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The Top 2 Ways to Achieve Long Term Happiness with Your Work

You’re going to spend most of your life working, so you may as well do something that makes you happy. Positive Psychologists and top motivational speakers like Anthony Robbins and Steven Covey agree that using your strengths, and making meaningful contributions with your work, result in long term gains in your happiness portfolio. Think about your greatest projects, accomplishments, and jobs. In other words, think about achievements that you consider great successes and continue to make you happy whenever you think about them. If you have a minute, jot a few down. Now, think about what made each of those …

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Talk About Your Company Ideals and Win Big

No one wants to receive product advertisements from the same company 5 days a week. However, people will gladly receive and even share content that’s about hi-level values and ideals. Top performing brands are built on ideals that transcend products and services. And that doesn’t mean you have to change your business model and become a benefit corp. It simply means focusing your marketing message on things that more people want to connect with. Brands built on ideals are 390.2% more valuable than the average S&P 500 brand.* *Source: http://www.jimstengel.com/grow/research-validation/ “Jim Stengel conducted a ten-year growth study of more than …

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Pay Attention to Strengths for a Winning Company Culture – Including a Comprehensive List of Strengths

Business owners and small business managers can easily fall prey to thinking that hiring the right employees is the end of the job. They’ve done their due diligence, went through interviews, got a feel for potential new hires, checked references, and hired who the felt was right. So, that’s it, right? Wrong. Hiring employees, even great employees, is only the first step in the long and challenging process of creating a great small business team. Once you hire employees and they begin working for you and with you, then you really get a sense of who they are, how they …

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What Everybody Should Know About Efficient Marketing

Across multiple studies in almost any given year, the number one concern for most business owners is attracting new clients. Attracting new clients is also much more expensive than retaining customers, so it pays to know how to do it… Literally 🙂 The Benefits of Focusing on Your Top 20% Prospects There are two major benefits to focusing on your top 20% prospects that I describe in this YouTube video, which is queued-up at the perfect time to start watching via this link https://youtu.be/JujO-kJ4l8A?t=3m38s. In the video I talk about two huge mistakes almost all businesses make which can be solved by …

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Don’t Let the Monsters Pull You Under – Create the Most Resilient Business Possible with Core Values

Revolutionize Your Business & Drive Leadership Mastery With Purpose & Values By Ami Mariscal Updated May 5, 2017 Written May 3, 2016 For thousands of years humans have been navigating the Earth using the stars. Though we are generally more in touch with our cell phones than compasses these days, most of us can still find the North Star. Thinking about your life’s purpose, or your current “why” as your North Star is a useful metaphor for so many good reasons I’m excited to share with you! And this metaphor serves as a fantastic framework for creating a business that …

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5 Ways to Increase Productivity and Business Growth by Employee Happiness

The vision of any entrepreneur is to establish a business that thrives. Ranked fourth among forty major regions across the U.S., Los Angeles is a hot bed for startup activity. However, indiscriminate of the duration a business has been in operation, it needs to have a strong and healthy work force. For this reason, successful businesses have organizational capability to support critical business objectives by: 1. Attracting and retaining talent through strong brand reputation Everyone enjoys identifying with good things; therefore, a good reputation should be of great concern. For strategies in building a brand, it is wise to engage …