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The Key to Success – A Simple 44-Step Process

I won't make you go through a 44-step process. I was inspired by something I read, and want to tell you about it. Because you shouldn't be afraid of something just because it sounds big and overwhelming.

Finding Work You Love – A Great Career Move!

I know you've heard it: "Do what you love and you'll never work another day in your life." There's SOME truth in that. But we need to be careful about how we spread the message.

Tips on Tipping from a World Traveler

Take A Stand! It’s Your Brand!

Every sales trainer will tell you one thing: You need to differentiate yourself.

Social Media Lesson: Don’t Build Your House on Borrowed Land

I have long advised businesses to avoid building their business on someone else's platform. This is particularly true of social media. The second half of 2022 is a great example of why you need to think carefully before you build a business on a platform you don't control.

Millennials (and Gen X) Are Not a Problem to Be Dealt With

I have never believed most of the common wisdom spread about Millennials (and Gen X and Gen Z). And after about fifteen years of hearing "advice" focused on these younger generations, I think I finally figured out where the advice goes bad: It is extremely superficial and meaningless

Book Sales Strategies: Let the Data Drive the Strategy

The bottom line is something you already know: Sales is hard. I happen to make enough money to live on by selling books. But that's after I spend a lot of time and money creating and fine-tuning every single piece of the sales and marketing process. I lay it out for you below.

Omega Mart – A Great Experience in Bad Customer Service

I often tell people that most bad customer service happens when employees don't know why their job exists. I think that's the case here, with the woman I'll call Marin. I think she thinks her job is to enforce the rules. . .

Lessons from the “Great Resignation”

Few changes are permanent. People take jobs and leave jobs. Sometimes they go back to a job. Sometimes they change careers, or move across country. Everything keeps evolving. Tune into it and think about where you want to fit. Every day, be a little bit more of what you wish to become.

CX is Not the Same as Customer Service

Service delivery involves a whole lot of stuff the customer never sees or experiences.

Karl Palachuk

Karl W. Palachuk is the author of more than twenty books and the creator of dozens of information products and downloads. He is a business owner, entrepreneur, author, father, speaker, publisher, blogger, podcaster, and a community builder.

Karl’s Relax Focus Succeed philosophy topics include work-life balance, team building, goal-setting, and personal development. He built a successful technology consulting company and then used it to expand into book writing and business consulting.

He travels extensively, adding personal days to almost every trip. As a result, Karl visits 25-30 cities every year, often across three or four countries, and manages to take about fifty vacation days each year. Talk about Relax Focus Succeed!

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Finding Work You Love – A Great Career Move!

The Key to Success – A Simple 44-Step Process

There is No “Catching Up”

For the Health of I.T. – a New Podcast on Keeping Things in Balance

Finding Work You Love – A Great Career Move!

Is Too Much Enough?

What Do You Mean by “Doing Your Best?”

What You Get Depends on What Your Bring

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