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DollarMakers by Robin J.Elliot Michelangelo painted because it was his art, his deepest love. He didn’t need money or the threat from the Pope to make him work very hard for very long on creating a masterpiece. Is your business, your job, your masterpiece? Are you an artist or a slave? (Sorry, Am...
06/23/2013
The dog ate my homework. The cat ate Granny. I was attacked by a bat. No so much. When people show up late for seminars or appointments, forget to do things, and so on, there’s a great way to decide whether or not their excuse is real: simply look at their PATTERN. Is this a repeat performance, o...
06/23/2013
Imagine if you discovered that a tenth of your day was absolutely wasted – every day. Or that what you thought was making you money was actually costing you money. Or that by replacing on activity with another, you could double the output. It’s not as far fetched as it might sound. The cumulative...
06/23/2013
When you factor in the cost of your most valuable and irreplaceable resource, your Time, it costs a lot of money to attend meetings – service clubs, networking meetings, events. Plus the hard costs: membership, entry fees, fines, plus gas, food, beverages, parking, car maintenance, transport, and...
06/23/2013
We were walking down Oxford Street in London, looking at all the stores, and I thought, what DON’T they sell? Every wonderful product you can think of is available for sale. If I was a store, there would be some things I didn’t sell. I would say, “Sorry, we’re all out”. What wouldn’t I sell, and ...
06/22/2013
If you drive past a Vancouver Realtor’s house in the early hours of the morning, don’t be surprised if you see a light on. It’s not easy to sleep peacefully when the cash flow wolf is clawing hungrily at the door. Vancouver Realtors are sitting with a lot of listings right now, which means that s...
06/21/2013
Zig Ziglar said, “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” Trust is based on behaviour, not promises, contracts, or advertisements. In this world of Photoshop, the Internet, and ever-increasing dishonesty and manipulation, proudly led by reality show...
06/20/2013
Rika shouted and clapped her hands. When I walked into her office to find out what the commotion was about (Rika seldom shouts – she’s more ladylike than the Queen of England), she announced, “The crow was stealing the squirrel’s peanuts.” Reciprocity Most people understand reciprocity to be one ...
06/20/2013
They say, “Visibility leads to Credibility, which in turn leads to Profitability.” I concur wholeheartedly. So here are a few easy, very cheap ways of creating more of that elusive Visibility. I have written a number of Forewords and Testimonials for books that friends of mine have written. In ea...
06/19/2013
DollarMakers by Robin J.Elliot   “Look at it this way,” Ford Prefect had said, “fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you’re going to die if you don’t. That way, you stay ahead.” Douglas Adams, The...
06/19/2013
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