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Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Diversity And Success, In The Workplace
This article relates to the Diversity in the Workplace Competency, commonly evaluated in employee satisfaction surveys. This competency explores whether your organization provides understanding and supports interaction among diverse population groups while respecting individuals' personal values and ideas. Research shows that by fostering a climate where equity and mutual respect are intrinsic, an organization can create a success-oriented, cooperative and caring work environment that draws intellectual strength and produces innovative solutions from the synergy of its people.All businesses can benefit from a diverse body of talent bringing fresh ideas, perspectives, and views to the workplace. However, a diverse workforce means that the managers within your organization must be capable of capitalizing on the mixture of genders, cultural backgrounds, ages, and lifestyles present in your staff to respond to business opportunities more rapidly and creatively.cept them as your new reality.

Ready to change your negative thinking? Start today by focusing on “what you want” your marketing outcomes to be. Do NOT focus on what you don’t want!

See your phone ringing off the hook ... See yourself receiving an avalanche of new referrals from current clients. See yourself working with clients who energize you and highly value your services/products. Focus on your desired positive “marketing pictures” 3x/daily and watch your mindset AND your results transform.

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THREE)). DEVELOP YOUR STRATEGIC BUSINESS “BLUEPRINT”: The Power of Deliberate Direction

“If you don’t know where you re

How to Create a Newsletter that Works - Part 4
Once you decide that newsletters are a marketing stategy that will work for your business and have come up with content that will pull readers in, the final step to creating a successful newsletter is making it appealing and attractive to the reader using appropriate style, tone, layout and design.Style and Tone Newsletters need to be well organized and have a clear navigational structure. This can be achieved using page numbering, headings and sub headings. A table of contents should also appear on the first page in a box or call out so that readers can find the information they are interested in quickly and easily.For readers to respond positively to a newsletter it should be written in a warm informative style. Make sure your text is written in plain language and avoids the use of jargon. Write as if you are speaking directly to one individual and in the first person (I, we). Using contractions, short concise sentences with few clau

GETTING INTO MARKETING MOMENTUM: The 5 Power Principles for Getting Your Business into High Gear

Do you know the #1 reason why most businesses fail and why you could become a fatal statistic as well?

The answer is ... MARKETING, MARKETING, MARKETING.

Marketing is the “life blood” of any business. Without marketing, there are no revenues. Without revenues, there is no business.

So what is blocking you right now in your marketing efforts? What will it take to get your marketing into high gear? The following five principles are your essential starting point.

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ONE)) IGNITE YOUR INNER MARKETING FIRE: The Power of Spirit.

To get into marketing momentum, you MUST have ...

==>>> COMPELLING REASONS <<<==

... deep-seated, soul-driven, emotional reasons for being in your business --- or you will never survive.

Weak reasons create weak results. Compelling reasons create compelling results.

What are your compelling reasons in your business? What passions does your business satisfy? What higher cause propels you in my business?

If, after answering these questions, you are still uncertain about your compelling reasons, you just may be in the wrong business.

TWO)). REFRAME YOUR MARKETING “PICTURES”: The Power of Choice

Have a “personal stigma” about marketing yourself? Does the thought of marketing make you wince? Then, let’s play a game called ...

“NAME YOUR MENTAL MARKETING BLOCK” :)).

Think of the word “marketing”. What comes to mind automatically ??

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“Aggressive used car salesmen conning you into buying a lemon?” “Pesky unwanted telephone solicitors interrupting your dinner?” “Obnoxious door to door salesman trying to sell you overpriced vacuums??”
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We all have “war stories” and negative past experiences that have tainted our perceptions about marketing.

On a conscious level, we all want to be successful in our businesses, yet on a subconscious level, our negative beliefs, feelings and past experiences about marketing drive us in the other direction.

When there is an inner conflict ....the SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WILL ALWAYS WIN!!

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Your beliefs and feelings drive your actions. Your actions drive your results. What you focus on in your mind, is what you create in results.
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If you are dealing with marketing procrastination or marginal results, it is because you are focusing on negative pictures.

The GOOD NEWS is: You get to **choose** ANY marketing pictures you want!!

The BETTER NEWS: Your subconscious mind will override your negative pictures with positive ones and accept them as your new reality.

Ready to change your negative thinking? Start today by focusing on “what you want” your marketing outcomes to be. Do NOT focus on what you don’t want!

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THREE)). DEVELOP YOUR STRATEGIC BUSINESS “BLUEPRINT”: The Power of Deliberate Direction

“If you don’t know where you re g

Letter Proposals Can Be the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
You get an invitation to submit your grant to a private organization or company; or a government agency selects a few companies to send their solution to a problem that need solving. In these cases, you wouldn't write a full-blown proposal, so your best bet is presenting them with a letter proposal. Letter proposals are only two to four pages long, and it is a hybrid of a cover letter and proposal. We will discuss the seven sections of a letter proposal, and give tips so you will get the funding or be invited to write a full-length proposal.Section One: Why Are You Writing and What Is This All About? If you spoke to the sponsor, or were invited by someone that they know to write the letter proposal, you want to acknowledge that in the beginning.For example: Dear Mr. Jackson: It was wonderful speaking to you at Company A's holiday party last week. As we discussed, our organization is launching a new series of workshops....After you

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