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Portages: Or, The Economic Past is Here -- It's Just Evenly Distributed
I am fascinated with how we don't notice that much of the past is still with us, that it's so evenly distributed as to be invisible. I often talk about this in the context of urban fire departments, and the small percentage of their calls that are actually for fires.
Lesson #2: A Company is More About the Culture You Create
“Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa,” Steinbrenner once said.

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How to sell deeper into your existing clients business
I received a call from a sales executive (let's call him Carl) recently about a dilemma he was having. He said, "Russ, I have a great suite of products and services that can address the needs of various departments and functions within a company. But once I get the first sale in one department, I just can't seem to penetrate other departments at this same account. I just seem to hit a brick wall. I looked at most of my accounts and I noticed that I only sold one product or service to each one. I rarely sell multiple products to multiple departments within the same company. What am I doing wrong?" Read on to find out what I told him.
Reader Response to SMEs Once Again Voice Concerns Over GoC Shared Services Strategy
Reader Comment And the second point is - is this a boondoggle in the making? My understanding is that departments are not falling over themselves to buy in to this initiative. But they have to subscribe, at least on paper, if they want funding from Treasury Board. I suspect many departments are paying lip service, waiting to see how it will all unfurl. Does anyone have a good knowledge of what the real situation is?
Sales and Marketing - Align, Define and Make Money
Too many sales and marketing departments in corporate America are misaligned (even though the two departments share the same corporate office). Here are 6 key areas of misalignment to fix quickly before you lose more clients and money.

Government Business Grants in Canada. Are They a Myth?
Bureaucrats are famous or infamous depending upon your perspective, for lacking knowledge of what goes on outside of their own departments/agencies. Often they are not aware of the programs of another division within their own departments. Many government programs provide funding that is non - repayable but are not called grants. Some government departments finance third party sectoral or community based organizations to administer funding on their behalf. All of thes reasons may lead one to believe there are no grants available. Guess again.

Predictions: What Lies Ahead for Sales and Marketing
Over the last several decades, corporations have implemented sets of best practices and software automation tools for some of their key departments - Manufacturing, Finance, Operations - to allow those departments to measure their efforts and attain maximum effectiveness in helping their firm keep its competitive edge and grow revenues, profits and market share. But what about two other critical groups: Sales and Marketing? This article examines the current push by many boards and CEOs to create a more formal set of best practices and software solutions for their Sales and Marketing departments and then outlines the steps many companies are taking to develop and automate a set of best practices for Sales and Marketing.
Keep Your Fire Stoked
In so many ways this fire can be compared to a marketing team of professionals. It is nice to sit and watch the fire, watch the flames flicker but soon if you only watch and don’t feed your fire it dies down. You start to feel the chill back in the air. You must get up and put on another log on the fire.

Becoming An Online Entrepreneur: Keep Your Fire Burning
A fire in the fireplace is like the goal of an online entrepreneur. Find out how to keep the fire burning.
LEADERS HAVE BLOOD GROUP OF FIRE POSITIVE.
21st century is an era of fire. Steve Jobs have fire inside. It is constantly burning. Bill Gates has fire inside to bring Microsoft to new level .Blake Beery is putting 100 percentages to put his place in the world with the inner desire. I- Phone is pursuing to capture global market. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a fire inside. My favourite quotation is "PUT FIRE IN TO MIND OR PUT MIND IN TO FIRE." Leaders love to die with his fire instead of ice. A whole life is live and is so cold that had never warmed me or my neighbours or peers or society is useless and totally wasted opportunity.
Portages: Or, The Economic Past is Here -- It's Just Evenly Distributed
I am fascinated with how we don't notice that much of the past is still with us, that it's so evenly distributed as to be invisible. I often talk about this in the context of urban fire departments, and the small percentage of their calls that are actually for fires.
Persistence Goes the Distance
In 1914 Thomas Edison's factory in West Orange, New Jersey, was virtually destroyed by fire. Although the damage exceeded $2 million, the buildings were insured for only $238,000 because they were made of concrete and were thought to be fireproof. Much of Edison's life work went up in smoke and flames that December night. At the height of the fire, Edison's 24-year-old son, Charles, searched frantically for his father. He finally found him, calmly watching the fire, his face glowing in the reflection, his white hair blowing in the wind.

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