Growing up in NYC was normal for me at one time. My brother and sister-in-law were both doctors who must have been inspired by the old "Quincy" shows because they both ended up doing autopsies at St. Vincents hospital in Manhattan. After several years doing this, my brother began a job with the FDA and he now works in China 50% of the year regulating their medicines. My sister-in-law started working for the FBI doing forensic work in their Long Island NY office. My husband was a NYC Firefighter and that inspired me to become one as well. One big problem... there was not any women allowed in the FDNY. We ended up getting a group of women together, fought for our right to be on the department, and we ended up being in the first group of NYC Women Firefighters sworn in. I retired years ago due to a knee injury, and the City did take care of me.

Now we come to my sister and brother-in-law. My brother-in-law was a high school teacher in Brooklyn teaching History and my sister was an English Major in another Brooklyn high school. My sister ended up taking a job with Kingborough Community College as a Vice Principal. The reason I am talking about this is because I want to mention the importance of education and additional learning. Of course, when we were younger, my sister always pushed the education field/career, not just because it was her job, but because she knew and believed that a person with a better education and more information will most likely make better decisions in life and business. I strongly agree with her now. There are so many people in our industry that are "winging it", and are not properly educated and trained in their field. Sometimes people who claim to be professionals can hurt a client if they are careful. We all get a bad name from situations like these. There are many business workshops available throughout the year in  the Asheville area that can greatly benefit you and your business. Education and Information is the key! Take that extra class, buy that book, go on that weekend retreat with your company... and come back with a master plan! You and your company can only go as far as YOU are willing. If you are not educated in the options available (business maps), you will never get to where you were supposed to go.

 

***Free Lesson!!! Just a quick note for those of you who do not understand the power of "Reciprocal Links" on your website. By reciprocal, I mean that your link is on one site - and that sites link is on your site. When people do this in industry related businesses, it improves your effectiveness on all of the search engines. By staying in your own world and not linking to anyone, you exclude yourself from many possibilites. By putting another companies link on your website, you are not giving "free advertising"; you are actually networking and reaffirming each other which proves big on Google and many others. Search engines think more like the human mind every day... and that is their goal. They try read our habits and then lay out exactly what we are looking for. Network and change your old business strategy. Times have changed. Things that used to work and sell are not working anymore. Buyers habits are changing daily and we need to follow them. If you are looking for a really good book about the inevitable changes happening in business today, read "The Starfish and The Spider". It may save your career or business and at least help you adjust to this new business age. Tom UFPI gave the book to Gary AFB the other day and he can't stop talking about it. The power of networking is rea!

For those of you who have already linked to our site, I want to thank you for getting this completed. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns; please hit "reply" and let me know. Thanks.   

 

Sincerely,