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Cross-Town Collaboration
If you have a problem with your Hewlett Packard or IBM product in Singapore, simply take it to the Post Office and they will forward it to the repair center at no charge.When it’s repaired and ready to collect, the Post Office will return your machine to your home or office, or back to the Post Office location of your choice.You can even pay for repairs at the point of delivery if they’re not covered by the manufacturer’s guarantee.This is a good example of win–win partnership between technology companies and a government agency resulting in better service for customers like you.Watch for more ‘cross-border, cross-town’ partnerships between government, commerce, education, medicine, neighborhoods, communities and even spiritual institutions as everyone becomes more creative and customer-focused.Key Learning PointOld boundaries can become open borders for creative coopera

e passing by, and not being able to wait to get up in the morning to do more! At Solo-E we call that being juiced...but whether you call it being in the flow, or the zo

New England and Economic Recovery
New England area is experiencing some good economic rebounding finally. Those markets, which involve larger consumer items are finding life a little tough, smaller manufacturers are waiting for orders and everyone is waiting on cash flow in the New England rural areas and cities under 150,000 which is nearly every city in NH, VT and ME and that 85% of the cities (calling a city that which is over 10K pop.) in CT, RI and MA. In some NH cities those involved in custom manufacturing are talking in terms of a “Train Wreck” when discussing the economic calamity. They were being promised by the Democrats who wanted a good showing in the NH primaries complete economic recovery, not sure how that was going to happen. Why is politics so important to these issues? Well because the rhetoric and bullshit has a lot to do with consumer sentiment and spending behavior. Since Summer is here now the New England area is happy to

1. Do What You LOVE: If you've chosen your business because you read that this niche was the next hot one, or because your favorite uncle (or your best friend) thinks you'd be well-suited for this business, you may as well pack up now and save yourself some time and money. If you don't love what you do, it will show...potential customers will know it and will go elsewhere. Is it possible to be successful anyway? Sure -- but it won't be easy and it won't be fun...and isn't that why you want to be in business for yourself anyway?

Instead, choose what you love. You'll know what that is when you find yourself being incredibly productive, forgetting the time passing by, and not being able to wait to get up in the morning to do more! At Solo-E we call that being juiced...but whether you call it being in the flow, or the zon

Turning the Table: Questions for Your Interviewer
(DES MOINES, Iowa – January 26, 2005) The fateful final question of all interviewers may carry more weight than you would think. Upon hearing “Now, do you have any questions,” you are given a chance to show the quality of your character and interest in the company. No matter how well the interview went, passively responding to this question with a shake of the head and a polite smile will only communicate to the employer that you are not interested in inquiring about the job, the company, and your place within their organization. Your approach to this Question & Answer time will directly impact the interviewer’s assessment of you and the interview.When thinking of questions the first things that probably come to mind regard your salary, hours, vacation, and benefits. It is not a good idea to ask these types of questions during this time. It would only express to the employer that you are more concer

thinks you'd be well-suited for this business, you may as well pack up now and save yourself some time and money. If you don't love what you do, it will show...potential customers will know it and will go elsewhere. Is it possible to be successful anyway? Sure -- but it won't be easy and it won't be fun...and isn't that why you want to be in business for yourself anyway?

Use A Press Release To Explode Your Business Presence
Most business owners fail to see the benefit of using press releases as a way to get their online or offline businesses known. Because of this very fact those who do use them will drive a lot of new business to their online or offline business if done properly.If you think that your business is not newsworthy, think again. Go to Google news or any news related website and you will find many well-written, business related, press releases.A press release is simply unknown news. It doesn’t have to be breaking news. It only needs to be newsworthy. If you have a product or service that no one knows about then you have newsworthy, press release material.Here’s what happens when you submit a press release. Your press release is submitted to news sites, big and small. The news site will look at your press release and decide whether or not your press release is newsworthy or not. Most of the smaller

customers will know it and will go elsewhere. Is it possible to be successful anyway? Sure -- but it won't be easy and it won't be fun...and isn't that why you want to be in business for yourself anyway?

Do You Have The Courage To Rate Yourself As A Manager?
2006 is quickly becoming history. Your results as a manager are evident by the achievements you have accomplished and the challenges, failure and un-met goals that were for whatever reason not realized.One of the behaviors I have been advocating for many years for managers is that they carefully and routinely evaluate the areas where they have made progress and where they have not.There are many benefits for this type of activity and yet many managers are either too busy, too stressed or just unwilling to take the time to conduct a thorough self-evaluation of their strengths, weaknesses, failures or self-development needs.I have been sharing ideas, concepts and techniques with managers around the world for years on how to improve organization performance and employee productivity and it still amazes me how few have the courage or interest in looking in periodically the mirror with an eye on

be in business for yourself anyway?

Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The PLAN Phase
Let's start by a quick recap of the main article...Make Continuous Improvement One Of Your Goals - As Soon As You Possibly Can (ID: 74077) ----------------------------------------------------------------What Is An Improvement Cycle?"Everything we do is a process, every process has a customer"The Improvement Cycle is a highly disciplined and rigorous approach to problem solving using the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) methodology developed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming.The Improvement Cycle consists of seven steps, 3 in the Plan phase, 1 in the Do phase, 1 in the Check phase, and 2 in the Act phase.The PDCA cycle needs to be used in a continuous manner, select your theme or project, assess the current situation, plan and implement your solutions, check the effects of your changes, standardise on your new improved process, and plan for future improvements – the

e passing by, and not being able to wait to get up in the morning to do more! At Solo-E we call that being juiced...but whether you call it being in the flow, or the zone, or whatever, FIND IT!

2. WRITE DOWN Your Business Plan: As a small or solo business owner, you still need a business plan. Even if you aren't getting a loan! Would you invest thousands of dollars of your own money buying stock in a company that didn't have a written prospectus? (I hope not!) Then why would you spend thousands of dollars AND hours of your precious time on a business that doesn't have a written plan?

Write your plan, get it critiqued by professionals, and most important, BE READY TO CHANGE IT. This may seem counterintuitive...why bother writing it down if it's just going to change? Because writing it down makes it more clear...a

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Employee surveys seem to be the rage these days. These tools can either help you improve your company or waste your time. Their success depends on how you implement them and what you do with the results. Here are some tips to help you avoid making costly mistakes.

Having been in telephone selling, telemarketing, tele-selling, telephone soliciting, inside sales, call center management, or whatever else you want to name it, for decades, the author returns to the foundational question: Why do people freak-out about cold-calling? The utterly nervous, unraveling caller is focusing inordinately on himself, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker and consultant and legendary author of YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE! and REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE. In this article he reveals exactly what to focus on and what to ignore in cold calling so you'll be self-confident and successful.

Salespeople, too, are often guilty of giving into the pressure of silence. They mistakenly interpret silence as an objection. Having a propensity to assume the objection is price-related, salespeople automatically sweeten the deal with free product, better terms or a lower price.

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