Some Good New! Mackert Consulting Acquires License to RPF GROUP INC’s Entrepreneur’s Advisory Board
I wanted to share some good news with you. Mackert Consulting Group has acquired the rights to licenses The Entrepreneur’s Advisory Board. They will be creating a new company called North Coast Advisors LLC.
This will give Mackert Consulting a unique edge in […]

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I have been running advisory board for several years now and I have been asked why I offer a 100% return on your investment guarantee to the board members.
The answer is simple: we get results.
Let me share with you a case study.
I had a company owner join The Entrepreneur’s Advisory Board because he wasn’t closing […]

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Why Are Certain People So Stupid?
 
When you write several books, produce several videos for Youtube, and write blog posts like I do, you get some less than positive feedback in emails, voice mails and comments on my videos. That should be expected. Some would say that is the price you pay for being […]

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Are These Your Top 10?
According to Grant Thornton, today’s business owners have the following needs.
 
Top 10 Business issues for Business Owners  
Strengthening customer relationships   97%
Finding Good People     89%
Minimizing taxes     81%
Growing the business     73%
Keeping pace with technology    68%
Managing cash flow     66%
Current business climate    65%
Creating & executing strategy    62%
Retirement & business succession planning  56%
Finding expansion capital    50%
Every business […]

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It is all about Marketing, expecially to the Four Generations now Working Side by Side.
I was watching Terri Murphy (www.ilearingglobal.biz/ronf) discuss the communications stlyes of the different age groups. According to Terri Murphy, there has been no other time in history where we have four generations working side by side. All required different communication style when […]

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I am starting to get develop an identity crisis. My client’s have started calling me the Dr. Phil of business coaching because of the tough love and my no excuse approach to business coaching. 
 
I recently published my fourth book called Nine Principles to Inspired Action: A New & Targeted Perspective. A gentleman from New York […]

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I am from the stone-age. I think (thought) twitter was a waste of time. I would watch such things as I just woke up (who cares), I am eating dinner (then why are telling me, just eat), and a variety of other posts that just clutter up my day. One of my friends suggested I […]

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I recently completed an offsite with my Business Mastery Advisory Board. I think of this as shortening my path to success. 
 
We do these once a year with members who see the value in spending time working on their business to get ready for the next year, ask for help in clarifying issues that hold us […]

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One of my clients who uses and sells lLearningGlobal made a comment to me abouot how ILG helped hiim becomes a better sales person in his business - but not for the reason you would think. I ask him to write this article so I could share this valuable lesson with everyone. Sometimes the lesson […]

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You Never Know Why People Buy From You?
 
I did a speech and during the speech I asked the audience this question: Do you know why people buy from you? Not the reasons you think they buy but the reasons they actually buy?
 
One gentleman in the audience takes great pride in knowing his business and being […]

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500 Business Owners Have Spoken. They Told What They Did to Be Successful! January 1, 2009 - Ron Finklestein, President of AKRIS INC, a Business Coaching and Consulting firm, and Robert Schepens, President of Champion Staffing, A Job Near Home.com and Drug Free Solutions NEO, have published a breakthrough book called

Nine Principles For Inspired Action: A […]

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I received this from Dan Minick, president of Internation Referral Group and I wanted to pass it along becuase of the contents. He makes some great points.
 
DAN’S NETWORKING NOTE
January 2009
Ten Tips for a Happy and Prosperous New Year
 
I received a lot of positive feedback from my last note “Holiday Networking Tips” so I thought […]

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It is has been awhile since I last wrote. Lots of business travel and learning new things. Below is an example of what I discovered during my reading. 
The human brain’s ability to learn incredibly complex things continues to astonish scientists throughout the world.  Yet even more amazing, and perhaps confusing, is the inability for the […]

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I am conducting a class on how to stop selling and grow sales. The more effective we are in presenting our product or services in the best possible way the more our chances of the selling more improves. It is a relationship class that focuses on helping your grow sales by understanding how people want to […]

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How to Recession Proof Your Business

What’s the common mistake most businesses make in a recession?    I believe business owners, especially new business owners, make nine fundamental mistakes, especially in a market downturn.
 
These nine common mistakes have been identified by interviewing hundreds of business owners: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good ones do […]

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