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3 Steps to Building Successful Business Relationships

3 Steps to Building Successful Business Relationships Recently, I was talking with a friend who was lamenting about how hard it can be to build thriving business relationships. As a small business owner, she’s noticed (and heard from other folks)

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Is your pool deep or broad?

Is your pool deep or broad? A colleague, we’ll call Sam, was lamenting a disastrous sales call over a cup of hot java this week and I kind of felt bad for him. Sam had been trying to find a

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Posted in Networking, Sales

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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3 Keys to Self-Improvement and Motivation

Do you know these three simple keys to self-improvement and motivation? 1. INSPIRATION. Inspiration is critical to staying motivated and improving oneself. If you are not interested in your business, your motivation level will never be high and you will

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Posted in Mindset

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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