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A Month of Transformative Coaching, day thirteen: A fresh look at the principles behind the human experience ...

7 ways to win new business

Five social media trends and how you can make the most of them.

Modern business owners think about their digital strategies as soon as they start putting their company together. Of course, they don’t always put it in those terms, but it’s a rare entrepreneur who doesn’t check domain name availability when brainstorming business ideas.

Brand identity is described as “the visible elements of a brand (such as colours, design, logo type, name and symbol) that together identify and distinguish the brand in the customers’ mind”.

All the elements in the definition above are the things that people will look at to decide whether or not to do business with you so you need to get them right.

Frankie Knuckles, the godfather of Chicago house music, has died. He was 59.Knuckles began DJing in New York under the guidance of legendary DJ Larry Levan, but moved to Chicago in the late’70s, just as disco was beginning to die. While record labels were hesitant to sign disco artists, Knuckles and

R.I.P. Frankie Knuckles,

http://www.121mcv.co.uk/resources/seo-sem-knowledge/the10-stepplanforgettingtopageoneofgoogle

Smallest Cat Mr Peebles may look like a kitten, but he is actually 2-year-old. The tiny cat got its size from a genetic defect that stunts growth. At just 6.1-inch (15.5 cm) high and 19.2-inch (49 cm) long, he currently holds certification from The Guinness Book of World

Not everything translates well

Not everything translates well… This could mean ‘OK’ in UK or USA but ‘zero’ in Russia or worse perhaps “go f@$k yourself in South America!?

It is means ‘Money’ in Japan apparently?

Even with a local translator you have to careful! A colleague when working in China with a group of Senior Managers attempting to impress upon them “the importance of change management in the organisation” through a translator, not knowing that there was no real translation for “Change Management” got his key note address to them translated as ” What’s important here is to change the management of the organisation” !!! It took a long while to find out that this had happened and he had lost one or two friends along the way. 

Can choose how we communicate ?

We can choose how we communicate in a particular situation. We can choose to generate new possibilities for our relationships rather than reacting according to our cultural programming.

30 Very British Problems

Self-actualisation or sense of duty?

Self-actualisation or sense of duty? The fundamental cultural difference…

High- and low-context cultures

Nice example of high context versus low context communication…

Wants-Needs-Desires-Fears

Traditional marketing advises you to "Find a need and fill it." Using that approach to create your marketing strategy is too limiting and can even guide you into a disastrous plan. To design a well-focused marketing and advertising plan, you must first understand some basic facts about marketing psychology and buyer behavior.

Finding Your Passion In Work 20 Great Quotes

Ask yourself: If you could do anything for 8 hours a day for the rest of your life, and money were no object, what would you do?

Are You A Leader Or Merely A Manager?

“There is a difference between leadership and management. Leadership is of the spirit, management is of the mind. Managers are necessary, but leaders are essential. We must find managers who are not only skilled organisers, but inspired and inspiring leaders.”Field Marshal William Joseph "Bill"Slim"

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5 Ways Your Competitors Can Help You Get More Sales

The old school of thought is that you need to beat your competition to succeed. But that very thought may be doing more harm than good to your web business.

  Why?

4 Ways to Increase Your Sales Productivity by 243%

If you’re like most small business owners, selling is the least favorite part of what you do. What if you knew there was an easy way to make it way more likely that when you call a client or prospect to make a sale, you’d get a call back?

10 Tips To Cross-Selling

Cross-selling is the art of getting a customer to buy something else along with the product they’ve already chosen. The well-worn textbook example of cross-selling is the McDonald’s all time great: ‘Do you want fries with that?’ Simple, yet incredibly effective for upping revenue.

If 70 percent of an iceberg is underwater - how many cultural cues do we overlook?

http://bridgeconsultants.info/2014/03/18/many-cultural-cues-overlook/

Small-business owners waste their time on what I call £10 an hour work, like running to get office supplies. Meanwhile, they forgo the activities that earn £1,000 an hour, such as sending the right email to the right person, or negotiating a lucrative contract, or convincing a client to do more business with you.

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