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Trading Up In Life: How Schwab Sold His Way to Success
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| When asked once what makes him the most happy in life, Schwab replied, “A lot of things. But they're probably no different from when I had no money. It’s my business pursuits and my personal life, a good relationship with my wife and kids and grandkids.” |
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How to Turn a Request for a Discount to Your Advantage
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| When a prospect asks for a discount, what do you do?
Many of us simply give it and accept a lower profit on the sale. This is fine if you
have a clear reason for giving it. Perhaps you wanted to keep a competitor out, or
you never intended to charge the full price you asked for, but what do you do if you
don't want to give the prospect a discount and do it simply because you fear losing
the sale? |
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Saying No Can Save You Money
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| Don't back down when customers want a discount - When was the last time you told a customer "No" when they asked you to discount? And how often are you prepared to walk away from a prospect when they ask for more than you are normally prepared to do? If you're like many sales people, your answers might be, "Not often enough." |
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The Billionaire Broker: The Early Years of Charles Schwab
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| Charles Schwab always had difficulty in school, but he never knew why. Today, he has become one of the most famous – and successful – dyslexics in the world. From using comic books to help him pass English literature classes to heading up the largest discount brokerage in the U.S., Schwab’s current fortune of $5.5 billion ranks him as the 57th richest person in the country.
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Lesson #3: Own Your Competitive Advantage
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| When Schwab first launched his discount stock brokerage company, he made it a habit to outsource his back office information technology to other companies. At the time, that was the standard practice throughout the industry. But by 1979, Schwab began to realize that if he was going to grow and gain competitive advantage, he was going to have to own that very technology. |
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WHATS MISSING FROM SERVICE FIRM MARKETING STRATEGIES
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| By Mike Schultz
Ask 10 professional service firms to see their marketing strategies and you will get an interesting mix of answers. You might get a 50 page document that would get an “A” in any business school class. Some firms might give you a few pages on the tactics they plan to implement by month or quarter. Many firms would say, “Marketing strategy? We're working on getting it down on paper this year.”
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The Challenge of Change for Law Firms
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| An overview of the strategic challenges facing professional services firms, especially law firms |
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Debt Settlement Sales Training
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| With the current economical downturn that the world is currently experiencing, there is a lot of debt going around. Debt collections are at an all time high and so are debt settlements. In some ways the debt settlement sales business is a lot like the liquidation business. One could even call it debt liquidation.
Debt management brokerage firms have sprung up all over the place now days. While they have always been part of the landscape, recently they have come forward as a real possibility for earning an income from home or as a small business.
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Drunks, A Wall, Entrepreneurs and Jobs
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| That young firms account for most of the job creation in the U.S. – as written about my Kauffman colleagues Dane Stangler, Bob Litan, and others -- has quickly become one of those compelling facts that changes the way you apprehend the entrepreneurial world. Young firms assume their rightful priority of place, and the vexing conflation of young/growth firms with small firms is finally and rightly undone. |
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Construction & the M&A Market (under $25 million revenues)
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| A brief informal update of the status of the construction merger and acquisition market or business brokerage market as of the Spring or Summer of 2011. We conclude that the business brokerage or business sale market for construction companies, including engineering firms, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical contractors, is improving but still slow. Read for details. |
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Does Size Matter? (When selling a Business?)
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| When you make the decision to sell... Often times there is a question that arises once you begin the process that many business owners do not have before they started. Does it matter what size the business brokerage (M&A) firm is that I hire to sell my business? This article gives the positives and negatives of big and small business brokerage firms. |
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