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The Truth About Winning the Lottery Using the Law of Attraction

Beth & Lee McCain asked: You buy your lottery ticket week after week, and week after week you don’t win.  You practice the Law of Attraction and are sure this is the way you are going to make all that money that you have been visualizing and focusing on.  Maybe next week it will happen […]

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How to Choose a Mortgage Netbranch When Starting your Own Mortgage Company

Robert Lawrence asked: In my last article, I covered the two main ways to start your own mortgage company. One way, was to go it completely alone…apply for your own broker’s license, set-up all the relationships with the various lenders, handle all the back office stuff like accounting, compliance, etc. All of this, giving you […]

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C-level Relationship Selling Requires Differentiating Your Company to Your Customers’ C-level Managers

Sam Manfer asked: Customers choose vendors based on the perception that something important is better from one company than another. “Better” simply boils down to three (3) factors – more benefits, less risks, and/or least effort. Many believe selection is based on price. I say not really. A “better” deal – yes, not necessarily price. […]

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Get a Move on With Logistics Management

Akhil Shahani asked: If there’s ever been a time of your life when you lived by the clock, waking up, getting dressed, organizing breakfast, dropping kids to school, getting in to work, picking kids from school, dropping them off for baseball practice, catching a hurried sandwich, getting back to work… you already know what logistics […]

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Adhd Systems for Money Management Can Make All the Difference

Linda Walker asked: ADHD money management is a paradox. The first thing financial experts say is never let anyone else have control of your money. The next thing they say is that you need to follow a strict budget, avoid impulsive spending and save for the future. As an adult with ADHD, you know that […]

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Time Management Is Supposed To Reduce Stress!

Janice Ferrante asked: Speaking as a time management junkie… someone who has become obsessed through necessity and habit, with wringing “something” out of every spare minute… oops, did I say spare minute? I don’t have any of those since I became a time management junkie, I meant to say obsessed with wringing something out of […]

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How to (not) Start a Candle Company

Chris Anderson asked: The following is about my experience with starting a Candle Company (www.zionsvillecandlecompany.com) from SCRATCH, a few of the pitfalls we had, and how we finally settled into a model that works for us. Please keep in mind that we had reasonable success with all the different models, and that “to each his […]

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The Time For Micro-Blogging

Kevin Sinclair asked: Facebook and Bebo were the social networking sites of 2007. However micro-blogging is what is in store for the year 2008. You may be asking yourself “what is micro-blogging?” And the answer to your question is that micro-blogging is a form of blogging using short texts. Micro-blogging is the same as sending […]

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Tips for Managing Matrixed Resources in Project Management

Barbara V Pratt asked: One of the toughest jobs of the project manager is making sure you actually receive the resources you have been given for your project.  People resources are the trickiest of all because each person assigned to you can choose to come to your meetings or not, answer their phone or not, […]

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Market Your Business Differently – Think Outside of the Box

Emily Yung asked:   Even marketing veterans have clichéd moments when the feel they have ‘been there done that’ on just about every marketing idea in their industry. When marketing professionals spend all day focusing on what they do, what their competitors do and what their customers want them to do, it is very easy […]