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In today's BizTrek Beacon ... From the 1931 edition of Practical Salesmanship (National Salesman's Training Association): Ambition. Another word for aspiration. A master purpose, a great objective. If you have not this quality you might as well be dead. The man without ambition is already in the graveyard of failures. Self-pity won't get you anywhere. Go to work. Have a goal that ...
I recently received an email from a friend who passed along a message that was critical of the new videos on our web site. Some of the criticism was fair, and we are in the process making appropriate adjustments. However, other feedback was dead wrong and proved that they did not "get" small business, even though ...
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
For many years, I have been a faithful fan of ACT. It has worked well for BizTrek. Last year, I switched over to Oprius, an ONLINE contact management system and I have become a big fan! The features I loved about ACT are present in Oprius and it adds a lot more too!
A friend of mine, Jordana Megonigal at the Business Black Box magazine, asked a great question recently --- What is the single thing that Upstate businesses need the most? My answer - They need to discover how to think and act differently. They need to learn new skills
I am a strong believer in backing up information. One of the things I have discovered that few people back up are their Linkedin connections. I doubt Linkedin is going anywhere, but you never know. So, I encourage you to at least back this data up to a file on your computer every now and then (so you keep the latest data).
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009