http://www.greatsmallbusinessadvice.com/ : For a lot of small business owners, this is an overlooked factor that sells our products and services 10x better than we ever could. In this video, find out about the SP factor and how you can apply it. http://tinyurl.com/yjvsl5x Related posts: You Are in Sales…Believe it Or Not This is What Sells Accelerate Your Sales Process with … Read More

To achieve self-determination, here are ten self- affirming beliefs you can internalize and incorporate in your own life to help bolster your self-acceptance and self-trust. They came from Denis Waitley’s program The New Dynamics of Winning . 1. I control my thoughts, emotions and actions and direct them to improve the quality of my health, my relationships, my performance, and … Read More

I realize that we’re already past the season of goal setting but I can’t resist sharing a tip with you that I think you’ll value and appreciate. Every year, I set three “stretch” goals. These are goals that I know I can reach BUT require that in some way I shift my paradigm. This is how I keep growing my … Read More

This isn’t exactly news anymore, but it’s worth noting that two more reports this week confirm the idea that consumers tend to do their research online prior to buying offline/locally. The first is a Kelsey Group study that indicates 97% of consumers use the Internet to research products or services in their local area . What specific online research tools … Read More

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has revealed China’s demand for oil soared by an “astonishing 28% year-on-year in January”. According to the IEA, global oil demand this year will be fuelled by non-OECD countries – with non-OECD Asia representing half of all growth. China’s thriving economy has seen oil imports surge and earlier this week, OPEC said

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If a person were to listen to Energy Secretary Steven Chu or National Geographic’s Aftermath: World Without Oil , one might think that our energy problems are fairly minor and distant. We can easily add sufficiently renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels in a fairly short time frame. All we need to do is put our minds (and pocketbooks) … Read More

Oil Production to Peak in 2014, Scientists Predict Predicting the end of oil has proven tricky and often controversial, but Kuwaiti scientists now say that global oil production will peak in 2014. Their work represents an updated version of the famous Hubbert model, which correctly predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil reserves would peak within 20 years. Many researchers have … Read More

The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it’s been elevated to “fist fight” status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning about “consequences” has arrived. The warning came today from the Minister of Industry and IT, Li Yizhong, who was speaking to reporters at the annual National People’s Congress meeting. Li was, … Read More

If you think that Doritos has gone down the same road that Cheetos did, with its supersized snack–the kind of thing you’d need to buy an extra seat for should you be popping one of these on a flight–you’re wrong. They’ve just come up with a nifty little viral video that compares their triangular chips to an iPad, and the … Read More

Apple ’s history of eliminating apps that compete with its own is as old as the App Store itself. So why, exactly, does Barnes & Noble think they can get away with submitting its eReader app for the iPad? From browsers to music players to email, Apple firmly removes any app that could conceivably compete with its own first-party apps. … Read More