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Are you embarrassed enough?

Updated November 2010

By Jim Connolly | August 28, 2009

No one likes to feel embarrassed, yet embarrassment can be a powerful motivator if you use it correctly.

Jim Rohn, (Tony Robbins’ former boss), tells a great story about how his life was transformed, after he was embarrassed. A little girl came to his door selling cookies for charity and Jim was too broke to buy any – so he lied to her.  The deep embarrassment he felt afterwards was a tipping point, which eventually saw him go on to develop a multi-million dollar fortune.

When I first set my business up, I had a client, who was always late paying me.  I found out later from one of her former employees that this was something she did with everyone; not for cash-flow reasons, her business was cash-rich, but because she actually enjoyed it!  I used to get really embarrassed having to call her office and ask for my payment each month; so I decided after 1 too many embarrassing conversations, to fire her as a client.

However, that embarrassing experience was what helped motivate me to create my massively successful marketing program; which for fifteen year now, has seen me help small and medium sized businesses from all over the world to make more sales and boost their profits.

If you are feeling embarrassed about any element of your business right now, use the power of that feeling to motivate you to do something positive about it.  If you can’t afford to fix what’s embarrassing you, then focus first on making more money.  Here are 34 marketing ideas you can use starting today, to help you quickly increase your sales and profits.

Oh, and here are another 10 great marketing tips I suggest you take a look at too.

Whatever you do, don’t just complain and then stay the same.

That kind of thinking will drive you nuts!

IMPORTANT: If you want to make more sales, boost your profits and grow an amazing business, this will help you!

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