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Why the Relationship is So Important to the Sales Outcome
Many people have written extensively on the topic of relationships and selling. One common topic is that people only buy from people they like and the other is how to develop strong relationships. There is nothing wrong with either of those topics but they surely miss the mark in two important areas.
The Dos and Don’ts of Innovation
In his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker put forward a few simple “hard-core” Dos and Don’ts to help companies become more innovative. How does your organization stack up against Duckers checklist?
Who's delivering your sales training?
You cannot fake real sales experience and sales wisdom. It is one of the professions that is the hardest to teach and train because without real life sales experience you are at risk of being seen as inauthentic. To help you make the best choice when it comes to selecting the right sales trainer let's consider the following:
6 Tips on What To Do With Cards on Desktops, Shelves, and in Rubberbands!
What are you doing with all those business cards? I know I watch my friends and when I ask them about their system I get all kinds of responses. One will hand me a stack with a rubber band around them. Another will throw them in a pretty woven basket. Another just makes piles and piles and piles and piles on all the shelves in their office. What are YOU doing with all those business cards?

KYSS Chaos Goodbye: How to Keep Your Strategies Simple and Gain More Time to Enjoy Your Riches in Niches!
As a Nichepreneur®, you lead a busy life. Backbreaking labor isn’t always enough to outdo competitors. To-do lists stack against you. Your foundation remains uncertain, squabbling over big ticket items to bail you out of a down economy. Sadly, good intentions don’t always yield top results. To ensure lasting business success, you must embrace niche simplicity. This article tells you how to keep your strategies simple, to help you to get rich in your niche.

Staying Small By Choice
Gil Gordon, who invented tele-commuting as a way of allowing talented employees to work from home instead of at their corporate offices, prefers to stay small. Here is his personal story.
Commercial Property: 10 things not to do
Commercial Property is a low entry market, that is unqualified buyers enter and exit. Jones Commercial has put together 10 things not to do to help those new to the market be successful.
Getting The Most From Your Promotional Items
You have a box of great promo items ready to take to a trade show. You bought them because you know they're the most effective possible advertising for your company. Now how can you get the best "bang for your buck" from these items? Follow these simple rules:
Realtors Only...Vocation, Vocation, Vocation
Over the past eight months I have been observing and consulting in the Real Estate industry. I have the utmost compassion for their state of affairs and the struggle that many have had during the ongoing downturn in the industry.

Manage Your Salespeople by Working Smart, More Stack Rankings
In addition to tracking with the "behavior board," which gives recognition to those individuals who have performed positive selling behaviors "better" than others on the team, share information on other things too, to help motivate (and not de-motivate) salespeople toward their goals.

Beware Time Liabilities
Are you surrounded by Time Liabilities? I define a Time Liability as: a) anything that consumes time unnecessarily or b) anything that causes you to spend time in activities that are less profitable than your most profitable activity. If your filing system causes you to spend extra time doing $9 per hour clerical work, trying to find that important document you misplaced, then you have a Time Liability. If your workspace is so uncomfortable that you have to spend time at a chiropractor every month to correct your spine alignment problems, you definitely have a Time Liability!
Why You Need Insurance For Professional Fees in a Tax-VAT Investigation!
Did you know you could get insurance cover for this? Do you know why you need insurance cover for this? Do you know that a poorly defended Tax investigation could bankrupt you? Do you think this could never happen to you?? OK. Enough questions, what about the answers?
Smart Women are 40, 50, 60 and Beyond!
This article is about women realizing that it’s sometimes in our 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and Beyond when we realize some of our biggest life passions. Not so long ago, women felt that they had reached their prime after 50. Not so any longer! We’ve come a long way baby! Women today have Big Ideas, passion and energy. They are taking these ideas and turning them into big profits. Women beyond 40 begin to cultivate the wise wisdom they have learned in their 20’s and 30’s and use this to move their lives forward.

Why you should go to networking events
If you’re anything like me, there are probably times when you’ve booked onto a networking event and then when the day arrives, you question whether or not to go to it. My reasons are usually around the stack of work I’ve got building up on my desk and I debate whether to stay in the office and plough through it or to make the effort to go to the event.
Learn How To Interview Applicants
So you are hiring new employees and have narrowed your stack of resumes to the 10 or so top candidates, now it's time to start setting up interviews. If you dread this portion of the process, you're not alone. Fortunately, there are some ways to put both yourself and the candidates at ease - and make sure you get all the information you need to make a smart decision
The Best Leaders Don't Have to be in the Office
If you want to run a successful business, one of the first steps is to learn to implement systems so that you don't need to be at your business all of the time. Your office should be able to run without you. In fact, there are very few successful entrepreneurs that are also micro-managers. As a business leader, your focus should be on growing your business, not the day to day operations. For many that is a really hard transition. So, take it step by step. One great place to start is by making sure that your business can function when you are ill or away on business trips. Here are three tips to help you kick that process off.
Tips on Writing Headlines
Headlines sell. Take a look at any magazine front cover and you will see a stack of headlines enticing you to read further. The evening news bulletin – you hear headlines at the top of the news before they go into content. Direct mail – the headline is the difference between reading and binning your letter. Email – the subject line will determine whether or not your mail gets opened.
A Luxury Once Had Becomes A Necessity
Two techniques to turn a luxury into a necessity in the buyers mind. A luxury an item that is desirable but not essential. a product or service that gives great pleasure.

Branding YOU – Should You Put Your Photo on Your Business Card?
I was at a networking event this week having a pleasant conversation with a nice fellow about Branding and how to set yourself apart in the marketplace. We were discussing the benefits of using a professional designer to create a brand for your business. Upon handing him my business card he said "I see that you have your photo on your business card. I've been told that it's not a good idea to do that. What do you think?"

The Attitude of Gratitude
The other day a client sat nervously in my office, dismissing her "silly" feelings preemptively with a wave of her hand. “Please explain,” I encouraged. She pulled a tissue out of the box and dabbed her eyes, looking at the carpet as she spoke. “I’ve had a lot of health problems recently. I don’t want to be a complainer but it’s been a push just to get up in the morning and go to work. Yesterday, my boss just left a stack of work on my desk and walked away without a word.” With that, her voice broke.

Part Three - Prospecting for More Sales
Part Three of a Ten Part Series. In this series, we explore all the different avenues of prospecting necessary for a business to succeed. Think of your business as a a beautiful garden, and then consider all the things you need to do to keep that garden beautiful and growing, rather than dreary, dead or decaying. Need help with Prospecting? Feel free to get in touch with us via our website.

Paperless Office – Where are You?
Not that long ago, the buzzword was the coming “paperless office.” What happened to that and what should we do about it?
Press Release Success Criteria - Is it Newsworthy?
You have decided you need to distribute a Press Release to the local newspapers about your upcoming lecture at the neighborhood library. You also think that the listeners at local radio station FM 99.9 would be perfect attendees at this event.
Your Perfect Job - Five Tips to Land a Job That's a Right Fit
Considering a new job? Here are five tips to help you decide if the job is a perfect fit for you.

Resolving Needs - What Your Employees Wish For!
Sometimes in business, the big stuff gets the all the attention it needs - whilst the small stuff misses out. Yet it is the small stuff that your people live with day in, day out. For them, the biggest issues they face are not 'Mission Statements', 'Visions' or 'Corporate Values' - sorry, they just aren't interested. So what is important to them? Here's how you find out...
9 Simple Virtual Team Outsourcing Tips to Make More Money
Is the cost of hiring a team holding you back? Discover the 9 Simple Virtual Team Outsourcing Tips to Make More Money in Record Time. I'll share them with you here and I hope you will pass it on to others who really need to discover how profitable it can be to outsource and delegate.

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How to Expand Your Referral Base
Everyone talks about the importance of networking. But, do it the wrong way or talk about the wrong things, and you'll do more harm than good for your company and your promotions. Here are some tips to get the most out of any networking event, and walk away with more than just a stack of business cards.
Learn How To Interview Applicants
So you are hiring new employees and have narrowed your stack of resumes to the 10 or so top candidates, now it's time to start setting up interviews. If you dread this portion of the process, you're not alone. Fortunately, there are some ways to put both yourself and the candidates at ease - and make sure you get all the information you need to make a smart decision
Why you should go to networking events
If you’re anything like me, there are probably times when you’ve booked onto a networking event and then when the day arrives, you question whether or not to go to it. My reasons are usually around the stack of work I’ve got building up on my desk and I debate whether to stay in the office and plough through it or to make the effort to go to the event.
Obama Stock Analyst Turned Currency Analyst
China's calling for a super reserve currency as the Fed and Treasury stack on trillions of dollars in US debt. While I don't think China will get their wish for a new global reserve currency anytime soon, I feel their pain. Once foreigners stop buying our debt, we're in big trouble!

The Dos and Don’ts of Innovation
In his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker put forward a few simple “hard-core” Dos and Don’ts to help companies become more innovative. How does your organization stack up against Duckers checklist?
Working Between Layers
I view an organization as a stack of overlapping layers. Good leaders instinctively know how to work effectively in between the layers so they are credible in both directions. That takes a special skill. This article outlines some of the leadership dynamics between organizational layers.
Is Bing Making a Move on Google?
Bing has recently moved into the "Local" market, as did Twitter. How does Bing Stack up to Google? How is the process different? Who wins the Local battle? Why the consumer, because these locality searches get's any business owner into the Search Engine Optimization game for FREE!

Implement Efficient Document Management Software to Get Organized in Your Home, Office and Storage
Many people would just like the paper in their life to go away but somehow it seems to keep coming. This is especially true in business. Some companies use document management systems to help keep track of all the paper. There are 5 main options when you are considering how to handle the paper in your world. You can toss it, stack it, alphabetize it, scan it or index it.
Android Platform for Mobile Software Development
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.

Job applicants - take note (please!)
I see many different job applications, as you would expect, however the ones that grab my attention, and therefore go the top of the stack, have all the right elements. What are they? Read on...
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