Speak the same language as your customer

Or how to stop sounding like a pompous ass I had to shake my head. Apropos, paradigm, myopic, maligned, rapier like,fondled,terminological exactitude. What was he thinking? It would have been bad enough if he was speaking to a panel of executives. In this case the words were inappropriate. After all, he was an announcer calling ... ...

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When to Cut Someone Loose

We should have known better. We hired a friend to do some administrative tasks at Wealth and Wisdom (and a couple of our other businesses). On the surface it seemed like a great idea. Ed was more than qualified to do the work. While I’m pretty good at spreadsheets and databases he made me look ... ...

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Guest Post at GetEntrepreneurial.com

Today I had an article published on GetEntrepreneurial. For those of you who don’t know about GetEntrepreneurial, it is a great blog offering advice to small businesses. I highly recommend it to any entrepreneur. Visitors from GetEntrepreneurial Welcome to Wealth and Wisdom! I’ve listed a few of my articles below that you might enjoy. Feel ... ...

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Review – XSitePro

This review is about a year overdue. Last year I made some major changes to our blog and website. While our blog is on the WordPress platform all of our websites were created using a tool called XSitePro. I had just upgraded to their latest version – entirely rebuilt – and had just started playing ... ...

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Make Every Minute Count – by Brian Tracy

Time management is the central skill of success. Your ability to manage your time, to focus and channel your energies on your highest value tasks, will determine your rewards and your level of accomplishment in life more than any other factor. Save Hundreds of Hours and Thousands of Dollars in Personal Advancement Your mind is ... ...

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Link Love for April 28, 2009

Today I came across a few articles/posts that I thought you would enjoy and find useful. Jeffrey Gitomer is one of my favorite sales experts. His books are fantastic and his weekly ezine is always full of great sales advice. If you are not a Gitomer subscriber I highly recomend signing up. I also recomend ... ...

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How to Thrive in a Recession – Working for Someone Else

Unless you do one of three things you are expendable: Product creation Sales / marketing Production profitability Other jobs are importatn but are they necessary? No. There is a reason these three roles pay the most-often more than the president makes! This becomes more critical in a down economy. The underperforming salesman is vulnerable. The ... ...

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Inflated College Rankings

Ever since we started writing our book… Maybe it’s my reticular system noticing questions and articles on education. Maybe it’s the law of attraction. Either way readers and friends keep sending me articles and asking me questions. Most recently a friend sent me an article from National Review on inflated college rankings. They wrote a ... ...

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A Powerful Way to Improve

For years my philosophy on change and improvement had two aspects: Continuous improvements and ah ha moments. Continuous (incremental) improvements These are the incremental adjustments we make on a regular basis. If you focus on always getting better  and have a vision of how you want to be this can have a profound impact. Just ... ...

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How to Thrive in a Recession – It’s All About the Customer

This is a series of articles on thriving in these tough economic times. While they can be scary we need to keep in mind that it is the entrepreneur that will be our salvation. We can’t look for the government to bail us out. It is up to us to lead the way and create ... ...

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