Like Nobody's Business

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Still messing up your marketing? Listen in as Senior Business Coach, Lalita Amos of Total Team Solutions, continues her on-going discussion with Leighton Haynes of Twin Phoenix Marketing on ways to thwart Marketing's 4th Deadly Sin. For more information on this and other podcasts, please visit www.totalteamsolutions.com.

How workplace bullying can cost your company time, money, energy, resources and company morale. With host, Lalita Amos, Senior Business Coach with Total Team Solutions. For a transcript of this or other podcasts, see the Whitepapers section of the www.totalteamsolutions.com website.

As if the first 2 sins weren't deadly enough, Leighton Haynes is back to share more common things we can do to mess up our marketing! Visit www.totalteamsolutions.com for more info and read my newsletter (humor me!)

You are the proud owner of a business....until you think about taking a vacation, and then it feels like the business owns YOU! Senior Business Coach, Lalita Amos, discusses how to get away...when you feel you can't get away.

Customers. They're the source of life for companies and fuel our economic engines. But, they're also getting increasingly, um, grumpy. Given the fact that everyone with a business card says they differentiate themselves with excellent customer service, what's behind the dramatic increase in customer rage?

You thought you were just being productive...when you checked your email...in your pajamas...before you brushed your teeth. Is this productivity tool causing just the opposite effect?

What are the new rules for owning a business? Business and Executive Coach, Lalita Amos, discusses what it takes to have a profitable business that you enjoy -- rather than one you just survive. Brought to you by www.totalteamsolutions.com

You start you week with a host of good intentions and end your week...who are you kidding? Your week never seems to end. Listen for common places where you may be "leaking time."

One out of nine. When told to change or your business will die, that's about how many will do what it takes to stave off the Reaper. Do you have it in you to transform your business if you're up against the wall? Check www.totalteamsolutions.com for a whitepaper on this and other topics.

Lalita Amos continues her interview with Leighton Haynes of Twin Phoenix Marketing, about the 7 key things we can do to mess up our marketing.

You think you're aa contracted professional, but what gives? Your client tells you when to come in (to work), how many hours you can work, that you have to come to staff meetings. Sounds amazingly like a (gasp) JOB! This podcast is for two audiences: the contractor who needs to re-train a client and the company, wanting to bring in a contractor. Learn how to keep out of tax and other trouble when engaging independent professionals.

In this episode of Total Team Solutions' "Like Nobody's Business" series, host Lalita Amos interviews Leighton Haynes about the 7 top things business owners can do to mess up their marketing. Leighton's a former brand manager for Dunkin Donuts and Proctor and Gamble and is the Managing Director of Twin Phoenix Marketing, a Washington, D.C. marketing and branding concern. This is part 1 of a 7-part series. Want more? Check out www.totalteamsolutions.com for articles, webinars, books and other useful offerings. Be sure to sound off on the blog.