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What Ails You Just Might Be Your Calling!

Guest post by: Terri Levine

Article Overview: Pollyanna you might not be, but if you have upbeat traits and a hankering to help people, you have what it takes...

What Ails You Just Might Be Your Calling!

Do you ever find yourself overcome with a mysterious urge to pick people up, dust them off, and set them off on the yellow brick road to success... even if you don't know them?

Ever had to bite your tongue because some part of you desperately wanted to help someone, but decorum and a sense of "what will this perfect stranger think of me if I said that!?" holds you back? Ever fight this same, powerful urge when you come across somebody who is dithering, because he doesn't really know what he wants to do, and if he does, he's not doing anything about it?

Ever wonder why your view of the world is colored by a warm and cheerful, rosy hue, yet people around you are describing a dull, gray color? A Pollyanna you may not be, and you don't have to see the world through rose-colored glasses, but if you see the world as a place of opportunity, a positive place, and you notice what is good and right - you are different to people who see shadows where you see cloud shapes, or if they do see cloud shapes, they're looking at something like the grim reaper, and you're seeing butterflies.

Yes, some of us do believe life can be easy, uncomplicated and fun. We believe it, because we insist on living it! If you live it too, or want to live it and want others to live it, there could be more at play here than just your good nature.

Do you enjoy the company of people? Do you see them as unique individuals, yet part of a connected whole? Do you accept them without judgment? When everyone else talks about how rude and lazy Joe Bloggs is, do you see the wonderful potential he has and talk about how clever he is at making the most of his relaxation moments while the rest of the world grows stress ulcers? Wow! Have you got the symptoms!

What about how other people see you? Do you ever ask yourself, "What am I? Some kind of Dear Abby?" Do people, be they friends, family, or co-workers, come to you with their stories and ask for your advice, or just to cry on your shoulder and hope for your words of wisdom? Are you the keeper of their deep, dark secrets? Do people naturally confide in you? Do you enjoy that? Yes, maybe you do have a trusting face... but perhaps, it's something more... Do you enjoy chatting with people about their problems? Of course, maybe you are just nosy, but let's not discount the very real possibility that you are sincerely interested in other people and they sense that.

Perhaps you find talking to strangers an easy and fun thing to do. Maybe you have that golden knack of making people feel at ease - a pre-requisite for spilling the beans to you in the first place, wouldn't you say? And if showing care and consideration to somebody who is upset is second nature to you, of course, this might be the "nursing instinct" in you that never had the chance to bloom because your education veered off in the other direction, and again, it might not.

Perhaps you have a background in teaching or training? Perhaps you admire public speakers who motivate others to greatness! It certainly fits into the jigsaw puzzle, doesn't it? Speaking of puzzles... maybe you are one of those who can read between the lines of what is being said to you... you can really listen and hear more than just words. Yes, sounds like you have a great set of ears, but then again, great ears aren't everything - although they do look terrific with great earrings - but you are using more than ears to listen to these people.

Are you innovative and entrepreneurial, and do you enjoy sharing your knowledge with others and helping them? Do you enjoy finding new ways of doing things? Are you creative? Perhaps you are interested in doing something that will benefit society... these are all "signs", you know! There is a name for all these feelings... there is an answer why you may often feel

frustrated because you can't express the real you!

If most of these things remind you of yourself, I'm surprised you aren't a Coach already. What good is all your great advice, expert knowledge and know-how if you can't apply it to yourself? If your advice is good enough for other people, why don't you take it? You want to help people, you enjoy helping people... I bet you'd love to be paid for it... so what's stopping you?

If you are a great people person, who gets along well with all types of people from all walks of life, then you have a great gift, and those with such gifts who are benefiting individuals and businesses worldwide are known as personal and business coaches. Don't you feel better now, knowing that there is a word for your condition?

If you are interested to work on your own personal development, willing to walk your talk and be an exceptional role model to others, you have what it takes to be an exceptional Coach.

Add to these talents a desire to be your own Boss, work your own hours, choose your own clients, your own niche, etc., and what we have here is a professional Coach.

So, now you know what your condition is, perhaps you are wondering how to deal with it, or even when to deal with it. Or maybe you've just been laid off work, or maybe you are ready for a change of career, or maybe you just want to dabble in it after hours for pocket money. Maybe you just want to work from home for personal reasons. Or it could be that the idea of helping people the way you have been, from the comfort of your own home, being your own boss, AND getting paid for it is just incredibly attractive! (It is possible to help people who don't find that attractive - these are the same people who can't see your butterflies... of course, they'd have to hire a coach first!)

Well, why not consider becoming a certified Coach and remove that empty feeling you sometimes feel because you have these incredible gifts and the strong desire to use them to help the world and you just don't know how!

The world is full of possibilities... and this is just one of them.

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Re: What to avoid when cold calling? - At the time of Cold Calling we should avoid price increases for products and unavailability.
Re: How to develop sales contacts? - Everyone has the right idea here. Depending on your business, there are different techniques that you could use. For consultants and sales heavy businesses, there are three tactics that I have found especially useful in my business: 1. Attend Networking Events 2. Cold Calling 3. Referral Program 4. Affiliate Program (most successful) The affiliate program was successful for me, as I hooked up with a franchise consultant, and he gave multiple unit businesses that needed my credit card processing services. I highly suggest you hook up with a sales partner, and give him a cut of the monthly revenue.
Re: Direct Mail Postcards - Post cards would be really expensive to send from Japan...but one way to advertise that is not expensive from overseas is by Cold Calling using cheap VoIP equipment. I know Japan has a really good internet connection, so as long as you are willing to stay up late, it might be an option. I cold call from Thailand far, far away from any city using a CDMA wireless internet connection and have had pretty good results. I find tho, that cold calling works best for business 2 business (b2b), rather than b2c products. --matt
Re: Cold Calling - As long as people are out of jobs, you'll probably have a lot of people who say they want to work for straight commission, but if they don't get paid fairly quickly, they usually move on. We've run into that and went through about 500 people (whose resumes looked really good) until we found about 3 good resellers. People just don't want to work for anything. Or they do a good job getting the business but don't do the follow up necessary to make the sale......so they move on thinking they need money NOW. Our business requires all cold calling as well. It's really tough for people to perfect that but there are a lot of good books out there. On is Cold Calling Techniques, by Stephan Schiffman


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