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WHAT MAKES A QUALIFIED PROSPECT, QUALIFIED?
Have you ever asked yourself, what are the specific characteristics of a qualified prospect? What are the minimum pieces of information I need to know to determine if the potential for a sale exists? What pieces of information are required before you consider a prospect qualified? Am I using a consistent sales system or process to successfully obtain the information needed? Here are 17 areas with questions you may want to ask yourself so you can create a qualified prospect profile also known as an Account Sales Profile™.

The Economic Stimulus Package Can Help YOUR Business
Taking Obama’s strategy to the next level is encouraging the “risk takers” to step up. They are the entrepreneurs and small businesses. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are agile, hungry for success and quick on our feet, unlike our cousins the large companies, who are busy circling their wagons, laying people off and retrenching. I cannot emphasize enough how important a time this is for us all in our businesses. It is during these economic downturns that businesses and markets reinvent themselves and evolve the markets and economy on to greater heights.

Recession Proof Your Business (and Your Life)
There have been many articles in magazines, e zines and newspapers over the past few months that provide tips on how to recession proof your business. These tips, if implemented, will help business weather the storm of a general recession in the economy so that the business can enjoy the subsequent up turn in the economy. My articles traditionally explores the parallels between business and personal life and this article looks at how to employ these recession proofing business initiatives in our personal life's.
If you live by price - you will die by price
If your prospect does not see the value in your product or service, and if the only difference between you and the competitors is in pricing, you didn’t do a good job as a sales person. The main description of your position inside the company is to create the value, not just to show your price list.
Getting Greener
Revealing misconceptions about the effort to go green and demonstrating the plentiful benefits. This article was featured in USBusinessReview; I and other local business people provide insight into the benefits of building green business practices.

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Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Why change initiatives, whether they were intended to boost quality, efficiency, sales or profitability, or reverse business spiral usually only generate lukewarm results or fail.
Project Failure
Recently I read some disturbing information regarding major corporate initiatives. According to a survey by the Utah-based VitalSmarts: • 82% of employees within companies with significant organization-wide initiatives underway believe those project will fail. • 78% are currently working on a “doomed” project. • 90% knew early on the project would likely fall short of the objectives • 77% describe these projects as “slow motion train wrecks” • 81% believe it is impossible to approach the failing project’s key decision-maker

Making Lean Part of the Business Strategy
With the best of intentions, many companies fail to secure the desired results for lean manufacturing initiatives. Why? Because the lean initiatives are not part of the overall business strategy.
Competitive Career Management Practices: Gaining Leverage in the 21st Century
The global marketplace and ever-changing workforce have created the need for organizations to engage human resources practices that recognize their human capital as their major competitive advantage. In fact, the current trends emphasize the growing demand for effective, creative recruitment and retention initiatives. Most human resources executives will site the need to stay competitive with these initiatives as one of their biggest challenges. One of the basic principles to assist with this challenge is to embrace pro-active and strategic career management practices that can provide you with a strong foundation for gaining a competitive edge.
Return on Investment from Coaching – Measuring Success!
Aligning HR strategy with business strategy is critical, however it is insufficient to make this strategic linkage at concept level and then embark on HR initiatives without a conscious intention to measure the return on investment (ROI) of these initiatives

Small Business Internet Marketing Does Not Mean Throwing Successful Babies out With the Bathwater
First small business owners need to take stock of what their current marketing initiatives are and analyze their success rate. Are your current programs attracting qualified leads? If something is working, keep doing it - even if it is not on the Internet.
Seven Success Factors Impact Leader Effectiveness in Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies have fewer resources to execute business objectives. OnPoint's study reveals the success factors that impact leader effectiveness to help prioritize leadership development initiatives and ensure ROI.
Prioritize your Strategic Initiatives
Strategic planning is a great way to identify which initiatives can add the most value to your organization. The next step is to prioritize initiatives with a systematic method. Use our downloadable Priority Index Tool to guide you through the prioritization process, and help you drill down on the value added for each proposed initiative.
Gain Wealth Through Happiness
There are two types of people: the Victim, and the Entrepreneur. Many Entrepreneurs own their own businesses; some don't, but instead practice their entrepreneurial initiatives in the employ of others. It's not business ownership that distinguishes the two types: it's a mindset of abundance. Entrepreneurs keep their optimism and joy even when business is "down." Victims are never happy, and more money won't change that....
Managing Complexity – A Leadership Checklist
Economic uncertainty and globalization, along with innovative technologies provides leaders constant challenges to successfully run their business enterprise. The following checklist can help business leaders navigate complex change initiatives.
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