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The 600# Gorilla named sales lead "Follow-Up."
Why isn't UPPER MANAGEMENT furious that less than 20% of expensive sales leads ever get followed-up.
WHY ISN'T UPPER MANAGEMENT FURIOUS about the 600# Gorilla in their living room named -- sales lead "Follow-up?"
The Marketing department gets sales leads to the Sales department faster... so nothing can be done with them sooner. WHY is that behavior tolerated? Or is the reason obvious?

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Overcoming the Classic Home Staging Catch 22 Clients or References which comes first
New home stagers always face this dilemma; if you can't get clients without references and a home staging portfolio, how do you get references and photos for a portfolio? The Staging Diva® explains how to work around this classic 'Catch-22'.

Reference Requests for Salespeople
For the first time in months, I was recently asked for references. No problem! But it got me thinking about who asks for references, why they ask for references and when they ask for references...and what salespeople do when they're asked for references, and whether those references lead to closed business. As I thought this through, quite surprisingly, my three largest personal clients - all multi-billion dollar corporations, never asked. Three medium sized companies - over $100 million - never asked. I am personally working with only a handful of smaller companies and only one of them asked. Those insights tie directly to why people ask for references:
Fake Job Reference Services
You may have heard about new web-based services that are offering fake work histories and references for job seekers. In tough economic times, some unemployed job seekers are taking desperate measures to make up for a spotty work history or poor references. As an employer, this means it's more important than ever that you conduct due diligence on potential employees before you hire them.

Are Internet Home Based Business Opportunities Real?
I bet you are reading this and are wondering or have wondered in the past “are internet home based business opportunities real and can they be real for me”. You have read countless stories, watched countless videos and seen many testimonials showing all these people that are taking advantage of the power of the internet and started their own business.

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