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How To Ask Questions That Will Lead To The Answers You Need

How To Ask Questions That Will Lead To The Answers You Need

Are you a question asker? Or are you a person who doesn’t ask questions because you don’t want to “look dumb”? Yes, sometimes asking questions can lead small-minded people to think less of us, but asking questions is an important part of the learning process. Whether we are …

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6 Ways to Be a Better Listener

Remember the game of telephone? When someone would repeat a sentence to the person next to them and it would go from person to person down the line, until the last person would repeat the sentence out loud and see how much it changed from the original sentence. I don’t think I ever played that …

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8 Ways to Be a Better Writer

8 Ways to Be a Better Writer

Do you wish you could be a better writer? Are you putting off blogging because you don’t think your writing is good enough?  Are your writing skills (or lack of) holding you back from the success you’re seeking? Is writing a challenge for you? You can become a better, more confident …

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8 Tips to Help You Develop Your Most Important Business Skill

8 Tips to Help You Develop Your Most Important Business Skill

Do you know what the most important business skill is? It’s not sales. It’s not marketing. It’s not picking the next “sure thing”. It isn’t accounting (thank goodness for that!). And it’s not networking. The most important business skill isn’t any of …

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How to Create a Top Business Blog

How to Create a Top Business Blog

You’ve heard that blogging is good for business. But blogging takes time—and, as a busy business owner, time is always at a premium. Is blogging really worth your time? And what do you have to do to create a top business blog? Yes, blogging is worth your time. There are some definite …

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how do you know what you don't know

How do you Know What You Don’t Know?

Is there anything more frustrating when doing business with someone and finding out that the relationship will be unsuccessful because you didn’t ask all the right questions before starting your project? And even more so that you didn’t know the right questions to ask? How do you know …

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the 3 P's of Public Speaking

The 3 P’s of Successful Public Speaking

Are you one of the many people who is terrified of public speaking or are you one of the few who knows the benefits of it? Public speaking is said to be one of the most feared activities in life. According to Wikipedia, 75% of the population experiences anxiety or nervousness when speaking in …

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4 Ways Gossip Hurts Your Business–And What To Do About It

Gossip hurts. Whether you are the gossiper, or the gossipee, gossip is damaging. Gossip has been on my mind this week. Two different podcasts I listen to aired episodes about gossip. While preparing a presentation on positive communication, I remembered a time I was deeply hurt by gossip—from …

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4 Books that Can Help You Become a Better Speaker

4 Books that Can Help You Become a Better Speaker

Public speaking. Two little words that have the power to strike unspeakable fear into the hearts of the bravest of souls. I’m  not sure what it is about presenting to a group, giving a speech or leading a workshop that is so fear inspiring, but there it is. Actually, I took an informal …

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how to choose colors to boost your business success

How to Choose Colors to Boost your Business Success #Infographic

How did you choose the colors for your business? Did you pick your favorite colors? Were your color choices dictated by the franchise, network marketing company, or other organization you signed on with? Were they the colors everyone else in your industry was using? Did your colors come preinstalled …

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