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What To Do With Your Business Cards advertising promise.Without a plan to distribute your cards, there's no need to print them in the first place.Many fall into the trap of thinking all the thinking about business cards is over once the order is placed. Wrong! The average person has more than half of business cards still in the box at any given time.Make a plan to empty your box of cards in 3 months or less, after all, those little cards are your most pwerful marekting tool. ‘I’ll do it for you just this once, as an exception,’ he said. ‘Oh c’mon, you can do it for me anytime,’ I replied. ‘No,’ he said again, looking me straight in the eye. ‘I will do it for you this once, but I won’t do it again.’ ‘Wait a minute,’ I Your Employer Pays You for What? Years ago, I frequented a well-known quick-service restaurant for their Special Broiler Meal, a fast-food lunch of broiled chicken sandwich and french fries.The debate seems to go on and on. Your employer pays you for what? How do you explain your salary? Let's examine some often touted rationales employees use to explain their pay.Your employer pays you for what you know. Sure they do buddy. You may have heard this one before. This rationale is popular among employees with a pile of credentials and qualifications. Does your employer really pay you for what you know? Yes or no. Yes, we all would But instead of taking the large cola with the package, I always asked for a small glass of orange juice instead. Predictably, the counter staff would freeze up with uncertainty and refer my request to the floor manager. One young manager was particularly memorable. ‘I’m sorry, sir,’ he told me. ‘You can’t have orange juice with the Special Broiler Meal.’ ‘Sure I can,’ I replied, ‘I do it all the time at the other outlets in your group. There is a 65 cent price difference and I am happy to pay it.’ ‘That’s not the problem,’ he said with a touch of annoyance. ‘There’s no key on my computer to make the substitution, so I can’t let you do it.’ ‘Hey, sometimes you have to break the rules,’ I said, reminding him of his brand’s multi-million dollar advertising campaign. ‘I’ll take the Super Broiler Meal, with orange juice, please.’ He realized I was not going to take ‘No’ for an answer and he could not go against a well-informed customer and his chain’s well-known advertising promise. ‘I’ll do it for you just this once, as an exception,’ he said. ‘Oh c’mon, you can do it for me anytime,’ I replied. ‘No,’ he said again, looking me straight in the eye. ‘I will do it for you this once, but I won’t do it again.’ ‘Wait a minute,’ I How CEO's Can Use Axiology To Improve The Bottom Line (Part 2) he counter staff would freeze up with uncertainty and refer my request to the floor manager.In the first article (first in a three part series) we explained the little known science of Axiology, the Value Profile and how it is helping CEO's obtain the greatest leverage from employee's strengths. We described how a CEO (we called him Richard) can accurately measure and compare candidates for a specific position or work on a specific project. In this article we continue on to discover additional and deeper critical distincti One young manager was particularly memorable. ‘I’m sorry, sir,’ he told me. ‘You can’t have orange juice with the Special Broiler Meal.’ ‘Sure I can,’ I replied, ‘I do it all the time at the other outlets in your group. There is a 65 cent price difference and I am happy to pay it.’ ‘That’s not the problem,’ he said with a touch of annoyance. ‘There’s no key on my computer to make the substitution, so I can’t let you do it.’ ‘Hey, sometimes you have to break the rules,’ I said, reminding him of his brand’s multi-million dollar advertising campaign. ‘I’ll take the Super Broiler Meal, with orange juice, please.’ He realized I was not going to take ‘No’ for an answer and he could not go against a well-informed customer and his chain’s well-known advertising promise. ‘I’ll do it for you just this once, as an exception,’ he said. ‘Oh c’mon, you can do it for me anytime,’ I replied. ‘No,’ he said again, looking me straight in the eye. ‘I will do it for you this once, but I won’t do it again.’ ‘Wait a minute,’ I The Secrets to Finding a Top Job! the other outlets in your group. There is a 65 cent price difference and I am happy to pay it.’Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck?Are you paid less than your worth?Need a job?Follow these proven success strategies and you will be on your way to securing a new job!The 3 Keys to Success:1. NetworkingSteps:· Contact previous employers and ask for recommendations and leads · Contact friends and ask them to pass along your resume · Contact HR departments in the companies you wou ‘That’s not the problem,’ he said with a touch of annoyance. ‘There’s no key on my computer to make the substitution, so I can’t let you do it.’ ‘Hey, sometimes you have to break the rules,’ I said, reminding him of his brand’s multi-million dollar advertising campaign. ‘I’ll take the Super Broiler Meal, with orange juice, please.’ He realized I was not going to take ‘No’ for an answer and he could not go against a well-informed customer and his chain’s well-known advertising promise. ‘I’ll do it for you just this once, as an exception,’ he said. ‘Oh c’mon, you can do it for me anytime,’ I replied. ‘No,’ he said again, looking me straight in the eye. ‘I will do it for you this once, but I won’t do it again.’ ‘Wait a minute,’ I Know The Power of Your Words rules,’ I said, reminding him of his brand’s multi-million dollar advertising campaign. ‘I’ll take the Super Broiler Meal, with orange juice, please.’Know The Power of Your Words When is the last time you gave your business a good self examine? If its been awhile then it might be time and in doing so one of the most important questions you can ask is simply: Are you what you say you are? Is your product or service in tune with what you advertise? If it isn't, then you could have a very damaging problem on your hands. The words you chose to represent you He realized I was not going to take ‘No’ for an answer and he could not go against a well-informed customer and his chain’s well-known advertising promise. ‘I’ll do it for you just this once, as an exception,’ he said. ‘Oh c’mon, you can do it for me anytime,’ I replied. ‘No,’ he said again, looking me straight in the eye. ‘I will do it for you this once, but I won’t do it again.’ ‘Wait a minute,’ I Career Change and Risk: It Can Lead to Greater Success in the Workplace advertising promise.Come on, admit it. Do you envy people who are doing work that they love?Many of us do. We grind away tolerating work environments and colleagues out of step with our values, interests and skills. Yet we hang in there for a variety of reasons -— most prominently our paychecks.But our situations can improve. Abraham Maslow, psychologist and father of the humanistic psychology movement, shifted the tides in his field by insisting that we ‘I’ll do it for you just this once, as an exception,’ he said. ‘Oh c’mon, you can do it for me anytime,’ I replied. ‘No,’ he said again, looking me straight in the eye. ‘I will do it for you this once, but I won’t do it again.’ ‘Wait a minute,’ I asked gamely. ‘You are about to make me a happy customer. Do you really mean you wouldn’t make me a happy customer again?’ ‘I will do it for you this once,’ he repeated flatly. When I received my meal, with orange juice, I gave the manager a genuine smile and said, ‘See you again next time.’ He replied, just below his breath but loud enough for me to hear, ‘I don’t want to see you again.’ Somewhere within this company, computer programmers design point-of-purchase terminals to carefully limit the choices and options of customers around the world. The accountants are happy. Daily sales reports are clean and accurate. But at the sales counter, face-to-face between customers and staff, both parties experience frustration. The advertising slogan says, ‘Sometimes you’ve just got to break the rules.’ But the restaurant manager would not. I wrote an article about this encounter in my local newspaper. The following week, a regional manager from the restaurant chain called and invited me to lunch. The next month I returned to the same outlet seeking a Super Broiler Meal, with orange juice. The counter staff smiled b
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