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Train with Shane provides business education, skill training and professional development. We take the sales, marketing and motivational process and make it relevant with regard to your changing consumer, your new market environment and your business dynamics.

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"Never Stop because you are afraid-you are never so likely to be wrong" Nansen

"What I have been most afraid of has turned out to be what I became the most courageous about" dshane
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Celebrate Small Business Month!                    
May  2010






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May is Small Business Month!

Small business and entrepreneurship are the engines of our country and are at an all time high!

It is the most exciting, challenging endeavor one can undertake.

What are the common qualities of successful small businesses?
Are you entrepreneurial?
How do you make your liabilities into your strengths?
What are the resources small businesses can use today?

We celebrate and support small business and the people who create and lead them.

Thank you for all your support and encouragement.
It means the world to me, as you do!

Give, Share, Connect, and Watch What Happens!

"your empowerment advocate"
deborah
 


Entrepreneurs: 5 Steps to Turn Mistakes Into Opportunities
Zane Safrit, Business Consultant

Mistakes are part of life. Some say they are the bigger part of life for entrepreneurs. 
Maybe.

Mistakes will be the bigger part of our lives as entrepreneurs unless we have a path to turn  them not only into learning lessons but also for opportunities to create stronger relationships with our stakeholders.

Here are the 5 steps I have mastered* that helps me turn mistakes into opportuni
ties


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The 12 Principles of Champions
Deborah Shane

Coming from a mentoring, teaching and training  background for 20 plus years has helped me to understand  how certain qualities make champions!

There are 12 common qualities that I believe underlie "peak performers" or champions in any field,  industry, business, or just personally!

I love to study champions. We mostly identify with sports people and teams: Lance Armstrong, Pete Sampras, New York Yankees, Detroit Red Wings, New England Patriots, University of Florida, Babe Ruth. But, let's not forget about other champions who champion causes: Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, Rosa Parks and tireless other "silent heroes" that change people's lives daily by what they do under the radar.

What is a champion?

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Is Your Business The Underdog?
Karen Fredericks, Techbenders.com

I love sports and I'm a sucker for Cinderella stories so I was pretty excited to see that Butler made it all the way to the NCAA Basketball Championship final this week. After all, if my beloved Gators couldn't be there I was glad to see that my dad's Alma mater was represented. Maybe I'm prejudiced, but it seemed to me that most of the country was rooting for Butler. Most of us like to cheer for the underdog and since many folks had never even heard of Butler until the Final Four they were indeed the underdogs against #1 Ranked Duke.

Like it or not, unless you're working for one of the Fortune 500 companies you too are an underdog when it comes to your business. It's an uphill battle to get your name to stand out against the competition.

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