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How Deesha Philyaw Built Her Writing Career From the Ground Up—and Landed a 7-Figure Book Deal

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I have spent many hours on the phone with her asking what I should charge for a certain piece of content, or where to submit my work. Then I pitched him, and then I ended up writing several pieces for his magazine and that was great until, again, the economy collapsed.” These church ladies ended up receiving a tremendous reception.

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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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We felt we had a good value proposition… Things began picking up pretty well, and it turned out that what we thought was missing from the marketplace really was missing.”. We were making a lot of cold calls, just pounding the phones, to try and convince people to work with us. Still, he kept his eyes on the prize—making Excel viable.

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How to Manage Your Phone Call Mayhem

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. Visit the original article at [link]. Here at Finmouse we use approximately 5 packs of post-its a week, we have an average of 500 plus contacts in our Phone Books, we talk to at least 50 phone contacts a day and probably have to remember 30 to 40 tasks related to those contacts.

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2011 - The Year of Mobile Payments

Small Business Labs

There is so much going on in the mobile payments space it's getting very hard to keep up, much less figure out what to do.    Fortunately, there are several excellent, recent articles with good summaries of the mobile payments space.    It covers most of the key technologies. 

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My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

5 Steps to Meal Planning Success » My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action Do you have a theme for 2011?    At the beginning of the year, I read a number of blog posts and articles from people that said they would pick anywhere from 1 to 5 words to focus their year. 

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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The agent pays to put them up in a luxury condo overnight, covers the change fees on their flights, and sells them a home the next day. In its 2011 Oracle Customer Experience Impact Report , Harris Research found that 86 percent of U.S. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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As One Writer Grapples with Her Disability, She Rediscovers Passion, Peace and Contentment

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But then it became harder and harder to get up in the morning. It hurt to sit up, much less stand and go to work. My joints locked up and my bones felt like they were on fire. I called out more days than I showed up. As a child, my parents used to chide me from the front seat of the car: “Look up, Angie!

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