Do You Have Your Crisis Plan Ready?
We’ve talked about this before. Having a “Plan B” ready for action will make success no less sweeter and will make failure a whole lot easier to deal with — and less costly. For specific projects and promotions that you are in charge of, it’s relatively easy to create a…
READ MOREA Technique To Keep Your Business Honest
“He that promises too much means nothing.” – Thomas Fuller, M.D. (Gnomologia, 1732) An airtight guarantee for your business will help keep you honest. It will help you examine your product, find ways to make it faster, stronger, better, more reliable. Your customers will learn to love you more quickly…
READ MOREHelp Your Employees Learn From Both Their Successes And Their Failures
We learn from our successes and our failures in equal measure. To encourage learning in your business, reward both. Praise good work and goals met. But also praise mistakes that were “smart” tries. That’s not always easy to do. Failure is disappointing. How do you hide yours when it happens?…
READ MOREWhen It Comes To Leadership — Real Leadership — Reject The Currently Popular “Soft” Skills
The world is changing for business leaders. So says OfficeTeam, a business that advises other businesses on leadership. To be successful in the future, OfficeTeam predicts, you will have to listen to your employees, share your feelings with them, and keep your mind open to all kinds of ideas, even…
READ MOREA Profitable “Job” Most People Have Never Heard Of
Dear Early to Rise Reader, I’d like to share with you a valuable secret I learned about the direct marketing industry recently. Over the next few years, I think it will allow me to boost my income by as much as 25% per year. It can probably do the same…
READ MOREHow To Put Your Prospect In The Mood To Buy
To determine the best emotional context to use in order to reach your prospect, it’s useful to think in terms of opposites. And the way to do this is to ask yourself the following seven questions about your product: 1. AFFORDABLE OR EXPENSIVE? MMF told me a story that demonstrates…
READ MOREPR is a Two-Way Street
“It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.” – Publilius Syrus (Moral Sayings, 1st century B.C.) If you play it smart, you can create a reputation for your business with PR that is bigger than you could possibly buy with advertising or word-of-mouth goodwill. A…
READ MOREHow To Make A Stagnant Profit Center Grow
“To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Table Talk, 1835) Test your CEO acumen: What do you do with a good but stagnant profit center? For several years now, sales have been the…
READ MOREMy commute is 5 seconds!
Two weeks ago, I wrote to you about a part-time business I thought you might want to consider: Resume Writing. If you like the prospects of earning a part-time income of $40,000 or $50,000 a year — or of possibly quitting your day job for good some day soon —…
READ MORETurn Any Job Into A Lucrative Career
Dear Early to Rise Reader, MMF has mentioned in the past valuable skills you can master to earn an excellent second income. Copywriting and resume writing come to mind, for example. Today, I’m writing to tell you about something completely different. It’s a way for you to make very good…
READ MOREBody Language: Don’t Be Deaf To Shouting
Body language experts say the two most important clues to the way someone thinks of you are the way he positions his heart and his feet. Someone who likes you will tend to position his heart (i.e., his chest) toward your chest. So if your boss/colleague habitually stands and sits…
READ MOREPeripatetic Managing: Does It Really Work?
Do you walk around the office? Some management experts think doing so is a critically important business skill. Others warn against it. In “Seven Habits of Highly Successful Executives,” Steven Covey makes suggestions for limiting and avoiding casual chats around the office. In Covey’s view, these are unnecessary and often…
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