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Taking a Bet on BET: Johnson Jumps onto the Small Screen
Johnson was in a business meeting at the NCTA when he met a businessman who wanted to start a television station for the elderly. “I said, hmmm, let me see that,” recalls Johnson. “So I looked at it, and I said, wherever he had elderly I crossed out and put black people. Black people are a certain demographic, black people are poorly depicted on television, so on, and so forth.”

To Make Sales Appointments In 2009 and Beyond - Is Cold Calling Dead?
Will social media and marketing ever replace the skills of cold calling and professional telesales. Absolutely not. Read this fantastic article to find out why...

Small Business Phone Systems Options
Small business phone systems options used to be pretty cut and dry. In the ‘old days' there was simply a rotary phone or a touch pad phone that could place calls on hold in one location on site and route those calls to another location on site. Those days, though not so long ago, are long gone and now small business phone system options are almost unlimited.
Learn to say ‘NO’
Giving away the margin and undercutting your prices because you can't say ‘NO' is no good for anyone. It devalues you, your product, and your market. If done on mass then customers expect ‘cheap' all the time, not fully appreciating the real value of the products or services they buy. All you do is risk devaluing you and your business.
Financials for Business Owners: More Than A Look In The Rear View Mirror
Financial reports are the least understood piece of business information for most business owners. Yet everyone expects a business owner to understand his financial reports. Banks want them and they're needed to prepare tax returns. If you're not an accountant, you probably don't know how to use them to manage your business. Accounting is the language of business. The reports tell the story of how well your business is performing. Once you know what your financial reports can tell you, your accountant can provide the information in a format that makes sense and is quick and easy to read, even for a non-accountant! This is the first in a series of articles that will put business owners back in control of their company and reduce the stress that comes from not being certain how well your business is performing.

Should I Buy A Work From Home Franchise?
Working from home under the auspice of your own home business is a very tempting idea for most of us, and for very good reason: who doesn’t want to avoid traffic, be free of "the man," and work on his own terms? If it’s a fit for you: check out some of the following work at home businesses.

Proven Business Building Success Formula for Building Customer Loyalty
Is building customer loyalty important to you? Do you know the real question that determines loyal customers? Maybe you are not asking the right question and not measuring the right results.
Make the best out of your Giveaways #K4
Giveaways are staple enticement products or rewards offered to targeted clients at trade shows, consumer shows, within business organizations and the retail environment. They can be referred to as “advertising specialties” which are meant to lure people to take notice and become future business opportunity. These can also be in the form of incentives and premiums given to employees or clients to motivate and compensate them for their efforts and contribution to the business. Considering the significant role that these giveaways are expected to play, it is imperative to create appropriate and effective items which carry value and message for the targeted customer. One needs to keep the final objective of the giveaway in mind, to come up with a most creative ideas and concepts to hit the nail’s head
When The Going Gets Tough...The Tough Start Looking For New Customers
At the moment the news seems to be full of nothing but doom and disaster, fire and famine, war and pestilence, death and destruction. So it might seem insane to be talking about how to find new customers in these circumstances.

3 Tips to Earning the Big Bucks - The Value of Presentation
The way entrepreneurs present themselves is an important part of how we value them. If you want to earn the big bucks you have to present yourself the right way. You have to create a brand through presentation.

5 Keys to GUILT-FREE Success
Guilt-Free Success can be accomplished with these 5 simple keys.

The Story of the Talking Head
When you’re bursting with ideas or are passionate about your topic, it’s easy to become a Talking Head. But, developing the ability to listen is so much more effective and vital to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
Business Luncheon Manners Always Matter, Ten Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Every business day of the year, there are business lunches taking place. And every business day there are bad business luncheon manners being displayed and observed. Inexperienced staff members to experienced business executives commit these business manner blunders because too many people forget their manners at the business luncheon table. And these business lunch manner faux pas result in a negative image of the person committing them and the company they represent. All business manners are essential to building relationships in today’s business world. People, who present themselves very favorably, will maximize their business potential. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach would like to offer the following ten (10) tips to ensure good business manners at your business luncheon meetings.

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The Exploratory Meeting
The Exploratory Meeting is a key element in the sales process. Typically the meeting will have been arranged after qualification over the telephone, and a decision made by both parties that it would be mutually beneficial to meet. It is the exploratory meeting that will allow the professional sales person to set the ground rules and get a ‘feel’ for the customer and their needs.

Entrepreneurs – Do You Need More Financing But Not Sure How To Ask For It?
You’ve got a meeting at the bank next month, and you will be discussing financing for your business. Your company is profitable and I'm looking for a bank loan to finance more business growth. What things should you focus on in the meeting? Are there certain things that you definitely should/should not talk about?
New Client meetings 7 Steps to Success
Meeting potential clients for the first time can be nerve racking. Wondering if they will be a good fit for your Business and services. Wondering if they will like you. Wondering what you should say.Let me give you some straight talking tips on how to make your first client meeting a success.
Imagine SuperCharging client meetings
I don't know if you have ever been in the scenario where you are about to walk into a meeting, you know that this guy you are meeting has the potential to give you an order that will take you to the next level.

5 Ways to Improve Communication in Meetings
As we all know, communciation in meetings can get out of hand. These easy tips can help your meeting to stay focused on what is important without the meeting getting sidetracked.
Best Free Internet Marketing Techniques - The 5% Rule!
I have a team meeting on Skype every week and this is a forum for all of us to share anything to help each and every one of us to progress our business. This can be anything from marketing strategies, motivational books or CD's, updates on keyword research, how to increase social media followers and many more. The technique I brought to the meeting this week was the 5% rule. This is where you commit to doing an extra 5% work on your business on a daily basis.
Accelerate The Quality of Every Meeting -The Easy Way
Courageous Participation Pays Off - For Everyone. Each team member accepts 100% responsibility for the result of each meeting. The success of the meeting depends on time spent - 50% prior planning, 15% conducting the meeting, and 35% participants' follow-up.
Don’t Read This…Unless You Want To Have A Really Good Sales Meeting
We’ve all sat through God-awful boring sales meetings right? Not exactly a good time, as I’m sure you’d agree… Has the thought ever occurred to you that your sales reps might feel like this almost every time you call a sales meeting? “Positively absurd” you say! Well, if you are one of the few who does have the need to inject a little vigor in your next sales meeting, then read on… Try this to spice things up: next time you call a sales meeting, try a little “lead by being led” reverse psyschology on your sales reps to get them involved in the process of choosing topics. All you do is simply ask your sales reps a week or two before the sales meeting what they most want to hear about is the best way to get them engaged and helps to “spruce things up”. After all, if you ask them what they want to hear about in the meeting you
Running Effective & Actionable Meetings
When properly planned and executed, meetings can efficiently communicate ideas, solve problems, and generate action items. Unfortunately, many managers waste time by holding unnecessary or ineffective meetings. Read this summary to learn how to run an effective meeting, and use Demand Metric’s Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template to standardize your meeting process.
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.
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