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Aug 28
10 Tips for Business Sales Success
If you are in business you will know the importance of making a sale whether that is of goods or a service. Lawyers & solicitors can offer legal advice on the legal aspects of your business, so you might not think they would know much about sales, yet they are in business too; the business of giving legal advice, but that is still a business. So they may well have been able to help you out with some tips.
However, here are 10 tips for business sales success that you may not have tried yet.
- During prime business hours decision makers are usually really busy. So make your calls to prospects outside of those hours. Try 8am before the frantic rush starts or 6pm when it has wound down and your decision maker is more relaxed.
- Leave voice messages at night because they will be the first thing your prospect listens to in the morning, maybe even before they get to work.
- Speak in terms of benefits to the sales prospect, not the features of the product. They are more interested in what it will do for them than just what it does.
Jan 15
How to Recognise Sexual Harassment In the Workplace
Sexual harassment in the workplace can cause the victim stress and interfere with the enjoyment of their work. It can even make them feel worried and unhappy out of work hours so it must be addressed, but first, it has to be recognised before you think about talking to lawyers. Not everyone understands that it can happen to a person even when the perpetrator is not in the same room. How?
Sexual harassment can be done through sending inappropriate email, text messages and/or images to the victim, or it can be done by phone. Here are other ways to recognise it.
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Jan 12
Why a Lawyer Should Do Your Conveyancing
If you have bought or sold a business or a property you will know that exchanging the contracts is not the end of the matter. Settlement only happens when the money is paid into the seller’s account, but there are certain things that must be done first and these are part of the conveyancing process. It is wise to get conveyancing legal advice to take care of this because there is quite a lot involved in it.
The time between the contracts being exchanged and the money being paid is put to good use in doing searches to ensure several things: –
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Dec 16
Moving Towards Wisdom, Beauty & Strength
By which my friend Eleutherios assures me is the Kabbalistic (and poetic) equivalent of Steve Pavlina’s three principles of personal growth; truth (wisdom), love (beauty) and power (strength).
This post has been a long time in coming, and in it I’ll explain why in order for me to move towards truth, love and power, you must be Willing to Change Everything in Your Life
In David Deida’s book The Way of the Superior Man, he talks about how you must be willing to change everything in your life when necessary.
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Nov 22
Lessons for Personal Development Bloggers
Earlier this year I had an idea: why not ask personal development bloggers for advice on personal development blogging, compile them into an ebook and give it out for free?
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a swell idea to me 🙂
Unfortunately, that idea never materialized as I became caught up in life and work.
A few of the personal development bloggers I’d started to email had already replied me though, and I’d always felt sorry to have their work languish in my email.
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Nov 18
Personal Atrophy for Foolish People
In Personal Development for Smart People (see my book review here), Steve Pavlina lists the three core principles of personal development as Truth, Love and Power.
When you combine the principles, you get the secondary principles of personal development; Truth combined with Love gives you Oneness, Love and Power combine to give you Courage and Truth with Power gives you Authority. All together, the six principles combine to give you the seventh core principle of personal development: Intelligence.
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Nov 13
Keeping the Faith in the Most Difficult Times
There lives an angel and her name is Miguelina. She is one of the most inspirational people I know.
Her life is dedicated to serving others through education. She believes that the path out of poverty (including her own); an existence of few choices and few resources, is paved through learning.
I would like to share with you the story about Miguelina because it can inspire us to do more with what we have and teach us that keeping the faith works!
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Nov 10
Stress Relief Tips to Help You Get to the Root of Your Stress
The following stress relief tips are simple and practical. They will swiftly ease your stress!
Step 1. Become Aware
In a relaxed position, with your eyes closed, picture yourself being stressed. In your mind’s eye, go through every stress symptom that you have.
Feel yourself being stressed. It is imperative that the visualization is very real with powerful emotions attached to it.
Now picture yourself becoming aware that you are stressed. You are now the Observer of your behavior. You see your symptoms but your perception of them is of something separate from you.
It is like a miniature awakening!
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Nov 7
Fast and Effective Ways for Coping with Stress
Stress is a part of most people’s lives. It is a reality that we all live with. This is why we need to have different mechanisms in place for coping with stress. According to Brilliance Removalists Perth whether we are business executives or working in a hard physical job like home furniture removals, the challenge for most of us is actually being cognizant of when we are stressed. It is such an habitual state for us to be in, that most of the time we don’t even know when we are in it!
We all have distinctive and personal indicators that we manifest when we are feeling stressed. What are yours?
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Nov 6
About Eating & Habits
Steve Pavlina wrote this after having nothing but juice for the last ten days:
With each passing day, I can see more clearly how cooked food is used as a drug to create a certain kind of feeling in our bodies. We keep eating it because we’re addicted to it, not because it’s healthy for us. We confuse those addictive cravings for the experience of genuine hunger. Instead of making conscious food choices, we let our addictions dictate what we eat, how much, and how often.
I experienced a glimpse of this during day two of my own short live foods fast:
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