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Using emotion to increase your sales

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Emotional selling comes more naturally to many business owners.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 20 Mar '15 | Tags: sales training sales business

How a clear purpose can even create success in a difficult market

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The importance of knowing why you are in business if you are to be successful and create a successful niche market

Posted by Sarah Brown on 11 Mar '15 | Tags: strategy innovation vision niche

Fourteen potential reasons you might attend an exhibition

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Success at an exhibition like anything else requires clear objectives and strategy and then taking action.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 19 Feb '15 | Tags: strategic development goal setting marketing

Making Networking work for YOU!

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A mindmap that summarises how to make the most from the 4N networking group or any networking group.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 02 Feb '15 | Tags: marketing entrepreneur tools

Can we learn anything from the Tesco story?

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Tesco is in the wars but every company can learn from the issues it faces. When the focus in a business is just profit then the values and vision that should be the core of the company can get ignored.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 21 Jan '15 | Tags: values 21st century business vision

Everyone deserves a Happy Christmas

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An inspirational charity changing lives all the year

Posted by Sarah Brown on 18 Dec '14 | Tags: charity inspiration changing lives

What we can learn from a simple idea

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By thinking differently about problems a health care company has come up with simple but life changing ideas that are really inspirational

Posted by Sarah Brown on 10 Nov '14 | Tags: inspiration strategic development 21st century business values

Why you need to rank your values to radically change your business

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Having and knowing your values is just the start, you need to identify what is the single must do

Posted by Sarah Brown on 22 Oct '14 | Tags: values business success

The law of unintended consequences - fighting to save Rotherham

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How protesters can threaten a town's businesses.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 13 Oct '14 | Tags: community stakeholders rotherham

The seven top mistakes that a business owner should avoid if they want to achieve success

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The seven top mistakes that can be fatal to business success

Posted by Sarah Brown on 03 Oct '14 | Tags: business business success

Volunteering – good for the country, good for business, good for people and good for charities

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Some inspirational facts about volunteering and measuring its impact and how new ways of volunteering are developing

Posted by Sarah Brown on 26 Sep '14 | Tags: charity csr social impact

What is the moral of the story? Relationships are a critical part of success for any organisation

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Why good relationships are critical to business success even if you have a profitable business model.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 19 Sep '14 | Tags: success relationships