Monday, April 27, 2009

Business Tip of the Week: Learn to Earn!

How keep increase your knowledge to increase your profits! The only place that ‘Earn’ comes before ‘Learn’ is in the dictionary.


Here are some ways ActionCOACH Community members increased their knowledge to increase their profits this past quarter:

Experiences:
  • Networking works!
  • Persistence – don’t give up when depend on others
  • Renegotiate with delinquent clients
  • Accountability partner – s/o who pushes you to learn more
  • Pushing through the hard stuff

Classes/workshops/websites:

  • Reggie’s marketing class: creative advertising
  • Web research – UTube as a learning resource
  • Specific blogs to your industry
  • Action seminars
  • Go back to school
  • Podcasts
  • Blogs for market research – industry competitors
  • Solution Focused Selling: Sales Force/sales training – Ron Silver
  • Get it Done (pod casts)

Books:

  • E-Myth, Michael Gerber
  • Milkshake Moment, Steve Little – the difference bet entrepreneurs
  • Courage to Lead, Charles Farrell
  • Billionaire in Training, by Brad Sugars
  • Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us, by Seth Godin
  • Raving Fan, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles (customer service)
  • Eat That Frog, by Brian Tracy (Procrastination)
  • The Art of Being Creative
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad
  • How to Keep Employees Accountable
  • Art of Getting Things Done
  • Jeffrey Gitomer’s books, materials , newsletters and website
  • It Doesn’t Take a Hero, The autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf
  • The Go Giver by Bob Burg and David Mann
  • Duct Tape Marketing podcasts, blog
  • Book Yourself Solid, by Michael Port

Make it a great day!

Coach Reggie

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