Team Builder of the South

Get specific on what you expect from your business.

Are You Getting The Success You Want Out Of Your Business?

Author: Cookie Tuminello

"All my life I've wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should've been more specific." - Jane Wagner, Playwright Every business is started based on a dream. We get a great idea for a super product that will help thousands of people, or have a desire to share our knowledge with others so they’ll enjoy a better life. But the bigger question is, what do you really want out of your business? Let me explain. Do you simply want to be the manager – the head honcho of your company? Do you want to be the team leader who motivates others to create a successful business? What is the tangible end result you want to achieve as you go forward to create your empire? Like the quote above says, who is that ‘somebody’ and what do they desire? What does that elusive word ‘success’ actually mean to you? When I first started coaching, I just wanted to help people be successful. Right! That was about as clear as mud. It's no wonder it took me so long to get where I was going. And yes, I would whine because I didn't get what I wanted. Imagine that. Thank goodness, I have had excellent coaches and mentors who taught me that if you want to get somewhere in your life, you're going to have to get a lot more specific if you want to get there. You're going to have to start asking different questions than the ones you've been asking. Here's are some hard hitting questions for you to answer this week that will help you get specific about the direction you want your business or your career to take. You want to be content and have your business sales soar! Okay, what does that look and feel like? Does contentment involve more ME time or more fun? What do you need to do to see your bottom line prosper? Create new products or offerings? Get your action plan in place. Will your quest for success allow you to be in tune with your Core Values? If you're not sure what core values are, give me a call. I can help. What actions will you have to take to get there? Do you need to further your own education to get the results from your business that you desire? Remember this: you can’t be a perfectionist and do it all by yourself, or you won’t be around to enjoy your success. What kind of support would you need and from whom? Do you have the right people on your team, or do you need to source out some of the more complicated tasks to an expert? How committed are you to getting there? Are you just hoping that it will all work out or are you taking direct action and doing whatever it takes to reach your goals? Either you’re in this for the long haul or you might as well throw in the towel right now. Are you ready to put your money where your mouth is? You've got to be willing to do the work, and make no mistake about it, growing a successful business IS work! Walt Disney may have created Tinkerbell, but she certainly didn’t wave her magic wand and create his empire for him! Are you starting to get the picture? The road is not as hard or as long when you know where you are going and you get really specific. Try it and see what happens.

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About the Author:
Cookie Tuminello,‘THE Team Builder of the South,’ has been empowering CEO’s, managers, business owners, and team members and igniting productivity since 1999. To find out more about this sassy, savvy and successful coach, get her FREE Report “50 Ways To Go From Overwhelmed To Empowered” and receive FREE weekly success tips, visit www.cookietuminello.com

Brand strategy

A brand’s logo is possibly the most defining aspect of the brand itself. We have come to equate a single logo with an entire brand’s mission and purpose. Graphic designers call making logos “visual identity” projects, because they are essentially creating the identity of the brand and the people behind it. There are some obvious examples that are always circulating—Nike’s…

Top 5: Innovative Brand Logo Designs

Author: Sparxoo

A brand’s logo is possibly the most defining aspect of the brand itself. We have come to equate a single logo with an entire brand’s mission and purpose. Graphic designers call making logos “visual identity” projects, because they are essentially creating the identity of the brand and the people behind it. There are some obvious examples that are always circulating—Nike’s “Swoosh” can also represent a check mark for “Just Do It”—there are many others that deserve recognition. Another example is Google, known for their clever logo illustrations on holidays and important events in history. In this week’s top five, we’re exploring some of our favorite innovative and creative logos.

1. Big 10 Conference

The Big 10 conference has some of the most recognizable team names in college sports. It is no wonder that their logo is recognizable as well. At first, it may seem like your typical block lettering. Upon closer look, you can see the number 11 in between the “T,” to represent that there are actually 11 teams in the conference, despite its name. This technique uses the negative space to provide a bigger meaning.

2. Pepsi

Pepsi’s recent rebranding efforts have brought about mixed feelings from the public. With a 27 page in-depth report about the thought process behind the new logo, it still isn’t getting much praise. Still, there is one aspect that shouldn’t be overlooked—the sphere. If you study it closely among all the different Pepsi beverages, the sphere is actually different on each one. The reason? They’re supposed to be subtle hints at emoticons. Smiling and laughing, the spheres represent emotions, perhaps emotions that are meant to be evoked while drinking a Pepsi product? We’re not sure, but they still deserve some credit for such an innovative idea.

3. Heart Beats

This logo for a small music store packs three messages into one, while still remaining simple and easy of the eyes. The heart in the middle is formed by two music notes, which are also made to look like headphones. It conveys the company’s love of music in a very user-friendly way, something that many companies strive for but can’t quite match sometimes. The colors also go well together, with the eye-catching headphone graphic pulling you in at first glance.

4. Madrid Olympics 2016

The Madrid Olympic committee opened up a contest for logo design in 2007 and had the public vote on the final designs. The winning logo incorporates the colors of the well-known Olympic rings, but in an interesting twist. The hand, bursting with color, waves “Hello” or “Welcome” to Olympic visitors. It even has a name—“Corle.” The white cut-away on the bottom...

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Sparxoo is a business blog that inspires breakthrough by tomorrow’s leaders. We are a strategy consulting firm with a pulse on marketing, branding, and development.

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industrial

Airfoil Centrifugal Fans are used for a wide range of applications in many industries, hollow-bladed airfoil fans are designed, engineered and tested for use in airstreams where high efficiency and quiet operation are required. They are used extensively for continuous service at ambient and elevated temperatures in forced and induced draft applications in the metals, chemical, power generation, paper, rock products, glass, resource recovery, incineration and other industries throughout the worl

Centrifugal Fans vs Axial Fans

Author: Siouzanna Terlitskaia

Airfoil Centrifugal Fans are used for a wide range of applications in many industries, hollow-bladed airfoil fans are designed, engineered and tested for use in airstreams where high efficiency and quiet operation are required. They are used extensively for continuous service at ambient and elevated temperatures in forced and induced draft applications in the metals, chemical, power generation, paper, rock products, glass, resource recovery, incineration and other industries throughout the world.

Backward Curved Fans – Efficiencies nearly as high as the airfoil design. However, single-thickness metal blades prevent the possibility of dust particle buildup inside the blade. These fans can be built with long-lasting erosion-resistant liners. The robust design allows high tip-speed operation, and therefore this fan is often used in high-pressure applications. This design frequently offers the best compromise for long life and high efficiency.

Backward Inclined Fans – Simple flat blades, but backwardly inclined to match the velocity pattern of the air passing through the fan wheel, which results in high-efficiency operation. These fans are typically used in high-volume, relatively low-pressure, clean air applications.

Radial Blade Blowers – Flat blades oriented in a radial pattern. These rugged fans offer high pressure capability with average efficiency. They are often fitted with erosion-resistant liners to extend the rotor life. The housing design is compact to minimize the floor space requirement.

Forward-Curved Radial Tip Fans – This rugged design is used in high-volume flow rate applications when the pressure requirement is rather high and erosion resistance is necessary. It offers medium range efficiencies. A common application is the dirty side of a baghouse or precipitator. The design is more compact than airfoil, backward curved or backward inclined fans.

Paddle-Wheel Blowers – This is an open impeller design without shrouds. Although the efficiency is not high, this fan is well suited for applications with extremely high dust loading. It can even be offered with field-replaceable blade liners from ceramic tiles or tungsten-carbide. This fan may also be used in high-temperature applications.

Forward-Curve Fans – This “squirrel cage” impeller generates the highest volume flow rate (for a given tip speed) of all the centrifugal fans. Therefore, it is often the smallest physical package available. It is commonly used in high-temperature furnaces.

Industrial Exhausters – Relatively inexpensive, medium-duty, steeply inclined flat-bladed fan for exhausting gases, conveying chips, etc.

Pre-engineered Fans – are series of fans of varying blade shapes that are usually available in only standard sizes. Because they are pre-engineered these fans may be available with relatively short delivery times. Often, pre-engineered rotors with various blade shapes may be installed into a common housing. These are often available in a wide range of volume and pressure requirements to meet the needs of many applications.

Pressure Blowers – High-pressure, low-volume blowers used in combustion air applications in furnaces or to provide “blow-off” air for clearing and/or drying applications.

Surgeless Blowers – High-pressure, low-volume blowers with a reduced tendency for “surging” even at severely reduced flowrates. This allows extreme turndown (low-flow) without significant pulsation.

The main types of Axial Flow Fans include:

High-Temperature Axial Fans – High-volume fans designed to operate against low flow resistance in industrial convection furnaces. These are found in either single-direction or bi-directional designs. Extremely rugged, they are most often used in high-temperature furnace (up to 1800 degF) applications.

Tube Axial Fans – Cataloged high-volume low-pressure fan line with a wide range of available sizes. Suitable for temperatures up to 250 degF.

Vaneaxial Fans – Axial flow fans with higher pressure capability due to the presence of static vanes.

Variable Pitch Axial fans – Axial fans with manually adjustable blade angles. This allows operation over a much wider range of volume/pressure relationships. The blades are adjusted periodically to optimize efficiency by matching the blade pitch to the varying conditions for the application. (Often used in mining applications).

Variable Pitch on-the-fly Axial Fans – These are similar to “Variable Pitch Axial Fans” except these include an internal mechanism that allows the blade pitch to be adjusted while the fan rotor is in motion. These versatile fans offer high-efficiency operation at many different points of operation.

Variable Speed Fans – All of the fans described above can be used in conjunction with a variable speed driver. This might be an adjustable frequency AC controller, a DC motor and drive, a steam turbine driver, etc. Flow control by means of variable speed is typically smoother and more efficient than by means of damper control. Significant power savings (with reduced cost of operation) are possible if variable speed fan drives are used for applications that require reduced flow operation for a significant portion of the system operating life.

For additional information please refer to http://www.canadablower.com/blowers/index.html.

Susan Terlitski
Designer of Industrial Process Ventilation Equipment
Canada Blower
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About the Author:

Canadian air-handling systems designer.

Mrs. Siouzanna Terlitskaia, nis-co@nis-co.com
Canadian Air Systems
http://nis-co.com

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seth godin

Seth Godin explores the concept of tribes, how they are growing and becoming a major player in the market, and the need for leaders who can help the tribe strengthen. Find out how, as a sponsor, you are the leader of a tribe--your business team.

Lead Your Tribe. Key Points from the book, Tribes, We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin

Author: Yolanda

I just finished reading the book Tribes, by Seth Godin. I found this book fascinating. It’s about how groups form into tribes and how tribes are leading the changes that are happening in our world. It’s also about the need for leaders to help tribes strengthen. (I purposely did not use the word grow, because size doesn’t necessarily mean better or stronger).

A tribe is a group of people who stand together on a common issue or belief. The difference between a tribe and a crowd is that a tribe has leadership and a means for communicating.

Seth spends quite a bit of time talking about tribe leadership. The beauty of tribe leadership is that it can be shared. Sometimes one person has the lead, the next time someone else has leadership. It’s kind of like people within an organization who are not the officially designated leaders, but are because they have the respect and dedication of their colleagues.

The concept of tribes applies to the team you build as prospects join your business. You are their leader. Something about you attracted them to you. As their leader, your role is to guide them, direct them, and encourage them to become leaders in their own right. After all, they’re creating their own tribe as people join under them.

When you first have a few people in tribe, it’s easy to keep in contact with them. But once your team gets bigger, you need to find other way of communicating. Options include emails, teleconferences, or webinars. You can use these to inform, train, exchange ideas, and discuss issues and problems.

Here are some points about tribes that are important to consider as you’re building your team--your tribe:

- Tribes challenge the status quo. Building a business is going against the status quo of getting a good education, getting a good job, and living happily ever after. The status quo will resist and oppose you and your team. The tribe is your support.

- Tribes are global. An online business is global. The Internet made the world local. You can reach people from all over the world.

- Tribes have belief and faith. Building an online business takes belief and faith. You have to believe in the business, believe that you can build it, believe that others can build it, and have the faith to take action on those beliefs.

- Tribes are a niche; they have a common belief, interest, or cause. Your target market is your niche. Understand their interests and needs. Show how your business can support their interests and meet their needs. Tailor your internet marketing to your niche.

- Tribes are about connection. People joined you in business because you attracted them (connected with them at some level).

I highly recommend you read this book. It will help you see your team with a different set of eyes. You’ll better understand how to cultivate and strengthen your tribe and will reap the reward by seeing your business grow.

When Seth wrote his book, he invited people to write an ebook about tribes. It’s free. You can get it here: http://budurl.com/TribeEbook

Happy Business Building,

Yoli

About the Author:

Yolanda Allen is a retired Air Force officer and online business owner. Read more from Yolanda at her blog, http://OnlineBusinessPlankOwner. You can learn more about Yolanda’s online business from her business partner, Michael, a top producer, at http://www.HearFromMichael.com/?t=abtr. Enter your name and email address to get a complimentary business overview. Find out if this is the business that can help you earn the income you need to design the lifestyle you want.

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UK business directory

There is so much unspoken promise that swirls around the idea of starting a small business in the UK. The reality, however, is that in order to join the ranks of those who have successfully taken then step from worker to business owner is more than the dreamy-eyed picture that you can imagine over a lunch meeting.

Starting a UK Small Business

Author: Gen Wright
There is so much unspoken promise that swirls around the idea of starting a small business in the UK. The reality, however, is that in order to join the ranks of those who have successfully taken then step from worker to business owner is more than the dreamy-eyed picture that you can imagine over a lunch meeting. This means that your consideration to start a small business requires an investment that is designed to last some time.

You have had the idea in your head for awhile and you believe it would be a valuable service or good to provide to people. When you are ready to eat, sleep, drink and live the plan, it's time to start taking the necessary steps to move your idea from concept to fruition. It is easier than it has ever been to explore your small business idea but it does not mean the idea is right for the people. Do the research. It is the first and most important step.

How many people are already providing the goods or services you want your small business to offer? Is the market already saturated in the area where you want to open up shop? These are some of the questions you must answer before any money leaves your hand to start the setup process of a small business. You need to know the neighbor and community at large where you want the business to be located. Is there growth potential for a larger establishment if you outgrow the one you've set your sites on? Is there another location to consider if the one you have your eye on is not right for your small business?

Even before you set out to have a sit down with a mentor, you can start this important research on your own time. Make a list of the reasons you want to have your own small business. Chances are you are thinking of the great profits it will make and the freedom you will have to make your own decisions about how the business goes. With such freedom and profitable potential however, there is the greatest responsibility attached.

At the onset, starting and setting up a small business may provide very little freedom in the way of personal time. There are many strings attached to the setup process and there is only a support system if you set this system up at the very start. Decisions to be made will abound and they will all rest on your shoulders. For some this may be truly liberating and for others it may be very frightening. Proper planning and research is like the comfort of a shoulder to lean on or a hand to hold as you take these life changing steps towards small business ownership.

On the list, incorporate the pros and cons of starting a small business. If there are more disadvantages to the idea, seek to revise the idea to balance the scale in favor of positive advantages to starting your own small business. Anyone can open up a store front business with a few pounds, but to achieve success over the long run as a small business owner takes savvy and know how.About the Author:

The Best of United Kingdom website is your one-stop resource for business directory information. This is the premiere UK business directory you

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clickbank

If you have ever wondered how to make money on the very popular digital marketplace known as Clickbank, then you have found the source. My goal is to get you making some money and then having you brag to your friends.

Get Started Making Money With Clickbank

Author: Maria Fairham

If you have ever wondered how to make money on the very popular digital marketplace known as Clickbank, then you have found the source. My goal is to get you making some money and then having you brag to your friends.

Clickbank is the largest online marketplace for digital products, most notably, e-books and electronic services such as web hosting and web design. There are "Publishers" and "Affiliates." Publishers are the people that have a product to sell and have created a sales page to promote and sell this product. Affiliates are people who promote a publishers product with their own website or blog etc. Affiliates, in return for their hard work, get a percentage of the sale, also known as commission.

Signing up at Clickbank as an affiliate is free and takes just a few minutes. Publishers have to pay a fee to be allowed to sell their product, but that's another article. We are going to focus on affiliate marketing. To get started sign up for free at Clickbank under the affiliates tab and within minutes you'll be done and ready to go. You may want to create a separate e-mail address (Yahoo Mail or Gmail) to handle your online business to keep things simple. Once you have signed up at Clickbank, open up another window in your browser and go to any blogging site (Blogger, Word press etc.) and sign up for free there as well. Go back to the Clickbank window and look in the upper right-hand corner and you will see "Marketplace," click to go to the marketplace and you will see different categories and sub-categories. The key here is to find a product that you are interested in and that you would consider buying.

An example would be, I am interested in aquariums and tropical fish. I would then browse through the Clickbank marketplace and find an e-book provided by a publisher about aquariums and tropical fish. Under each publishers product, there is a link that says "Create Hoplink." Once clicked it will then ask for your nickname (which you would have filled out while signing up for Clickbank) after entering your nickname and continuing on, you will then be provided a "hoplink." Copy the hoplink and then go back to the blogger window.

In blogger, create a new blog with the name similar to the product you are promoting. A tropical fish e-book product could be called "supersawesometropicalfish." Once created, write in your blog as much as you know about the product your promoting. You can gather information about it with articles and other web pages or books. Just make sure that it is your own writing. Copying other people work will only lead to trouble. Include the link from Clickbank in your blog and Viola!! You now have a published blog promoting a product that can generate income. There is no limit how many different blogs and products you can promote. Once you are done celebrating, you need to start thinking about how you are going to get people to view this blog. The more people that view this blog, the more sales you are likely to generate.

The option that I have found effective is article marketing, EzineArticles is a great source to write articles about what product you are promoting. I do want to stress that you can't write a huge sales pitch and expect a lot of views. You need to actually produce quality content that make people want to continue on to your blog (which you can promote in the "resources" box.) Other options on promote your blog is through You Tube, MySpace, Facebook, Free Advertising Online and finally your very own website. The great thing about articles is that people can publish them on their pages or blogs and you get even more exposure.

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