Lucky You! [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/14/lucky-you/ ]
There is a cool scene in the movie, “The Bourne Identity,” starring Matt Damon, in which a young woman is driving him along an escape route through the Alps. - [ Read more ]

How To Make Rejection Pay Off! [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/15/how-to-make-rejection-pay-off/ ]
I’m not in the writing or consulting or coaching or audio or video businesses.____I’m in the rejection business, and this is precisely what I need to acknowledge and to form my activities around. Granted, it’s an unusual viewpoint, but I believe it is more servicable, in the long run. - [ Read more ]

Catapult Your Business-How to Get Customers to Chase You Instead of the Other Way Around [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/16/catapult-your-business-how-to-get-customers-to-chase-you-instead-of-the-other-way-around/ ]
I was thinking about the statement:____The Small Business Administration tells us that 80% of all small businesses will not make it more than 2 years, and by 5 years 90% will have gone out of business. - [ Read more ]

Provide Exceptional Value - Grow Your Business [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/17/provide-exceptional-value-grow-your-business/ ]
The primary objective of a business is to get and keep customers. Growing a profitable business requires providing exemplary customer service and products or services of exceptional value. - [ Read more ]

Make Customers Come Back - Winning Customer Retention Strategies [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/18/make-customers-come-back-winning-customer-retention-strategies/ ]
Customer Retention marketing is a tactically-driven strategy to keep relationships with customers going and increase customer interest. This strategy relies on the study of customer behavior. Here are the basic tenets of a marketer that seeks to increase customer retention: - [ Read more ]

Give Up On The Dummies! [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/19/give-up-on-the-dummies/ ]
Face it.____There are people who will never get you.____You find them everywhere, from the stuck up high schooler who refused to date you because you had the wrong car, to the boss who wouldn’t give you a raise because he had never paid so much before, no matter how much more productive you were than your predecessors. - [ Read more ]

Childish Selling Techniques Upset Customers [ http://customers-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/20/childish-selling-techniques-upset-customers/ ]
Many Used Car Salesmen and Self-Proclaimed Marketing Consultants who have written 3 or more books on the subject believe that we should look towards children to teach us the art of negotiation or sales. Sure such talk makes and interesting and lively line of conversation, but it is rather pathetic to actually teach salesmen or negotiators to act like this. After all isn’t this what Iran is doing as it tries to negotiate the making of Atomic Bombs? - [ Read more ]

Fate and Freewill - Part III [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/ ]
Albert Einstein who was awarded Nobel Prize went to India during his journey to the orient. He met the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize for his monumental work Gitanjali.__Both are Nobel laureates. One was a ‘literary giant’. The other was a ’science genius’. - [ Read more ]

Fate and Freewill - Part III [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/category/discussion/ ]
Albert Einstein who was awarded Nobel Prize went to India during his journey to the orient. He met the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize for his monumental work Gitanjali.__Both are Nobel laureates. One was a ‘literary giant’. The other was a ’science genius’. - [ Read more ]

Discussion on Ethics of the MLM Sales Pitch [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/14/discussion-on-ethics-of-the-mlm-sales-pitch/ ]
Many people say that MLMs or Multi Level Marketing company sales pitches are phony and unethical, as they do not seem to relay all the truth up front. These techniques seem to do two things; one it sparks curiosity to learn more; and two it often makes people skeptical. It is the skeptical “what’s the catch” issue, which leads people to think fraud, scam or pyramid scheme. - [ Read more ]

Keeping Meetings Productive [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/15/keeping-meetings-productive/ ]
KEEPING MEETINGS PRODUCTIVE: Whether participants approve or disapprove of an idea, they shouldn’t be penalized or given a raise. If you start criticizing people who disapprove, then you’re only making your meetings less productive. Likewise, if you start handing out raises to everyone who agrees with you. This kind of behavior conditions participants to contributing only to win approval, rather than honestly contributing. Participants may focus more on developing ideas that meet approval, rather than generating their own creative ideas. To promote a free and creative sharing of ideas, the chairperson needs to exercise support of authority. Their role is to encourage participants to express their own ideas freely and fully. - [ Read more ]

Study Self-Analysis [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/16/study-self-analysis/ ]
Thus, the study self-analysis system would be very useful for students in order to continuously monitor their knowledge. Such self-analysis system would help students avoid fear and diffidence while preparing and passing exams. Moreover, self-analysis system would help students identify their weak points in study and timely eliminate them to succeed later. The study self-analysis system can include several parts depending on its goals to achieve at definite period of study. Thus, self-analysis could comprise exams imitation, writing notes, discussions and impartial assessment. - [ Read more ]

Taking Political Discussions Seriously [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/17/taking-political-discussions-seriously/ ]
Politics seems to be the hot topic of discussion these days, and many innocent conversations turn into screaming matches with neither party being able to get a word in edgewise. It is well known that the country is divided on many political topics, and people seem to feel stronger about certain issues than ever before. Many people engage in political discussions for the express purpose of changing another person’s mind, but often tempers flare and no one leaves the conversation having learned anything. There is a difference in taking a political discussion seriously and simply having a heated argument with someone. - [ Read more ]

Steps in Using the Critical Incident Technique [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/18/steps-in-using-the-critical-incident-technique/ ]
STEPS IN USING THE CRITICAL INCIDENT TECHNIQUE:____1) The incident. Read, review, or assume roles. Begin the investigation of the incident situation.____2) Fact-Finding. Collecting the details of the incident occurs in the small group discussions where the participants determine what they know about the situation and what else they need to know before making a decision. They decide what questions to ask the instructor.____3) The issue. When the groups have all the facts needed to decide the case, they should identify what they consider to be its central issues.____4) The Decision. Each trainee or group writes a decision on the incident and cites the central issues identified. The group members state how they would like to see the situation handled and why. Individuals or groups with varying responses to the same situation may be allowed to debate their rationale for the decision.____5) The Evaluation (the most important stage). In large groups the instructor guides the groups to focus on broader issues of the incident to analyze potential solutions to determine if the alternative courses of action will cause more trouble and to determine if the root causes are still present in the situation. Evaluate the exercise by centering on WHAT WAS LEARNED BY THE EXERCISE AS A DEMONSTRATION OF THE CRITICAL INCIDENT TECHNIQUE, not on who has the best decision to the incident itself. - [ Read more ]

Discussion on Timelines of Technologies [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/19/discussion-on-timelines-of-technologies/ ]
Running a Think Tank is not an easy job, as in such a group are many brilliant people who are all somewhat hard headed, even if they get together and a rather pleasant during meetings. One of the most common problems I am finding is that brilliance comes with baggage. - [ Read more ]

Los Angeles Times Gets Facts Wrong in Discussion about Supreme Court case, eBay v. MercExchange [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/20/los-angeles-times-gets-facts-wrong-in-discussion-about-supreme-court-case-ebay-v-mercexchange/ ]
In an editorial on the Supreme Court case eBay v. MercExchange, the Los Angeles Times [May 17, B12] stated:____[A]n appeals court [the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, “CAFC”] ruled that MercExchange was automatically entitled to an injunction against EBay. - [ Read more ]

Fate and Freewill - Part III [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/21/fate-and-freewill-part-iii/ ]
Albert Einstein who was awarded Nobel Prize went to India during his journey to the orient. He met the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize for his monumental work Gitanjali.__Both are Nobel laureates. One was a ‘literary giant’. The other was a ’science genius’. - [ Read more ]

Fate and Freewill - Part III [ http://discussion-blog.wittybuzz.com/ ]
Albert Einstein who was awarded Nobel Prize went to India during his journey to the orient. He met the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize for his monumental work Gitanjali.__Both are Nobel laureates. One was a ‘literary giant’. The other was a ’science genius’. - [ Read more ]

Is Football Really The ‘Beautiful Game’ Anymore Rules, Cheats And Money [ http://football-blog.wittybuzz.com/2008/08/ ]
Football is the game that we play on the fields and playgrounds at school, between the alleys and at the end of every street. It’s the game that gets more emotion out of the common man than almost any other subject I can think of. But the sport we see on our TV screens is becoming more and more … - [ Read more ]

Is Football Really The ‘Beautiful Game’ Anymore Rules, Cheats And Money [ http://football-blog.wittybuzz.com/category/football/ ]
Football is the game that we play on the fields and playgrounds at school, between the alleys and at the end of every street. It’s the game that gets more emotion out of the common man than almost any other subject I can think of. But the sport we see on our TV screens is becoming more and more … - [ Read more ]