A "Winner's Workbook" Turns Strivers into Arrivers

A "Winner's Workbook" Turns Strivers into Arrivers

How well do you know you? Are you fully aware of your value – all that you do, have done, and can do? Do you give yourself  credit where credit is due? Try keeping a “Winner’s Workbook,” a daily log of your accomplishments.  Record your daily achievements, and you can substantiate your success, just

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Ship Ahoy! Can You Lose by Offering a Cruise?

Ship Ahoy! Can You Lose by Offering a Cruise?

How do you turn a good client into a great one? How do you motivate clients to hire you for multiple and mamoth  residential and commercial projects for enormous amounts of money? Seems to me a Caribbean cruise is as good a "frequent buyer award" as any. Passenger 57 rip Something reminded me the

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Platinum Package: Invest by Sept. 7, and Save $100

Platinum Package: Invest by Sept. 7, and Save $100

.!. Scar video Oh, God! You Devil the movie Success in the business of design doesn't come by chance. It comes by choice. It comes to those who choose to learn and master advanced sales and marketing strategies. Now you can save $100 off the regular price of the design industry's premier resourc

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Hard Times are No Time for Quitting

.!. So, you're in a slump. Sales are down, bills are piling up, projects are ending, the phone's not ringing,  contracts are falling through, you're losing out on bids, the calendar's empty. Business stinks, and you're discouraged. And depressed. And desperate. Welcome to the down side of design.  I

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Keep Customers Happy or Pay the Price

Providing good customer service in competitive times like these is not just a good way for design industry partners to do business. It's the only way. One reason why: unhappy customers in general -- and designers in particular -- don't keep secrets. The Legend Trip release The Strategic Planning I

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Sales Success Strategy: Blow Your Horn and Toot Your Flute

Sales Success Strategy: Blow Your Horn and Toot Your Flute

Once upon a time, all you had to do was promote your fine design service and product lines and, chances were, you'd live happily ever after. That was then. This is now. Oh, God! You Devil dvd Now, everyone does good design, and  offers good products. Dolly Decorator Does. Tommy Trunkslammer does.

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Working too Hard? Then You're not Working Smart.

"Got a Life?" That's the question I pose to design professionals around the country who tell me about their "around the clock" working schedule. They're the ones whose "workday" never ends. They're still going at it late into the night -- and into the weekend. How can you find time for family, frien

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