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As a small business owner we love to give credit to our people when it is deserved and there are a number of ways that can be done: Through the handwritten note, pay increase or a steak dinner. You pick, but can we do something more for the superstars on our company team? A lot of big companies like to use offline media publicity to reward their people for good work. For example, ESPN did a commercial congratulating Chris Bermen on his last award. Now why can’t we do something similar to showcase the hard work of our employees? Well most of us probably can’t do something similar to a TV commercial that ESPN did for Chris Berman, but we could use social media to showcase our people Read More

When developing a plan for operating a sales territory or chasing down a specific opportunity, both the Solution Selling and Consultative Selling frameworks have proven their value. I am far from alone in being a huge fan of the underlying concepts and best practices. These approaches and combinations thereof have supported the transformation of legions of “wannabes” into legitimate sales professionals Read More

We continue to explore the BANTER approach. As we look at Need and Timelines, it is important to remember that at the end it comes down to how you execute Read More

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With this airline, it all comes straight to your own home or place of work Read More

A look at five small business case studies presented at TechCrunch's Social Currency CrunchUp that leverages social media to help increase sales & business Read More

This Sunday is the City2Surf which is a race over 14 kilometres and so far has attracted a record 80,000 entrants. Not a bad effort considering the start time is 8.30 in the morning and it is winter. One overall objective for the entrants is to finish, however there will be a host of ways they actually accomplish this. Here are three similarities that may help you get the results you want Read More

Listen to the BizSugar interview with Anita Campbell and yours truly at Small Business Trends Radio and check out this post on the importance of businesses being social, something near and dear to our hearts here at BizSugar.com. We'll be switching the link at the top of the blog post to the archived version of the show after the live Web cast. Looking forward to all of your comments Read More

What comes first, the website design or the content? It's common for business to have their website designed and developed with no thought to content. This post addresses the problem of planning your website without a solid content strategy. Read More

This is a guest post by Travis Petelle - If you are the authority in your niche, it could possibly be the best thing you could do for your business. It brings in easier sales, more prospects, and a much simpler time getting what you want. Don’t expect your authority status to just fall in your lap though. You must take action to build yourself as the authority and that’s what I wanted to cover in this article Read More