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Ryan Anderson recently did something remarkable. He wrote a post, but it wasn't just any post to me. He wrote a post a few days after sending me a check for $60, money that was never meant to be paid back. Since the check was unexpected and unnecessary, I donated it in his name to the Arthritis Foundation where it will do the most good. Read More

To write article content that increases website traffic, you need to be acutely aware of your target audience. Readers are crunched for time. You need to write an article that captures them, coddles them, then cajoles them to click on your website's URL. Reviewing Internet usage data before you write your article content can give you an advantage Read More

Are you wilting in a market meltdown? If you're a real estate agent, there is a good chance that a daisy chain of financial disaster—collapsing housing bubble, wave of sub prime defaults, frozen corporate credit markets—has become your worst nightmare. Read More

One of the simplest things to do to get your contact in front of other bloggers in these circumstances is to email them to let them know of your post and/or to suggest it as a potential story for their own blog. Read More

Layoffs have truncated staff; cost-cutting measures are threatening projects, and morale is in the toilet. From the manager's perspective, getting the most out of employees in this kind of environment can seem like a Sisyphean task. In fact, it's a perfect opportunity to rejigger processes and fix what's broken — and managers are uniquely position Read More

When times are good, anybody can sell. It's at times like this that you find out if you're really a sales professional— or just an order taker. Here's the good news. Chances are your competitor — the sales guy down the street — is obsessing about the economy when he should be out selling. So that means that you've just been handed an incre Read More

When people start talking about communication delivery as being cheap or free, it's often indicative of the amount of effort they tend to expend. This is because the perception of FREE skews how you think about the tool. It's one of those "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" things. Read More

Google has launched a new feature for YouTube Insight: Hot Spot, which enables clients to play their videos alongside a graph that reflects the "ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video." "Hot" and "cold" spots in the content are determined by comparing a videos abandonment rate to other videos on YouTube of simil Read More

Franchise companies, facing what many say is the toughest economic environment they've seen, are offering two-for-one deals, reduced fees and financing help to woo new buyers. They are also paying existing franchisees to help spread the word. Read More

This short video shows a coaching session on cold calling. It moves quickly and covers a lot of ground, but the points that it makes are truly useful. Read More