There Is No Time Like The Present

Written by Noel Peebles


We are living in "The Greatest Entrepreneurial Boom In History." We are surrounded by opportunities, but most people don't recognize them. For example, there are far more opportunities in direct marketing and internet marketing today, especially forrepparttar small guy, than I have ever known there to be inrepparttar 106575 past.

I will be so bold as to say - In 20 years from now people will look back and wish that they could have started a business, invested money, bought shares or property duringrepparttar 106576 early years ofrepparttar 106577 new century, when there were so many new opportunities.

Those really were "The Good Old Days", andrepparttar 106578 exciting reality is - we are living in them. HERE! NOW!!!!

People inrepparttar 106579 future will look back and envy what was truly, "The Golden Age Of Opportunity." How fortunate we are to be HERE! NOW!

We have more choice ofrepparttar 106580 things we buy,repparttar 106581 food we eat, our lifestyles and our relationships. We have a longer life expectancy, thanks to breakthroughs in health care. Most of us are living in a land of equal opportunities withrepparttar 106582 freedom to express our opinions and do almost anything we want. We haverepparttar 106583 technology to travel and communicate with anyone, anywhere.

These days there are a greater variety of job options than ever before. New doors are constantly being opened withrepparttar 106584 dynamic growth inrepparttar 106585 service, information and technology sectors of this new global economy. New opportunities. New career options.

Blame It On the Economy and Watch Your Profits Sink

Written by Stan Dubin


Recently we've been hearing that our economy is slowing down, and that we are headed for a recession. Some say we're already in a recession.

It makes good sense to pay attention to economic indicators. But a weakening economy should not give you a reason for your sinking bottom line. If it does, then you may have just found repparttar real cause for your bottom line: blaming it onrepparttar 106574 economy.

Too often people believerepparttar 106575 "reason" they are having a particular problem is due to something that is happening elsewhere (and usually outside of their control). This is especially true inrepparttar 106576 business world. Here is an example:

Shoe Store A is doing very well until Shoe Store B opens up acrossrepparttar 106577 street. Revenues decline at Shoe Store A as Shoe Store B gets up and going. But, and this is a very important but, torepparttar 106578 degree thatrepparttar 106579 owner (and staff) at Shoe Store A attribute their decline in revenue torepparttar 106580 existence of Shoe Store B, TO THAT DEGREE they will be unable to deal with it.

Shoe Store A simply needs to step back and realize they have new competition and take concrete steps to retain their current customers and create new ones. Perhaps they need to streamline their marketing and advertising effort. Maybe they actually need to do some marketing forrepparttar 106581 first time!

The reason sales are down at Shoe Store A is not Shoe Store B. Sales are down because Shoe Store A did not effectively shift their own gears to keep their business afloat and prosperous.

That may sound simplistic, but when an executive or business owner placesrepparttar 106582 blame elsewhere, this very act of "placing blame elsewhere" reduces his ability to devise effective solutions. It actually reduces his ability to think straight, because s/he is so embroiled in what is happening somewhere else.

"Elsewhere" is not a place that you can easily control. But you do have complete control over what happens internally within your business. You do have control over how efficient your staff are. You do have control over how well surveyed your marketing messages are. And you can controlrepparttar 106583 level of care shown to your customers.

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