Old dogs DO learn new tricks

Having served over 40 years as a successful international business leader and entrepreneur I logged several million miles of travel on everything from Boeing 747s to Chinese Junks, camels and, yes ... even yaks.

The world never stopped turning and I evidenced many changes in politics, society, in the business community and everywhere, sometimes for the good and sometimes not. I'm thankful for everything I was allowed to experience so far and feel it is now MY turn to take up new challenges.

All my life I was inspired by animals with a great passion for the gentle German Shepherd and was recently "adopted" by a small shy feline companion.

On my travel did I inummerable shots of mostly street animals and what is better than combining business with pleasure? Consequently, I decided to venture into Art and Antiques and started a new project called "Green Cat Art" emphazises Original Art devoted to the cat; traditional, contemporary and abstract art, photography, posters, paintings and drawings, fine art prints, art pendant jewelry and antiques.

The project is still in the infant stage and in the first phase restricted to an online sales platform. An art gallery may follow later. You want a first impression? Visit me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/GreenCatArt and "Like" if you like what you see.

I do everything as a novice and recommendations, comments and all kind of help is greatly appreciated.

Frequent updates follow. Please visit this blog for news.

P.S.: No need to worry, I'm still in the consulting business and available for you.

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I am willing to make a bet right now: I can bet you haven’t bothered thanking your customer after their made their purchases off your brick-and-mortar shop or even your e-commerce enabled website. It just seems to be too classic or too boring thing to do. Nothing glamourous,like installing a new server or virtualization software for your company, is it? The thing with this tactic is that it is too simple and such things are not taken easily by complex puritans who turn into entrepreneurs. Sending a simple, hand-written ‘thank you’ note or at least a text-message on a mobile device seems to be too much of a task to do, especially after making the sale. Customers love to be pampered and there could nothing more flattering for them than to receive a thank you note in any form whatsoever. It is such a simple thing to do and it could fetch you long-term returns. You would trigger a word-of-mouth effect because of such a simple act and your customers will have something to remember you for, apart from the fabulous products or services, of course. I do understand that it is yet another chore an already busy entrepreneur has to contend with. He could do it himself, outsource it or develop a systemt that can automatically leverage the Internet and make this an automated process. Do what it takes, but do it. Do you think sending out thank you notes can help in customer retention and in your business?

Good example of a Brain Study

If you can read this you have a strong Mind. Don't give up too fast!

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