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Marketing Eye is offering businesses the opportunity to have their own Marketing team and a website created for $500 per week.

When I speak to any really good communicator, and ask them what is their secret, they always say that they listen.

Listening to what your customers, staff, friends and family need to say to you, whether it is positive or negative is often the most powerful thing you can do.

Every day is a learning curve. Whether its on the job, our relationships with people or general life experiences – we all learn and if we don’t then we take a backward step.

Today was an extraordinary day and for me, not in a good way.

It has been crazy here at Marketing Eye – ever since Leonardo DiCaprio disguised himself in the movie as someone an Australian businessman knew and said he was from Marketing Eye.

After sitting in on a meeting with some suppliers of marketing related products to one of my clients today, I was abruptly reminded of just how easy it is for good sales people to pursuade small businesses to use one product over another.

Having been in business now for 10 years, I certainly have had my fair share of employee attitudes.

 It goes with the territory and it goes with my training as a Manager and ultimately leader of the organisation.

I learnt earlier on in my career that you can meet with anyone, all you have to do is ask.

Today is a day I will always remember. It’s a day that a certain part of me has been taken away.

Whilst many companies look at the festive season as a time to wind down and enjoy the fruits of the year, there still are a few of us that take this time to have a cold hard look at ourselves and make some very tough decisions.