Mindset

Time Flies!

By at 3 August, 2020, 3:17 pm

I haven’t a clue where the last 4 or 5 months have gone. Just before all ‘this’ kicked off in March, we had started helping our customers with their PPE. This quickly expanded into working with Local Authorities and many, many companies outside our current customer base. We quickly built up strong supply chains in […]

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How can you successfully recruit without this information?

By at 6 January, 2011, 4:18 pm

As the recruitment sales sector becomes even more competitive, those who will be successful are the ones that ‘take time’ to really understand their clients and candidates. Speaking to you as a recruiter with over 10 years experience of selling consultancy services, it took me a while to figure it out, but when I did, […]

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The Mother of Invention – Chapter 11

By at 8 September, 2010, 11:07 pm

Here’s an extract from The Mother of Invention, my explosive new book. CHAPTER 11 Cutting Ties Trapped in a hellish prison of insomnia I battled through another night just tossing and turning. When I finally drifted into an exhausted coma resembling sleep, the same nightmare propelled me back into consciousness. I looked at the clock. […]

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How to Double Your Customer Base in Four Weeks

By at 7 September, 2010, 10:38 pm

Do you need more customers?  Of course you do, and I have the answer….. Here are four proven techniques that can double your customer base in four short weeks simply by generating leads and converting them into valued customers: 1) Cultivate Your Raving Fans Raving fans are a tremendous source of new customers. If you […]

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Who You Really Are….

By at 19 June, 2010, 4:32 pm

England 0 – 0 Algeria – World Cup 2010: Cape Town, South Africa Whilst in work on the Saturday (19/06) after the horrendous showing on the Friday night, I was looking through the reports from the game on the various football websites and came across this post from lesduffym in response to a BBC blog […]

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Daft Things You Will Hear When Business Networking

By at 24 May, 2010, 9:15 am

I network all day long, it’s what I’ve always done, even before I knew what it was called. As well as the breakfast meets, lunch and evening, I meet people and talk to them all the time. Networkers look for opportunities for those they LIKE, KNOW & TRUST. Networkers don’t look out for people they […]

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4Networking Bespoke Funded Seminars – July & August 2010

By at 28 April, 2010, 9:59 am

Alongside large conferences involving many hundreds of delegates, we also deliver smaller events, aimed at a delivering a more bespoke message to the audience. Typically, there are approximately 30 delegates invited to these events. The purpose of these is to ask the delegates what they want covering relating to blockages they have in their businesses […]

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Top 10 Effective Influencing Skills

By at 26 March, 2010, 3:27 pm

1). Know your outcome Top class communicators know exactly what it is they want to achieve. Before your meeting think about your personal objectives and the win/win solution. Unless you know your list of objectives, how can you track if you are getting what you want? 2). Create a ‘Frame‘ Setting the scene to get […]

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