-- One attribute I do have is the ability to stand and hold my own in a conversation - and there has been many a time when I have taken the lead and mildly nudged or steered the conversation 'my way.' --
You may have noticed this?

-- I give the conversation Direction.

-- On the one hand, I keep my mouth shut and listen to what is being spoken. I find that I learn more from listening than from talking. -- I know what I would say and I want to learn about the other speaker, and to do that, I have to be attentive.-- This makes who I am listening to, to think that they're smarter than I am because I listen to them.-- And don't you feel smarter when you're talking and your listener is listening, attentively? Sure you do.

-- Have you observed that teachers in the classroom are asking leading questions? They prove to you that you are smart (or dumb) by asking you your opinion, -- "What do you think about..?"

-- By doing that, the teacher brings out the entire classroom: 1. Finds the smarter students to give the higher grades. 2. Makes sure that the homework is worked upon. 3. Re-emphasizes the important details. 4. Even the wrong answers will bring out the correct answers. 5. It drums in the knowledge.

-- Hold it -- Stop!! --> What is being gained from what was just stated?: Simply this, "That nothing will ever be sold until a good Salesman [teacher] sells it." The teacher masters this art -- this skill of selling when drawing out the main points. -- Some are born with it; most have been trained by selling experts.

-- YOU are our "Salesman" example.

-- Call it 'Marketing' and it still boils down to one-on-one selling. Especially when YOU introduce a new concept, new idea, new anything. -- YOU --

-- [Trade Secret: Feed your listener bits of information. Let them digest it. Let them comment. Tell them a little more. Let them comment. They'll get off the subject. Steer them back. Bring them back. Nod your head up-and-down positively. Notice them agreeing. Stop selling. Write-up the sale. Add positive features. Make listener feel good about what they did.]

-- Remember this: Sell Yourself, Sell Your Product, and Sell Your Company or Organization.

-- Because, if done in that order, YOU have the ability to go on. By that I mean, you can always find another product to sell. You can always find another company or manufacturer to sell it from. You can (like a jugler) take on more products and more companies. You can convince others to sell for you. You can copy the salesmen and companies that are the leaders. You can do more today within the electronic medium than ever before, and what you don't know, find out about it. You will find that the experts are willing to share and tell you HOW THEY DID IT.

-- Learn about "The Six-Degrees of Separation."

-- Psychologist, Stanley Milgram, over thirty years ago began an experiment to uncover the connection in our personal network of friends and acquaintances. It reveled that we each have three-hundred acquaintances of which we are on a first name terms. That suggests we're just one handshake from three-hundred people, two away from 90,000, three from 27 million and so on.

-- Viewed this way, it only takes as many as five or six handshakes to connect every American to every other. -- An average of four would connect up to 250,000,000. -- Everyone on Planet Earth is separated from everyone else by no more than six degrees of separation, or six friends of friends. :-) IT'S WHO YOU KNOW AS WELL AS WHAT YOU KNOW.

-- "Be sure" by networking with and through the IASL. - We'll shake on that. ;-)

-- "Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not." -- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

-- -- "Inventions - Invention Showcase -- New Inventions - Patent Showcase" -- --

Go ahead, if you must, re-invent the wheel. -- :-( --->

-- First, do your research. You'll find that whatever you find that is close to your idea will inspire you to make a better one.

-- Good. Better. Best. Have a Selection. Don't just make it good unless 'good' is selling for you. Make it better or make it best. - 'Best,' often doesn't sell in a mass marketplace. - So, always have three to chose from as the 'rule of thumb.' If you can't make three that are different, have three kinds of packages. Give your buyer a selection. - Who knows? - You might even sell the three instead of sellng only one?
It's only human nature to make choices. :-)

-- It goes without saying.. "Delay is preferable to error." -- Thomas Jefferson

-- Employment Agreement -- "Basically a standard employment agreement says, if you have invented something while you are an employee, then the invention is owned by your employer. These are fairly consistent, although California interprets them somewhat more in favor of the employee. -- This holds even if you thought of the invention on your vacation, using your own equipment, at home, and not necessarily even in connection with your work. As long as you are employed by that company, then they basically own what is in your head.

-- An exception is if you were hired for a non-inventing role such as maintenance, then you probably could invent things without turning them over to the company. -- However, if the company says your idea is in their line of business, or anticipated line of business, then they own it. If you work for an automobile company and have a new mousetrap, the company cannot say they own that invention, because they are not in the business of mousetraps. As it turns out, even if it is clearly not in the realm of what the company is into, it is sometimes difficult to get the company's permission for you to get a patent on your own."
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-- "A single fact can spoil a good arguement." & "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail." -- -- authors unkown

-- People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

-- -- An Old Farmer's Advice --

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* Every path has a few puddles.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

* Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.