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Honestly, Are We Really Competing Against Each Other?
When my current lease expires, if I trade-in my Porsche Cayenne for Cadillac, that’ll signify a win for Cadillac and a loss for Porsche, right?After all, when it comes to earning my business, these manufacturers are playing what’s termed a zero-sum game. If one wins, the other, by definition, loses.Throughout the economy there are examples of these rivalries, of pitched battles for scarce buyers. And most of us have been schooled to think that we’re incessantly competing, whether we’re students seeking scarce “A’s” in classes, or job seekers, hunting for the best

to things in your business as well as your personal life. To believe that your business acts in isolation to the rest of your life is just not helpful or even true.

Do I know much about business? Well actually I do but I don’t give advice. My assumption is that you already know the solutions to what is vexing you. You already surrounded your business with people you admire and trust to show you how to run your business. If not, then you might want to reconsider the lack of business support. I would prefer you come up with THAT solution on your own and almost always my clients do.

“Hey! I should ca

Why You Need a Business Plan for Your Cleaning Company
A business plan is an important document that cleaning companies of all sizes should take the time to prepare before signing on that first account. By sitting down to write a business plan you take the time to look at your new business in an objective and critical manner. Once completed, a business plan will give you a path to follow.Your business plan will show how your cleaning business is organized, it will list the competitors in your service area, and how you will compete against them. It will also list the services your company will provide, your management method

I know this might sound silly coming from someone who skirts the perimeter of the self-help industry. However, it supports the way I coach, so accurately, I have no other choice than to proclaim “There’s no such thing as the Self-Help Industry”.

There are consultants that seep into the self-help industry. Being a business coach as well as a consultant can be an attractive offer. It might seem like one heck of a deal to get two rolled up in one. And this story is not about maligning the business consulting industry. When it comes to getting business advice they are the greatest.

Consider this. You have a business in trouble and you call up a consultant/coach to help you out. Here is where the difference lies. A consultant listens to, and reviews all aspects of your business and offers advice, suggestions and changes to your business. If that is what you want then a consultant is for you. My job as a coach is totally different.

To say that business is just business is the biggest contradiction I’ve ever run in to. A business is ALL about relationships. What kind of relationship do you have with your colleagues, staff or employees? How good of a leader are you, even if you are the bottom of the staffing hierarchy? Every business needs and should have every person involved, thinking and acting like a leader.

What kind of relationship do you have with vendors, suppliers, customers? If you don’t want to even think about it, this is an area for coaching. How about all the fires you are putting out? Want to get to a place where you are responding to events in your business and not reacting?

What kind of personal relationships do you have outside your business? To say that these are unimportant is misleading. They are VERY important. Show me a person who says my work stays at work and my personal life is for home….well sorry I don’t believe them. I doubt very much the mind shuts off automatically when you walk into the office building. And I am willing to bet the minute you walk through the front door of your home your mind does not totally shut out work. When you have problems at work they place stress on personal relationships. When you have problems at home, unless you are a computer with a solid filing system, they walk through the front door of your office. It’s normal.

Coaching deals with handling the issues that in some way affect your business. Get to a place where you respond and not react to things in your business as well as your personal life. To believe that your business acts in isolation to the rest of your life is just not helpful or even true.

“Hey! I should cal

How to Flop in Direct Mail and Mail Order
How to Flop in Direct Mail and Mail OrderMost mail order and direct mail businesses fail. I’m going from my own experience, most of mine have failed. You can fail a lot faster if you know what you are doing. Then you can work out that new idea of yours and get rich. Here are some good ways to fail:Rely on Other People More than You Rely on YourselfYou can do this in different ways.1. Have your suppliers drop ship to your customers. Some suppliers are okay. Others are not. Choose one that steals your customer’s names and then sends them

e a business in trouble and you call up a consultant/coach to help you out. Here is where the difference lies. A consultant listens to, and reviews all aspects of your business and offers advice, suggestions and changes to your business. If that is what you want then a consultant is for you. My job as a coach is totally different.

“Hey! I should ca

The Fortune is in the Follow Up
It is taught in direct marketing that 20% of the customers who have told you no in the past will change their mind and say yes later if they are continually followed up with. In these days of information overload it is virtually impossible to follow up with all of our contacts since they are not just local anymore, but global. Lists upon lists of contacts are available to us which makes it even more impossible. So most of us go on and sell as usual, rarely getting back with people who have not felt that our product or service was for them at the time.Steven Burke saw

ng hierarchy? Every business needs and should have every person involved, thinking and acting like a leader.

“Hey! I should ca

Horns and Scurs In Cattle
In my opinion or what I think I have learned about what causes cattle to have horns, scurs, or to be polled? This opinion has been formed through much research and many years of cattle breeding.The polled or hornless condition is dominant over the horned condition in cattle. The scurred condition is the result of incomplete dominance. Although scurs look like horns, they are attached to the skin, not to the skull of the animal.In most breeds of cattle, horns are produced by a recessive gene, and the polled gene is dominant.If you breed two animals with hor

e is for home….well sorry I don’t believe them. I doubt very much the mind shuts off automatically when you walk into the office building. And I am willing to bet the minute you walk through the front door of your home your mind does not totally shut out work. When you have problems at work they place stress on personal relationships. When you have problems at home, unless you are a computer with a solid filing system, they walk through the front door of your office. It’s normal.

“Hey! I should ca

Where You Park at Work
Did any of you hear? Beginning now you are only able to park at the work parking lot if you purchase the product being produced by your company. If you buy from the competitor you must park across the street. Obviously I am joking about this, unless you work for Ford.http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/companies/ford_parkinglot/index.htmI have written an article in the past about GM and their issues and I should have really included Ford in there as well. Sin

to things in your business as well as your personal life. To believe that your business acts in isolation to the rest of your life is just not helpful or even true.

“Hey! I should call up that consultant and get some help with my business plan!”

And my response would be, “Yes that is a great idea!”

If you run into a consultant who will give you business advice as well as coaching then that IS a good deal but they aren’t going to be cheap. If they are cheap then I would be suspicious.

What has this got to do with the self-help industry, not existing? Well all those books that tell you now to do things the “right” way…well there IS no right way. Exploring consulting vs. coaching was just a way to show the difference.There is only your way. I will never write a book on self-help. I don’t believe any one book is going to offer you the solution that is going to inspire, motivate and MAINTAIN the excitement that comes with “flow”.

I believe that I am a thought provoker and nothing more. You are the expert in your life and my job is to support you and ask the right questions. I know when I’ve followed my intuition and asked the right question, all sorts of lights start to come on. My clients walk away inspired, motivated and excited to try out what THEY figured out all on their own. I offer support as delayed feedback because my goal is to not have my clients accountable to me. My goal is to keep that fire burning that started with the spark of inspiration.

So is there a self-help industry? Well there are a lot of people out there that believe there is and make a million dollar business out of it. But I like to think that everyone I run into is an expert in their own lives. I’m just the catalyst.

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In order to maximize profits, many companies have begun turning to video and computer-based training for many of the tasks that used to require human trainers. For most subjects this can be an effective and viable option; however in the areas of forklift safety and industrial safety in general these are not safe or even allowed solutions when used as stand-alone training media. This article explores the regulations governing safety training, the possible financial impact of taking shortcuts, and the logic behind creating retention of the most important information your employees may receive.

Your potential joint venture partners may not pick up the phone themselves. They may have a secretary, or an assistant, or a receptionist that screens calls before putting the calls through to them, or someone that screens letters before putting the letters in front of them. These people are known as gatekeepers. Here are some tips for getting past the gatekeeper:

If you are not seeing the sales and marketing results that you desire you might want to take a hard look at your communication style for both spoken and written communications. You could be getting in your own way. Think about your goal in every communication you have with a prospect or customer. Then look at how you communicate with that prospect or customer. Are you getting the looked for results?

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