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Mind Their Business

"Mind your business" are words you hear from a well-meaning parent,
the kindergarten teacher or a disgruntled associate. You can almost sense the "or else."

To challenge this advice, a well-known safety net, would seem absurd.

But what if when you mind their business" you do not simply meddle in private matters but you become concerned about the plight of local business owners?
A developed sense of awareness could lead you to supply a missing resource.

However, why should you take care of a business in your neighborhood ? Who wins?
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Let's see:
Take the concern for one needy local farmer and the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) trend.
Membership dues from your food-purchasing club provide a farmer the benefit of ready overhead funds for seeds and equipment .
A decrease in delivery distance brings less pollution to your community and fresher goods to your table.
In this situation, everyone wins.

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Would you like to support a local farmer or business owner in your neighborhood?
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The following brief describes why I am concerned about other people's business:
I achieve a sense of satisfaction each time that I mind the business of a needy farmer or other business owner. I help Kiva lift entrepreneurs out of poverty by providing the small loans they need to start a business.You can help others succeed in business too, for free, by building a lens on Squidoo!

 

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The Greatest Salesman in the World" by Og Mandino

Hafid, a young camel boy has intentions to become a salesman. He fails his first assignment.
He's unsuccessful in selling a precious robe after several days. Instead he gives it to a cold, shivering child. He returns to his mentor Pathos, without money or a business deal.

Yet, mysteriously, he receives a reward for his thoughtfulness.
A star appears in the sky. The needy child had been a very special child.
Soon after, Hafid receives a rare manual from his dying mentor, Pathos.

Although he's on his death-bed, Pathos minds Hafid's business.
This mentor is concerned about the young man's intention to become a successful salesman.

Hafid recognizes the value of this unusual gift,
The ten scrolls of selling" becomes the guide that helps the amateur salesman.
He seizes the opportunity to increase his awareness by following the directions inside each scroll, every day.
Hafid begins to believe in himself and in the work that he's doing.

After the completion of this exercise, he becomes the greatest salesman in the world.
Hafid wins in a roundabout fashion from minding the business of a needy child.

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Mind Their Business by Giving Support

There are books that demonstrate that it's a great idea to mind their business.

"Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business and Life Without Waging War " by Dawna Stone
is the author's personal guide to business success.
Stone feels that being being nice and respectful to others is important and beneficial.

In addition, being concerned and helping others to succeed has unexpected results.
In these instances it is the nice person who finishes first, like the individual who enables
the success of a promising entrepreneur, for example.

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If the protégé succeeds, you, the mentor or cheerleader, also win.


This local business owner has acquired a new skill that will increase his social network,
add new customers and raise his earning potential by more than thirty percent.

As you repeat the process of supporting local business, you develop a great reputation
and potential career growth.
Other business owners will flock to you, to seek your professional advice.

Mind their business. Taking care of a local business owner by offering support can lead you to win in your business!

A Mind-Their-Business Suggested Reading List:
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    Winning Nice (Hardcover) by Dawna Stone

    The It Factor by Mark Wiskup

    Make Your Contacts Count by Anne Baber

Mind Their Business by Providing Resources and Opportunities

Taking Care of Business with Resources and Opportunities

It is in our best interest that our communities remain stable.
Local Business Success in our neighborhoods is key and ensures that
we are provided with the best quality of goods and services.
Business needs customers; Business needs to survive.

This lens provides two Helpful Resources for the local business owner:
  • Retail Bucks that increases the customer base and business volume.
  • Big Ticket-Big Value Depots, a business opportunity that serves as
    a business safety-net...

    • The Retail Bucks Customer Rewards Program
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    Use ID # 42769 to create your free trial.

    Here's why local businesses log in to Retail Bucks:
  • The free trial offer of the customer rewards system
  • The opportunity for customers to enroll, use the program and receive rewards
  • To increase the number of customers as shoppers refer others to Retail Bucks
  • Overall, increased customer satisfaction
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    Register for a free Orange Leads Account, without delay.

    • The Big Ticket-Big Value Depots $75 Per Affiliate Signup
    Sell your merchandise. Cash in.as you liquidate your Small Collectibles,
    Large RVs, Autos, Private and Commercial Real Estate.

    Provide a local business with a safety net.
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    Mind their business. Become a Broker, help them to liquidate and win.

    You earn a commission when Clients request assistance in selling their items.

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    Join the masses in the easiest, most affordable way to list merchandise for sale.
    Their items are not lost in a sea of other items.
    An enormous team of committed distributors mind other business by helping them
    to liquidate and to cash in.

    Give us the opportunity to help you to sell your new or used items.
    Test-run this system.
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    Squidoo Lensmasters, this is it. A reference directory that minds our business.
    You've chosen the right setting; Your lens will be in good company.
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    A fine listing service that directs each reader to an array of well-written perspectives.





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    The Benefit of Minding Their Business

    Business-to-Business Support

    Local Business flourishes when merchants take care of each other.


    Here are the suggestions that were offered in this lens for you, the local business owner:

  • Purchase your fellow merchant's products, by adopting the Community Supported Agriculture pattern.
  • Offer your services as a mentor or a micro-lender.

  • Provide a business tool to increase that merchant's business volume.

  • Supply a safety net for that business, if possible.

    • The main goal of this article is to promote business-to-business support.
    The entrepreneur who takes care of his neighbor's business, to the extent of supplying a missing resource, will get the support to win, in the end.

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