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No Pain, No Gain …… The Consequence!!

October 14th, 2009 Posted in Funnies & Gripes, Marketing Principles, Sales Principles, Your Business | No Comments »

The second part to my little yarn about being over competitive and the repercussions of that competitive nature.  Now if you haven't already, for this article to make sense, you should read my blog entitled "No Pain, No Gain .... Really?" ..... Politely declining the offer of trying this ab work out for Bruce Lee (now there's a flash from the past) I explain I'm feeling a bit queasy, he sits me down gets me more water then ...

No Pain, No Gain …… Really?

October 12th, 2009 Posted in Funnies & Gripes, Marketing Principles, Sales Principles, Your Business | No Comments »

Part One of a little yarn Now let me explain something, it's not that I'm competative by nature (friends wipe that smirk off your faces!) but my gorgeous wife is pregnant and in the early days of the pregnancy she only put on a small amount of weight and very little on the tummy; being the supportive husband that I am I felt the need to go out in sympathy with her and grow my own tummy. The problem I was having ...

Small Business – Sales – Setting Customers’ Expectations

September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Sales Principles, Your Business | No Comments »

How often have you bought an item, paid for a service, enrolled on a course or asked for help from a colleague and it was not what you expected.  How did it make you feel at the time, disappointed, angry, frustrated ….? Let me give you an example, anyone who has an Xbox will know what I'm talking about when I say "the red rings of death", all Xbox players cringe when they hear that statement, why, well for those of you out ...