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1. Check the seller’s customer satisfaction ratings.

Review other user’s comments and check out the seller’s rating on sites like Google Shopping. Low “star” ratings may provide a red flag that cautions you to find a more reputable seller.

2. Check the Better Business Bureau site to see if there are a large number of complaints about the seller.

The Better Business Bureaus of the United States and Canada are excellent resources to find out specific information about merchants, including whether or not they have any complaints against them related to delivery, product issues, or refund or exchange problems. You can also obtain their business addresses and corporate contact information, which might allow you to circumvent the frontline call center circus of endless automated prompts (i.e. “Press 1 to speak to a semi-live person”).

3. Never enter your credit card information on a page that is not encrypted.

When using the online checkout process of a seller, always make sure that the web address has “https” instead of “http.” Https ensures that you are using an encrypted communications path to transmit your credit card information to the seller. This helps to ensure against eavesdropping on your transaction.

4. Whenever possible, use a credit card for payment.

According to the American Bar Association’s website, safeshopping.org, ( Read more... )

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His friend Jack is trying to encourage him.
John: Hey, Jack, is Jenny coming with us?
Jack: Yes. Why?
John: Nothing. I'm just asking.
Jack: Just asking? But why is your face burning like mad? Ah-huh, someone has a crush on Jenny, doesn't he?
John: Who has a crush?!
Jack: Come on, John, don't be such a chicken. If you like her, you've got to tell her. Maybe she likes you.
John: But I don't have the guts to ask her out.
Jack: What're you so afraid of?
John: I'd totally die if she turned me down.
Jack: But that's better than keeping everything to yourself. You've got to let her know. Come on! You've got to take a chance!
John: I don't know....Well, maybe, you're right, but how am I going to tell her?

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Ignite Your Enthusiasm. I once asked the famous financial guru, Suze Orman, for the secret behind her success. You cannot inspire, she said, unless you’re inspired yourself. She’s speaking about passion. Every inspiring leader is abundantly passionate — not about the product itself, but what the product means to their customers. Steve Jobs is not passionate about computers. He’s passionate about building tools that help people to unleash their personal creativity. Big difference.

Navigate a course of action. Nothing extraordinary ever happened without a leader articulating a vision, a course of action. We’ve seen this throughout history (think John F. Kennedy challenging a nation to land a man on the moon) and it works for building brands as well. When I interviewed Teach for America founder, Wendy Kopp, she said that her ‘vision’ as a college student was to “eliminate educational inequities.”

That vision remains as strongly in place today as it did when she started the non-profit that trains college graduates to teach in schools across America. Bold visions create excitement and inspire evangelists.

Sell the benefit. Your employees don’t care about growing sales by 10 percent this year. ( Read more... )

Если вам нужен совет, спрашивайте, чего не делать, что ускользает из виду, и не ожидайте найти такую информацию в цитатах и пышных биографиях людей. Но у людей, потерпевших неудачу, редко просят совет, как такой неудачи избежать, что, разумеется, очень печально. Ведь по сути, успех сводится к тому, чтобы регулярно избегать катастрофических провалов и рутинно справляться с мелкими текущими неурядицами... * Хочешь успеха? Изучай неудачи. И делай иначе

1. Pay Attention. As you are introduced to your new coworkers, pay very close attention to each person’s name. You will probably form an impression of each person, so mentally associate the name with something that will help you remember. For example, you might think, “Hal can be my pal,” “Mary seems rather contrary,” or “Steven appears to be even tempered.” These examples rhyme, but they don’t have to. “Janice the organizer” and “Kip the smiley-faced guy” are helpful associations.

2. Repeat. As soon as the other person’s name is said, look him or her in the eye and repeat it in the most natural way possible. Something like, “It’s nice to meet you, Taylor,” or “I look forward to working with you, Shannon,” are examples of how you can do this. If the person’s name is unusual, you might even comment on its uniqueness. Continue saying the person’s name in your mind and try to use it once more in conversation.

3. Association. Find something to associate the person with his or her name. For example,.( Read more... )

5. Bread and Pasta. Brain imaging reveals that after eating highly processed carbohydrates like white bread, pasta, rice, baked goods and other starches, the same pleasure centers of the brain light up as when a person takes drugs such as cocaine and heroin,The New York Times reports. In both cases, dopamine levels, which trigger happiness and feelings of reward, spike and then deplete, thus fueling addiction.

When a strong pasta craving kicks in, try a healthy substitute, like high-quality spelt pasta, cookedal denteto lower its glycemic content, suggests Andrew Weil, MD, founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in his cookbook True Food.

4. Salty Snacks. A team of Duke University Medical Center and Australian scientists has found that addictive drugs affect the same nerve cells in the brain as salt. Both cocaine and salt create( Read more... )

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