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My first Kindle eBook, How Relationship Selling Rewards Small Businesses, went live on April 24, 2012. https://amzn.to/2BaP2AH I've lived a lifetime of service and spiritual search so it's natural for me to incorporate these attitudes into my work. I believe that selling and marketing are spiritual service when done with a heart-centered, relationship selling approach. All of business success comes down to building strong relationships.

Jun 13

Do You Really Need to Use Checklists in Your Small Business?

By John Aberle | Small Business Productivity Tips

Have you ever wondered do you really need to use checklists in your small business? The answer to that is, it depends. Just how important is it that everything is done right? What will it cost you to miss a step or forget something? Although manufacturers wanting global business with major corporations use checklists as part of their quality movement, checklists are useful to small businesses too. John R. Aberle’s Jing video presents Small Business Productivity Tips on uses for checklists in your small business.

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Apr 25

Finally Available, How Relationship Selling Rewards Small Businesses eBook

By John Aberle | Heart Centered Sales and Marketing

Mary Ann Black and her husband Chet want to grow their business. Naturally sales training sounded like a good idea. The problem was they never felt comfortable with all the emphasis on telling, controlling, and closing, closing, closing. So they ignored the training and just relied on building relationships. Then they discovered that there is a way to train sales reps to do business like they have for eight years. It’s called relationship selling and it’s all about heart centered selling.

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Mar 21

Small Business Productivity Tips: SnagIt

By John Aberle | Small Business Productivity Tips

As small business owners of a manufacturing company that makes specialty plastics for heavy equipment manufacturers, Tim and Joan Piper are always confronted with the need to find ways to save time, to be more productive. They discovered that small business productivity tips, while normal productivity tips amount to a few minutes per day, a screen capture tool is a very different. There are things that only a tool like SnagIt can do for you.

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Mar 09

Small Business Productivity Tips: Notepad

By John Aberle | Small Business Productivity Tips

Small Business Productivity Tips are meant to give you little tools and actions that can improve your productivity in a real, though usually minor way. This week’s video is about using Notepad, which is easy to ignore when compared to Microsoft Word or any of the word processors available with much more functionality. Never the less, Notepad can become a hero if it saves you from causing WordPress to crash or saves you from some other crisis caused by inserting lines of code into WordPress or Facebook.

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Feb 29

Small Business Productivity Tips: OneNote

By John Aberle | Small Business Productivity Tips

As a small business owner or manager, you and your staff have a challenging time getting everything done that you need to do in a day. Every little tool that shaves time off your schedule and enables you to be more productive is reason to celebrate.

This second video in Small Business Productivity Tips Series shows ideas for using Microsoft OneNote. It makes it so easy to jot down ideas as they come to you and to grab images and content from the Internet when doing research.

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Feb 03

Strategy for a Small Business Marketing Campaign

By John Aberle | Small Business Management

One of the services and functions of Aberle Enterprises is to be a clearinghouse for information that can benefit small businesses enabling them to build profits through strong relationships. The following article, How small business can exploit Groupon, is one such article that can help your business with some very important insights, especially on developing a strategy for your small business marketing campaign.

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Jan 27

How Relationship Selling Builds Stronger Customer Relationships

By John Aberle | Relationship Selling

Tim Piper has over ten years in his own small business, where he is the one responsible for running sales and marketing. Recently Tim put the pressure on himself to increase his sales 30% in a flat economy. In the past, while he naturally built relationships, he felt something was missing in his skills. Now, with a tough sales goal, all of his sales and marketing efforts must kick it up a notch. At this time, he wants to move from unconsciously using relationship selling to mastering the skills and applying them consistently.

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Jan 26

How to Learn about Email Marketing for Your Small Business

By John Aberle | Small Business Management

Email marketing will enable Tim Piper, a small business owner, to stay in the forefront of his customers’ minds while also building his credibility as an expert with prospects. The problem is how to learn about email marketing with his busy schedule. MailChimp, one of the leading email hosting companies, offers excellent lessons to anyone wanting to go to their site. Best of all, when you download one of MailChimp’s Guides, you will get it in three formats: Kindle Content, Adobe Acrobat Document and EPUB File.

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