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PITCHING TOO SOON: how I got it wrong
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| I recently received notices of multiple purchases from the same man. On one form, he completed a questionnaire saying he was considering using some of the thinking within my Buying Facilitation Method® in a sales training program he was designing. |
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100 Ways to Succeed #84
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| If The Envelope Doesn't Fit, Forget It!
(So Check on the Envelopes.) |
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Free Online Term Sheet Generator
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| If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it, but Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati, one of Silicon Valley’s dominant law firms (as in Apple, HP, etc), has created a free, online term sheet generator. This is the site’s description of the tool: |
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How a Business is Learning What Small Businesses Want to Learn
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| Sampling is a standard strategy in package goods marketing. This project by a training centre shows how the same technique can be used to develop or improve a product and build new business. |
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Few Employee Surveys Work
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| If you are tired of dealing with employee satisfaction surveys because they do not work, you need to read this article. In it you will find 10 tips to improve the effectiveness of any employee satisfaction survey. |
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How To Use Database Marketing To Skyrocket Your Online Profits
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| Database Marketing is the gathering and storing of specific information about your prospects or customers. This information is usually stored in a database program on your computer. You would then use the information to market and advertise to them. It can save you time and money because you can target your promotional efforts to your best prospects or customers.
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Everyone SHOULD BE a Salesman
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| In most businesses a small percentage of the staff is actually responsible for generating sales. Did you realize that you can leverage the strength of all of your employees to “sell” for your company? Sales is the life blood of any business and as sales go so goes profits. All of your employees need to understand that their job security and the viability of their company is tied to the revenue stream.
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How to create and deliver truly effective customer presentations!
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| What is a truly effective sales presentation? I would define it as one that generates a call to action that eventually leads to a sale. Is there an underlying theme, across all products and their respective target audiences, on how to deliver this presentation? The answer is a definitive yes. This article tells you how. |
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Why Conducting a customer survey could double your profits!
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| Customer Surveys are the most inexpensive way of generating profits, which any business could dream of. Companies like IBM used to pay their sales people, a bonus, based on the customer survey rating. But how could they really boost your profits? This article uncovers some of the secrets. |
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Buying An Existing Business Part II of IX
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| In this article we discuss the what you need to before you start looking for an existing business. In Particular you need to ask yourself what you are bringing to the table and what you hope to get in return.
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Earn Christmas Money By Taking Internet Surveys
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| This is the time of year that a lot of people are looking for some extra cash. There are bills to pay, presents to buy and there never seems to be enough money to do everything on your list. If you are worrying about having enough money to make it through the holidays or even recoup from them, take a few steps to earn money this Christmas by taking Internet surveys. |
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POWER Points to Ask BEFORE You Write a Single Word of Copy
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| Do you really know where to start when you're writing promotional copy?
When you’re ready to tackle your next copywriting project these POWER Points will help you get focused. Writing is a process and believe it or not there is a method to the madness. Whether you plan to write your own copy or outsource these POWER Points will kick start the process.
There are nine key questions I ask before considering any copywriting project. And this is just the beginning of the process. Once a client has invested in my services we go through a deep process of evaluating copy needs with a customized questionnaire. Some clients are even resistant to the process because it really makes you think about your business and direction.
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Procrastination Almost Killed ProductiveAndOrganized
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| I'd like to take a moment to tell you about my experience with blogging. You see, I'm a newbie (only blogging for about a year.) I have been reading the newsletters and posts from experts for at least the last 3 years on how businesses should have a blog. I KNEW it was something I should be doing, but gosh, wasn't there something else ... This is the story of how I was paralyzed by procrastination and overwhelm and how I came out of it. |
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Weather Any Economic Climate
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| Do you hear the word recession and immediately begin to panic? Perhaps you start to move slower and slower when it comes to making purchases, hiring staff and investing in sales and marketing activities.
You know that by being tight-fisted with your resources you are only compounding the issue, but how do you stop?
Follow these three simple strategies and weather any upcoming economic climate:
1) Get real on who your Top Level Target is
2) Fortify your Existing Client Relationships
3) Balance your Marketing Pie
Smart businesses know that the economy ebbs and flows at all times. They prepare themselves for any weather condition by following the three strategies above. Are you prepared?
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HOW TO PLAN A REALLY GREAT LIFE!
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| Does your life just go with the flow? Do you ever sit down and think what it is you would like to achieve in your life? I wrote this Tips article reflecting on a recent holiday to Greece, where I realised just how much time, effort and planning I had put into this one week out of the 52 in the year. In this tip I share with you how to start putting together your own Life Plan. |
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Methodology : Exploring entrepreneurship in a declining economy
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| A sample of 160 entrepreneurs located in different parts of Borno State in the North Eastern part of Nigeria was randomly selected from a list of small businesses furnished by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The ministry is the main agency responsible for registering small and medium enterprises and addressing issues related to their development in the state. Since the focus of this study was on business start-ups after the economic decline had began, only those entrepreneurs who had started their businesses after 1983 qualified for inclusion in this study. |
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Don't Do A Survey
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| Many leaders turn to an employee satisfaction survey to identify improvement opportunities. I believe there are more accurate and direct ways to gather the needed information. This article explores the dynamin and offers a soultion. |
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Entrepreneurs: Where Do You And Your Business Stand?
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| In-depth questionnaire for entrepreneurs and small business owners, regarding how their business is doing right now. Checklist then provides suggestions for fixing issues |
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PITCHING TOO SOON: how I got it wrong
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| I recently received notices of multiple purchases from the same man. On one form, he completed a questionnaire saying he was considering using some of the thinking within my Buying Facilitation Method® in a sales training program he was designing. |
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POWER Points to Ask BEFORE You Write a Single Word of Copy
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| Do you really know where to start when you're writing promotional copy?
When you’re ready to tackle your next copywriting project these POWER Points will help you get focused. Writing is a process and believe it or not there is a method to the madness. Whether you plan to write your own copy or outsource these POWER Points will kick start the process.
There are nine key questions I ask before considering any copywriting project. And this is just the beginning of the process. Once a client has invested in my services we go through a deep process of evaluating copy needs with a customized questionnaire. Some clients are even resistant to the process because it really makes you think about your business and direction.
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Franchise Solutions Named a Top 5 Portal for Overall Performance and Lead Quality by Franchise Benchmark
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| Franchise Solutions, a leading authority on franchising, is proud to once again be recognized in Franchise Benchmark's most recent industry analysis. The latest Franchise Benchmark report, which evaluated the three month time period from November 2009 through January 2010, ranks Franchise Solutions among the Top 5 franchise portals for both overall performance and Confidential Questionnaire (CQ) completion rates. The CQ completion rate metric represents the percentage of leads from a given source that complete franchise applications and is considered by franchisors to be one of the best indicators of lead quality. |
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Tendering For New Business The Easier Way
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| Every RFP (Request For Proposal) and PQQ (Pre Qualification Questionnaire) is different. Business proposal writing is time consuming, complex and expensive. It takes up your staff’s time and your company’s resources. So why do company’s write proposals? |
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Handling PQQ’s in the Correct Manner
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| The business world is highly competitive and one area where this is very easily seen is the awarding of contracts on the basis of tenders. As a result, there are many measures in place to weed out companies that do not make the grade. One of these measures is called a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Companies and Government agencies that use the tendering process to award contracts use PQQs to find out whether the companies that are desirous of doing their work are actually capable of doing it. |
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Being All That We Can See
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| There is no objective reality. We don't see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.
Sean was filling out a university questionnaire to help determine roommate compatibility. Beside the questions, "Do you make your bed every day?" and "Do you consider yourself a neat person?" he checked "Yes." Later his mother reviewed the questionnaire. Knowing those answers were far from the truth, she asked Sean why he'd lied. "What do you expect me to do," he retorted. "I don't want to get stuck living with some slob!" |
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