"...keeping you great" Ten Minutes with the Growth Guy
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7 Tips to Boost Sales in August -- this from Caryn Kopp -- "Why waste the month of August cleaning your office? Make the most of your summer by seizing new business opportunities while your competition plays miniature golf! Most business owners and salespeople assume making calls in August is pointless because decision makers are on vacation. While it's true that most people do vacation in August, I don't know anyone who goes away for 4 weeks straight! What does this mean for you? It means people are at their desks, often in good moods and are more likely to pick up their phones to speak with you. Seize this valuable opportunity and boost your business by following these 7 Key Strategies in August." I particularly like her first tip of adding 20 new A-List prospects to your call list and call them in August. Don't be surprised if you hear from me!
#1 Problem Facing Most Companies -- Hiring Mistakes! CNNMoney produced an excellent and informative 3-minute interview of hiring guru Geoff Smart. Geoff shares the number one way growth companies can generate a flow of A Player candidates and the four initial questions you should ask. He also discusses how to avoid the most common interview pitfalls. Take three minutes and show the clip at your next weekly meeting or Friday brown bag lunch training session.
Free Training Keynote or 4-part Teleseminar -- and if you would like to learn more from Geoff and his co-author Randy Street, take advantage of special preorder offers of their soon to be released book Who (e.g. free training keynote for a 40+book preorder; free 4-part author teleseminar with 10+book preorder). Please place your 10+book preorders at http://www.whothebook.com. And for your 40+book preorders, Geoff's assistant Linda Naden (ljnaden@ghsmart.com) will take great care of your order and will schedule your keynote training session. The books make great business gifts or reading for your managers and it's a chance to access their training very inexpensively.
Acquisitions Are on the Increase -- not only is Warren Buffett funding several major acquisitions, I'm hearing from many of you that you're being approached to be acquired -- acquisition activity is picking up. We have just 23 copies left in the U.S. of Tom McKaskill's "Selling Your Business for a Premium" -- $24.95 (they were $49.95) and free shipping. After these copies are gone, you'll have to get them from Tom directly in Australia. Tom's techniques really work. Here's the link.
Better than Bug Spray -- and for those of you on vacation in August start relying on vitamin B1. People who have diets high in thiamine (vitamin B1) report fewer insect bites than others. "That's because the vitamin gives off an odor when you perspire that is unattractive to insects but undetectable to humans," says John Yunginger, M.D., professor and pediatrics consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Good sources of thiamine include whole grains, organ meats and brewer's yeast. I take a mega-B supplement and was recently in a bug infested tropical environment and didn't receive a single bite while those with me (covered with Deet) still received bug bites. It really does work!