Five steps to effective goal setting

While some plan too much, others fail to plan at all. Setting achievable goals is an important part of personal and professional success.

“Goals need to be congruent, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound (C-SMART),” says personal and professional development coach Sandras Phiri. Phiri recommends the following steps to setting goals:

A WALKING MEDITATION

Realize the Problems in Order to Create the Solutions

Many business owners across this great Nation of ours seem to running scared with their tails between their legs. They cry and make excuses, “Politicians say the economy is recovering, but my sales people can’t find it“, placing the blame on anything and everything they have heard or read in the media (which I call propaganda). Being a business owner myself, I truly understand the frustration. However, what I do not understand is the neglect to take responsibility for our own business/ businesses.

Things you should be aware of Regarding The Small Business Jobs Act:

Finance and Small Business Chairs Release Small Business Jobs Act

Washington, DC – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu (D-La.) today released the Small Business Jobs Act, a bill to help small businesses access capital, stimulate investment in small businesses and promote entrepreneurship – all of which will help small business create jobs.

Mylinda on Business Credit

Had the opportunity to spend the weekend with the financial advisers of Alliance Global Inc. in Palm Springs… What an AWESOME group! Thanks so much Symon!

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Get the Ball Rolling

At some point, though, we have to honor the physical side of our lives as well, and that means taking action. To hell if conditions aren’t perfect, or if this circumstance isn’t quite ideal or that person isn’t following through the way they said they would. We’ve got to take all these spiritual principles and put them into action.

Project Management: Four Problems to Avoid

It is important that you never trust to luck when you plan a project. Hope is not a strategy. Remember the words of Napoleon, when he was asked if he believed in luck. He said, “Yes, I believe in luck. I believe in bad luck. And I believe that I will always have it, so I plan accordingly.”

What’s More Important to Sales, Personality or Scripts?

When you think of a good salesperson, what’s the one thing that comes to mind? Often the thing they have in common is personality. Salespeople are often gregarious and fun to be around, but when asked how to quantify and teach personality to others these super salespeople are often stumped.

“Help! I’m Slumping, And I Can’t Get A Sale!”

In a slump? Not making enough (or any) sales? Feel like you’re unable to get out of the rut? Is it the economy or is it YOU? Maybe you’re not in a big slump, but just can’t seem to hit the quota numbers. Let’s be kind and call it “sales underachievement.”

8 Essential Rules for Social Media and Business

Social Media is a complex and evolving medium that many businesses struggle to figure out. Few find quantifiable success with it, many have failed, and most have yet to truly form a social media strategy.

10 Steps to Living Confidently

Your life demonstrates what is truly most important to you. People will often say what they think is important but what they take action on every day is what is really important to them. We make time for what is important to us so if we value something, we will sacrifice things that are lower on our priorities to do the things we value. What you value is not better or worse than what any other person values. – Dr Demartini

It’s not “What’s your brand?” It’s “Where’s your brand?” | Jeffrey Gitomer

Everyone has heard the word “branding,” but no one really understands what it means in terms of its everyday power — not even the people who write books on it.

Let me give you an example. I was at the Omni Houston Hotel in Texas. When I went into the shower in the morning, I dried off with their huge towel. It was big, and real pretty. I thought to myself, “Boy, this is a nice towel. I think this towel might be as nice as the ones I use at home. Maybe even a little nicer.”

Balance and Harmony: Aligning with the 5 Elements of this World

I was recently introduced to the 6ooo year old Chinese philosophy of the 5 Elements… after extensive research on this philosophy I have come to the conclusion that I have been in harmony with this philosophy my entire life without so much as an inclination as to what it is. Whether it is due to my heritage or my consciousness or sub consciousness is of no matter, what is of great matter is that this philosophy has me completely intrigued and on a greater level, balance is detrimental to life.

TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THEY’RE “THE BEST JOBS IN AMERICA.” TO THOSE WHO ACTUALLY DO THEM EVERY DAY, THEY’RE NOT JOBS AT ALL. THEY’RE MISSIONS.

This awesome infographic takes an eye-catching look at America’s best jobs. But as you scan through the lawyers, financial analysts and six-figure incomes, be sure to also read the fine print. Much more than prestige and money is being taken into account here. When looked at in the right light, the criteria for choosing the best jobs could easily be stand-ins for the Six Human Needs. With that in mind, when a job meets enough of those needs, in the right order, it ceases being a job and becomes a mission.

Whether you’re just entering the workforce, considering a career change or simply taking stock of your situation, this will give you lots to think about beyond mere titles and salaries.

Chris Brogan on How Businesses Can Get Started on Google+ | The social media expert offers a primer on how to build connections on the new networking site

Google is the largest search engine in the world and it’s looking to Google+ to understand what people are searching for based on what they share there,” says Brogan, who has logged “hundreds of hours” on the site since signing up in early July. He’s writing a book, Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything, to be published in November by Que, an imprint of Pearson.

How to Use Social Media for Customer Service

The customer service department of any business should be built on the foundation of providing customers with a convenient platform for resolving issues, finding answers to their questions, and providing an additional level of support for their products and/or services. Times have changed since the days where customers would seek out and call the designated customer service line to express their frustrations with a particular brand. Today, those call centers may still be receiving a lot of calls, but the majority of their customers are inclined to express their dissatisfaction using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and even YouTube. How do you keep up with this growing trend? How do you use social media for customer service?

Social Media and its users afraid of change…???

Winston Churchill once said: “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction”

I fully agree and believe these changes are definitely in the right directions ))

Five Challenges Facing Marketing

 The marketing field is faced with several challenges that for many firms will require a transformation in its capability and charge. Among them are the following five.

Social Media Marketing is Hot and about to get MUCH HOTTER!

Social Media in general and more specifically Social Media Marketing is a hot industry and marketing experts consider it to be the wave of the future.