Articles By Arvind Yadav

Time management is an old school paradigm. Energy management is the new way of the entrepreneurial activist. Energy management has nothing to do with trying to manage petroleum, coal, electricity, solar or wind power. Energy management is the foundational approach entrepreneurs must learn, understand and cultivate within themselves, their staff and their products and services. Entrepreneurs who do not embrace energy management will soon be, Going Out of Business. Time management has little to do with the challenges entrepreneurs face today. Time cannot be managed. People cannot be managed. Leaders lead. Managers manage. Leaders lead people. Managers manage things. Time is not a thing. People are not things. Time is not people. People are not time. Entrepreneurs who think they can manage people are in for a rude awakening! How does the hollow sound of, Going Out of Business, resonate? People are energy.

Are you creating a positive, professional impression when you email your co-workers and customers? Or, is Miss Manners shrieking in horror every time you hit the send button? Are you being efficient and effective when you send messages, or are you wasting time? To find out, take this fun quiz. 1. The tone of a professional email message should be: a. Conversational. b. Formal. c. Casual like the tone you use with friends. d. Yo dude Whassup Answer: A. You may be as casual as you like with friends, breaking all the grammar and punctuation rules you want. But, that isn’t true for communicating with clients and colleagues. Business correspondence should be professional. In email, professional translates into conversational not too casual and not too formal.

Every person who owns their own business knows that success is dependant on a consistent supply of customers. For Direct Marketing, MLM and other similar businesses, a consistent supply of quality leads is the lifeblood of their business. Without these leads, the business will wither and die on the vine before it even gets started. So, where do you get these elusive quality leads? When I started my home business, I was told very clearly that I needed to find a consistent supply of quality leads.