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Whether you're an artist, a writer, an online business owner or somewhere in between your efforts likely require a healthy mix of creative thinking. In fact creativity and innovation are crucial for business success or to excel in most any other type vocation.

Realizing the important role creativity plays in your professional efforts it is vital to maintain a continual flow of fresh new creative ideas. Unfortunately we all experience times when this flow slows to a trickle and sometimes even stops. Coming up with even a single creative idea seems to be an insurmountable challenge. What do you do when this happens?

In order to 'recharge' your mind and get those innovative thoughts flowing again a change of venue is usually a good first step.

Often small startup entrepreneurs are dreamers and innovators in their own right. Thus, they will continue to try to run the company even after they set in place a management team that is highly skilled and is running the company purely for profit. These entrepreneurial innovators and dreamers are often more focused on coming up with really cool features that they might like to have. The only problem is that each new feature in their product line may not transfer itself to greater profits for the company.

They say:“I am going to try to sell it myself.”

You say:“I am just curious, how do you plan on marketing your home?” “representing the buyer?” “responding to buyer leads?” “being available for buyer showings?” (seller response) “If you had a proven plan for selling your home at top market value, would you be interested in using it?”

They say:“I am not going to give my house away.”

You say:“Good! I prefer to work with sellers who believe in the market facts and are willing to negotiate from a position of equity and strength. When would you have time to get together?”

They say:“It is not a good time to sell.”

“Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time, you haven't.”
Peter Drucker, Management Guru
1909 – 2005

Assessing For Success: Exposing the Misinformation about Assessments

Assessment: To determine the rate or amount of; to make an official valuation of for the purposes of judgment; to determine the importance, size, or value of something or someone.

Why do most professionals get the assessment process wrong?

In a recent presentation to a group of coaching professionals, we confirmed that many of CRG's concerns with how, where, why, what, and when assessments are deployed are serious and legitimate.

It appears that many professionals in the career, HR, training, and coaching fields have just enough information about assessments to be dangerous — but not enough to be knowledgeable.

Need to pay the bills until you sell that script? Studying for your next career move and need some extra money. Or laid off and still looking but your mortgage is looking to get paid. You need a survival job.

In Los Angeles survival jobs are common nature for many people especially those in the entertainment industry. The joke is that every waiter has a script or a headshot in his/her back pocket ready for his/her break.

But survival doesn't have to mean food service. What is the secret? Here are ten tips to help you survive.

1. Make as muchas possible from doing as little as possible.
Harness your expertise to become a consultant. Work as a waiter but in a high-end restaurant with big tips.

Has anyone else had it with the woe is I economic reporting?

Yes, I understand that the world economic situation is precarious.
Yes, I understand there is much higher unemployment in the United States right now than in the recent past.
Yes, I understand that the Obama administration has chosen a series of actions designed to change it.

But what are you doing? What am I doing? What are we doing personally to change the economy?

The AA definition of insanity is doing the same thing in the same way over and over again and expecting a different result. Is that what were doing? To some extent, yes, I think we are.

Do you, like many entrepreneurs, get caught up too easily in all the “latest and greatest” marketing tactics… but somehow fail to get the results promised? Keep reading to find out how to stay focused on what works!

It seems the very things that make you a successful entrepreneur " creativity, willingness to try new things, etc " are sometimes the very things that keep you from achieving all that you want.

This is especially true in an age when new marketing tactics are springing up faster than you can say Pop goes the weasel!”

Pay-per-click, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, WordPress, Blogging, Vloggging, Podcasting, Squeeze Pages, Opt-in Forms, Slide-Ins, Hover Pops " the list of new marketing tactics is growing at an ever-faster pace.