I received this unsolicited email from a client today and I wanted to share it. Thank you for this introduction, but even more, I want to say Thank You overall. I left the meeting feeling good – and I am still on a high. I am excited about the process, about getting some structure and [...]

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In marketing there are only six questions all prospects want answers to before they buy from you. Every marketing strategy, tactic or campaign you create needs to answer these six questions. 1.  What Do You Do? When I ask this question I always get the same answers: I am a financial planner. I am a [...]

A good friend of mine who I am proud to know (Eric Allen) is involved in a networking marketing opportunity. He does not discuss the opportunity or attempt to sell you on network marketing but he asks you to take ownership for your situation and know you can change. Ownership is principle number 2 in [...]

Why Banks Suck – especially Chase!   I have (had, I just cancelled it) a credit card with Chase Bank for several years. I never missed a payment.    I received a notice that my interest rate was going from 3.99% to 19.99% because of market conditions. What makes this so offense to me is [...]

Using Twitter to Announce Some Good News. I am from the stone-age. I thought twitter was a waste of time. I would watch such things twitter past when I logged into Plaxo. The twitters included: I just woke up (who cares), I am eating dinner (then why are telling me, just eat), and a variety [...]

Author and speaker James Rohn said, “Never wish your life was easier… wish that YOU were better.” So often we spend our time trying to find new ways to improve our earning potential. The fact is we need to build our earning power inside ourselves. I call it: Learning is Earning…. and learning creates earning [...]

I recently ran Business Mastery Advisory Boards for small business owners (www.rpfgroupinc.com) and this problem came up time and time again: owners not doing something because it takes to long. You want an example? One business owner did not do billing because it took over one hour to create an invoice and he did 10 [...]

I run several Business Mastery Advisory Boards (learn more at www.rpfgroupinc.com) that are designed to drive the nine behaviors all successful people implement. These behaviors are documented in the book Nine Principles for Inspired Action: A New & Targeted Perspective (available on amazon.com). Many business owner do not know what needs done but not how [...]

Press Release 500 Business Owners Have Spoken. They Told What They Did to Be Successful! January 1, 2009 – Ron Finklestein, President of AKRIS INC, a Business Coaching and Consulting firm, and Robert Schepens, President of Champion Staffing, A Job Near Home.com and Drug Free Solutions NEO, have published a breakthrough book called Nine Principles [...]