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I Advice - Quality of Life and Freedom, Unilateral Discussion
Most public speakers I've seen tend to operate on the idea that it is entirely up to them to entertain the audience they are presenting to.This unfortunately leads to some of the following problems:1. Creates undue pressure and stress on the speaker.2. Makes the speaker unaware of who their audience really is i.e. their background, their needs, their views etc.3. It has the tendency to make the presentation more of a lecture which then runs the risk of boring the audience.4. It fails to engage the audience in an interactive way that could draw out important and valuable resources that might make the entire experience special to all concerned.It is for these reasons that I attempt to structure my talks in a very interactive manner and use the audience as the main resource for the content of my presentations.Might it surprise you that by doing it this way I rarely need to spend more than an hour, if that, preparing for my talk?Might it surprise you that it not only takes any stress away but that it allows me to look forward to being spontaneously myself, to re
This article is intended to help everyone gain a better understanding of National Accounts Programs, including the motivation for creating one and the steps toward a successful process. While it is not intended to definitively answer every question regarding national accounts, it serves as a set of guiding principles for those in the company who are responsible for the success of the program. It is written for salespeople, branch managers and national account representatives, not the company's executive management team. However, keep in mind that executive management needs to be committed to the program and would benefit by understanding the process and concepts.Regain Power by Offering Competitive AdvantageNational accounts, by definition, have significant size and buying power which provide leverage in demanding lower prices. In addition, because of their complexity and demographics, they are often more difficult and expensive to service. Consequently, most national accounts are the least profitable.In response, you need to make a concentrated effort to effectively rebalance the shift of po
Let us look now in this discussion at local municipal governments and an issue that I am very familiar with. In our travels we have noticed cities being hostile towards tourists. Making all kinds of unnecessary rules against the natural tendencies of quest visitors. We witnessed in Florida, Daytona Beach Race Area the hostile running of traffic, events, parking and camping. Yet during these events, which are, suppose to be a economic bonanza for the town and its merchants, they inadvertently turn away those dollars and are simply left with the headaches of clean up and traffic.
Cities build stadiums, theatres, convention centers, rodeo fair grounds, museums, racetracks to attract tourists and money to be spent in their towns. And if successful and the masses emerge onto the town with their dollars, the city treats them like crap and makes their stay unbearable. The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics went over board with security and made it tough to go to town to shop or get food. Then the citizens who floated a bond to build the facilities vote for laws to restrict the use of the city during the events hurting the revenues of local businesses. This is terrible. Then the tourists do not spend all they might and the sales tax revenue generated from those events never come in and therefore it is nothing more than an incredible burden and cost to the municipalities for hosting the event(s). Why? This is dumb.
Why have an event and invite the world if you are only going to tell them we do not want your money, go home? I saw a really bad bumper sticker once in Las Vegas that said; “Okay now you’ve seen Vegas, now go home!!!” I bet this person has a job that is directly benefiting from the money derived from the tourists. To top off matters, we are seeing now with terrorist scares that local police are harassing the crap out of the tourists. I wonder why anyone would ever come back? Why not watch it on TV, it is cheaper and you always get a good view. With today’s surround a sound you could even hear the racecars and the clashed of high tech plastic being worn by athletes in Hockey, football and other sports. You sure can hear the sounds on TV in wrestling, baseball, and boxing. One city we were recently at in NC, we were told we could not stay in our motor home, because it was against the city ordinance and even in the entire county to camp in a vehicle. Great of course when 45
Email marketing is one of the most profitable things that you can do online, and yet I think that a lot of niche marketers pass up the opportunity to email market because they think that they don’t have enough traffic to make email marketing worthwhile. Yet, I beg to differ.I think that no matter how small your niche market, you can always add additional income to your niche market web business by adding in email marketing.Take a look at some number here. I am going to pull a number out of the hat here, let us say that you have a web site that gets 35 visitors per day. Now that is not much traffic, I must say, but let’s work with it anyway.Take out your calculator and determine how many visitors that is per year…I come to 12,775 visitors per year, do you? OK, now imagine that you can get 1/3 of them to become subscribers to your web site. My calculator tells me that will be 3832 subscribers at the end of one year.Not too shabby, huh? Especially for a niche web site that you think of as a hobby?Now, if you had a list of 3832 subscribers, how much money would you make each mo
Cities build stadiums, theatres, convention centers, rodeo fair grounds, museums, racetracks to attract tourists and money to be spent in their towns. And if successful and the masses emerge onto the town with their dollars, the city treats them like crap and makes their stay unbearable. The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics went over board with security and made it tough to go to town to shop or get food. Then the citizens who floated a bond to build the facilities vote for laws to restrict the use of the city during the events hurting the revenues of local businesses. This is terrible. Then the tourists do not spend all they might and the sales tax revenue generated from those events never come in and therefore it is nothing more than an incredible burden and cost to the municipalities for hosting the event(s). Why? This is dumb.
Why have an event and invite the world if you are only going to tell them we do not want your money, go home? I saw a really bad bumper sticker once in Las Vegas that said; “Okay now you’ve seen Vegas, now go home!!!” I bet this person has a job that is directly benefiting from the money derived from the tourists. To top off matters, we are seeing now with terrorist scares that local police are harassing the crap out of the tourists. I wonder why anyone would ever come back? Why not watch it on TV, it is cheaper and you always get a good view. With today’s surround a sound you could even hear the racecars and the clashed of high tech plastic being worn by athletes in Hockey, football and other sports. You sure can hear the sounds on TV in wrestling, baseball, and boxing. One city we were recently at in NC, we were told we could not stay in our motor home, because it was against the city ordinance and even in the entire county to camp in a vehicle. Great of course when 4
Social bookmarking is a way to for users to store lists of Internet resources that they find to be useful for them. They can be accessible to a public or a specific network of people. They are stored by category, tags, or randomly. Some social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks that are associated with certain tags and ranks that other users have bookmarked them with.The implementation of keywords by some groups allow for easier access by grouping those with similar words together and in relation to other keywords. Social bookmarking has grown to become very popular and with that services have been added. It offers more than sharing bookmarks, but readers and viewers can share rating, comments, can import and export, add additional notes, reviews, email and website links, feed subscription, create groups, social networks, and much more. They are a way to store, share, search links, and classify information.Social bookmarking has become somewhat of a small circle of friends and family online that share the same interest. It can provide information specialized to one subject or b
Why have an event and invite the world if you are only going to tell them we do not want your money, go home? I saw a really bad bumper sticker once in Las Vegas that said; “Okay now you’ve seen Vegas, now go home!!!” I bet this person has a job that is directly benefiting from the money derived from the tourists. To top off matters, we are seeing now with terrorist scares that local police are harassing the crap out of the tourists. I wonder why anyone would ever come back? Why not watch it on TV, it is cheaper and you always get a good view. With today’s surround a sound you could even hear the racecars and the clashed of high tech plastic being worn by athletes in Hockey, football and other sports. You sure can hear the sounds on TV in wrestling, baseball, and boxing. One city we were recently at in NC, we were told we could not stay in our motor home, because it was against the city ordinance and even in the entire county to camp in a vehicle. Great of course when 4
What is it with appraisals? In September and October there were no training needs, and then suddenly in November and December everyone in the company has a personal development plan. How did that happen? How come six weeks ago I didn’t have any training needs and now I have a shed-load of them?It’s called the year-end appraisal.In companies up and down the land, filing cabinet drawers were being emptied of last year’s contents; objectives and training needs were swiftly consulted so that judgements could be made and duplication avoided. For some, the half-year appraisal will have assisted with the completion of the dreaded form; for many it was just another chore in long list of administrative chores.It’s meant to bring the parties together to have meaningful conversations about achievement, development, and future goals. In reality the game is played out as it’s always been played out.• Manager: Michael, can we fix up an hour to do your appraisal? (I already know what score you’re getting, but I have to have this conversation for an hour so you feel involved)• Michael: Oh Yes
Why have an event and invite the world if you are only going to tell them we do not want your money, go home? I saw a really bad bumper sticker once in Las Vegas that said; “Okay now you’ve seen Vegas, now go home!!!” I bet this person has a job that is directly benefiting from the money derived from the tourists. To top off matters, we are seeing now with terrorist scares that local police are harassing the crap out of the tourists. I wonder why anyone would ever come back? Why not watch it on TV, it is cheaper and you always get a good view. With today’s surround a sound you could even hear the racecars and the clashed of high tech plastic being worn by athletes in Hockey, football and other sports. You sure can hear the sounds on TV in wrestling, baseball, and boxing. One city we were recently at in NC, we were told we could not stay in our motor home, because it was against the city ordinance and even in the entire county to camp in a vehicle. Great of course when 4
Exchanging links can be a great way to build relations with other sites and boost your ranking at the same time. You never know how many friends you can make and what you can learn from them. So let's get started.First, you need to create a links page. This links page needs to look and feel the same as the rest of your site and should include instructions on how to link to your site and an example of the description you want. If you use buttons for links, make sure you include a text link somewhere so search engines can find your links page easily.Now that you have your links page ready, it's time to start looking for link partners. When searching for link partners, start by searching for your keywords in Google and choose 10 to 20 sites that have content that is related to or can compliment your site. Then, add a text link with a brief description of thier site on your links page.Now it's time to send off an email to each site and ask if they will exchange links with you. I have a basic form letter I use for this (form letter at end of article). However, I add something personal about their
Cities are so stupid to build a big facility and make the public pay and then allow the public to make laws, which make it impossible for it to turn a profit. Why? Bad business management decision-making; It shows how a small few can ruin everything. But in the case of Orlando, Vegas or Nashville TN which are all national and international tourist destinations, you are cutting off the hand that is feeding you. People blame 9-11 for this latest down turn in the tourism business; I blame stupid short sided people who have no clue as to where the money comes from. A city that prevents overnight parking of high-end motor homes during large events is self destructive; they should therefore not be bailed out by government or tax dollars. Putting good money on top of bad management is as bad as Enron.
Cities who make laws against these tourist yet have their economies run partly from tourist money, are short sided. Think of a city like Henderson NV, Nashville TN, Kissimee FL, Daytona FL with such laws, how can these cities afford the police forces if there are no sales revenues. City government and city services run to a large part off the sales tax revenue usually 1-2% which pay for police departments and city services whether they are run in house or contracted out. The funniest thing is that cities like this with high qualities of life have people in them that are of the same income level that affords them to travel too. Touche when they travel and are treated like shit after they voted for similar laws in their own cities. HA HA HA. Dumb people, who do not see the whole picture; what is the problem with this picture? I am laughing because it will be really fun to watch this unfold as our freedoms are stripped by over zealous police departments, $5.00 per ho
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