Small Business Brokers
Buying or selling a business can be a very laborious undertaking, regardless of the size and profitability of the business. Fortunately, there are business brokers and business transfer agents who can help you find either a buyer or a seller. These business brokers are also very helpful in arranging the sale of a business to ensure that everything goes as smoothly as possible.If you are considering buying a small business, or if you have a small business and you wish to sell it, there are brokers who specialize in small businesses. For small businesses, finding the right buyer or seller can be difficult.A small business broker helps you gain access to a bigger group of buyers and sellers and increases your chances of success. Small business brokers work just like any other broker or transfer agent. They are similar to real estate agents in that they match sellers and buyers. Moreover, a good business broker can help your business achieve its maximum value. Not all business brokers, however, are right for small businesses. Thus, the trick is to find the best broker

eRecording: The Future of Document Recording
We are currently experiencing a trend that is shifting our nation from a paper-based to an online system of commerce. With every passing year the internet becomes more deeply integrated into our daily lives. We pay our bills online, we rent movies online, even our biggest auction (eBay) is now an online service.This impact that this trend has had on business is incalculable. In the past, countless hours were spent doing tasks that can now be accomplished with the click of a mouse button. One such service that has recently been optimized with internet compatibility is document recording.Whenever a legal transaction takes place, proper county filing is required. When you sign a mortgage, deed, land record, property title, etc, the agent or company in charge of realizing that transaction must file the record at the County Recorder’s Office. Until recently, filing these documents meant driving to the county office or mailing them via postal services. But rather than driving and waiting in lines or hassling with postage, a new option is available. "The person who constantly angers you or frustrates you...controls you." Colleen Kettenhofen

Do you know any difficult people? Have you ever worked or lived with a difficult person? Are YOU a difficult person?! It's amazing how many participants in my leadership trainings will come up to me at the end of a program on, "Dealing with Difficult People," or "Dealing with Difficult Employees," and confide to me, "Colleen, I think sometimes I'm a difficult person and just realized it today!" Well, we can all be difficult people from time to time. But what do you do with the person who is chronically difficult? A key component to life balance is learning to live and work with difficult people. Because there will always be difficult people. Here are three important points you must remember.

1) All behavior has a positive intention - even with difficult people.

2) Low self-esteem is often the culprit.

3) You can't always please everybody.

1) All behavior has a positive intention. Take for example the gossip. When someone comes into your office gossiping about everyone else, who are they trying to make look better? Themselves. That is their positive intention. As a matter of fact, while you are reading this article, what do you think the difficult people/gossips are doing in your office or somewhere else? Gossiping about YOU! Just kidding. Sort of.

I don't think gossips realize that when they gossip to you about everyone else, you are probably thinking, "I wonder what they say about ME when I'm not around?" Remember, they have a positive intention. Sick as it may sound, they are trying to make themselves look better.

What about whiners and complainers? If someone comes to you complaining and whining about how much work they have to do, or how overloaded they are, what are they looking for? They're looking for empathy and sympathy. That's their positive intention. We all have times when we're overloaded and feeling overwhelmed. But I'm talking about the real whiners and complainers. Those "emotional vampires" because they just suck the life out of you.

What about snipers? Believe it or not, even they have a positive intention. They are the difficult people who throw little "digs" your way, rattling your cage and ruffling your feathers. What's their positive intention? To make themselves look better. They think that by cutting you down, especially in front of others, that they'll look better. For example, in an open work area, a sniper might walk by and within earshot of others say to you, "Well, there goes Shelly, on her 100th personal phone call of the day!" And, you weren't even on a personal phone call!

Often, these snipers are the difficult people who after cutting you down and in

what do you do with the person who is chronically difficult? A key component to life balance is learning to live and work with difficult people. Because there will always be difficult people. Here are three important points you must remember.

1) All behavior has a positive intention - even with difficult people.

2) Low self-esteem is often the culprit.

3) You can't always please everybody.

1) All behavior has a positive intention. Take for example the gossip. When someone comes into your office gossiping about everyone else, who are they trying to make look better? Themselves. That is their positive intention. As a matter of fact, while you are reading this article, what do you think the difficult people/gossips are doing in your office or somewhere else? Gossiping about YOU! Just kidding. Sort of.

I don't think gossips realize that when they gossip to you about everyone else, you are probably thinking, "I wonder what they say about ME when I'm not around?" Remember, they have a positive intention. Sick as it may sound, they are trying to make themselves look better.

What about whiners and complainers? If someone comes to you complaining and whining about how much work they have to do, or how overloaded they are, what are they looking for? They're looking for empathy and sympathy. That's their positive intention. We all have times when we're overloaded and feeling overwhelmed. But I'm talking about the real whiners and complainers. Those "emotional vampires" because they just suck the life out of you.

What about snipers? Believe it or not, even they have a positive intention. They are the difficult people who throw little "digs" your way, rattling your cage and ruffling your feathers. What's their positive intention? To make themselves look better. They think that by cutting you down, especially in front of others, that they'll look better. For example, in an open work area, a sniper might walk by and within earshot of others say to you, "Well, there goes Shelly, on her 100th personal phone call of the day!" And, you weren't even on a personal phone call!

Often, these snipers are the difficult people who after cutting you down and i

who are they trying to make look better? Themselves. That is their positive intention. As a matter of fact, while you are reading this article, what do you think the difficult people/gossips are doing in your office or somewhere else? Gossiping about YOU! Just kidding. Sort of.

I don't think gossips realize that when they gossip to you about everyone else, you are probably thinking, "I wonder what they say about ME when I'm not around?" Remember, they have a positive intention. Sick as it may sound, they are trying to make themselves look better.

What about whiners and complainers? If someone comes to you complaining and whining about how much work they have to do, or how overloaded they are, what are they looking for? They're looking for empathy and sympathy. That's their positive intention. We all have times when we're overloaded and feeling overwhelmed. But I'm talking about the real whiners and complainers. Those "emotional vampires" because they just suck the life out of you.

What about snipers? Believe it or not, even they have a positive intention. They are the difficult people who throw little "digs" your way, rattling your cage and ruffling your feathers. What's their positive intention? To make themselves look better. They think that by cutting you down, especially in front of others, that they'll look better. For example, in an open work area, a sniper might walk by and within earshot of others say to you, "Well, there goes Shelly, on her 100th personal phone call of the day!" And, you weren't even on a personal phone call!

Often, these snipers are the difficult people who after cutting you down and i

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What about whiners and complainers? If someone comes to you complaining and whining about how much work they have to do, or how overloaded they are, what are they looking for? They're looking for empathy and sympathy. That's their positive intention. We all have times when we're overloaded and feeling overwhelmed. But I'm talking about the real whiners and complainers. Those "emotional vampires" because they just suck the life out of you.

What about snipers? Believe it or not, even they have a positive intention. They are the difficult people who throw little "digs" your way, rattling your cage and ruffling your feathers. What's their positive intention? To make themselves look better. They think that by cutting you down, especially in front of others, that they'll look better. For example, in an open work area, a sniper might walk by and within earshot of others say to you, "Well, there goes Shelly, on her 100th personal phone call of the day!" And, you weren't even on a personal phone call!

Often, these snipers are the difficult people who after cutting you down and i

ult people who throw little "digs" your way, rattling your cage and ruffling your feathers. What's their positive intention? To make themselves look better. They think that by cutting you down, especially in front of others, that they'll look better. For example, in an open work area, a sniper might walk by and within earshot of others say to you, "Well, there goes Shelly, on her 100th personal phone call of the day!" And, you weren't even on a personal phone call!

Often, these snipers are the difficult people who after cutting you down and insulting you, will say, "Oh, you have no sense of humor." They're trying to put it all back on you. Really though it's about them and their own insecurities. Keep that in mind when dealing with difficult people.

2) A root cause of why people are difficult is often self-esteem. A lot has been written and talked about regarding self-esteem and self-confidence. It almost seems a bit ridiculous quite frankly. For example, every child on a team winning a trophy even though they were on the LOSING team. All in the name of "self-esteem."

And yet, a lot of difficult people do suffer from low self-esteem. Not always, but often. Only one out of every three American adults has high self-esteem, and we're a pretty positive culture. But only one out of three adults really has high self-esteem. Some of you may be thinking, "Well, I know it's definitely not me!" That's okay. It's something you can work on. The point is, that with difficult people it's not necessarily about you. You aren't the problem. It's about THEM. They're the difficult person.

Low self-esteem often has its roots in childhood. For example, a child being teased in school by fellow classmates can result in one having a low opinion of themselves. You all know kids can be cruel. Sometimes it's something a teacher said or that a parent said, or being compared to Super Parent or a superstar sibling. Any number of things can cause low self-esteem. You don't always know what's going on with someone else and why they're acting the way they do.

For example, years ago I taught the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics program. Presidents of companies, executive V.P.'s and salespeople, many of whom were seemingly confident, would quietly confide in me before class that they were nervous about taking the course. Why? Well, the more I talked with them, the more I'd find out how many of them were dyslexic way before we knew what dyslexia was. Talk about something that could wreak havoc on your self-esteem! Nowadays, we know that people with dyslexia are often VERY bright and usually have above average intelligence! Back then, however, these things were not known. So, you never know what's going on with someone else and why they're