Brummet's Conscious Blog

Author Margaret Ross, an education and workplace relationship expert and President of the Kamaron Institute, is our special featured guest today. Margaret is an award winning business consultant, expert communications strategist and management consultant. Her business, The Kamaron Institute, Inc.,  provides proactive, solution-oriented business management consulting, executive training, and custom research programs that produce measurable outcomes that increase productivity and profit. Find her at: http://kamaron.org How To Keep Customers Coming Back In Four Steps   In this competitive economy, customer loyalty (retention) is a necessity to keep your business growing. So how to you keep your customers and keep them coming back?   During my two decades as a business marketing strategist, I’ve observed that top performing companies focus on attracting and keeping customers. Why? Loyal customers provide greater profitability. Profits are...

-- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Chuck Hall is the executive director for the Culture Artist Organization, a Sustainability Consultant, author, and a researcher in Eco-therapy and Eco-psychology (the study of how nature and the environment impact our mental health). He has been an environmentalist and writer on sustainability and environmental topics since the late 1970s. Join us live today 10-11 AM Pacific, and drop in the chat room while there... or you are welcome to access the archived interview at your convenience later on via the hyper-linked show title below: Alternative, Sustainable Buildings Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blog, and more at: www.brummet.ca   * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, or visiting the Brummet's Store - every sale raises funds for charity as well!

 -- Writing -- We have a very special guest appearing on our blog today - Darren Chow offering tips for writers: Three English Language Writing Tips:  by Darren Chow ( http://writingtipsguidesresources.com ) Writing in the English language is pretty straightforward but very difficult to be good at. In order to improve your English writing, you have to put in lot of time to practice writing. Here are some useful tips that will help you improve your English writing. Tip 1: Build on Your Vocabulary Writing is a form of expression. And in order to express yourself better, you need to have the words to express what you are thinking or feeling. If you are limited by your vocabulary, your writing will never be able to communicate fully what you want to convey. There are many ways you can improve on your vocabulary. You can study the works of other writers. You can listen to tapes or enrol in English classes. You can even sign up for online Engli...

 -- Quote of the Day -- “ We give away our power to create the world we desire when we blame others for our actions or our inactions.   Believing we are not responsible for our actions is denying the power we have to influence our world and understand how our choices, beliefs, and actions draw people and events into our lives which mirror our beliefs. ” ~ Gary Spinell, It Was You All Along -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Join us today @ 10-11 AM Pacific for a live discussion with our special guest of the day to learn about how You Can Change the World :  Gary Spinell is joining us to share his passion on helping others realize the ability to change the world lies within themselves. Author of – It Was All You, All Along – shares more than 25 years of researching the components of a successful life – and he has found that it begins with understanding that we have always had the power to create change, to take responsibi...

-- Quote of the Day -- "Sit down before fact as a little child,  be prepared to give up every preconceived notion; follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." ~ Thomas Huxley -- Conscious Business Tips -- We featured the topics of in-house business eco-programs and offered some suggestions in the past, since then we’ve come across some great tips from INiKA Small Earth.Org – in their late Aug newsletter – and I want to share those tips with some of my own elaborations on them today: During a slow period of the day have a member of your staff or two conduct waste audits… what waste is going in which baskets, what kinds of waste are generated by the business. Developing a simple chart is helpful for the staff to do this audit, with categories for different types of recyclables, returnables, e-waste, organics… and so on. Once you have this information you can more easily determine the...

 -- Quote of the Day -- "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." ~ Stanley Milgram   -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Today's Positive Eco-News segment will feature a discussion on e-waste, water, and vehicles... helping all of us embrace our individual responsibility to participate in this global wave toward conscious, proactive living. Join in the live chat room if you can, while listening to the live show, which airs at 10-11 AM Pacific - or access the  archived show at your convenience. Make sure you have a pen and scrap of paper handy, as we'll be offering resources for you to check out as time allows.  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/consciousdiscussions/2011/08/28/positive-eco-news Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blog, and more at: www.brummet.ca   * Supp...

 -- Chatter -- I want to thank everyone for their patience while I took a few extra days off this month as "sick days". I caught something and it took a few days to get rid of it. I was back in the office on Saturday (today) dealing with a huge volume of messages, getting some guests booked on the radio show, and confirming appointments with the media. I finally have a few moments to visit the blog and offer my apologies for my absence. The end of August is always a busy time of year as harvests come in from the garden in the form of canteloupe, tomatoes, chard, beets and so on. The earlier potatoes look like they are ready for harvesting and I've already harvested, dried and processed our garlic harvest from late July. It's time to plant the new garlic for next year's crop, mow the lawn (again) and harvest some more Seabuckthorne berries (the best crop ever!) as time allows. Yeah, it'll be another busy week, but worth it all the same. And with our ...