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Life After Catastrophe
Robert Booker is a successful African-American entrepreneur. He tells his own story on how he succeeded in getting back on his feet by evolving from a business that went under to starting another new business.

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Lock Your Customers into Buying Exclusively from You
Every business owner dreams of customers that can only buy from them, totally shutting out the competition. It is being done everyday with Strategic Supplier and Integrated Supplier Programs that lock customers into buying exclusively from you, rendering the competition impotent.
Opportunity Pursuit – part 1, identifying or creating?
Too many interactions between suppliers and buyers are based on individual transactions involving the supplier re-acting to a stated requirement. This serves neither the supplier nor the buyer as the result is invariably a price driven solution with little or no consideration for the added value that could be available or for the potential benefits of a more solid relationship designed to deliver benefits way beyond the single one-off transaction.
MARKETING YOUR POINT OF Difference
How do you get across to customers that you are different? How do you get customers to understand the value and benefits that you actually offer? When customers come to choose a supplier of products or services they do so on the basis of understanding the benefits that they are going to get, understanding how you are going to exceed what they thought was available, and most of all by understanding your point of difference between you and anybody else they have spoken to or indeed their existing supplier.

Ready Set Huddle
Before the start of a game and during a game its team members get together to huddle, to discuss strategy make a plan and determine execution. Business is not different. A successful business has the proper team assembled to carry out a business plan. Even a sole proprietor has a team, only that team is comprised of consultants that are hired to carry out specific tasks. In a way the sole proprietor has the right idea. Hire the person who is best suited to do the work that is required. In essence, the sole proprietor has delegated work to the members of a team who are working together to ensure the proprietor's success.
Add Up-selling and Cross-selling to Your Sale Cycle
If you´ve been probing, listening and solving problems for your customer throughout your sales call, the next step - upselling and cross-selling should come naturally. The idea is actually to resell your customer, not only to increase sales, but also to ensure that your customer has no reason to turn to your competition. Your objective is to become your customer´s sole supplier of your product line. Don´t be reluctant about this phase of the sales cycle. Your customer has already invested time with you, and has decided to buy your product or service. That an upselling/cross-selling message will fall on receptive ears.
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 2)
Segment 2 - Supplier Development and Management: The Fruit of a Poisonous Tree? Supplier Development and Management Effective supplier development and management should deliver a competitive advantage in cost, quality, delivery/responsiveness, technology, and innovation achieved.

Answering a Silent Question: When Compliance Adherence is a Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil Proposition (BC Compliance Group Profile)
How Can You Negotiate After the Deal is Done? “Imagine This: a requisitioner commits to a deal with a supplier without your involvement or approval. Now the supplier believes he’s already won the order and you’ve lost the upper hand in any negotiation. This can be one of the toughest situations you will ever face in procurement.” Network Member Question, January 12, 2009

An Elephant Sized Sales Tip You Need Now
Look Down Lady - There's An Elephant On Your Foot! (And this is a pachyderm in dire need of a pedicure.) This is the ELEPHANT that hardly anyone ever asks about with their potential customer: "Who was your previous supplier and why are you unhappy with them?" Don't be sooooooo afraid of mentioning your competition because you're terrified you'll lose the sale too. A BIG, elephant-sized mistake that would be. Pssst. You need to know what your customer's expectations are of you. You need to know what made them so unhappy with their last supplier that they dumped them (or are considering it)

Sole Trader Business Finance - The facts you need to know
As a Sole Trader there are different legal responsibilities when it comes to your financial liabilities, there are several facts you need to know when you consider setting up your business as either a limited entity or a sole trader, this article explains.
Cracked eggs don’t hatch!
Great organisations are predicated on highly satisfied, totally committed customers who want appropriate quality and a fair price for the goods or services they buy. These customers, as long as they can see that they are receiving value for money, are perfectly happy for their supplier to make good profits – they want to know that the supplier will be there in the future. It’s the marginal customers for whom price is a key determining factor. What happens when there are systems issues that work against good customer service?
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