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What is outsourcing?
If you ever hired an outside consultant, service provider, subcontractor, or agency to produce some deliverable service on your behalf…
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Tips
4 Principles for Mobile Marketing Design
Mobile marketing is not only for the heavy-hitting, deep-pocketed Fortune 500 companies. It is more affordable than one may think and easy…
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Make It Your Business: Strike Gold with Prospects’ Top Brass
One of the most spirited debates among salespeople swirls around where in a prospective customer’s organizational chart initial contact ought…
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The 10 Percent Rule of Sales
At best, only 10 percent of all the business contacts you make will ever buy from you. Ever. Business contacts…
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What is one simple truth of sales?
Take a moment to peruse a list of the current clientele of your business. Read each company or individual’s name.…
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5 Factors to Consider Before Hiring an SEO Firm
Are they friendly? What tactics do they employ in gaining notoriety and visibility for their clients? There is such a…
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How do you calculate your share of the market?
To calculate your share of the market, first define the size of the market in which you compete. The total available market…
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What is the proper way to conclude a business meeting?
Most people are so anxious to leave (or make their next meeting) that results of the meeting aren’t summarized, expectations…
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What makes a team player?
In the book, Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability), authors David Marcum and Steven Smith suggest…
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Make It Your Business: Do-It-Yourself Market Research
Most sign shop owners I’ve met don’t have the financial resources to hire a market research firm- one whose job…
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When to Conduct Background Checks
When making a hiring decision on a worthy candidate, you might need a bit more information than a candidate provides…
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What should all marketing messages include?
All marketing messages should include seven important components: A clear, telegraphic headline An illustration of good value/ or a customer’s…
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Tips
Implement Innovation, Reward Creativity
Motivate individuals or teams who come up with winning ideas by actively recognizing innovation, perhaps through a reward campaign. You…
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How can a business choose a proper compensation plan for its sales reps?
Sales commissions, in incentive-based plans, usually account for 30 to 50 percent of a sales rep’s cash compensation and are…
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What are the benefits of upgrading your business’s computers?
You may not realize how much time is wasted when your computer lags because it is multitasking or has run…
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Leave Your Message After the Beep
How many times a day do you try to reach an important business contact and hear a voicemail greeting like…
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