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Lesson #2: Remember that Happy Workers are Harder Workers
They can bring their dogs to work, wear jeans if they choose and compete in company-sponsored Elvis impersonator contests. Indeed, Ben & Jerry’s employees seem to have more perks than even the worker-friendly Google. Much like the Internet giant, Ben & Jerry’s has long recognized the importance of making a workplace fun for its workers.

Adding Social Features to Your Web Site
The web has become a terribly social place and that raises the expectation of most web site visitors. The ability to add content, comment, rate, review, interact and share information found when surfing the web has become standard fare.
Can Your Salespeople Sell More Effectively by Asking More Questions?
Selling by asking questions is hard. A list of questions isn't the answer. Left to their own devices, your salespeople won't be able to create the kind of questions that are needed. You might not be able to either.
Now How Can You Motivate Your Salespeople?
If you can't motivate your B and C players in the most challenging times by having them set goals so that they can earn more money, then how can you motivate them?

What we Think About Sales Motivation is All Wrong
The bottom line - for your salespeople - is that everyone is different; everyone is motivated by different things and for those who are clearly motivated by money, and where you have a clear goal and focus for them, their compensation should and must be commission based. When you have people who are motivated more by recognition, awards, competition, time-off, public service, or philanthropy, your compensation program should be flexible enough to compensate them in an appropriate manner too.
10 Ways to Better Manage & Motivate Your Sales Team
Ten great strategies for elevating your success as a sales manager and motivator
Mining Your Customer Base
In the early 1900's, Reverend Russell Conwell -- founder of Temple University -- gave a popular speech called "Acres of Diamonds." In it, he said: "Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas. They are in your own backyard if you but dig for them."

Fine Tune your Blog and Build More Readership using Contests
Remember the human interest angle is very powerful when a story is being told and (especially if you can say it really is true.) People are not only just interested in products or services. They are also interested in people and stories. So let's talk about a simple format to create a contest.
Marketing Your Web Site Businesses
On the call with Kirsty Dunphey, we discovered a variety of methods for marketing a website business – most of them almost entirely free! Here are some of her favorite ways of promoting her online businesses.
How To Build Residual and Recurring Traffic To Your Website
In the music business a band or performer who has a career consisting of only one hit is called a one-hit-wonder. A visit to your website is called a hit. The last thing you want for your business is for your website to become a one-hit-wonder. If people visit your website once and never return...someone is not doing a very good job, and you need to take action before you lose anymore valuable recurring traffic.
THE POWER OF THE MARKETING PYRAMID
By John Doerr “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm 1956 Imagine this scenario: you are at a professional services firm that has just come off a fairly good year of growing revenue and profits. You want to continue this growth going into the coming year and have decided you are finally going to take some of these profits and invest in marketing. You have accumulated a list of 1,000 clients, former clients, and prospects to target. Everyone turns to you and asks, “Well, how are we going to invest our hard-earned profits?”

Find a Need and Fill It
If you want to increase sales and grow your bottom line, find something your audience wants and serve them better than anyone else in town. The key to success? It's simple: Find a need and fill it.
Internet Users Hbk - Chapter 6g. Various Types and Examples of Internet Scams
Chapter 6g. VARIOUS TYPES AND EXAMPLES OF INTERNET SCAMS 6.20 TIPS TO AVOID IDENTITY THEFT 6.21 What to Do If You Responded To a Phishing Scam? 6.22 FBI Warns Public of E-Mail Scams 6.23 Email Spoofing - EBay

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Lesson #2: Remember that Happy Workers are Harder Workers
They can bring their dogs to work, wear jeans if they choose and compete in company-sponsored Elvis impersonator contests. Indeed, Ben & Jerry’s employees seem to have more perks than even the worker-friendly Google. Much like the Internet giant, Ben & Jerry’s has long recognized the importance of making a workplace fun for its workers.

Lesson #2: The Proof is in the Product that Works
In 1910, Harley-Davidson motorcycles captured at least seven different first place finishes in races and endurance contests across America. The four boyhood friends who founded the company began racing their motorbikes because they loved it. But soon after they began sweeping races across the country, Harley and the Davidson brothers realized that they were now racing for something even more valuable than a trophy or prize money: they were racing for sales.

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Chief Creative Officer of skinnyCorp/Threadless
Threadless is a very interesting company because of how it has “community-sourced” its product design. If you had told me that a company could succeed by running weekly tshirt design contests and then selling the winning designs, I would have told you that you’re nuts. I met Jeffrey during my tour of the Threadless offices a few weeks ago and posed these questions to him after my most enjoyable visit.
ROI vs Return on Relationships syndrome
So you own your own business or work for an organization that you think treat you fairly—think again! Many business owners today believe that small internal contests, yearly employee BBQ and the Christmas party are enough to build employee loyalty or keep their employee for over 12 months. As sad it might sound, this is a true statement for some; happily for the rest of the employees out there, there are some interesting companies that do score as Canada’s top employers because they got the big picture! They quickly understood that their best assets are their internal employees
PROMO PRODUCTS BOOST SALES
Need a cost-effective way to promote your business? Promotional products are the answer! Use them as giveaways to introduce your business to the community, a purchase premium (free T-shirt with purchase!), employee incentives for sales contests and awards for a job well done or as a "Thank You!" to your existing customers.

Promotional products offer you a unique opportunity to get your company's name out there and keep it there.
Need a cost-effective way to promote your business? Promotional products are the answer! Use them as giveaways to introduce your business to the community, a purchase premium (free T-shirt with purchase!), employee incentives for sales contests and awards for a job well done or as a "Thank You!" to your existing customers.
Promotional products offer you a unique opportunity
Need a cost-effective way to promote your business? Promotional products are the answer! Use them as giveaways to introduce your business to the community, a purchase premium (free T-shirt with purchase!), employee incentives for sales contests and awards for a job well done or as a "Thank You!" to your existing customers.
Crowdsourcing your companies success
More companies are turning to the people that love them most for ideas on all areas of their business by creating online public contests, games and increasing consumer interaction. Utilizing your consumers is smart marketing.
TV Stations - How Many “Likes” Do You Need?
Why do TV stations think bribing people to "Like" their facebook page for a chance to win an iPad has any long-lasting value? So I hit "like" and get a chance to win an iPad - so what? How many contests have you entered in your life you have totally forgotten about no matter how many direct mail pieces you received (and tossed)? Yes, the station can brag it has 7,500 "likes" but does that really translate into anything? For you facebook users, don't you scan your feed for the people and brands you really, authentically and voluntarily "like" rather than those you simply "liked" on a whim? Skipping over posts is today's version of discarding direct mail pieces.
Our Attitude More Than Our Aptitude Determines Our Altitude
Our society admires strength and power. Since the early games of the ancient Olympics, we've had contests of strength, stamina, speed, and the like. We've approached brainpower or intellectual abilities in the same way. We're in awe of intellectual giants with memory, reasoning, or complex problem solving abilities far beyond our own. IQ tests were developed to measure this intellectual strength and power. We've come to believe that highly intelligent people make the best professors, doctors, managers, scientists, and so on. Many people believe that high IQ and high levels of success and happiness go together.

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