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- Greg Ceglarski
- April 20th 2018
The first thing that I have to say is: I am sorry for taking so long to write Part 2, and I’m especially sorry to Jorge Perez and Joel Perez (you guys related?) and my friend Chris McElroy, who all...
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- Stephen Diggins
- January 23rd 2018
If you haven’t read Michael E. Gerber’s famous book “The E-Myth” (The Entrepreneurial Myth), I suggest you do. The book has been in print in several forms since 1986, so let me give you the...
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- Stephen Diggins
- January 17th 2018
“Friday I was in a bookstore. I started talking to this very French-looking girl. She was a bilingual illiterate—she couldn't read in two different languages.”—Steven Wright
Hardwood...
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- Greg Ceglarski
- January 11th 2018
There are two very different managers and subsequently two very different teams (or crews, businesses, organizations or companies ... anything with more than one person working toward anything).
Are...
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- Stephen Diggins
- December 11th 2017
I have a short story from last week—something I had never experienced in my life. File this one under “Customers Say the Darndest Things.”
My outside salesman went to look at an installation...
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- Stephen Diggins
- November 22nd 2017
It all started December of 2015 with a devastating fire in a beautiful country mansion in New Hampshire where, luckily, no lives were lost. The flames engulfed the entire home, and over 50...
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- Greg Ceglarski
- November 13th 2017
This gem was from a sales training from a few decades ago. Take this in—it will make you money.
Lets say you’re in the market for a new TV and you have a friend who sells TV’s. Where do you go...
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- Jim Clarey
- October 31st 2017
In Part 1 of this post, we talked about how critical it is build consciously build a business identity based on customers’ perceptions of your business, and how every aspect of every customer...
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- Jim Clarey
- October 24th 2017
We all know how important a good reputation, is right? We want customers to understand how great our work is and how outstanding our customer service is. We protect our reputation like a mother bear...
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- Keith Long
- October 23rd 2017
Hello all, Keith Long here with Thunderheart Flooring, based out of Greeley, Colo. Over the last six weeks, I took a hiatus from hardwood flooring and accomplished something I’ve had in my sights...
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