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How To Use Your Expertise To Attract New Customers
Regardless of the type of business that you’re in, you’ve undoubtedly developed expert knowledge in the field that you are in. Whether you’re a beauty salon owner, an auto mechanic, a lawyer, or the owner of

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How Google.com and Britney Spears Will Join Forces and Cause the Start of the Biblical Apocalypse
If you are reading this article you are living breathing proof that a wacky headline draws attention*. Unless someone is forcing you to read this.Maybe someone is holding your eyelids open and forcing

If you are on the hunt in the current job market, you should heed Woody Allen, who said 80 percent of success is "just showing up." That means showing up at good networking events. Fortunately, there are plenty in the D.C. area. Choose carefully and follow these guidelines:

Get there as soon as registration opens. If you arrive when the event is starting, you're too late. The only people you will meet are those at your table.
Find out who's coming. Check the registration list or the name badges on the table. Zero in on companies that interest you. That's what you're paying for, not the little doughnuts.
Speaking of eating, minimize your trough time. First, it's hard to make a good impression while balancing a pyramid of meatballs and chicken nuggets. Second, it robs you of networking time. Third, it's fattening.
Go easy on the alcohol. It's hard to meet people when you're f
Career Success Through Asking Unusual Questions
As a life coach who specializes in helping people find career fulfillment, I am always looking for questions that will trigger awareness about satisfying work. After all, it's the questions that enable people
rtunately, there are plenty in the D.C. area. Choose carefully and follow these guidelines:
1. Get there as soon as registration opens. If you arrive when the event is starting, you're too late. The only people you will meet are those at your table.
2. Find out who's coming. Check the registration list or the name badges on the table. Zero in on companies that interest you. That's what you're paying for, not the little doughnuts.
3. Speaking of eating, minimize your trough time. First, it's hard to make a good impression while balancing a pyramid of meatballs and chicken nuggets. Second, it robs you of networking time. Third, it's fattening.
4. Go easy on the alcohol. It's hard to meet people when you're f
  Business Networking Tip Number 239: Wear A Name Tag
  A few years ago I attended a business networking function through my local chapter of BNI (Business Networking International). Upon entering the room there was a desk with tags that you can write your name o
  g, you're too late. The only people you will meet are those at your table.
5. Find out who's coming. Check the registration list or the name badges on the table. Zero in on companies that interest you. That's what you're paying for, not the little doughnuts.
6. Speaking of eating, minimize your trough time. First, it's hard to make a good impression while balancing a pyramid of meatballs and chicken nuggets. Second, it robs you of networking time. Third, it's fattening.
7. Go easy on the alcohol. It's hard to meet people when you're f
  Match Business Card Design with Image of Your Business
  Business cards are often the first impression a potential customer has of your business. It can also be the impression they return to time after time as a business card is something that is meant to be held o
  es that interest you. That's what you're paying for, not the little doughnuts.
8. Speaking of eating, minimize your trough time. First, it's hard to make a good impression while balancing a pyramid of meatballs and chicken nuggets. Second, it robs you of networking time. Third, it's fattening.
9. Go easy on the alcohol. It's hard to meet people when you're f
  Not my Brother's Keeper? You Should Be!
  Well, we finally did it to ourselves. Our profession refused to police itself, much less exercise prudent lending practices; now the government (state and soon federal) will do it for us … plus …FBI Su
  lancing a pyramid of meatballs and chicken nuggets. Second, it robs you of networking time. Third, it's fattening.
10. Go easy on the alcohol. It's hard to meet people when you're face down in the brie.
11. Create a 30-second "elevator" speech. Memorize it cold. When attendees ask, give them a rap that speaks to your ability to help their company.
12. Minimize small talk. Unless you are interviewing to be a trail guide, don't spend a lot of time discussing your trip to Colorado.
13. Don't socialize. Sure, it's tempting to find a spot near the chicken wings and dish about your old boss, but you are there to schmooze with new people.
14. Bring plenty of business cards. Get good ones printed on expensive stock, not the flimsy ones from your computer.
15. Bring resumes. But don't hand them out unless someone asks for one.
16. Enjoy yourself. Sure, networking is work, but no one said you can't

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No matter how well we plan something, it is inevitable that occasionaly something will arise to interfere with our plan. We can't fight this inevitabilty, so learn how best to deal with it.

Every month it seems like there is more month and less money left at the end of each month. Sound familiar? Why not try to use your spare time to do some freelance work?

The average interruption costs anywhere between 10-20 minutes of someone's precious time. If you have 4 interruptions a day, that amounts to one hour of productive time. Time that you can't get back. You really can control your time. It is important to let others know that while you will make time to discuss their needs, you still value your own time.

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