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Your New Career 1 – Did You Forget About That Hobby?
Think your hobby can’t be turned into a business? Think again! Don’t forget to subscribe to get more of these ideas. 1. The Model Aviator Tommy was a fairly disillusioned call-center operator. He hated frustrated customers almost as much as h...
Marketing Tip of the Day - Reward Your Referrers
Satisfied customers are your best sales force, but are you paying attention to the ones that are doing the work for you? Next time you get a clear referral, don’t miss a beat in contacting the person who gave it. Make sure that you thank them f...
How to Run an Effective Sales Meeting
In Building a Power Sales Force I discussed how to manage sales teams, Today i’ll try to give some good tips on running a sales meeting. One of the sales manager’s main responsibilities is collecting and dispersing information. If your ch...
Gas Prices Warrant a Three Day Weekend
Commuting costs are growing as the reason for employees changing jobs. With gas prices continuing to skyrocket and no end in sight, every business out there should be considering changing their schedules around and give their employees an extra day o...
How to deal with Late Employees
One of the hardest things I find teaching supervisors and managers is to avoid addressing problems. No I don’t mean ignoring it. I mean avoiding the urge to snap to action and leave common sense and temperance in the dust. Remember that you are...
Digging and Stumbling for Traffic
Is your approach bringing, or stopping traffic? Both StumbleUpon and Digg have the potential to be real traffic boosters for your website or blog. They can also put an effective roadblock on your attempts to make it anywhere if you and your friends a...
How’s your Handwriting?
I came across a post today from John Jantsch over at Ducttape Marketing called "Staying Top of Mind" that raised some interesting pointers. He mentions that he got a note from a new employee at a supplier introducing herself. She wasn’t...
Batteries Sold Separately
Whenever I buy something that says "batteries sold separately" on the box, I calmly dream that this will be the store that redeems my basic faith in a company’s ability to seize the most self-evident opportunity for customer service. (I...
Marketing Tip of the day – First Installment
This is the beginning of my marketing tips of the day. No I’m not going to give you crappy advice and tell you to give me your email address to get 10 more bad ideas. Or try to sell you the 4000 ways to make a gazillion either (I hate those sites a...
Press Release Marketing
Press Releases are becoming popular marketing tools to many businesses. Not only does it provide a chance to get some great and low cost coverage through news outlets. It also helps accomplish what most businesses are looking for right now - Search ...
Get the Right Business Card
You are a startup and/or an entrepreneur. Money is tight and you are thinking about how to make the most of your marketing budget. The business card should be your first step. It’s like a pair of pants; you never leave home without them, and just l...
