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Hidden Consultants Within Your Organization
You’ve all heard the old joke about a consultant being someone who uses your watch to tell you the time, and then steals your watch. There’s some truth to the story: consultant recommendations are often the same things that your employees or customers have been telling you all along. But while you will listen to a consultant, you don’t listen to your employees and customers. Why is that? Why do companies pay more attention to consultants then they do to employees or customers? And what should you do about it? But let’s start with an even more important question: why shou

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Five Tips for Tact
Managers face the difficult task of giving advice and criticism. Both of these tasks threaten to damage professional relationships if not handled properly. While giving critical feedback is a necessary evil, there are those who, as one philosopher said, “find fault as if it were buried treasure.” Using the appropriate words, watching the order and placement of your language as well as increasing your own self-awareness will help you strike a balance in your leadership. Here are five tips for tact:Criticize in privateDon’t criticize in public or in front

1. Business Cards

It is very important to market yourself via business cards. You should be making a conscious effort to hand out ten per day at the very least. Have them on you at all times, and keep a supply in your car just in case. When doing business with someone, don’t give them just one business card, give them two, and ask them to refer someone to you.

2. Mailers and Reminders

Keep a tickler file handy on all of your customers birthdays, kids birthdays, and anniversaries. Send them a card to wish them well on their special occasion. They won’t be expecting it, making them all the more appreciative, it also keeps you in their thoughts, reminding them that they know a mortgage specialist that they can refer should the topic ever arise. It also gives you a reason to send out more business cards and keep them circulating. Remember, the average home owner refinances, or purchases on average every three years, so it is important to stay in front of your customer.

3. Phone Numbers

Cash is Oxygen During the Restructuring Process
Revenue is vanity, profit is reality and cash is certainty. In medical analogy, revenue is the food, profit is the water and cash is the oxygen. You cannot pay rent with profit, you can only pay your rent with hard cash. Cash talks, the rest walks.Just as a critically ill person needs to be administered with fresh oxygen, an ailing company’s immediate lifeline is cash, cash and more cash. Fresh fund injections will provide the fillip needed to get the system moving on an even keel as well as to create stable platforms for growth.In almost every tu

business with someone, don’t give them just one business card, give them two, and ask them to refer someone to you.

2. Mailers and Reminders

3. Phone Numbers

Creativity and Innovation Management - Feasibility
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to comm

them a card to wish them well on their special occasion. They won’t be expecting it, making them all the more appreciative, it also keeps you in their thoughts, reminding them that they know a mortgage specialist that they can refer should the topic ever arise. It also gives you a reason to send out more business cards and keep them circulating. Remember, the average home owner refinances, or purchases on average every three years, so it is important to stay in front of your customer.

3. Phone Numbers

Just Because You Spend a Lot of Money Does Not Mean Your Marketing Will Work
It is amazing the amount of dollars that companies spend on marketing campaigns and even more interesting how few of them really work well. Just because you are spending lots of money does not mean your marketing will automatically be successful. I can certainly remember many of our company’s competitors spend like the Dickens when we would come to their town and market.We would see their advertising, expensive advertising all over the place. But they often spent their advertising and marketing dollars in correctly and wasted their efforts. We simply passed them b

arise. It also gives you a reason to send out more business cards and keep them circulating. Remember, the average home owner refinances, or purchases on average every three years, so it is important to stay in front of your customer.

3. Phone Numbers

Creating Attention Grabbing Headlines
Headlines play a crucial role in the success of your business. Your subject line must get your prospect interested enough to read your copy! An effective headline, whether in an email, ad or book, will literally force your potential customers to want to learn more.There was a book, for example, titled "The Art of Controversy" which was not selling very well. The author changed the title to "How to Argue Logically". The sales shot up to 30,000. Nothing else was changed in the whole book! This is the power of a good headline!So, how do you go about writing th

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Giving your phone number to your customer seems obvious, but it is equally important to give them your cellular phone number as well as your work number, and let them know that they can feel free to call you at any time, this will personalize the relationship you have with your customer and give them a comfort zone where they feel as though they can really trust you.

4. Become Active

Become active in local organizations and charities, here are a few examples:

• Chamber of Commerce
• Rotary
• Lions Club
• Networking Groups
• Church
• Local Youth Athletic Associations

5. Apparel

Wear your company’s logo, It doesn’t hurt to have a few polos or dress shirts in your wardrobe with your company logo on it for attending special events or just going out to lunch, lets face it, it’s free advertising, and it shows that you take pride in the company that you work for.

6. Body Language

Your body language can speak volumes. Always smile when it’s appropriate, and speak clearly and slowly so that people will understand you. Eye contact is also very important when talking to people, it lets your client know that you are very confident in what you do, and that you believe in what you are saying

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