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"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

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       Are you taking advantage of every networking opportunity?  In today's business climate you have to seize every opportunity.  This includes traditional advertising and public relations as well as the newer, wide open worlds of social media.  One of the most important continues to be networking.
      We have belonged to a "lead club" for over 25 years.  A lead club is a group of business people (usually limited to only one representative from any particular industry) who meet on a regular basis to exchange information about developments in the business community. Even when I wasn't in a position to use the leads, I still participated because it kept me in touch with what was happening  
 around town.  
       The relationships that are fostered in these groups are much stronger, and more productive than the typical business relationship.  The bonds that are formed between  member,s as they become friends and really care about the success of each other, are good for everybody's business. 
       I would be happy to share our model with anyone who is interested, just email your request.

 
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New York Times columnist Ron Lieber finds that there is some cause for concern in the sweeping credit card legislation that recently passed the Senate.
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Butterfly Story
 
     One day, a small opening showed up in a cocoon, and a man sat down and watched for hours the little butterfly while she was struggling to come out through this little hole.
     A few hours later it seemed like the butterfly has stopped trying. She did what she could and did not go any further.
     The man decided to help her. He took a pair of scissors and widely opened the cocoon. The butterfly came out. But her body was sickly and her wings were wizened.
     The man kept watching, waiting for the little wings to open. She would grow and become strong enough to hold the butterfly's body.
     But, the butterfly spent her whole life walking around slowly, supporting her sickly body with great difficulty. She was never able to fly.
     The man in his kindness and good will, failed to understand that the limitation of the cocoon and the necessary struggle that the butterfly should do for breaking it, would force the fluids of her body move towards her wings making her ready to fly as soon as she would break the cocoon.
     You see, sometimes, struggle is exactly what we need in our life.

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Thanks, Carl,  for your kind thoughts
 
Hi Ina:
     You have the silver tongue of a writer. Thank you for the blog post.                                            Carl Mortimer
 

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