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getting people to believe you

What language do you speaking?

July 30, 2009

When you communicate with your target market, can you be sure they actually understand a single word you’re talking about?

A common mistake made by business (large and small) is to communicate in industry lingo.
This is fine, if you’re selling within your industry, but 9/10 times you’re not. Your either communicating to Joe Public or [...]

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Want to win business? Take a tip from a waiter…

June 8, 2009

How can one waiter earn almost double the amount of tips than a colleague?
Taking out of the equation that they’re equally as pleasant a very successful technique some waiters use is called ‘mirroring’.
Mirroring is a huge subject; one that I can cover in many posts but the waiter technique I’m about to share with you [...]

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What to do when it’s ‘Too Good to be True’.

May 27, 2009

What do you do when you have something truly ground-breaking in your hands?
What do you do when you have something that is literally, ‘Too Good to be True”?
Take it to market?  Yes – but if it’s ‘Too Good to be True” – the biggest hurdle you have to jump is actually getting people to believe [...]

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