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Recent posts related to

Lifestyle

A Guilty Glance Inside Your Prospect’s Bedroom

By Clayton Makepeace | 03/17/2009

Right now, our prospective customers are experiencing some of the most intense and contradictory emotions they’ve had in their entire lives. The saner ones blame their financial problems on decisions made by the White House, Congress, the Treasury, and the Fed for the last couple of decades. Others – those with a more tenuous grip on reality – blame “those greedy bankers” for having the unmitigated gall to actually approve every loan and credit card application they ever submitted.

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Wasting Time and Money With Customer Service

By Jason Holland | 03/16/2009

My cellphone plan includes free text messaging. But on last month’s bill, there was a charge for two of the dozens of messages I sent – for a total of about 50 cents.I called the company and, as you might expect, spent an hour or so on hold, being transferred, and explaining my gripe to a succession of reps.When I hung up, it occurred to me: That hour of my time could have been much better spent.

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Did Malcolm Gladwell Rip Me Off?

By Mark Morgan Ford | 03/16/2009

I’m a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell. His books, especially The Tipping Point, have validated many of my long-held business philosophies. But when his new book, Outliers, came out a few months ago, I started getting e-mails from friends and colleagues with disturbing news.

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The Afformations Method

By Noah St. John | 03/14/2009

Traditional success teachers are big advocates of “affirmations” – repeating statements that you’d like to be true. For example, a classic “affirmation” is: “I am rich.”

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You Must Lift When Losing!

By Craig Ballantyne | 03/13/2009

It is essential for women to maintain muscle mass with age, and only resistance training can do that.

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The Double-Whammy

By Jon Benson | 03/12/2009

If you believe “a calorie is a calorie”… I have news for you. All calories are not created equal.
For example, it requires more body energy to process calories from protein. You burn about 25 percent of the protein calories you consume just on digestion and biochemical processing. That’s one of the many reasons a high-protein diet burns more body fat.

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Leveraging Your Existing Customers

By Derek Gehl | 03/12/2009

When you stay in touch with your regular customers – and regularly e-mail them valuable information – they’ll quickly come to view you as a credible resource, an expert in your field, and, most important, someone who’s watching out for their best interests.

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Get Your Biggest Tax Refund Ever

By Tim Clay | 03/12/2009

Tax planning effectively and immediately reduces your tax burden. It lifts a load from your shoulders and lets you enjoy more of the money you’re earning.

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Leveraging Your Potential With Contacts

By Brian Tracy | 03/10/2009

Knowing the right people and being known by them can open doors for you that can save you years of hard work. The quality and quantity of your contacts and your relationships will have more to do with your success than perhaps any other factor.

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The Problem With “Fire”

By Julie Broad | 03/10/2009

We felt swindled. We’d spent nearly $20,000 on several instructional programs, on a mentor for our real estate investments, and to incorporate. Despite all of that, my husband and I found ourselves in court trying to defend fire code violation charges for a six-unit property we’d purchased.

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A New Way to Get Your ETR Fix

By Suzanne Richardson | 03/10/2009

ETR TV will bring you expert advice on breakthrough marketing techniques from MaryEllen Tribby… proven business-building strategies from Michael Masterson… techniques for writing strong sales copy from Charlie Byrne… steps for increasing your website traffic from Edwin Huertas… and more.

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Free Content at Your Fingertips

By Jason Holland | 03/9/2009

Looking for material that you can use for your e-books and other information products? There are countless resources for finding content that’s in the public domain. By that, I mean content that was never copyrighted… or that was copyrighted but the copyright expired. You can repackage and republish that stuff to your heart’s content, without the author’s permission. And you don’t have to pay him or her a cent.

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