Archive for July 15th, 2004

Any Good At Selling Vacuum Cleaners?

Starting It: “Have you ever noticed that vacuum cleaner companies and cutlery companies (as well as many other industries) often hire kids right out of school to sell their products? Why? Well, they know that even if the individual isn’t any good at sales, they will sell at least a couple of vacuum cleaners – [...]

 

Better Voicemail

Strategize: “Working Smart has a great post on how to create a template for your voicemail so that you can update your outgoing message every day. ” Though the voicemail template sounds more like that of a corporate drone, hopefully it’ll inspire you to create your own daily greeting. Here’s the template: Hi, you’ve reached [...]

 

Business Is Like Golf

Dr. Jeffey Cornwall: “Certainly one can over analyze a business or a golf swing. But neither can completely take care of themselves. Even golfers with ‘natural swings’ have to focus on what they are doing. And even the best business opportunity requires careful implementation and management. They really both come down to one thing: execution”

 

Small, Individual, Creative Efforts Change the World

Don Boudreaux writing on Cafe Hayek: Almost every one of the goods and services that are routine in modern, commercial society is the result of a long series of mostly small, individual, creative efforts to improve an existing situation — to build a better mousetrap, to find materials that make a more comfortable mattress, to [...]

 

Nature Technologies International

→ nature-technologies.com Nature Technologies International LLC produces a non-toxic biological alternative to pesticides and synthetic chemical fertilizers. They’re now offering the opportunity for you to become a regional Nature Technologies service center in your area. Each Center provides professional soil and plant products and services to the landscape, agriculture and retail market — a safe, [...]