Courtesy of JASB Management, some excellent points about achieving success to consider for business and for life. Sometimes, you have to give up to get ahead! 25 Simple Things to Give Up If You Want to Succeed 1. Trying to be perfect. Perfectionism sets us up for failure. It’s not a quest for the […]
If you’ve spent time building your LinkedIn profile and status on the network, Beth Granger of Beth Granger Consulting recommends you take the following steps immediately to protect your information! LinkedIn is updating the desktop interface. It will look and function a bit more like the mobile version in many ways. We may be losing some […]
By any chance are you responsible for developing new relationships that will hopefully, at some point in the future, grow into a new source of business for your firm? Most likely, even if you don’t actually think that you are, you are! Because in business, as is so eloquently stated in the FedEx Ground commercial below, […]
Whether you start a business or are promoted to a position in a company where other employees are reporting to you then, overnight, you have become a manager! When I started the title insurance firm Hallmark Abstract Service, I have to admit that my prior experience managing others had for the most part been limited to raising three […]
Differentiation, standing out from the crowd, setting yourself apart, USP or unique selling proposition! These terms identify the goal for any company large or small which is to show the buying public why its product is superior to what seems to be a similar product being offered by the competition. In some instances this differentiation is […]
On Your Mark, Get Set GO…You now have 30 or 60 seconds to interest the perfect prospect in the product or service that you offer! We’ve all been there at one time or another. At a networking event, a business dinner or maybe a chance meeting in the elevator of an office building where we find […]
We’ve all been there…Big closing, critical presentation, important interview or maybe you’re starting a new job! Performance anxiety comes in all shapes and sizes and situations or events that might make one person anxious could be effortless child’s play for someone else. One example…On my wedding day the Rabbi had to give me his handkerchief because […]
Summary: Whether real estate, mortgages, law or anything else…For large corporations, small businesses or sole proprietorships, now is the time to start making our best guesses, plans and projections for 2016. What will the state and condition of the U.S. economy be in 2016? For a business owner, department head in a company or the leader of […]
Summary: For most of us networking is a key to business development and, as in all endeavors, there are right ways and wrong ways to go about it! In our networking travels we have likely all met individuals who may fall into the category of those who ask much more than provide, take much more often […]
Maybe sales are slow, new listings are down or interest rate increases are choking off mortgage pre-qualifications…How do you react? Yesterday, in a related article concerning how well someone may compete in business, solutions for dealing successfully with inevitable adversity were discussed (Do You Compete Like A Champion?)! Today’s Thought? What Type Of Corporate Leader Are You? […]
