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Boost Your Productivity – Time Block Your Meetings

Boost Your Productivity – Time Block Your Meetings Let’s face it – small business owners attend a lot of meetings. We have to! We need to: network to make new connections; meet with new prospects and customers to sell our

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Aim – Hone in on the Real Target

Aim – Hone in on the Real Target Are you up for an experiment? I know what the outcome can be, but I think many of us (me included) have to actually experience something to really understand the power we

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Grab People’s Attention with an Effective Elevator Speech

Grab People’s Attention with an Effective Elevator Speech I know what you may be thinking, “An elevator speech? What’s that?” An elevator speech is a concise, carefully constructed overview about you, your business, and your products or services. It’s called

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How to Sell Yourself Any Time You Speak

How to Sell Yourself Any Time You Speak We’ve all been to events where each person is asked to introduce themselves and tell the other attendees a little bit about themselves and their business. As a business professional, you probably

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How do you do it?

Someone asks you to give them a call or worse yet, you tell them that you’ll call them later. What’s the next thing you do? Do you use your phone to make a note? Send a memo to yourself? Jot

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Maximizing Your BNI Membership

First let me say I am speaking to myself as much as I am to anyone else. With that said let’s see how we can really “use,” (and by that I mean get to know, like and trust) each other

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I Didn’t Know Anyone So Here’s What I Did…

Way back in 2005 when while Cathy was taking me to the airport, John and Libby excitedly exclaimed, “We’re taking Daddy to his office!” Cathy and I decided it might be best for me to stay home more than I

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