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Q What sort of bonuses should we pay
A. "It's not about the money." Usually, when people say this, they are lying. Except, it turns out, at work.
Fathers Day Insight
I want to share with you this bonus Usable Insight from Dr. Mark Goulston's blog. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!
Perspective
Quit your griping - use what you've got! In 1993 the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce recognized John Foppe as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans. John worked as a speaker while in college and graduated cum laude in just three and a half years. He's also a gifted artist and an inspiration to all who know him.

Let's Make Software Patents "Defensive Only"
In my quest to abolish software patents, I've been pondering "short term approaches" since I doubt the Supreme Court is going to wave a magic wand and make my fantasies come true anytime soon.
Are You Right Brain Dead?
A ton of research suggests that the right half of our brain supplies the more creative aspects of our thinking. So it goes that more creative people use that side of their brain more predominately.
5 Ways To Stretch Your Marketing Dollars
Who else is looking for 5 Ways To Stretch Their Marketing Dollars.
Effective Managers Understand Psychology
Novice managers often struggle to get the best out of their people because they labor under a one-dimensional view of what motivates their employees. In this article, Leslie Allan illustrates how a little psychology can return huge dividends.
How should I reward employee performance?
It’s that time of year again when all good Managers ponder the question, “Should I reward my employees’ performance with an increase in pay or through a bonus?” The answer to this age old question lies in the answer of another, much simpler question. Do you want to reward your employees’ good performance in 2010 in a way that will continue on for the rest of their career with you?
Marketing Strategies: Seven Tips to Thrive This Holiday Season
Do you think holidays are something to survive? Learn how to create your joy this season! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive during the holidays.
Contextual Advertising
About contextual advertising and how it works.
Sell Information Products And Handling Payment Transactions
When you sell information products in both physical and electronic formats, how do you handle payment? While you can certainly use an electronic payment company that can deal with both transactions, I recommend other methods for those of you who are new to the process.
2009 Hottest Christmas Gift Idea
Give something of value this Christmas instead of the usual mundane Christmas gift. You can gift gas and grocery certificates for just pennies on the dollar, but have full value to the recipient.
Using Sense of Urgency And Fear Of Loss On Business Webinars
When conducting business webinars it is important that you promote the reasons why your listeners need to buy now. You need to create a reward system for customers who take action. Whether you are marketing online or marketing offline, whether you are marketing a service, marketing a physical product, or selling digital products, there must be a sense of urgency. There must also be a loss for those who do not buy now.
The Law of Average
I was working with a fairly large company recently on their business strategy, and how they were going to get their whole team engaged so that everyone was pulling their own weight, and everyone had a passion for the growth of the company. The idea was, if everyone could work together, productivity would increase, business relationships would flourish and the end of year bonus would be much bigger. Their goal was to be above average over all of the competitors in their market. That was the plan...
Most Popular Web Hosting Companies
A web hosting company is a company that does what their name implies, they host your website. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different web hosting companies that you can now choose from and many come and many more go. When it comes to popularity though, you often see the same names crop up all over the place.
My sales director wants equity - should I give it to them?
The best sales directors that I know are entrepreneurial by nature. They thrive on risk and strive to create a substantial upside. Personally, I would never take on a sales director role without the potential for ownership, but that's just me. I know the value I am capable of creating and I habitually work towards a long-term plan - I believe this far outweighs most salary and bonus only roles.
Succeed With Social Media
The key to success with social media–and I’ve built my business on it since 1995–is to interact with others the way you’d like to be interacted with. Call it the Golden Rule of Cyberspace–it’s not so different from the Golden Rule of every major religion.
Motivation, motivation, motivation
I have long argued that the big, secret advantage that authentic businesses have over regular businesses is motivation. Not just the internal motivation of staff, but the motivation of customers and other stakeholders to support the business.
Make No Mistake, We Should Make More
Mistakes are anathema in our business culture, and actually our culture-at-large. Unfortunately, they are also a critical element of most successes, especially entrepreneurial ones. This article examines why and how we should embrace mistakes. Make no mistake, we should make more.

Could Now Be The Perfect Time to Consider a Move Out Of Management Consulting?
With the economy the way it is, your consulting career is probably at a crossroads. The key question is - which way next?
Close Those Deals With Value Sharing
Most people are finding it just that bit harder to sell business services in today’s tough markets? Not because of competition - but because customers are holding off writing deals. What can we do to get them moving?
10 Ways Writing Articles Can Improve Your Business
Are you looking for low or no cost options to improve your business. Writing articles has proven to be an extremely effective method for online marketing.
Home Staging Helps Sellers Meet Conditional Offer Deadline
The Staging Diva® discusses how, in a slow real estate market, home stagers can help when it comes to meeting conditional offer deadlines.
Daily Anxiety
For independent professionals who work alone, finding a way to handle isolation and daily axiety is key to sanity.
9 Ways to Leverage Your Radio or Teleseminar Interview
Learn 9 simple strategies to maximize radio and teleseminars to grow your business and reach a global audience.
3 Must See Small Business Opportunities For The People-Person
The ability to interact well with other people is an infinitely valuable skill in the business world, yet there are some businesses that are so geared towards these "people persons" that having good interpersonal communication skills is not only helpful, it's a must.

Valentine, valentine, please be mine!
A look at an important people management issue with Valentine's day approaching!
Who SHOULD be mentored?
What does one get out of a mentoring relationship?
Top 5 Qualities in an Outsourcing Company
What do freelance providers look for in an outsourcing company? What makes a company a preferred outsourcing buyer? We asked some of our freelance providers to think through their most rewarding outsourcing experiences and define the top qualities they observed in those buyers. Here's what they told us...
How can you give your customers more time?
Time is that asset that noe of us have enough of. Its also the one thing that stands in the way of customers doing business with us. By respecting time and finding ways to help your customer save time you will be sending an important message that you care.
How 2.0 are you?
In other words, what “version” of the Internet experience are you providing visitors to your Web site?

Why Salespeople Fail and How You Could Have Predicted It
The companies at which this salesperson had prior success were with brands you know well, that everyone in the world already carried, with established distribution. All he had to do was grow what had already been established by others before him. After all, how much new distribution had to be created for Oscar-Mayer Wieners?
5 Things you Need To Be a Successful Bookkeeper
There are a number of qualities needed to become a successful bookkeeper; these are the five qualities that I feel are the most important. They are in no particular order and the first one is not necessary but it helpful. The other four, in my opinion, are all essential to success.
Prospecting with a Plan
A good pool of prospects is one of the keys to a successful selling career. Knowing how to prospect effectively keeps a career vital, and is truly the lifeblood of sales. Yet, so many sales professionals overlook the crucial element of having a prospecting plan. With a plan to follow, you can measure your efforts and results.

There are do’s and don’ts in starting your opt-in mailing list.
As excited as you may get to see your list growing, don't get too excited and blow your chance to develop a long term relationship with these people!
Marketing - 7 Ways To Increase Your Leads, Customers and Sales
One common mistake I see small business owners and entrepreneurs make time after time is this -- relying on one source for leads. So how do you avoid that situation? By not relying on one lead source but instead diversifying and having leads come in from multiple sources.

Make Money with Ezines: 6 Tips to Maximize Your Return on Investment
Possibly the greatest aspect of online marketing is that audience that exists online. Millions of people, world wide, use the internet to look for products, services and information.

Lead Capture Pages for Network Marketing
Lead Capture Pages? What are they? Which Lead Capture System Should I Use? What Happens With Your Leads?

"Are You Considering An Incentive Program In Your Company"
Employee performance can be a sore spot for many employers in this country. Most often you will find that the time that you believe that everything is well in hand, bang, someone comes along and pulls the rug out. You have employees that are not performing like you want. They are doing only what they have to and nothing more. Morale in the workplace is low and the complaints are high. Now you could use this situation to do a good lot of cleaning out. But that is not the issue that needs to be resolved.
The Apprentice - Baby Bear Says "Please Buy My Wedding Dresses"
Be warned – this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the eighth episode and the rest of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited TV, nothing more.
Importance of goals in your business
The importance of setting goals and the system that can be used.
Competition or Cooperation?
Today I want to address one of the fundamental keys of the Law of Attraction that is little known by many business owners and entrepreneurs. In the United States, Americans are taught early on that competition is healthy and that it's always best to "be number one." However when using the Law of Attraction, we find that like energy attracts like energy. This means that every time we think about competing, or what our competitors are doing, or how can I out-sell my competitors- WE ARE ACTUALLY ATTRACTING MORE COMPETITION TO US.
The Apprentice - What A Difference A Week Makes…
Be warned – this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the second episode and the rest of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited TV, nothing more.
For Employees Only
Ever been disappointed with your year-end bonus? Ever felt like you got less than you deserved? Betsey addresses this issue with a real life example.
Go Ahead and Fire Your Customer
We wind up with unprofitable customers not because of the price we're charging them, but because of the intensity of their demands and requests. To be able to determine which customers need to be "fired," you must become more discerning of customers who place too many demands on you and/or other people in your company.

Incentives Spiffs and Bonuses A Thoughtful and Deliberate Sales Program
Before you introduce a sales incentive, spiff or bonus into your organization, take some time to understand the exact impact it will bring to your sales goals. But even more so the potential positive and negative impact such incentives can have on your sales and non-sales staff. Here is a holistic approach to creating incentives that will help ensure you are building stronger teams, recognizing team effort and building a healthy corporate culture while improving your overall sales revenue.
Idea Blob: An Infectious Way to Fund Your Green Business
If you’re like many ecopreneurists out there, you have a great idea or three cooking on the back burner right now, that could be a full fledged company, or perhaps a powerfully beneficial invention. And you think, with a little financial push and a lot of advice, it could really do something, becoming more then doodles on a napkin. Or perhaps you’re already up and running (like crazy) and some extra eyes, ears to help finesse what you’ve got going would be helpful. And $10,000 in extra money towards it would be a nice bonus. Where can you find this? One example out there right now is Idea Blob.
Fire Your Advertising Agency
There is a startling way for most dealers to double their business – fire their advertising agencies.
Questions Concerning Severance & Separation Agreements
General analysis concerning severance and separation agreements from a business owner's perspective.
Free Home Based Business Article Marketing Secrets
Those who use article marketing to advertise and generate free organic traffic to their website are aware of how effective this internet marketing method is, so let’s explore a little further and discover some lesser known ways on how article writing can improve your home based business.
Severance and Separation Agreements
One topic I get a lot of questions about is severance and separation agreements. Although there's a distinct difference between the two, and some overlap, with some guidance the costs and benefits of both types of agreements can be understood and used to a business' advantage.
WOW Them with Your Freebie
Offering something for free or giving a bonus with purchase can create a buzz that generates excitement. That has the potential to give you more clients, brand awareness and increase loyalty with existing customers.

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Fathers Day Insight
I want to share with you this bonus Usable Insight from Dr. Mark Goulston's blog. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!
One Last Rule Never Put Everything in Your Advertisement
This is one last bonus 22nd rule in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars.
Keeping Your Variable Compensation Programs in Compliance with the FLSA
Ever wondered how to keep your bonus/incentive programs within the FLSA guidelines? Then this is all you need.

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.

Over Achievers on the Sales Force - We Have it All Wrong
Believe it or not, our six-year-old son is an over achiever. He has spelling tests each week and his teacher gives the class bonus words for extra points. He loves the bonus words and extra points so much that he has duplicated the process on his math tests. The teacher gives the class 20 math questions each week but (right now they are working on problems like 7 + 4) no bonus questions on the math. Our son takes it upon himself to add 4 bonus questions (he includes bonus questions like 800 +600) because he feels he can do more. This begs the question, how do you measure your over achievers?

Sales Management Training Tips: Coaching the Talented-Slacker
Meet Jane. Jane is an experienced and successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. In fact, there are many Jane’s in all companies. Jane is performance driven, a very good coach and a people person. Each month Jane is put to the test with different sales reps she must coach to success. IBZ is a mid sized technology company. The company has had some tough years but has turned the corner. It pays it’s reps a combination of salary and bonus for achievement of targets. This year the bonus plans has a super bonus portion which accelerates when a rep is 5% over quota. Jane wants to get 2009 off to a great start. In one of our monthly coaching sessions Jane, was expressing her frustrations with one of her most tenured sales reps.

6 Mistakes to Avoid When Setting Up A Bonus System
Setting up a Bonus System does not need to be difficult, it doesn’t need to add unsupportable expense into your business, but it does need to be equitable and it does need to be easy to understand and implement.
Online Marketing Strategies: Bonuses, Discounts, Coupons & Special Orders
There are any number of marketing strategies that can help you improve your sell-through ratio - regardless of whether you are selling online or offline. These include using bonuses, discounts, coupons and/or special orders. Each of these approaches has an advantage, depending on the manner in which they're used. In fact, you can utilize a number of these in conjunction with each other... There are some schools of thought that say that providing your clients and potential buyers with bonuses is better than offering a discount. I certainly full into this camp - I believe that offering a bonus is preferable to offering a discount! Let's take a look at why. e A bonus is meant to attract people to complimentary (tie in) products or services, as well as encouraging the buy-through.
Playing the Name Game
You've probably heard the old saying that there is no sweeter sound to the human ear than the sound of one's own name. It's true. You can impress the heck out of new acquaintances if you just remember and use their names, and you'll be remembered (Name Game bonus!).

For Employees Only
Ever been disappointed with your year-end bonus? Ever felt like you got less than you deserved? Betsey addresses this issue with a real life example.
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