Good listening is not just looking at someone and nodding your head in agreement. You have to acknowledge what is being said and let the other person know that you understand. The more you can acknowledge what is being said, the greater ability you have to persuade and influence. Why? Because the person speaking with [...]
If you can’t track it, don’t do it.
Every high-performance venture needs a tracking system. A tracking system with well-designed metrics lets everyone know how well they are doing relative to their commitments. It is a guide to whether additional or extraordinary actions need to be taken.
It is one of the first things I set up [...]
Free Paid Survey List: All you usually get is this useless random list of survey sites that pay you a quarter here and a quarter there
Responding to the news that LIBOR fell on Wednesday following the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Swiss National Bank’s $254 billion (£145.7 billion) injection into the wholesale funding markets, financial solutions company Think Money (http://www.thinkmoney.com/) commented that this could mark the start of a recovery in the mortgages and loans market, so long as [...]
“Health” and “illness” are contrasting terms. They can be used in physical or in mental context. We know that physical exercise done on a regular basis keeps us healthy. Mental exercise also keeps us mentally healthy. Just like after doing physical exercise we need rest, after mental exercise the mind also [...]
Essential nutmeg oil is, well, essential! There are many ways in which this product is used to benefit your life. If you think that you have not every used it or tasted it, chances are you just did not know that you did. There are several properties out there that [...]
When hypnosis is mentioned the first thought is usually about entertainment and people looking foolish on stage. The second thought is usually about smoking, and if there were any enthusiasm left for a third thought that would probably be about weight loss. These are the areas that hypnosis is associated with in the minds of [...]
Everyone knows the five second rule. It states that if you were to drop something on the ground, you will have five seconds to pick it up, before it is covered in deadly germs. Anyone with a brain will know that it doesn’t matter if what you dropped is on the floor for just one [...]
What’s in a name?
There are 3 ways to grow any business:
- Get more customers
- Get more from each sale
- Sell to each customer more frequently.
That’s it – everything else boils down to some variation of these 3 activities.
Most owners and most managers want to grow their business. Most of them concentrate exclusively on getting more new customers.
Odd [...]