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3 Reasons Entrepreneurs and Businesspeople Should Soar and Sting

by The Obvious Expert on September 30, 2009

Lesson one: Never look at the appearance of a consumer, business prospect, or client and assume he or she won’t be willing to pay your price.

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Research circulated a few years back suggesting that each of us, in our workspace, is interrupted from our task approximately once every 11 minutes. Worst of all, it then takes us 25 minutes to deal with the interruption and return to our fullest level of concentration on the task we were addressing.

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Most importantly, turn your efforts into a marketing outreach and a branding opportunity. Tell everyone with whom you interact about your business. Give them your elevator speech (and your business card) and show your genuine enthusiasm for clearing out these items in your life because you are making room for bigger and better things in your business. Your genuine enthusiasm for the process will be both intriguing and engaging.

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Real Help for Small Business, Consultants, and Solopreneurs

September 12, 2009

A virtual assistant can provide you the admin or support staff you need on a schedule and at a price you can handle. No need to set up another desk in the corner of your office, screen applicants, and keep track of hours worked by your new assistant. Hire a virtual assistant and then get back to doing those things which make your business or consulting practice profitable and fulfilling.

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10 Critical Steps for Consultants, Entrepreneurs and Job Seekers over 60

August 30, 2009

# Set up a LinkedIn account, a Facebook page, a Twitter identity, and start blogging. Your brand matters whether you are selling yourself or selling your services. there were 450,000 people age 65 and over actively looking for work in July (2009)

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Social Media Road Kill

August 3, 2009

The amazing tools of social media, from Facebook, to Twitter, YouTube, Linked-In, and of course, blogging, (along with others) will help you connect, communicate, and build relationships …They can also turn clients into adversaries and total strangers into your lifelong enemies.

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Easy Way to Get Cash into Your Business or Consulting Practice

July 24, 2009

But an often overlooked option is to get money from your clients and customers in advance of work, service, or goods you will be providing to them. Instead of going to a lender to borrow money against the income you anticipate in the future, why not skip that step and try to get your hands on that future income now?

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Has Stupidity Become the New Business Model?

July 21, 2009

Every day in business (and in your personal life) you have the opportunity to do the right thing; to act wisely; and to follow a path that will lead you to your goal. You also have abundant opportunities to cheat a little (or a lot), lie a tiny bit (or outrageously), and to act on feelings of greed, resentfulness, and selfishness.

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Effective Social Media Marketing is More Cheese than Worms

July 10, 2009

Social media marketing tools such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, LinkedIn, and YouTube, are not a replacement for using search engine optimization strategies to help you better reach your online market.

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Game Plan for Entrepreneurs and Businesses in a Troubled Economy

July 8, 2009

And even if you were an eighteen-year-old entrepreneurial prodigy in 1930, today you are a 97-year-old entrepreneurial legend who hasn’t been through an economic depression during a time when the business is built or broken by relational marketing on the internet.

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