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Memorial Day 2008 - Today I am Thankful

I am thankful for Life, Freedom, and Honor. Today I am sitting here thinking of the Men & Women who are giving everything for us. I also think of three Men that who I Love and Respect and thank God for letting me be a part of their life’s. I know that you always see and hear these three words on Memorial Day but these three words have a huge significance to me.

See Life is what we are living today. They have lived life for each one of us. Not only have they lived life but they have given it for us. These Men and Women have given us unconditional life. We are here on this earth because of them. We have to thank each of them for our Life. We have to thank God for letting them give, because they are the chosen ones. Each one of them has given us Freedom to be what and who we are today. I hold a deepest respect and Honor for each one of them and there is not a day that goes by that I will not forget and I will always remember their unconditional life and love of us.

These three Men that I Love and Respect are great Men. First, I have to thank the first Man. He as pasted but he was full of Life and allow me to live it each and everyday. He taught me that Freedom was not free and to Honor those who are giving and have gaven it unconditionally. This Man was a true giver, an American Patriot and gave to us each and everyday. This Man was like no other. This Man was my hero and he is my Father.

The second Man is still living and gave to me something no one else can give. That is Freedom. Freedom to be who I am and Freedom to be free and full of live, and just like my Father he is an American Patriot. See he has given and still gives today to our veterans and anyone else he can help. This Man is like no other he is my only Brother.

The third Man is Life, Freedom and Honor. See he made a choice, a choice to give unconditionally to us, to each one of us, just as the other two Men did before him. This unconditional Man shows his Honor each and everyday to me. This Man is My Nephew a U.S. Marine.

Today I would like to Honor and all who have and are serving all of us unconditionally. As well as those Men and Woman who are the chosen ones, on this Memorial Day I thank you for Life, Freedom and your unconditional Honor.

This story could be anyone’s story. It’s just one of millions of stories that could be told today and everyday. Please feel free to leave your comment or story and share it with the world. I love the song Arlington by Tracy Adkins and I want to have it here to play for you.

SalesBlogcast.com is a big hit

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Microsoft seeks for search gains

Steven Musil, Staff Writer, CNET News.com reported today "Microsoft is determined to get a bigger presence in the search market, and it's willing to get creative with its checkbook to meet that goal." Read the full Story

Facebook's new profile design is all about tabs

Harrison Hoffman Of www.news.cnet.com reported today that Facebook has just published new photos and descriptions of its impending profile redesign to its Facebook Profile Previews page.

The new profile design will, as we have known for a while, be centered on tabs. Profiles will be broken off into five separate tabs: Feed, Info, Wall, Photos, and Applications. Facebook's latest round of screenshots seems to indicate that users will also have the ability to add additional tabs, with the inclusion of a plus sign to the right of the Applications tab. To learn more Click Here

Success is your focus.

Another key to successful CRR is the ability to build relationships while taking care of business. Here are some ideas for you: don’t make people feel invisible, always maintain good eye contact, remember, you can’t smile enough on the telephone or in person, to stay connected ask people who get your voice mail message to leave their e-mail address and telephone number, watch your body language, buy a notebook to record all your relationship building ideas, only do dog and pony shows if your client needs a dog and pony, add the words “for you” to the end of your sentences, every four months record your end of your telephone calls to improve the quality of your calls, always take notes to demonstrate that you care and you are listening, and always take the time to say “Thank you” to everyone who contributes to your success.

Passion is the powerful attributes for successful business owners.

Get excited about your work. If you don’t like it, change it. Your life is too important and too short, to waste it doing something you hate doing. Be yourself and avoid trying to imitate somebody else. Have an attitude of gratitude. Say “thank you” often. That kind gesture will make someone’s day a better one and you will feel the success that you have help someone else have a great day.

Enthusiasm is contagious. Enthusiasm is an acquired quality and it’s free! Go out and get some, if you’re running low. If you want to take your business to the next level learn to do the unthinkable. Never saying “I’ve always done it this way.” Never follow the crowd. Take a new and different path to solve old client problems. The old way may not be the better way. Don’t let “good enough” be good enough.

If your success becomes to comfortable, it’s time to change. Always aim higher and you’ll be rewarded handsomely. Being SUCCESS is no small task, especially when the client is doing the evaluation. If you dare to be different, strive to be effective, and are attentive to your clients’ needs, you too can be SUCCESS.

In closing, Customer Relationship and Retention is not a challenge it is a way of life for any business person and it all comes down to this. When you do the right things for clients with the right motives, there’s no limit to what the Client will do in for you. Take everyday as a gift and enjoy opening it. Because you never know what you will find when you mind is set for SUCCESS.

So why is the Client Important?

So why is the Client important? Because the people that have bought from you now trust you more, as a result they will deal with you again and again. The more they trust you, the more open the relationship will evolve over time.

So the next step here is to build trust and the best way to do this is say “Thank You”.
I mean more than that automated 'thank you' at the cash register. I mean a personal thank you, something that shows your Client that you do appreciate them. One of the first ways you can do this is by sending your Client a thank you letter after they have purchases from you.

Well, there you have it, this simple one page letter that thanks your Client and encourages them to come back and opens the door for future business.

Will sending a letter to your Client really work? Sure it will. After all, when was the last time you received a thank you letter for spending money? I have only received a very few thank you letters and I remember all of them vividly. Send one to your customers and they'll remember it and you too. Try this, it works!

So what does the question “How can I help” have to do with Client relationship? Did you think about it? Offering help shows that client that you care about there business or even them. The client may decline your help but the client will always remember you making the offer to help. This builds trust and build the relationship.

Watch for my next blog post and learn the Power of CRR.

Customer Relationship and Retention

The client relationships must be the heart of every business. All of us know what ROI (Return on investment) is all about. Now let’s discuss how CRR (Customer Relationship and Retention) works.

One of the largest challenges to overcome for off or online businesses is sell, sell, sell, sell, sell, and sell mentality. The other thing I see and hear is poor closing techniques with little or no follow up and no long term relationship retention established after the sale is closed. This is a failure point with most online businesses when they fail to recognize the value of a Client.

Every Client has a value to you and your business. What is the one thing now that you could start, stop, or change that would have a dramatic impact your client relationships retention? This is an excellent question and I hope you would take a moment and really consider your answer. Yes sometimes it takes a great deal of effort and an extraordinary amount of energy to close “a big deal” but what happens after the deal is closed. How do you turn this new relationship into a long term Client?

First, never forget, it may take even more effort and energy, to keep the business after you win it. It takes courage to get the business and creativity and imagination to retain it. Now let’s set you mind to never forget this word SUCCESS and all that means. To be success, success is to be grand, impressive, outstanding, excellent, remarkable, and even unforgettable.

Many business owners have not set there mindset in terms of SUCCESS. They walk around doing a great imitation but they don’t walk the walk and talk the talk. It doesn’t take much to leap from the ordinary to the extraordinary, but it does take effort. It’s all about leaving a great first impression, not merely a good one. It’s about delighting your clients, not just satisfying them, and being unforgettable.

It is about rising above the entire crowd, not being lost in it. It’s about speaking SUCCESS and breathing it. Here are some ideas for you on how have a SUCCESS mindset for Client Relationship Retention.

Googles Friends Connects Partial List of Applications.

Here is a list of some of the applications. As Friend Connect grows, expect the list of applications to explode; Google, like Facebook before it, is trying to create a "platform" for developers to make money by reaching an audience of millions. The List.

Google Wants to Facebook Friend You and Much More

This is some Great News!!!

Time Magazine "Google Wants to Facebook Friend" as reported by JOSH QUITTNER

"Upping the stakes in its ongoing battle with the popular social network, Google announced today that it was getting into the "social plumbing" business — giving every website a way to add a limitless number of applications and a means for those sites' users to communicate among themselves. Read More"

Welcome to the social mess, a good mess with results?

CnetNews.com Posting by Caroline McCarthy really sound promising. Caroline reports

"Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, OpenID, DataPortability: Managing a bunch of different log-ins and passwords suddenly seems easy and straightforward.

Within a matter of days, some of the biggest names on the Web announced new projects that all have a roughly similar aim of making it possible for Web users to have a single social-media identity across the Internet--"data portability," as the general term has come to be known. MySpace.com was first out of the gate with the announcement of Data Availability, a way for members of the News Corp.-owned social network to share their profile data with partner sites including eBay, Yahoo, and Twitter. The next day, Facebook launched Facebook Connect, an extension of its developer API so that third-party sites can incorporate Facebook authentication and user identities." Read More

Starting Good Business Relationships

"When I hear one of my clients say “Today was a tough day” I always follow up with this question, "How can I help?"

Really think about this question “How can I help” So what does this have to do with customer relationship, sales and marketing?

Now before we get into understand this we have to change our mindset. The change is every customer is really a Client. The title “Client” demand respect in today’s business world. Thesaurus.com defines the word Client “One who buys goods or services.” A customer is defined in the say way. However, let me ask you this. How does it feel when someone refers to you as a Client? It places importance. Where if you are a customer there really is no feeling of importance. I know it’s all comes down to semantics’ but changing your mindset will project to the Client that they are important to you and your business and is the first building block of any relationship.

The first step in any business relationship is to start a relationship. The biggest problem with most business owners today is that they do not start a client relationship. They just make a sale and go on to the next money source forgetting about the client and the relationship which was just started. See this relationship is very important. Why? Because statistics show that it can be as much as ten times easier to market and sell something to someone that has bought from you before, than selling something to a stranger.

Watch for the next blog post for the answer to "How can I help?" and to here open discussion listen to My VM Team Talk Radio

Facebook to open the gates

This is a excellent article from CNetNews.com on May 9, 2008

"Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect' by Caroline McCarthy"

"Social network Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the concept of data portability.

The formal announcement was made through a post on Facebook's developer blog by senior platform manager Dave Morin, who has been one of the company's most visible evangelists in the developer community over the past year. Facebook Connect will launch within the next few weeks." Read more about this.

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