Free Personal Development Articles

As an additional value for your meeting, consider publishing one of Paul's no-nonsense personal development articles in your newsletter or magazine. Paul Montelongo writes for a variety of trade journals across the United States and Canada. Here are some of the current articles in print. If you would like to reprint an article, please contact us to ask for specific permission and reproduction terms. Thank You.

• The Man With Two Watches Is Never Sure
• Be a Sales Magnet:
  5 ways to be instantly irresistible
• How to Get Free Publicity:
  Top 10 list of low or no-cost marketing
• Retaining Quality Employees:
  Hire 'em and keep 'em
• The Contractor's Private Entrance Door:
  How to create customer partnerships
• Thinking Outside the Sale
  Get Real and Sell More
• How to Handle the Difficult Customer
  7 ways to convert a challenge into a solution
• Avoiding a Deadbeat Sales Attitude
• Develop Your Personal Excellence
  Transform your life and your business
• The Best Year of Your Career
• $2.49 To Nail Down Your Next Big Deal
• Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Remodelling Business
  The 9 Most Common Mistakes of Remodelling Contractors
• "Recession - Proof “ Your Contracting Business
  By planning to succeed (Part 1)
• "Recession - Proof “ Your Contracting Business
  By planning to succeed (Part 2)
• "Scout and Conquer" Your Competition
  Sure- fire ways to win the war
• Blueprint Your Construction Business:
  7 ways to ensure long-term profits and success
• Why Hurry Up and Wait ?
  Make the bidding process work for you
• Power Networking Strategies
  5 tips for making contacts that work
• Get Top Dollar
  Establish value to get what you are worth
• “All Systems Go”
  Run your business instead of your business running you
• Four P's of a Super Presentation
• Thinking Outside the Sale
  Develop a Winning Vocabulary
• Mega-Marketing on a Boot-Strap Budget
• "The E's and R's of Creating a Strategic Promotional Plan"
• “Delivering a Dynamic Sales Presentation”
• Trade Show Success
  Make your exhibit work for you
• Selling to Friendly Customers
• You Get What You Expect
• Teaming Up For Success
  Building a dynamic team of people to support you
• Working the Room at Your Next Event
  Networking
• Get Rid of Those Pesky Objections
• This Bid Is For "YOU"
• "Survey Sezzzzzz"
• MotivatingYour Team to Success
• Sales- “To Stay or Not to Stay”
• "Greasing the Sales Funnel"
• Settinga Standard for Your Business
• Build To Suit
• Take Care of Your Team