought, I have decided to test this theory in my Retail Business and see what the results are. I believe that if encouragement is the missing ingredient in too many lives, someone who becomes an Avid Encourager must be able to attain better results than the person…

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Strategies for Balancing Personal Adversities and a Successful Business

Each of us faces personal adversity in our lives. From personal illnesses and sick children, to caring for elderly parents and the loss of our four-legged kids, these challenges affect every single person. For the small business owner however, they can be particularly crippling. As the owners of small businesses, we often find ourselves between a rock and a hard place when major life changes occur. Unlike those in the corporate world, we do not…

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You’re Fired – I Think…

In this world of home based businesses and solopreneurs, staffing issues are becoming an increasing problem. The following two stories are true examples of how corporations and small businesses handle the same situation. Story 1: Alice works for a big corporation and has a Manager named Mary on her team who has been underperforming for a while now.  Mary constantly misses her deadlines, and her sales are below the company standard.  Alice’s Manager has told…

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How Important is Sense of Urgency to Your Clients?

Have you ever been in a situation where you are the client,  you meet with an individual who has sold you an ongoing service, and they tell you they will get back to you by the end of the week and then they don’t? So you wait until end of day Monday to see if they are a little behind, and first thing Tuesday you send them an email and you wait some more? And…

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Six ways to spot a CONtrepreneur

Recently I read a post written by Peggy McColl about Marketing from a Place of Integrity, and then this morning I find Dave Lourdes talking about Facebook Police and CONtrepreneurs on his Facebook wall and it got me to thinking. What makes a person credible? Who should you be looking out for? Is it the new business person who is lacking experience? Or is it the savvy business person who knows how to manipulate you…

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Seven Brutal Truths About Running A Successful Business

Have you ever felt like your business might be falling apart and that you must be the only one who couldn’t figure out how to make it work? Did it seem like every time you took a step forward something would happen and you felt like you were taking two steps back? And did you ever compare? You know what I mean, look at that other person, the one with the shiny perfect business and…

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