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Selling Like A Marine; Improvise-Adapt-Overcome
By Terry Wisner - 1/4/2008

Improvise- Adapt- Overcome This famous United States Marine Corps slogan reminds me of the technique many sales people use to make their sales calls. In the Sales Skills training module offered at P2S, we have found that most sales people do not pre-call plan. All too often, salespeople fail in this...

Successful Business Decision Making
By Terri Zwierzynski - 1/4/2008

Some people make decisions without any difficulty, while others struggle. Are you having trouble making a decision? Do you feel overwhelmed by all the choices you have, and aren?t sure how to pick just one? No matter how big or small those decisions might be, I can teach you how to strategically: --...

Communicating for Profit and Customer Satisfaction
By Dianne Miethner - 1/4/2008

The President of a 200+ store division of a major retailer learned of a serious communication problem and commented that ?this was to be expected in large organizations?. Well, that clears everything up. Many retail executives don?t believe that communication is important enough to get it right by ...

Customers Are Like Vampires
By Cathy Stucker - 1/4/2008

No, customers aren`t bloodsuckers (well, maybe a few are!) and they don`t come out only at night. According to legend, vampires don`t come in until they are invited. And that`s true of customers, too. You may think you`ve invited your customers. After all, you put up signs identifying your store, go...

Want to Make More Money? Fish in a Bigger Pond!
By Kimberly Stevens - 1/4/2008

Setting prices is a dilemma most service business owners encounter at one time or another. This week, it was Susan?s turn. ?When I first started my business, I felt uncomfortable charging for my services. Since I was doing it to make a living, I finally just picked a price I thought wouldn`t scar...

Seeking Solutions: To Problems
By Gary Cain - 1/4/2008

Problem Situations: *Eliminate an unwanted situation
*Obtain an improved situation Types of Problems: **People ? the most difficult to solve
**Equipment/Procedure ? Ex: The office computer network is frequently off-line.
**Financial ? Worker productivity is too low in relation to the wa...

An Open Letter To Weis Markets
By Susan Stamm - 1/4/2008

I have discovered that there are many little things that make moving to a new home a rich experience. Simple changes such as finding a new place to get your groceries can be an amazing journey of discovery. This was the case for me when we moved just far enough away from my favorite grocer to requir...

Free or Not Free ? That is the Question
By Barbara Hemphill - 1/4/2008

You may be in business for yourself or as a small company, but no matter what, especially if you just started this business, you need publicity! It?s great that your spouse or best friend believes in you. You may even have total strangers tell you what a great idea you have. Some may tell you they w...

Brand Boring or Brand Buzz?
By Nancy Fraser - 1/4/2008

I heard an advertisement on the radio the other day that surprised me, not because they were saying anything noteworthy, but because it was so banal. It was a national company?s ad. They pay an ad agency to write and produce their commercials. There are so many words at their disposal, so many descr...

Finding Employees For Insurance Industry Jobs
By Barbara Krueger - 1/4/2008

Finding the right employee for any job opening can be a challenge to say the least, and this is no truer than in the insurance industry. With considerations ranging from experience and education to their personal skills, the decisions faced by recruiters and employers can be of critical importance....

Communication Breakdown - Don`t Let It Happen To You
By Carmel Baird - 1/4/2008

Do you have Communication breakdown? How are you communicating with your contacts? We need: Contacts we can send emails to regarding our business opportunities. Contacts we can build up a good working relationship with, similar interests as far as business opportunities go. Contacts we can share how...

Do You Need a Personal Assistant?
By Lorraine Pirihi - 1/4/2008

It?s great to be multi-skilled?be able to type your own correspondence, do your bookkeeping, answer all phone calls, prepare your PowerPoint presentations, organise your own travel, seminars, pick up and send your mail, pack orders, do your own marketing, do all the photocopying, ring your clients a...

Moissanite
By Kristy Annely - 1/4/2008

The mineral moissanite derives its name from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Ferdinand Henri Moissan, who discovered traces of it in a meteorite at Diablo Canyon it in 1893. What makes this substance so special is that it is almost as hard as diamond. On the Mohs Scale, which measures the hardness of mineral...

Whadda Jerk!
By George Ebert - 1/4/2008

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung

Sadly, public discourse today seems to have degenerated into warring parties spitting epithets at one another. With little inclination to see the other?s point of view, the parties...


Coaching Champions at Work
By Frank Salisbury - 1/4/2008

I saw Brian Kerr (the Irish national football coach) on television not so long ago and it reminded me of a platform I shared with him at a Banking Institute seminar in Dublin. Whilst I was waiting for my turn I listened to Brian and experienced two emotions ? admiration and jealousy. Firstly I admir...

Free Email Accounts ? Pros and Cons
By Peter Dobler - 1/4/2008

Free email accounts are great if you want to hide your identity. They are great to sign up for free stuff. They are also very popular for SPAM emails and due to this they also filter too many non-spam emails as well. Ever wondered why you haven`t heard from a friend lately. All a sudden no more emai...

Pennies From Heaven
By Chyrene Pendleton - 1/4/2008

I want to share an experience I had in common as a child with Dr. Wayne Dyer, author of the bestselling book, The Power of Intention. I`ll bet many of you had similar experiences too. As a little girl, I would always find money in the streets, pennies, quarters, dimes and sometimes large bills. I...

Praise Matters
By Kevin Eikenberry - 1/4/2008

In working with businesses and organizations of all kinds, I hear the same concerns everyday: How do we increase productivity? How do we improve Customer service? How do we keep people actively engaged in their work and with others on their team? How do we reduce turnover? How do we improve safety? ...

How to Keep Your Listings From Dropping Out of Sight
By Jennifer Schilling - 1/4/2008

As a home business, one of the ways you probably drive traffic to your website is through search engine traffic. You probably also rely on Google ranking your website in the top of its search engine listings. If you haven`t checked your Google listing recently, you might want to pay careful atte...

Marketing Operations Elevates Public Relations and Communications Professionals
By Gary Katz - 1/4/2008

Is your marketing department taking advantage of MOM and MRM? Do you have BAM and DAM systems in place? Do you know how to measure NPV? Do you even know what I`m talking about? If so, you may not be a "Quant" (a marketing scientist or specialist in marketing analytics) but you`re certainly ready ...

Leadership & Employee Performance - Build a Bon Fire with The Annual Reviews
By Rick Johnson - 1/4/2008

First of all, if all you ever do is an annual performance review for your employees, they are worthless. Put every last one of them in a big pile and burn them. The scenario of annual performance reviews often goes like this; ?I have nine reviews I have to get done by the end of the month. I feel m...

Make `em Laugh Customer Service
By Don Doman - 1/4/2008

?It was almost like a game,? said Amtrak ticket clerk Shawn. ?I?d single out individuals I thought I could sell business class to over coach. They?d ask what the difference was and I?d tell them. You get more room, you get early boarding, you get a $3.00 coupon for the Bistro Car, AND more important...

The Road to Achieving Training Success: What Holds the Key?
By Andrew E. Schwartz - 1/4/2008

As a trainer, you will be able to see a single change in a single person, out of perhaps a hundred tries, as a success. That is a good percentage. Obviously, the more successes the merrier, and the smaller the number of tries, the more critical becomes the necessity to increase the possibility and p...

Quiz: Where is Your Marketing Message?
By Michele Pariza Wacek - 1/4/2008

Wondering if your marketing message is dancing in the spotlight right in front of your target market or is busy cowering by the punch table nowhere near your customer base? Take this quiz and find out. 1. Overall, you would describe your marketing as: A. Going strong. You consistently get lots of...

OE Consultants: Is There a Future for Them?
By Michael Beitler - 1/4/2008

Since my ?Death of the OD Practitioner? article was published about a month ago, I have been asked whether Organizational Effectiveness (OE) consultants will experience the same fate. My answer is ?no.? Of course, that assumes that OE consultants do not follow the same destructive path that Organiza...

How To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews
By Lora J Adrianse - 1/4/2008

The Painful Approach For many years, "performance management" was of an annual event dreaded by both the management and the workforce. For a week or two every year the manager would virtually isolate himself and ponder the stack of review forms staring him in the face. Chances are there was very l...

Proven Traffic Generating Techniques
By Michael Tee - 1/4/2008

What good is a website without traffic? A website without traffic is like a mall without customers. No visitors means no prospects, no prospects means no sales, no sales means your internet business will not survive as a result. This is why generating traffic to your website is important. Without tr...

What Some Pros Know About PR
By Robert A. Kelly - 1/4/2008

They know they had better do something positive about those outside audiences that MOST affect their organizations. Especially business, non-profit or association managers, who also know they must persuade those key external ?publics? to the manager?s way of thinking, then move those people to ...

5 Top Tips for Maximizing Your Adsense Profits
By Gary McCaffrey - 1/4/2008

1: The ideal Google AdSense page should have great content about a very specific topic. Take pains to be very clear about what the topic is, and carefully choose the keyword (or key phrase) describing the topic. Users don?t like vague pages that don?t make it very clear what the page is all about....

Sometimes It`s the Image Itself, Not the Quality, That Matters
By Eric Hartwell - 1/4/2008

Why do you take pictures? I was recently in discussions on a photographic forum about the reasons. We were reviewing images sent in by the members. There was a lot of constructive criticism which was very useful. But the discussions revolved around producing the best images and how to improve faili...

Website Traffic: 10 Blazing Secrets To Increase Your Sales
By I-key Benney - 1/4/2008

The more traffics you get at your website, the more your chances of making a sale increases. Here are 10 blazing website traffic secrets to help you succeed: 1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm you have for your product and business. If you`re convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too....

Sshhh... Listen to Your Own Voice
By Uma Shankari - 1/4/2008

It was a self-exploration that made me understand myself. It was like discovering the one last elusive word in a jigsaw puzzle that completes other words. I had to interview Father Francis Chittilappilly, Executive Director of BOSCO - an organization in Gandhi Nagar in Bangalore that provides succor...

The Top Ten Ways To Promote Your Site And Increase Traffic
By Nancy P Redford - 1/4/2008

Website promotion is a vital area in internet marketing that you should learn to master immediately. Your website is your HQ on the web, and as such, should be made prominent at the soonest possible time. The more people who would know about your website, the more visitors you would have. Increased ...

Reciprocal Linking
By Brian Beshore - 1/4/2008

Do not pay anyone or any service to submit your website to major search engines. They will just enter your site using software designed to do this, which is something you can do for yourself. This type of software is rather inexpensive; in fact many hosting services include this service. Better yet,...

Your Company Needs A Mission Statement; Make It Count
By Lance Winslow - 1/4/2008

Does anyone remember that book ?Built to Last? done y the Stanford class and professor? Well change that to ?Built to Merge.? My grandfather was personal friends with Bill Hewlett and David Packard and I bet they would not have wanted this merger with Compaq either. It is interesting that one night ...

Delegate Authority To Your Employees And Watch Your Customers` Loyalty Grow
By John Madden - 1/4/2008

The effective manager is that person who has mastered the art of delegation and empowerment. Delegation is not to be confused with dumping work on other people with a disregard for overloading them - leading to de-motivation. True delegation means giving responsibility to others - with the resources...

New Business Generator: Your Customers Are Lab Rats
By Jimmy Vee - 1/4/2008

Interesting title to this article don?t you think? Well, the reason behind it is powerful and life changing. If you do any kind of selling this post could be the most important thing you read and act upon in 2006. So, why are your customers lab rats? I?ll tell you why you need to think of them in th...

Next Step Marketing
By Daniel Wadleigh - 1/4/2008

When you are creating an ad to generate a desired result, it is sometimes not possible (or affordable) to tell all the rationale in the time or space allotted. Therefore, it is best to deliver a stimulus that says, "I`d be nuts not to look further into this." If you give them enough information to f...

Direct Mail Response Devices and How to Craft Them
By Alan Sharpe - 1/4/2008

Successful direct mail packages contain three things: an attractive offer, a call to action, and a response device. The offer is the Incentive. The call to action is the Imperative. And the response device is the Instrument. The most well-known reply device is the business reply card. But today it c...

Why Employees Are the Best Source of Cost-cutting Ideas
By Chuck Yorke - 1/4/2008

Cost cutting has become a necessary and important reality in the modern corporate world. Yet many executives do not realize that their people are actually the best source of cost reduction ideas. There are several reasons for this. For starters a highly motivated workforce that understands the botto...

7 Ways to Get to the Truth: When the Sale "Disappears"
By Ari Galper - 2/11/2007

You`re close, really close, to making a sale. Your potential client is in the market for your product or service and you`ve had a couple of good meetings. Based on his most recent e-mail, "Everything looks good -- I`ll get back to you so we can move this forward"--everything points to a probable ...

Who Loves Networking????
By Dorene Lehavi - 1/29/2007

Many professionals who don?t enjoy networking equate it with selling. I have heard many say, I?m a professional. I didn?t go to school to learn to sell and they didn?t teach it. It is a common belief that in order to get new clients professionals need to make cold calls and do other activities they ...

Canada Internet Merchant Account
By Dane Collins - 1/21/2007

If you knew that a Canada Internet merchant account could dramatically improve profits and reduce overhead costs, would you get one? Well, the good news is that it can and you should! A merchant account conveys a host of benefits that can help your business expand to meet the demands of today?s time...

Find The Best Merchant Account
By Dane Collins - 1/20/2007

Do you know where to find the best merchant account? If so, you probably already have one. If not, maybe it?s time to find out. A merchant account can open the door to e-commerce and position your company for unprecedented growth. The chief benefit sought by many business owners is the ability to pr...

Want to Work from Home? Ever Given a Thought to Telecommuting?
By Vishal P. Rao - 1/30/2006

There are many mistaken definitions of what telecommuting means. The very name gives the impression of someone answering work telephone calls from home or typing furiously away at their computers. Traditionally, telecommuting meant that an employee was linked from home to their company’s co...

It Pays To Be An Ace
By Bryan Small - 1/30/2006

On Jan 1st 2005 a new online payment processor and wealth-building system will be arriving on the Internet. PayAce?s CEO Pedro Dispenza kindly took time out to answer some questions about this new service. Interviewed by Bryan Small 2004 [Bryan] Pedro, PayAce - ANOTHER online payment processor? Do...

The Top 10 Reasons Your Business Needs a Web Site
By J. M. Davis - 1/27/2006

Does every business no matter how large or small need a presence on the Internet? Absolutely, and not just for the traditional reasons, but primarily because your website is an extension of your brick and motor, your home based business, or your business on wheels. Everyone in the business of making...

Common Question: Is this business viable?
By Janice Byer, CCVA, MVA - 1/25/2006

Starting any small business is, for lack of a better term, a challenge. You can?t just jump into it without plenty of thought and research. Running your business is a never-ending roller coaster of good days and bad; ups and downs; rewards and failures; all from which we learn. An even bigger cha...

7 Ways To Promote Your Business-FREE!
By Tina Barraclough - 1/20/2006

1. Free Classifieds: If you have the time to post you ads on classified sites , then this is a good place for you to start. Placing classified ads does work, but this method of advertising will take some time before you will start to see results. You will need to continually submit your ad to these ...

SWOT Analysis
By Chris Mallon - 1/17/2005

If you?ve ever listened to Warren Buffett talk about investing, you?ve heard him mention the idea of a company?s moat. The moat is a simple way of describing a company?s competitive advantage. A strong competitive advantage, or a wide moat, gives a company sustainability, which, as investors, we?r...


Structured Products - Structured Products
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...tty amazing how you can transform the look of an interior setting just by altering the lighting layout. Careful consideration to the lighting can bring about some quite remarkable results. Consulta...
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...nd of impact is your product having on the general public? If you are a lucky enough business to have a nationwide product or service, then you may be interested to know just what the publics opinions...
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...any people in the UK, in fact as many as one in three UK taxpayers have paid too much tax! A new `No Win No Fee` tax refund service has just been launched by Greer & Taylor LLP on a dedicated new we...
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Plant Hire Software - Plant Hire Software
...times. If you are a site manager and are responsible for the movement of hire equipment from one site to another, I`m guessing that it can prove to be quite a balancing act most days. If you had som...
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