Recently hit Amazon.com’s Best-Seller List with the new book, “Game Changers”
I proudly joined a select group of America’s leading entrepreneurs and businesspeople to collaborate and co-write the business and marketing book titled, Game Changers: The World’s Leading Entrepreneurs: How They’re Changing The Game, and You Can Too! The book was published by Nick Nanton, Esq., and business partner JW Dicks, Esq. under their CelebrityPress® imprint.
The book, Game Changers: The World’s Leading Entrepreneurs: How They’re Changing The Game, and You Can Too! was released on Thursday, November 18th and reached best-seller status in three Amazon.com categories: Communications, Direct Marketing and Entrepreneurship. The book reached #1 in the Direct Marketing category.
Game Changers: The World’s Leading Entrepreneurs: How They’re Changing The Game, and You Can Too! features anecdotes, business strategies and real-life solutions to many of the challenges faced by small and large businesses across the country, in a rapidly changing economy. I authored a chapter in the book titled, “Non-Binding Mediation: The Best Kept Secret in Alternative Dispute Resolutions.”
Game Changers is a collective MasterMind effort of leading entrepreneurs teaching their latest strategies to help you succeed in this new economy. Whether starting a business from scratch, or realigning your marketing and sales programs for established products and services, this book will teach you fresh and recently tested successful methods you need to know (and pitfalls to avoid). These methods are as different from those used by the baby boomer generation as the abacus is from the computer.
After such a successful release, I will be soon be inducted into The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.
You can order a copy of the book, go to http://www.amazon.com/Game-Changers-Leading-Entrepreneurs-Changing/dp/0982908326/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291044330&sr=1-8
Or send me a message requesting a complimentary copy.
Thinking Outside the Box Can Mean Going Back to Basics
Today’s market requires all business professionals to think outside the box. I help small businesses from the point of inception, ongoing business, employment decisions, as well as dispute resolutions. There are many creative ideas being used to keep business afloat these days. Recently, some old ideas are being implemented that are extremely usefull.
Use Interns. College, graduate students, and recent graduates are having a diffcult time finding employment. Many are willing to work for free or at a low cost to the employer to gain valuable experience. These individuals are bright, energetic, and ready to take on the world.
Share knowledge, sell your product or service. It does not matter what business you are in, you have knowledge that someone can benefit from. Always be willing to give away information. People appreciate being informed. By sharing information as requested, your business will be remembered when your product or service is needed.
Help people make connections. Everyone has a network of friends and colleagues. If you meet someone at a luncheon looking for a accounts receivable clerk and you know your neighbor’s son is looking for work as an accounts receivable clerk… make a phone call and introduce these people. Taking a few minutes out of your day to connect individuals will be remembered for a lifetime.
Be nice to everyone. Everyone is approachable and should be treated with the same respect. It does not matter if you are crabby, nervous or in a rush, be nice anyway. You never know if the receptionist greeting you is the bosses wife or daughter. Your clients or customers also watch how you treat your staff. It is part of human nature, people do not like to work with rude or disrespectful people.
NSF Check
I have been receiving a rush of inquiries regarding bad checks. This is a crime, but be aware there are also civil penalities for this crime.
Damages
If a person fails to pay amount of check within 30 days to payee after written notice is given that the check came back with insufficient funds, then that person is liable for amount owing on check, damages treble the amount so owing (no less than $100 and no more than $1,500), plus attorney fees and court costs. 720 ILCS 5/17-1a
Burden of Proof
To recover, plaintiff must prove (1) defendant delivered check to obtain personal property; (2) defendant knew at the time the account was insufficient; (3) defendant acted with the intent to defraud; and (4) defendant failed to pay on demand. Vetean Supply Co. v. Swaw, 192 Ill.App.3d 286 (1st Dist. 1989).
It’s Back to School Time … for your kids and your business.
I always enjoyed the start of a new school new. Everything is fresh and exciting. New school supplies and clothes, not to mention goals set for the new academic year.
The same concepts apply to your business. Did you know that the Fall Quarter is generally the second best time of the year to make money? The reasons are two fold: (1) people are back from vacations/family time and ready to purchase your products or services and (2) people are back from vacations/family time and ready to buckle down and work.
It’s an exciting and great time to take action. Businesses are preparing for and setting new goals. Individuals set aside money knowing that the start of the school year will cost them money. With both parties preparing to take action, it’s a profitable time of year.
The questions business owners need to ask themselves include the following: What action to we want to take going forward? What happened within the business last year we want to see happen differently this year?
There is a good chance I can help you. Let me know how I can be of service this exciting season.