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Replace or upgrade door hardware
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When you are considering new lock hardware for your home or commercial establishment, you should know that there are different grades of hardware. Most residential door hardware is rated Grade 3. They function well enough, but are not usually strong enough to resist a criminal breaking in. Grade 2...
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Promote your business with storytelling
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Storytelling has become a vital business skill. One commentator has called it 'the biggest business skill of the next five years.' Storytelling has always been a staple of advertising. You could compare it to a recent evocative McDonald's or Budweiser commercial. Even political advertising h...
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Avoid generalizations
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“Everyone experiences FOMO, fear of missing out,” I read recently in a business book. A dozen pages on how to overcome this debilitating malady followed. Fear of missing out is an experience of anguish at the idea that others are enjoying something that you are not. Many marketers take advantage o...
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How can you keep your business growing?
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Have you ever considered what distinguishes small businesses that achieve sustained growth from those that do not? First, realize there are no strategies that will lead to guaranteed growth. There are seven specific areas in which growth companies concentrate their efforts. 1. Strong sense of p...
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A more efficient time management strategy
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Business Time Management simply means business planning with definite milestones of achievement of overall success. Thus, both at the planning stage, and the performance stage, do not lose sight of the rare and limited resource of time and the importance of doing everything as per schedule withi...
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Repurposing customer testimonials
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If you already have customer testimonials, with just a little time and effort you can turn them into in-depth case studies. Identify blurbs that represent a valued client type or that indicate a certain need was satisfied. Ask those buyers: 1)What was the problem or goal that prompted you to buy fro...
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The educated locksmith
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Today, the locksmith has more to choose from in the way of education than could have been imagined a few years back. A whole variety of institutions and organizations offer courses, seminars, and workshops on different locksmithing subjects. In this field, knowledge is essential because the more...
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Perfecting procrastination
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Everyone, to some degree, procrastinates. We all put off things that we don't want to do. That doesn't mean we do nothing. Most procrastinators get plenty done. But it isn't what is most important or urgent. Procrastination is the art of doing something besides the more critical things to do. There i...
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Building trust in your website
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Up-to-the-minute thrillers now sometimes include a scene where schemers concoct a fake company, complete with a pretty website and false backstory. Potential customers know this kind of scam is possible. That's why you must provide as many “this is real” signals as you can to earn the confidenc...
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Customers deserve the best service
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Not long ago, I awoke to find that I had not optimized the work that I had done on my website over the previous two days. The user interface was not as intuitive as it could and should have been. It needed to be revised. It is tempting to ignore such thoughts. The gap between how it is and what it could and sho...
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What does the future hold for small businesses?
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For those ready to seize the opportunity, the possibilities are wide open. We see the cost of starting and running a small business declining. Smaller, lighter and smarter systems, components, and manufacturing methods are being developed. Intelligent machines instead of people, or people in p...
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Protect your business with a perimeter inspection
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It is easy for you to take some simple steps to guard against thieves breaking into your business. You should begin by walking around the inside and outside of your business. Take a careful look at the doors, windows, vents, and other openings in the walls and roof. Then ask yourself if it seems possibl...
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Think about how you speak
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Why do some marketers treat customers as enemy combatants? They often speak of 'attacking' marketplaces. Some even organize 'campaigns' to 'target' people so that they'll 'engage' and be 'captured.' There are marketers that use 'roadblocks' on web pages. They 'blast' potential customers wit...
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What defines failure?
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There are those who say that failure builds character. They point out all successful people have failed in something. They conclude that the more failures you have, the more you grow. You can find thousands—even hundreds of thousands—of blog posts touting one or more of the above maxims. These auth...
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Time management is fundamental
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There are many fundamentals in life, things that we need to make our lives work well for us. Time management is one of those fundamentals. Without it, it is difficult to get anything done, or have time to enjoy anything in life. There are also no guarantees in life. It’s nearly impossible to know exactl...
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Vital inclusions for your sales pitch
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There are certain vital factors to include when you’re writing a lengthy sales pitch. This applies to both email or online postings. They are easy to overlook, but a potential buyer needs to know them. Items I often see left out include: * What is it? Have you been explicit and unambiguous about the ki...
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Get extra security with a deadbolt
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A deadbolt lock cannot be moved to the open position from the outside except by rotating the lock cylinder with the key. A deadbolt can be either single cylinder or double cylinder. A single cylinder deadlock has a key cylinder on one side of the lock, but is operated by a thumbturn on the other side. Dou...
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Improve your productivity
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Even small tasks benefit from efficient planning. Today, we bring you our set of productivity tips. Use these tips to be more productive in your day-to-day life. Stand Up Keep meetings short and on topic by conducting 10- to 15-minute “stand-ups.” Not only do studies find that these sorts of meetin...
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Do not worry about the competition
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There are times when you will find yourself in competition with questionable businesses. Do not resort to denigrating or smearing them. Instead, try these effective marketing tactics: You can offer a free report detailing things to look for when hiring a ____. In it, describe the unethical fact...
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Ensure your bonus offers compliment your main product
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Bonuses should always somehow be related to the main product. Many times you will see people throw on bonuses that are nice, but they don’t focus on the same concept of the main product. It should be something that compliments in some way.
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