The ?Shocking? Sales Strategy of Saying THANKS!
By Kim Duke - 1/4/2008
I would like you to begin thinking of mailboxes in a new way.
Contrary to popular belief ? it isn?t a symbol of an inept postal service. In fact- it is one of the Best ways to communicate with your customers. And I am not talking about sales flyers either! Are You Saying Thank-You To Your Customers...
Impersonal Slang Ridden Emails, Capitalization and Miss Spelling
By Lance Winslow - 1/4/2008
There seems to be a real problem with the up and coming generation with regard to proper email etiquette which is somewhat upsetting to the established professionalism expected in business. Much of this comes from the generation of instant messaging with small handheld devices like cell phone, PDAs ...
Hiring the Right Graphic Designer for Your Small Business
By Jeanna Pool - 1/4/2008
Every small business needs it, but not many have it. I am not talking
about cash flow, clients or even your product or services to sell. Yes, all
of these things are absolutely necessary. But, what I am talking about is
something most small business owners overlook. It is the need to hire
an exp...
How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 1
By Sue And Chuck DeFiore - 1/4/2008
Calculating Billable Hours Myth Vs. Reality
We all know there are 52 weeks in a year and 40 working hours in a week. Therefore, we can bill 2080 hours per year, right. Wrong. Too often this is the trap that many new service businesses fall into.
The first step in calculating your bil...
Creating Your Online News Room: How To Build a Site The Media Will Love
By Bill Stoller - 1/4/2008
From time to time, people ask me how public relations has changed
during the two decades in which I?ve been seeking publicity. My
answer: technology. Twenty years ago, the fax machine was a
newfangled novelty. Our primary means of communicating with
journalists was the telephone and ...
Is a CAREER Change Needed at YOUR House?
By Don Monteith - 1/4/2008
Are you happy where you are today? The number of folks who appear completely happy in their present career seems very low from all that I read across the news -- TV; newspapers; magazines, Internet websites, etc. Maybe it`s just a temporary thing. Instant gratification is more the norm today than ...
Closing That Big Sale With Conference Calling
By Aaron Siegel - 1/4/2008
So you?re in business. Whether it is micro, small, medium, or enterprise; you know the one key element you need to succeed in your business ? sales. Now, you have studied and learned many practices on succeeding in your arena, but there may be something still overlooked. You most undoubtedly have st...
An Introduction to Motivational Speaking
By Ross Bainbridge - 1/4/2008
Everybody speaks. Some people speak and get elected president of the United States. Other people speak and armies of business people take to the streets, generating huge sums of money. Still others speak and people?s lives change. What makes for difference between those who speak and are received by...
College Residence Life Staff: Speak to Gain Respect
By Susan Fee - 1/4/2008
When you speak, do residents listen or ignore you? If you?re having trouble commanding respect, it could be the way you?re saying it. Here is a list of words that can sabotage your effectiveness as a communicator. See if you recognize any of these red flags in your speech: Should, Have to: These ...
How To Grow Your Micro-Business
By J. Stephen Pope - 1/4/2008
If you want to grow your micro-business (defined as a
business with fewer than five employees), you might
consider some of the findings of a survey by Statistics
Canada. 1. The Findings According to "Growth Determinants of Micro-Businesses in
Canada" (Evangelia Papadaki and Bassima Chami, Small
...
Whadda Jerk!
By George Ebert - 1/4/2008
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
Sadly, public discourse today seems to have degenerated into warring parties spitting epithets at one another. With little inclination to see the other?s point of view, the parties...
Maximise Your AdSense Earnings
By Alvin Poh - 1/4/2008
As a blog or site owner, you can make some cash with Google?s AdSense pretty easily. To maximise your potential earnings, here are some tips that may help you:
1. Create Well-designed Sites
People are impatient and will not tolerate poorly designed websites. Make sure that your site?s colour s...
Adsense Needs Sense ; Not Luck
By Anand Srinivasan - 1/4/2008
`How Lucky were you today` ran a headline in one of the popular webmaster forums. The discussion was about how lucky some people were to make a huge sum inspite of the fact that they still had a comparatively less number of clicks.
Less Clicks. That is bound to happen. How many clicks can...
What is Froogle?
By Jakob Jelling - 1/4/2008
Keeping in touch with other sites like Amazon.com, Buy.com and Yahoo.com, Google created a new shopping search tool called ?Froogle?. It has been called one of the most innovative price conscious tools on the Internet. Using the same technologies of Google.com, Froogle employs direct data received f...
How Mind Mapping Can Make Estimating Project Time an Absolutely Simple Process
By Vj Mariaraj - 1/4/2008
An important aspect of Project Management is scheduling time accurately. This is a critical component of Project planning as this will decide the deadline for the completion of a project ? whether small, medium or mega. Closely linked to this is your credibility since you have to meet the deadlines ...
Attention PR Shoppers!
By Robert A. Kelly - 1/4/2008
As a business, non-profit or association manager, what do you want? Publicity that delivers newspaper and talk show mentions, or behavior change among your key outside audiences that leads directly to achieving your managerial objectives? Special events that attract a lot of people, or public relati...
How to Hold Effective Staff Meetings
By Steve Kaye - 1/4/2008
Many people believe that they conduct effective meetings, when all they really do is
host a party. Or worse, they deliver a monologue. In either case, their meetings
produce little. Here?s how to hold an effective staff meeting. 1) In general. Keep them short. Most staff meetings should last less ...
Sex Sells!
By Virden Thornton - 1/4/2008
An attractive woman has a decided advantage as sales representative over her male counterpart. This ?selling edge? is primarily due to the existence of the ?glass ceiling? found in most business organizations today. The glass ceiling (women are still arbitrarily held back from leadership positions) ...
Building Bridges of Communication
By Lee Hopkins - 1/4/2008
If you are a consultant to a client, or a salesperson attempting a closer relationship with your customer, here are five techniques that help achieve just that.
1. Eliciting clients` views and perspective on issues.
The consultant or salesperson shoul...
5 Reasons Why SEO Is The Best Investment For Any CEO
By Carmen Jackson - 1/4/2008
As an experienced management consultant to senior management of private and public companies, I have found that search engine optimization is the single most powerful marketing tool that every CEO should be aware of and eventually implement. Below are 5 of the endless reasons why search engine opti...
Top 10 Benefits of Hiring a Marketing Writer to Write Your Marketing Materials
By Maggie Dennison - 1/4/2008
1. It costs less to delegate to a professional than to waste your valuable time trying to do it yourself. How many prospective clients could you call in the time it takes you to put the words together yourself? 2. You?ll stop wasting thousands of dollars on material that doesn?t work. 3. You can sto...
SuperCharge Your Website With Multi Linking
By Rick Hendershot - 1/4/2008
Here`s a fairly obvious Multi Linking Strategy that is probably the easiest and most effective one you can employ. I call it... Power Publishing on Your Own Site The basic idea is simply to create lots of pages on your site(s) and embed links pointing back to your most important target pages. This w...
Avoid a Three-ring Circus with These New Interviewing Strategies
By Teena Rose - 1/4/2008
I referenced the circus because I just finished another interviewing book that recommends asking for the job before leaving the interview. I can envision up to 15 qualified professionals each asking the interviewer for the job. If each asks for the job, doesn?t that make the question null and void ?...
5 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Site
By Jennifer Tripp - 1/4/2008
One thing you can never have too much of online is web site traffic. If you?re looking for ways to drive more visitors to your site, try these traffic generating tips? TRAFFIC TIP #1: Develop Several Pages Focused On Particular Keywords Search Engine specialists don`t recommend using external doorwa...
Aftermarket
By Daniel Wadleigh - 1/4/2008
Since it costs you about 1/4 as much to sell them additional products/services after you have made them a happy customer, then it behooves you to have either repeat of the same, or, new products/services to offer them. It`s because you have developed credibility and permission access to them that yo...
Consistency Is Far Greater Than Rare Moments of Greatness
By Scott Ginsberg - 1/4/2008
You just never know. When you answer a phone call from an unknown number.
When you engage in a conversation with a guest at your office.
When you greet a potential customer who walks into your store.
When you make small talk with a stranger you?ve just been introduced to.
When y...
Media Training 101: The Top Ten Tips For TV Interviews
By Thomas Murrell - 1/4/2008
How do you effectively deal with the media? What are the best media training tips? As I travel around the world I always enjoy sampling the media in different countries. Even if I don`t speak Thai, Bahasa or Mandarin, watching local news services always provides a unique insight into local culture. ...
Stripper--Turned--Waitress Can`t Leave Former Job Behind
By Dennis Rymarz - 1/4/2008
She stretches in the break room for 30 minutes before each shift. She glides around the dining room like silk wafting on the breeze. She`s been known to strip off her shirt and bra to combat the heat in the kitchen. The newest addition to the Red Robin wait staff, Paula Roche (also known as Mystique...
10 Important Steps to Mail Order Success
By DeAnna Spencer - 1/4/2008
There are a number of difficulties a beginning entrepreneur may encounter that can "torpedo" his business almost before he knows it. But the wise mail order dealer can sidestep some of the pitfalls of operating his own business by recognizing and avoiding the following common mistakes.
1. ...
Follow Up Letter for Past Customers - Why and How to Write It
By Ladan Lashkari - 1/4/2008
Following up with your past customers is a proven way to make a lot of extra sales. You can simply write a promotional offer about one of your other products in the form of a follow up letter, and then send it to your customers email list. Since your customers have already done business with you and...
The Secrets to Finding a Good Online Survey Company
By Robert Mellor - 1/4/2008
When you are looking at making money from taking online paid surveys, following tips can help - Look for Testimonials - Often survey makers put incorrect information in Testimonials. Read testimonials carefully; look for hard facts about the survey. A few surveys give contact information about their...
Electronic Score Boards
By Paula Jones - 1/4/2008
Wide range of electronic Key venues around the globe has turned to Electronic score boards that not only look breathtaking from every angle and distance, but provide consistently reliable performance year in and year out. Different type of sports including athletics, track cycling, running events, s...
Surplus Merchandise, the Direct Under Wholesale Source
By DR B James Bruno - 1/4/2008
The Austin Business Journal reported about a firm that ?buys and resells merchandise that has been closed out, overstocked or discontinued?to a wide range of retail outlets, from mom-and-pop shops to multinational chains such as Wal-Mart..?. Businesses everywhere struggle with changing buying habits...
More College Students Getting Involved in Online Entrepreneurship - Students Beware!
By Anthony Bae - 1/4/2008
College students, and even a number of high school students are thinking about or already running a business online. Student don`t have tens of thousands of dollars to do any physical business, so they are taking advantage of the easily accessible internet. Why? Not only is it affordable - web ho...
Ready To Impact Your Bottom Line?
By Tony Gattuso - 1/4/2008
If you?ve never considered getting your telecom services from a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC), the recent mergers of SBC+AT&T and MCI+Verizon might warrant giving them a look. There are two ways CLECs provide telecommunication services: they have built their own network and switch or the...
How a Digital Camera Works
By Jakob Jelling - 1/4/2008
The digital camera is not something of a magic box that came out of the blue and made wonders! The digital camera is very much like the conventional analog camera, but the technology has been altered. It also contains most of the associated components that the conventional camera contains, like lens...
Managing The Boss Is Essential To Career Success
By Ramon Greenwood - 1/4/2008
Your boss is the gatekeeper of your career. Unless you are able to
manage a positive relationship with him at each step in your career you
will fall short of your potential. Like it or not, never forget he is the portal through which you connect
with the rest of the organization and its resources...
Discuss Your Accomplishments During the Interview
By Michelle Roebuck - 1/4/2008
When preparing for your interview, you need to be ready to discuss your accomplishments. Surprisingly, many people are reluctant to talk about their accomplishments. But this is exactly what the interviewer wants to hear from you. Discussing your accomplishments separates you from the rest of the ...
To Web or Not to Web?
By Stuart Ayling - 1/4/2008
Do I need a web site? That is the question often asked by business owners.
The answer will usually depend upon the type of product or service offered and what the business is trying to achieve. Some products/services are more suited to the web than others. Plus, a well desig...
Finances for the Freelancer
By Aldene Fredenburg - 2/9/2007
Budgeting and financial planning are great ideas, but how in the world do you budget or plan when you don`t know from one month to the next how much money you`re going to earn? You have months at a time when you earn very little money, and then during the prosperous months you`re busy playing financ...
Get An Easy Merchant Account
By Shane Penrod - 2/2/2007
Get an easy merchant account when you apply at one of the hundreds of online application centers that await you. A merchant account lets you expand your customer services to accept credit card payments in a number of easy ways. Your clients will love the convenience of shopping on credit instead of ...
14 Publicity Tips You Can`t Live Without
By Paul Hartunian - 1/27/2007
How do you best promote yourself, your business or your cause using publicity? The list could easily be 100 items long. But 14 items stand out that can make yours a winning publicity campaign. If you follow these 14 tips, you tremendously increase your chances of getting publicity.
Even better, a...
History Rhymes With A Bull Market In Stocks
By John Allison - 1/26/2007
Mark Twain said, ?History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.? In our business, it is standard practice to find that ?rhyme? by studying financial market trends, hoping to achieve future investment returns with past investment history. One trusted study is a table of stock market return...
A Guide to Savings Accounts
By John Mussi - 1/23/2007
Savings accounts are an important part of banking? most people have at least one, and they are a recommended first step in working on a retirement plan or savings and investment strategy.
There are many people who aren`t even sure how their savings account really works, they simply deposit money ...
The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Speakers
By Sandra Schrift - 2/4/2006
Successful speakers do not do all the right things all the time. They often take risks and risk bombing. But all top speakers take daily action, to move towards their goals with many adjustments. Here are ten ways to be a highly effective speaker.
1. Have a passion for your subject(s). If you don?...
ISO 9001 Compliant Program: Steps to Build
By Chris Anderson - 1/23/2006
Implementing an ISO 9001 system represents a major effort. However, all of that effort can represent a significant shift for a business - from quantity to quality. And this could make sure your business gets the desired results.
Shift Focus to Performance
Developing, implementing and maintaining...
Communicating Value
By Terence R. Traut - 1/20/2005
Abstract: People buy for their reasons, not yours. This article covers the key elements that prospects want to hear you talk about.
Always, but especially during lean times, effective sales professionals know the importance of communicating value.
Budgets ? if they ever were discretionary ? a...
Questions To Ask Employees You Want To Retain
By Lora J Adrianse - 1/16/2005
Times of cost cutting and downsizing has dramatically impacted the way employees look at their careers. Employees at all levels now know better than ever that job security is no longer something they can count on. They`ve been required to think bigger, look at other options and do whatever it take...
Branding Your Business
By Elena Fawkner - 2/4/2004
If you think only big corporate names need to think about things like brand names, think again. Your brand says a lot about you and your business, and that`s as true for a one person home-based operation as it is for a multinational conglomerate. In this article we look at how creating a strong bran...
Increase Your Success and Reduce Your Stress by Outsourcing
By Janice D. Byer, MVA - 2/2/2004
When you picture a business professional?s typical office scenario, what comes to mind?
A classy man or woman, dressed in a high priced business suit, an overflowing briefcase sitting on the corner of the desk, dictating memos and delegating tasks to a very overworked secretary?
How about a hom...
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