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To Communicate with Impact , Talk to an Ignoramus
Maybe the reason you're not reaching your audience is because you know too much about your subject! Find a sympathetic ignoramus, or hire one, to ask the dumb questions that you forget about, but that are foremost in the minds of your prospects, customers, and employees. Preaching to the choir is fun and easy, but learning how to talk to those who are ignorant about your products and services is a much more powerful approach.
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Poems In Training - A Metaphor For Success
Poems and stories can provide powerful metaphors in training, particularly when you are trying to get a motivational point across. If you think about the things you remember from your past education, you will probably note that most of them have come from rhymes or stories of some kind. I mean how did you learn to say your A,B,C's? I bet you're even saying the rhyme in your head right now!
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A New Reason to Read
Why do we read? Well, we read for any number of reasons. I've read books for pure entertainment, to pass time, out of cohersion (school), or to learn about something I was interested in. Last year, however, I discovered a new reason I like to read.
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Seeking Those Affordable Real Estate
For many people wanting to be homeowners, finding affordable real estate can be difficult based on their level of income. Many new and used home prices have risen dramatically in the past few years, while incomes have not proportionately-
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Bad Credit Loan Secrets Most Lenders Don't Want You to Know
When it comes to bad credit and home loans, you’ll think of all of the negative things you have heard. All of these messages come from major lenders, most mortgage brokers and the media, and unfortunately, a lot of what is being said is untrue.
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High Definition Update: Paul Wheeler Interview
In July 2005, I wrote an E-Zine with the headline “High Definition – When?” At the time we saw little demand for HDCAM equipment aside from some clients in the U.S. Seven months later, the situation has changed dramatically. With this increase in demand, we recently hired Paul Wheeler BSC, a highly experienced film and digital cinematographer to do some workshops for us. While he was here, I interviewed him.
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Change
Major forces of change - People, Technology and Information. Change can bring discomfort - but change is good!
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Find Out More On Blogging For Business As A Means Of Making Money!
The more time people spend online, the more ways they find to make it profitable. Almost any business that is even moderately successful, or wants to be successful, has its own website. Websites allow business owners and professionals to have a space to direct potential customers to for information about their business. Increasing popular is the blogging business. The blogging business allows business owners and professionals to write about their particular field and develop a regular circulation of people who want to learn more from them.
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Medical Billing - GP0 Record Fields 1 Through 7
In this installment of medical billing, we'll be covering parental nutrition and the CMN that goes with it. We'll also give a brief explanation of the difference between parental and enteral nutrition.
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IT Usage in the Apparel Industry
The usage of IT by the Indian apparel industry has been woefully inadequate. North American and European apparel companies spend about 3 to 5% of their revenues on IT. The Indian apparel industry in contrast, has typically invested less than 1%.
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Professionals in Pink: Corporate Gifts for Women in the Workplace
While women are still a minority in the corporate realm, many companies are encouraged to adopt Harry Klemfuss’ idea to recognize the importance of women in the office. In recent years, special products have been developed in order to recognize the hard work that women contribute to Corporate America.
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4 Essential Steps to Eliminate Database Drama
Back in the day when I was still apart of corporate America, I found myself tasked with the huge job of figuring out what spiffy new company wide software system we needed and what would work best for us.
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Good Governance
During the last eighteen months I have carried out several investigations relating to good governance, compliance and fraud. My work has highlighted how easy it is for public and voluntary bodies to become complacent ‘because they think they have the necessary safeguards and systems in place’.
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A Look at Weight Loss Infomercials
Only in America could billions of dollars be made selling weight loss products to people who need to shed a few extra pounds. In a world full of starving people, Americans seem to have emerged as a nation of overfed, under exercised fatties who can’t put down that bag of potato chips, stop eating that ice cream or refuse that second (or third?) helping of pasta.
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An Exercise in Creating Your Future
One of the most powerful success factors in life is envisioning a future. You cannot reach what you cannot imagine. Envisioning a
state of affairs of your own desire is the first step in making the future happen.
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Language in International Business
The way that we use language reflects cultural preferences for some types of communicative behaviour while discouraging others. Culture will affect, for example, the extent to which we speak loudly and animatedly or quietly, whether we use lots of ‘I’ statements, whether we choose very explicit language or whether we are indirect.
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Getting Prizes for Raffle Fundraisers
Raffles are one of the most popular and cost effective ways to raise money for a non profit organization. However, it would not be a raffle if you had nothing to give away! Discover what types of prizes make good raffles and how to go about getting those prizes.
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