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Analyzing Competitive Ad vs PR Spending
Measuring the effectiveness of your PR process is not a simple task, especially if you don't have the budget for PR-coverage subscriptions. Just as challenging is demonstrating that your organization is better than the competition with leveraging PR to save on ad spending. Read our Ad/PR Spending Guide to start tracking your media coverage and benchmark your ad/PR-spending ratio against your competitors.
What Gets Measured, Gets Converted, Gets Results
I'll attribute the title of this post to the legendary Peter Drucker, although, that's not exactly what he said - it does capture the spirit though.
Life time value, now there’s a number I love
I’m a marketing guy, so, like many marketing guys, I’m not so much a numbers person. I know I should be, but, there you have it.
Where Baseball Meets Business
Sometimes I think that we make business success all too hard! In most cases the basics are ignored in favor of the latest new and usually complex strategy, theory or latest best seller unveiling the new secret success silver bullets. But sometimes, most of the time in fact, if we just slow down and face the fact that the truth may be in the simplicity of the solution. Simple is not always easy. Simple is not always cool or flashy. But, SIMPLE works! In this article we'll briefly discuss 3 key rules that could become your benchmark for future personal and business growth.

C-Level Relationship Selling: Business Development Is All About More Sales
Any successful person learns process and probability - business person, athlete, gambler, sales person, etc. This article will show you how they can help develop more business.

Lead Like Obama
If you lead or aspire to lead in politics, business or the public sector you really need to understand the paradigm shift that leadership and peoples expectations of leadership has undergone.
DO YOU HAVE A MARKETING PLAN OR MARKETING MESS?
Marketing plans are in short supply. Organizations spend big budget dollars on web sites, brochures, logos, DVD’s, sales materials and every marketing tool under the sun. And that doesn’t include marketing activities like conferences, trade shows, press events, meetings and seminars. But when it comes to actually planning for all that activity, it’s a different story. Most people think marketing plans are a good idea – they just aren’t sure how to get there. We also suspect there are a fair number of you who secretly wonder if you really need one. The truth is you can’t afford not to have a plan. It can – and should – be straightforward, results-oriented and easy to manage.

Home Party Plan Selling Tips How To Increase Home Party Sales Ratios For More Direct Sales Profits
Need more cash? In my last article, An Open Letter To : Direct Sales Consultant, Direct Selling Business Owners On How To Triple Home Party Sales we laid the foundation for improving direct selling ratios . Today we are going to focus our minds of increasing and improving home party sales ratios. This will lead to more home party sales and direct sales profit!
Are You Ready to Meet the CEO?
The degree to which you prepare will directly impact the success of your meeting. Here are 6 key things you need to do before your all-important meeting with a CEO.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along
I have spent the better part of this year consulting with the Real Estate industry and I have had my eyes opened to the inherent problems of an untrained, inexperienced, unsupervised sales force let loose in the marketplace. Agents are independent contractors and left on their own to generate sales, find prospects, and close deals. Some are resale agents, others sell in new home communities. Usually during difficult times people bond and look to each other for strength and empathy, more like a team. What I have found is quite the contrary.

Nonprofit Fundraising: Success vs. Productivity for Nonprofits
Is "success" the same thing as "productivity"? Not when it comes to fundraising organizations. "Success" usually means high levels of income or gifts. "Productivity" means producing desired levels of income at controllable costs, ensuring that income is consistent and predictable, and managing the effort with efficiency. Here are a few tips to help you assess and improve the productivity of your nonprofit's fundraising efforts.

Nonprofit Fundraising: Improve Your Fundraising Performance
Is "success" the same thing as "productivity"? Not when it comes to fundraising organizations. "Success" usually means high levels of income or gifts. "Productivity" means producing desired levels of income at controllable costs, ensuring that income is consistent and predictable, and managing the effort with efficiency. Here are a few tips to help you assess and improve the productivity of your nonprofit's fundraising efforts.

How to be More Effective Selecting Sales Candidates
I'm all for sales benchmarking. However, when it comes to assessing sales candidates, I strongly discourage benchmarking and here's why.
Attitude is Everything in Sales
Well perhaps not quite everything, however attitude in my opinion counts for a lot more than “been there and done it” does. Give me someone with the right attitude and aptitude for the job and experience is often a bonus – the icing on the cake, rather than a prerequisite.

How To Litmus Test Your Website's SEO Campaign?
Experts all agree that PPC is an excellent way to test your advertising campaign in several different ways. This dilemma becomes especially important for those advertisers relying heavily on a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) marketing campaign.
Four Critical Skills
There are four essential skills every leader must hone to become a brilliant leader. Listening. Storytelling. Acknowledging contribution. Negotiation. You cannot be good enough at these four skills - so every chance you get, practice!
What Can Managers Do To Instill Excellence
Excellence everywhere does not just happen simply because an organization has a good product or offers a needed service. The underlying purpose of all organizational actions must have excellence built into them. It must become “how we collectively do things.”

Organizational Culture Employee Survey
This article contains an excellent and proven set of sixty-eight survey questions to evaluate the culture of virtually any type of organization - profit or non-profit. Culture does count and this survey can help you benchmark your organization.
Organizational Excellence
Excellence everywhere does not just happen simply because an organization has a good product or offers a needed service. The underlying purpose of all organizational actions must have excellence built into them. It must become “how we collectively do things.”
THEMED LINKS QUALITY
This article will explain the importance of link quality, and its application to link building. Everyone may have a different understanding of what “quality” is on terms of links, but essentially that is your decision entirely. If you have an existing site, that you need to build links for, use this as a reference check list to ensure that you are link building properly. I am going to review the key 6 areas.
Are You Fulfilled
Dear Jane, How can I figure out whether I am doing what makes me happy? What are some of the symptoms of unhappiness, or must I wait for a life-threatening situation? I wrote my popular self-help book, Enough Is Enough!, to help others avoid having to go through a life-threatening situation in order to wake up to your spirit’s calling. If you are having to ask yourself if you are happy, then you probably aren’t. Perhaps you haven’t yet had the satisfaction that goes with fulfilling your spirit’s purpose, so you don’t know what benchmark to compare your feelings with. The symptoms of endurance or a less-than-thriving life are discussed in depth in my book. I will give you a short list here that you should find helpful:
Champions from Africa: What It Takes to Be a Global Leader
"Aspiration is a driver of socio economic development", said Brian C Bruce, Chief Executive, Murray & Roberts Holdings, South Africa. South Africa has been and remains a critical link in the world, he said. This is exemplified by its leaders Jan Smuts who influenced the future shape of the world between the wars, Thabo Mbeki with his vision for Africa in the 21st century, both bringing different perspectives to the global dialogue.

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What Your Ezine Will Cost
Asking you about how to handle TIP's unanticipated expenses made some of you wonder what costs to expect if they started their own email newsletter for clients, and prospects. Don't use TIP's expenses as a benchmark.

The Top 10 Entrepreneurial Qualities
It is rare that one has the perfect personality to achieve entrepreneurial success, but don’t fret. We all have the ability to modify our behaviors to narrow the gap. In order to accomplish this, we must first identifies the qualities that the ideal entrepreneur possesses. This article defines the top ten qualities exhibited in the personalities of successful entrepreneurs so we can benchmark who we are and who we need to be.

My Advice for Other African Startups
Work hard and be patient- a successful, sustainable business will not happen overnight. Quality control is vital. Establish benchmark standards and never compromise them.

A HEALTHY COMPANY CULTURE FOR A HEALTHY BOTTOM-LINE
So, you want to: • get and stay ahead of your closest competitor; • outpace your industry’s growth trend; and • position yourself for your most profitable year yet as the benchmark for years to come. Easier said than done, yes? Actually, it’s easier to do than you may think.

Benchmarking (Part 2)
If we decide that benchmarking makes sense, we have to decide what we should benchmark and how we can get the data we need - internally ... and from those we want to benchmark against.
Analyzing Competitive Ad vs PR Spending
Measuring the effectiveness of your PR process is not a simple task, especially if you don't have the budget for PR-coverage subscriptions. Just as challenging is demonstrating that your organization is better than the competition with leveraging PR to save on ad spending. Read our Ad/PR Spending Guide to start tracking your media coverage and benchmark your ad/PR-spending ratio against your competitors.
ESCAPE THE MATRIX PROGRAMED INTO US
The events of September 11, 2001 are a benchmark for understanding that we are all programed through the matrix we all live in.
How To Interpret Sales Revenue and Economic News
The economic reports can often times be misleading, the benchmark statistics are supposedly a "snapshot" of the economy but seem to be out of tune with what we're seeing with our own two eyes. The same is true with sales revenue. Sometimes the numbers belie what we know is happening right in front of us.

The Important Distinctions Between Relationship, Collaboration and Performance Benchmarking
The interactions between marketers and their agencies are becoming more complex and being able to benchmark these interactions is important. However, it is important to distinguish the difference between collaboration, relationships and performance benchmarking to ensure you are optimizing the most appropriate criteria in the process.
6 Wrong Ways To Use Attorney Software To Benchmark Law Firm Performance
It's easy to use legal software to measure law firm performance. Avoid making these six mistakes and learn how to use attorney software to effectively benchmark your firm's performance.
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