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Which is quite scary when you think that analysts regularly report external communications costs as being a top-three, non-payroll expense in most large organisations. The good news is that this can simply be rectified and often without changing your service provider – http://www.peraconsulting.co.uk/save-money-on-telecoms/
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If like me you are getting to grips with the latest trends in social media with the likes of twitter, facebook, linkedin, friendfeed etc, then you are probably familiar with the regularity of the updates and in the case of the micro blogging of twitter then you like me are probably wondering how on earth some people manage to send so many tweets every day as well as holding down a full time job. There is a whole industry grown up off the back of this new phenomenon, with applications galore to provide access whilst on the go (from your mobile) and to automate much of this. My thought here, is that with the increased use of automation – does this take away the personal touch and some of the very purpose of social media – being personal contact? I am comfortable with a degree of automation, but how much is too much – for example if everyone is just "sending" who is reading and responding?
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How cool is this – wordpress enabling posting from any email address anywhere in the World. Outstanding! Check it out for yourself http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/post-by-email/
and remember “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, screaming ‘Woo Hoo, what a ride!’ (anon)
Have a great bank holiday weekend everyone
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Time seems to slip through our fingers every day and many actions remain for tomorrow’s to do list, and this is the same for most of us. So given that everyone is doing more than one persons job or at least it feels like it, how do we grab the attention we need to get our messages across?
Well it’s like all relationship building, you have to talk sparingly and listen intently, and we all know what listening looks like and feels like don’t we guys?, and be persistent. Many marketing experts whom I have spoken to recently and whose books I have read, all appear to back this up, saying that we need to continue persuing our target relentlessly through an ongoing strategy of communication. We are building a relationship with our prospective customers so that when they are ready to spend, we are at the front of the queue and have built rapport and trust
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I was on a FREE training course last week – learning more about NLP as part of a diploma course, and surprise – the first 2 days were FREE of charge. If I like it, and want to learn more (take the final two days) I can do this for a small investment. Why am I writing this? Well a couple of reasons – first off, it was probably one of the best training courses I have attended, and I’ve attended a lot of courses, secondly, the gents running the course were very genuine and friendly and extremely competent. They knew the subject very well, and delivered a well paced and enjoyable course. I reckon it’s down to me now, to “try on” the learnings for size and make the most of this. If you want o know more – click the link Free training
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No really, it’s a serious question. You most likely say that you want to grow your business and that there are barriers to achieving your goals, but what are you prepared to DO about it?
Look at it like this – There are ten frogs sitting on a log and one of them decides to jump off. How many are left?
So you are sharp and you noticed that there were ten frogs STILL sitting on the log, because despite making a decision, there was NO ACTION.
Back to my original question – have you made some decisions but not yet committed the action?
If one of your decisions was to grow your business and yet you are unsure of how, or you know how, but do not have the resources or skills in your business to ACT, you should reach out and outsource – find a trusted advisor.
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The new marketing phenomena is firmly established. From my space to facebook, and the more business focused linkedin and ecademy, all these “social networking/social media” portals appear to be thriving with many many people totally bemused by the new wave. The big question of course is how much time should be dedicated to using these sites and of course what is the real value. I hear much positive chatter about these sites and indeed am using them myself, but the value is far from obvious in the circles I work in. Perhaps there are some alternative views – always keen to hear
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The news every day does little to inspire risk taking for sure, but for many people I can see that it paralyses them completely, and instead of pursuing activities that will drive costs down, and improve efficiencies, they do absolutely nothing – I do find this curious, because it drives the opposite result to that which is REALLY desired – GROWTH and PROSPERITY.
Let’s all make sure we are part of the solution for driving this country into recovery and take some positive action today – reach out for help, and you will be surprised by the willing responses.
Graham Bunting -The Partner Catalyst 
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