Though most managers understand intellectually that time is their scarcest resource, few make the effort to gain a strategic perspective on how they spend their hours each week. Still fewer make a regular practice of keeping track of how the priorities they say are most important jibe with the way they actually spend their time. “Those we label na
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Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way?
Posted by GPorter under Self-DevelopmentFrom http://conversationstarter.hbsp.com 6071 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 25, 2008 7:45 pm
Stop consulting for free
Posted by ArmadaIG under SalesFrom http://blogs.bnet.com 6072 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 25, 2008 1:25 am
Selling B2B is “consultative,” but there's a point where you need to turn the meter on.
The concept of “consultative” selling is that the sales professional should be adding value from the very start of the customer relationship. However, if that concept is taken too literally, you can end up providing free services to a prospect that never int
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Really - How To Generate Leads | WAHNewsToday
Posted by LisaAlexander under Online MarketingFrom http://wahnewstoday.com 6072 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 25, 2008 7:41 pm
A real and free way to generate your own leads for any type of online business.
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HourTown puts service appointments online, in buyers' hands
Posted by westerly under MarketingFrom http://sanjose.bizjournals.com 6074 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 23, 2008 4:21 am
A story about a former PayPal employee who created an online scheduling and marketing platform for SMB's called HourTown.
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Bundle Your Insurance for Greater Savings
Posted by ArmadaIG under Employee BenefitsFrom http://www.allbusiness.com 6078 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 19, 2008 4:08 am
Ya got me on this one - who knew I could bundle my worker's comp with my medical benefits and potentially save on both?
In one company I'm working with, we just changed insurance providers for our group health benefits as our old provider wanted to increase premiums 20%.
Once that was done, our new broker made us aware that Blue Cross coul
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3 Ideas for Customer Retention Programs
Posted by luckycharmer under Customer ServiceFrom http://tmt.targetmarketingmag.com 6078 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 18, 2008 10:12 pm
To hold onto customers, whether they're brand-new or have been interacting with your company for years, consider the following three tips from direct marketing consultant Lee Marc Stein and copywriter Mark Hallen. They were recently featured in Stein's e-mail newsletter, Increasing Return on Marketing Dollars, along with 18 more ideas for improvin
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Small businesses get shot at makeover
Posted by grumpygorilla under NewsFrom http://www.greeleytrib.com 6078 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 18, 2008 10:13 pm
The National Federation of Independent Business along with SBTV.com and Sam's Club will give away a $100,000 business makeover as part of National Small Business Week beginning Monday through April 25. The makeover would include $25,000 in cash, merchandise, supplies and equipment from Sam's Club or samsclub.com, mentoring from SBTV.com experts
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Entrepreneuer Gives Back
Posted by JohnH under NewsFrom http://www.smallbizresource.com 6079 days ago
Made Hot by: plethmen on April 18, 2008 1:09 am
With the tagline "Change the world...one business at a time," Kivab4b.org offers entrepreneurs and small businesses an easy way to participate in cause-related marketing.
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Go ahead, dream small
Posted by JohnH under StrategyFrom http://www.ducttapemarketing.com 6084 days ago
Made Hot by: TimJustus on April 12, 2008 12:10 am
There's a time and place to go big, lord knows we get told how small we are often enough.
But when it comes to marketing your small business I would trade big dreams and pages of killer ideas for one little strategy brilliantly and consistently executed. Small business owners get so caught up in the “web 3.0 idea of the day” that they never get
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Only 25% Of Viewers See Web Ads Below The Fold
Posted by morecowbell under Online MarketingFrom http://publications.mediapost.com 6085 days ago
Made Hot by: on April 11, 2008 6:16 pm
Internet users don't even see most of the ads on a Web page, particularly if they're below the fold--whether the site is a highly trafficked media property or a niche blog. That's according to new research from MarketingSherpa.
The marketing research and consulting firm commissioned Eyetools to run an eye-tracking study with the goal of fin
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