Why the Heck Did You Dispute that Credit Card Charge?

After noticing a discrepancy in my credit card batch total, I called my credit card merchant and was informed that one of my customers who had placed a $500 order for mugs disputed the credit card charge! Distributors, has this ever happened to you?

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Two Ways To Find Your ‘Why’

Do you know your “why?” Why are you doing what you are doing? Please don’t tell me to make money. Money is a result of what you are doing. It is not the why. Your “why” is your purpose. When you find your purpose and live it, you discover meaning and you get to do what you love. When you do what you love, you never have to work a day in your life.

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Volunteerism, Work and Mixing the Two: A Distributor Shares Her Story

Jane Nelson-Halverson, owner of Dakota Promotions & Printing, describes her experiences volunteering for an abused adult resource center, which she also does some promotional work for. She details the services the center provides, as well as how she handles selling promotional products to an organization she also volunteers at.

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5 Problems You Can Solve

Here’s the deal: Problem solvers always make money! No matter what the industry. No matter what the economy is doing. No matter what. If you can get out of the product-selling business and into the problem-solving business, you will always be in demand and you will always be able to make money. Here are five problems that you can solve.

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My Path to Millions Can be Yours Too

If you’re a business owner in this industry maybe you can relate to this. You have to wear so many hats and do so many different things that don’t make you money. These tasks only make you crazy and exhausted.

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6 Clients You Need to Fire Now!

Many of us hold the mistaken belief that the more clients we have the more money we make. That is a myth that does not serve us well. My first great breakthrough on my quest to become a multimillion dollar producer was that to get to the next level, I needed to fire the deadwood out of my client list.

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Harvard Business Review’s “7 Rules for Managing Creative People” – A Rebuttal

The Harvard Business review recently published a blog titled “7 Rules for Managing Creative People.” Sound interesting? Well too bad, because the article’s actually terrible, and here’s why!

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