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The Money Is Not In The List
How many times have you heard the money is in the list? It's true the money is in the list, the problem is, most people don't realize the type of list they are talking about. Many people struggle to build a list of 1,000 subscribers only to find their response rate is less than 1/2 of 1%. This can be discouraging, because it can take two, maybe three years to build a list of 1,000 people.When you hear someone say the money is in the list, they are not talking about a list like the one above although they may have started with a list like that. They are talking about a list full of nothing but

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Listen More & Talk Less: 7 Steps to Avoiding Obvious Mistakes
Here was an interesting survey I read recently that, I think came from Korn-Ferry, the international search firm. The survey said that the primary reason why people are rejected on interviews is NOT for lack of skills competency, the primary reason people are rejected is that they talk too much—almost 40%. Approximately 20% are rejected because they behave arrogantly on the interview.So, what does this say to you in how you should behave on an interview?Keep your answers to the point of the questionWhere possible, keep your answers to 30 – 45 seconds in length. For in-depth questions, you

How can you get more attention for your conference and your association? Use some of these Power Marketing™ tips and ideas. It won't cost much. It just takes a creative approach. The payoff can be huge. First, see everything as a marketing opportunity. Second, enlighten all staff and every member to realize their responsibility in marketing the association. Third, read "Secrets of Power Marketing".

There are many ideas here. If you are already using some - wonderful! Try some new ideas this year.

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Contact the local media. Offer the press interviews with your expert members - about the association issues and importance to the local community. Send your media package to the media before you arrive. Include information about your association, your publication, your conference outline, and key contact names for interviews. Ask the local convention bureau to help establish contact. Then follow-up.

Expecting Your Staff to Multitask? It's Not Necessarily a Good Idea
Multitasking became a popular corporate buzzword in the mid-nineties, and now job ads routinely include the phrase "ability to multitask." For both support staff and management, juggling multiple responsibilities in the course of a day is expected, and employees who don't succeed in this juggling act rarely last long.However, more and more information suggests that multitasking, rather than being efficient and effective, more often than not results in outcomes that are far from optimum. Rather than doing one task at a time extremely well, many workers accomplish a lot in a day but with a significant dr

rketing opportunity. Second, enlighten all staff and every member to realize their responsibility in marketing the association. Third, read "Secrets of Power Marketing".

There are many ideas here. If you are already using some - wonderful! Try some new ideas this year.

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The 20/60/20 Rule Of Leadership. Don't Go Solving The Wrong Problems
Several decades ago, a passenger jet approached a Florida airport with the pilot and co-pilot struggling to fix what they thought was a malfunctioning landing gear. The landing-gear light was on, signaling that the gear was deployed; but both men did not hear it actually deploy.As the men sought to understand whether they had a defective landing-gear light or a defective landing gear -- the co-pilot actually taking up a hatch and getting down into the wheel well -- the aircraft kept losing altitude. Too late, a warning alarm sounded and the plane crash, killing all aboard.Quite possibly that tr

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Business Management - Be Aware Of Fear And-Greed
This is probably such a day as many others. Business as usual. Nothing wrong, no alerts, you loose some, you win some. You go with the flow and let your profits grow.... Do not think that this jargon is for investment managers only; business management and investment management is not that different.When you are in the business arena you know that you have to follow the market. You watch the competition, you check the trends and you respond to other incidents that you are involved in. Until that special moment.It starts with rumors, than it’s the talk of the town. And then it appears; a n

to the media before you arrive. Include information about your association, your publication, your conference outline, and key contact names for interviews. Ask the local convention bureau to help establish contact. Then follow-up.

Franchise Security – Why You Must Have It and What You Must Do
Security is so important that it has to be addressed from the very first day you start planning your new franchise business. Over the years the franchise industry has developed security safeguards and operations that are highly effective and most franchisors now have as a matter of course well developed, tried and tested security procedures. There is now a very active Security Industry, which has grown up around this need for protection, and ranges from local, to large national and multi-national companies.The most common security issue you will face every day can be the most soul destroying of

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Get more value from your speakers. Ask your high profile speakers to donate a speech to a school, charity group, service group, community association or city hall. You might be spending several thousand dollars for their presentation and travel. Ask them for a little bit more. Offer the speaker a token amount to do this additional community work on behalf of your association. Make sure the attendees to this community speech know you are the sponsor. And tell the media.

Ask your speakers to do media interviews. Get a media kit from each. Give them your media contacts and encourage them to contact the media directly. Remind your speakers to talk about your association when they are interviewed.

Connect with the local community. Invite local students from the high schools, college or university to attend (free) portions of your conference. Make contact with teachers, professors, or department heads. Ask your host chapter to arrange this. The teachers might select the students or you might hold a contest to pick the winners.

Arrange an event with a local school, group or charity. Contact the university, college, high schools,

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