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A few years ago, I was talking to a sales manager. He was expressing some frustration, “I’m doing my job of selling, my customers need to start doing a better job of buying!” When you think about it, there’s actually a lot of truth to that statement — at least the “doing a better job of buying” part. Read More

The recession withstanding, government-backed small business loans account for billions of dollars in lending. Yet many myths and misconceptions exist as to what government-backed business financing is and what it isn’t.

This post explains away some of the myths about government loan and grants for small businesses and also helps build a picture of the available financing for which you might be eligibl Read More

Blog post highligting the power of radio as a cmedium for communicating your message to market. Gives tips on outlets to target Read More

Comparing the era of big brand, product-focused businesses to today's rise of the new entrepreneurial personal brand Read More

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

Give, and you get back. If you are an expert in your field and manage to extract huge sums of money for your time, giving a percentage of that time for free will empower both you and the receiver. What comes around, goes around.. Read More

The other I posed this somewhat trick laden question on Twitter – “Is making something easier to understand dumbing it down or smartening it up?” The answers I got were mixed. Some obviously saw that I was suggesting it’s actually harder to make some easy to understand. Others clearly felt that it somewhat of a disservice to try to make things that were complicated seem simple Read More

This isn’t the first time you’ve read about The Universal Language of Business on this blog. Doesn’t matter what they sell or what their SIC code is, ALL of your customers are in the money-making business. All sales reps must therefore learn how to communicate effectively using Finance, the universal language Read More

Online video is gaining more attention, engagement and it's becoming a strong way of communication for several companies. Have a look at these four core steps to produce online video for your business Read More

Want to know how social media will help you grow your business? Amazingly, many small business owners continue to doubt the effectiveness of social media sites as a marketing or better yet a sales tool. Here we look at some of the ways social media achieves the same results we might expect from more traditional techniques aimed at building your business's sales Read More