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For college students who are approaching graduation, the employment picture may be looking slightly better than it has in the past couple of years, as the country slowly recovers from the Great Recession. This recovery doesn’t mean, however, that job prospects are rosy; it just means that new ... Views: 1072
Cold calls were named appropriately because of the nature of introduction. But the call itself doesn’t have to be so cold when you take the right steps to execute it. Outbound lead generation is an art that companies have attempted to perfect. And through the many years of experience, we at ... Views: 3110
Finding your niche is the first step to doing successful marketing. Unless you know your target market, you will not be able to direct your campaigns properly. Today, lead generation adopts the power of the internet; thus making it so much easier for you to define the demographics. But how can ... Views: 1156
When dealing with your customers, there should be one simple rule: everyone is VIP. Here are a few tips you might want to consider when dealing with your most valued customers:
1. Identify and sift through your target market. Sales is never about selling to everyone on the block. You need to ... Views: 1440
Businesses these days are in a unique position in which there are four generations in the workplace. First, there are those who have been working for years and who, in better economic times, would be close to retiring. Then there are the Baby Boomers who are approaching retirement and, in many ... Views: 866
Whether you are a fan of baseball, football, soccer or basketball, one of the things that you’ll notice is that only the teams that work well together are able to come out on top. As you strive to achieve all the goals you have set for your business, one of the things that you’re going to want ... Views: 1194
Hiring new employees is a very different experience for different companies. In some cases, there are challenges because of diversity issues and cases in which there are concerns about whether or not the fit will be right - especially when the company is hiring someone younger to lead a ... Views: 1594
Have you ever looked around your business and thought that there was something missing? Have you ever walked into the employee cafeteria to see clusters of your staff - the same small clusters that form in individual departments? If you have, or if you’ve simply noticed that the more that there ... Views: 1129
In business, making sure that you are taking steps to ensure your company’s continued success is important. One of the best steps that you can take when you want to know that your staff members have what it takes to keep things running smoothly is to implement a corporate mentoring ... Views: 1220
When some business owners and corporations start looking into mentoring programs, there is some initial confusion about what mentoring is. One of the biggest confusions that they have is identifying what differentiates mentoring from coaching and why mentoring can be so much more ... Views: 1255
Diversity in the workplace is extremely valuable - provided of course that all of the members of your team are making a strong contribution and are willing and able to learn from what others have to offer. After all, workplace diversity brings together those with different levels of education ... Views: 1168
The more that businesses start looking into mentoring and the advantages that it offers, the more that they are going to want to focus on the characteristics of a mentor. In order to develop a mentoring program, it’s important that you are bringing the right people on board to get the program ... Views: 1046
One of the mainstream strategies involved in working foreclosures and short sales is the "art" of the flip. The basic idea of a "flip" is to negotiate the purchase price with a foreclosing lender (that is based on their Broker Price Opinion and your negotiation skills) that is less than the ... Views: 1153
Admiring Apple for only its well-designed products and clever commercials is only scratching the surface. Apple is actually a great case study on brilliant business modeling. Apple treats every product as its own business unit. What this means is that every product line could exist as its own ... Views: 9758
Have you ever seen The Blind Side? It's an acclaimed movie based on a true story first described in a best-selling book by Michael Lewis. It's quite inspiring.
The Blind Side introduces us to Michael Oher, one of 13 children born to a mother addicted to crack cocaine living in a Memphis ... Views: 802
From an outsider's perspective, she was leading the ideal life.
She made the Dean's List in law school and was in her tenth year practicing at a respected firm in the middle of Toronto's bustling financial district. If that wasn't enough, she had four beautiful daughters, a rich personality ... Views: 874
Does that sound pie in the sky to you? Does that make me sound like I don't live in the real world of business?
Trust me I do, after 25 years of working for myself, this has become more and more clear to me.
Even as a therapist in private practice, it was a competitive world. In the world ... Views: 1079
The people from Montana are well aware that the nation is struggling with a debt crisis. The road that got us here was one of deficit spending where our government spent much more than it received in taxes. This has continued with the most recent budget proposals and unless we take a stand, the ... Views: 1436
Working several hours straight can be exhausting. This can make you incredibly restless, or simply take away the drive that you need to work efficiently. In order to promote business growth, there are a few you things you can do as an employee as well as a boss to help enhance your team’s ... Views: 1457
Problem solving is often difficult whether the problem is yours alone or one that requires group consideration. If the problem is personal in nature, you may feel ‘stuck’ in moving forward. In working with groups of people either at work, in volunteer activities or in your own family it may ... Views: 1170
In the early days of boom in business world, it was a difficult task to make all the organizations realize the importance of a logo design and convince them to utilize it so as to earn its complete and profound benefits since majority of the organizations use to think that it is just a waste of ... Views: 942
It is a fact that logo design is the identity of an organization and helps flourish a business. It has a huge impact onto the target market. Name of an organization written in simple black colored alphabet will surely not going to appeal the viewer as a graphically illustrated name of the ... Views: 784
Looking at the fierce competition in the world of business, people are reluctant to land into the market or even to open a new stream of products or services. Managing all the different aspects of growth with competence and efficiency is what everyone strives for but the approach makes all the ... Views: 781
I've written before on outsourcing and delegation,and I encouraged business owners to define their Unique Ability and hire others to do the rest.
A powerful tool for finding a contractor is an online outsource platform called www.Elance.com. Elance is essentially a virtual marketplace that ... Views: 1099
Bear steal the show as Indian stock markets closed in deep red as Indian indices Nifty and Sensex both had cut their gains over the past couple of days. Nifty today opened very strong at 5557.55 from it's Thursday's closing of 5546.45 and moved on to touch an intraday high of 5599.25 but there ... Views: 1196
Everyone is born with a natural sense of curiosity, and as an entrepreneur, you can use this to your advantage for your marketing campaigns. For example, having an article with an interesting headline that hints at something great to come, people are going to read that article. So, you need to ... Views: 954
Each day, we get to read about burglaries, pilferages, vandal attacks, mass destruction of properties, fires, arsons and a lot more of wicked happenings. Most of these are not accidental. They have genuine malicious hands working behind the scene. Our homes like our vehicles are soft targets. ... Views: 758
The importance of setting goals when you start your own venture will play a critical role in determining whether the business you are launching succeeds or fails. It’s the same for top athletes, people that are successful in business, and anyone else that has reached the top of their field. In ... Views: 1513
Updated statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education show that student loan defaults are rising.
According to the latest figures, the default rate for federal student loans that entered repayment in 2008 is 13.8 percent, up 2 percent from the default rate for federal ... Views: 1167
One of the best ways to succeed in business is to focus on the big picture. This means not focusing on sales, but instead, focusing on how to sell the business itself, or basically, franchising. When you franchise, you are giving others a chance to be entrepreneurs, while retaining total ... Views: 639
Writing a business plan can be a daunting activity if it is the first time you've tackled such a detailed, thorough project. Too often, entrepreneurs rely upon templates or a sample business plan as an example for their own proposal, and in the process lose the creativity and energy that they ... Views: 767
Business owners invest much time and effort into their businesses, and most arrive at the hard decision to sell their businesses at some point in time. There are various reasons for selling a business, and although each circumstance is unique, most owners have similar incentives and concerns. It ... Views: 1345
Writing a Business Plan Business plans are considered the resumes of businesses. They give a clear description of what your company offers, how much profit is expected, how the business operates, as well as how soon these goals will be met. If you want to start a business, you need to write a ... Views: 1472
After You Buy a Franchise...
After the checks have been issued and the legal documents officially signed and transferred to your name, you are finally a proud owner of a franchise business. It might be a mobile business, a retail store, a computer consulting operation, or a daycare center. ... Views: 1791
We all have employees that are amazing and others, even though you hired them based on the fact that they were amazing, are no longer so. What can you do if you know someone is underachieving either based on their skill set or the length of time they have been working for you? And which ones, if ... Views: 1034
We all understand that conventional methods of advertising and marketing are not as effective as they used to be. For example, the Yellow Page telephone directories are not nearly as prominent as they once were. You are more likely to find them propping up a monitor on a home office desk, ... Views: 743
“Go ahead with your life, your plans...Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.”
Richard L. Evans
Of all the productivity challenges described to me, one stands out as the most difficult to address and tackle. Whether work from home entrepreneur or boardroom ... Views: 1870
How quickly can your company get back to doing business after a tornado, fire, flood or computer crash? Every year, thousands of companies are unprepared. The US Department of Labor states that over 40% of small businesses that experience a disaster never reopen, and of the remaining companies, ... Views: 1025
Could your management team be creating unnecessary employee issues that are leading to:
. Low employee engagement
. Low employee morale
. Poor productivity
. Poor customer service
. The need for voluminous policy and procedure manuals to ensure that the manager follows the rules, ... Views: 1276
If you intend to write or make such reliable and effective software requirements specification, you need to educate yourselves with the latest trends on how to make it innovative and efficient. Addressing the needs of the users as well as the demands of technology shall never compromise quality ... Views: 1720
Recently the State of Colorado made some rulings that will most likely do away with the FSBO Flat Fee entry only MLS listing services. Other states may follow suit.
This appears to be an attempt to return to the old rigid six percent MLS listing model, a more traditional approach, where the ... Views: 1086
When people say that networking doesn’t work, they usually cite as confirmation the fact that they have invested in others in the past without any return from the other side. When I inquire specifically, How did you arm them with the appropriate context to introduce or recommend you? The answer ... Views: 963
Sometimes I wondered how Facebook is taking over the entire internet very quickly. At the moment, Facebook is providing a perfect social networking service. Anything that one can think of is available in it. Connecting with friends, family and finding new people, sharing pictures and videos and ... Views: 1757
What does Server Virtualization Mean?
Server virtualization is the use of technology to separate software, including the operating system, from the hardware. This means that you can run several environments on the same physical server. In some installations, this could mean that several ... Views: 1131
Time off gave me the opportunity to read and listen to more news and pop culture media than usual. The myriad of suggestions is staggering. I have chosen a few I found interesting and doable. Try some and you will be well ahead of the curve.
In 2011 I will:
Backup personal data as ... Views: 1242
Do you know your core competencies as an entrepreneur? Do you know the core competencies of your team members/contractors? This will help you to know what to delegate.
We have previously explored the importance of identifying your Unique Ability and core competencies, with the goal of both ... Views: 2051
Catastrophes happen on a daily basis, and all companies must have a plan in place to stay in business. You might be a new company, with just a few months under your belt, and having invested your life savings to pursue your entrepreneurial dream. Or possibly you are a well-established, extremely ... Views: 1031
When you aren’t attracting enough clients it can make you feel like you’re spinning your wheels. Setting up systems to help you market can be the smartest thing you do this year!
Many people come to me because even though they know what they should be doing to market their business, they ... Views: 1032
Steps One Through Five
Let’s recount the steps toward riches that Napoleon Hill lists in his classic book, Think and Grow Rich.
1.Desire
2.Faith
3.Auto-Suggestion
4.Specialized Knowledge
5.Imagination
The Sixth Step: Planning
Now we come to the sixth step: ... Views: 2265
Starting a business is hard work, so if you think you it will be easy or you are going to make quick money in a short period time. Think again!
Starting a business and running it will take up a lot of your time not to mention the time away from family and the effort you have to put into ... Views: 739