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All about Private Phone Conversations.

What is a private phone conversation? Does a private conversation occur when you are alone in your home or office, speaking on the phone to someone who is also at home alone? How can you know for sure? The truth is that you can't know. If your conversation is happening over a traditional land line or over the cellular network, there may very well be someone else listening in.

Via: @nextactioncoach Great Article

This is a great article:http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/27/limits.social.networking.taylor/index.html

Quote from article:"I predict big things for the first social service to make sure you max out at 150 friends or followers, making the resulting interaction all the more worthwhile"

Clouds, White & Fluffy in the Sky...or Not

Did you read my recent blog post on TELUS Talks Business? If not please check out this link

http://community.telustalksbusiness.com/blogs/talk_business/2011/06/14/hey-you-get-of-off-my-cloud#cf  because you might have thoughts about using a cloud for your business and there are some very important questions to ask yourself first.

Your comments are welcome.

Here It is: 10 Tips For Improving Your Credit Rating

Credit is a tool that some of us take lightly or give little thought to until its really needed. There are 10 things that you can do to make sure that your credit is always in good standing so it will be available when needed:

1) Pay your bills on time. A consistent history of timely payments will greatly improve your credit profile and will, therefore, make you more desirable to lenders. In many cases, a strong payment history in your credit reports will also result in better interest rates.

Plan For Critical Illness and Life Insurance Coverage

By far the best time to arrange critical illness and/or life insurance is when it is the last thought on your mind. Not top of mind.  Take a typical young preson. He or she is at the beginning of their career, perhaps living at home, but thinking of looking around for an apartment or a flat or maybe even a house. He or she has a vehicle and the auto insurance that has been arranged for it was most likely their first step in the insurance ladder.  And it was a learning experience in a foreign world.

What Does The Federal Budget Mean to Your Business? via Michael Sangstger

Check out the article on TELUS Talks Business for some great content and information that can help you and your small business.

http://community.telustalksbusiness.com/blogs/talk_business/2011/06/20/what-the-2011-federal-budget-means-to-your-business#cf  via Michael Sangster who is vice-president, government relations, at TELUS

Am I Using LinkedIn Effectively & Efficiently?

I recently offered a short presentation to the SBCN Members and Guests at our meeting on Wednesday evening. After making it clear I am not one of those "experts" we keep hearing about and sharing that I too felt that LinkedIn was a mystery to me when I first started using it, I felt confident the tips I shared would be helpful. The one thing that none of us were sure about, but I did offer my thoughts was this:

Facebook is Like my Very Own Private Detective

I think Facebook is misunderstood in many ways. So many people think of all the negatives associated with using FB, to name a few (these are not my own thoughts but comments I have gathered from others):

 

    Too many people waste time on FB playing games
    Too many privacy issues on FB
    Not a serious platform to grow a business

 

Whether or not the above is true I adopt the attitude if it works for me I will continue to make use of this free service.

 

The Golden Formula Of Customer Service

Everything I know about customer service I learned on the job at McDonalds as a teenager. Hard to believe, but absolutely true! In this day of highly competitive cyber business, the firms that will come through will be those that give superior customer service. The value of a lifetime customer is immeasurable. So once you get a customer, how do you keep them? The answer is extraordinary customer service! Here are some of the secrets that have made McDonalds the succeeder it is today!

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