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The key things to keeping a sales cycle shorter is a clear plan for each stage of the cycle, the willingness to let opportunities go, and focusing on the buyers buy cycle. Read More

In a strong economy just showing up to play is enough to achieve your sales objectives. In today's economic environment sales leaders are facing sales force downsizing and poor sales rep morale. Sales reps are frustrated by longer sales cycles, dropping demand, unrealistic quotas, concerns about declining income and losing their jobs. The key t Read More

Well the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency have come and gone. Regardless of your political leanings you have to give the Obama administration some credit. We will avoid the next Great Depression!       Read More

One of the easiest ways to optimize your sales cycle is to ensure it is alignd with the buyer's buy cycle. Read More

Important as motivating others is, an important part of nurturing success is by helping others to motivate themselves. The most successful people tend to be self motivated and driven and that comes from within... Read More

The father of Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, believes businesses can increase profits by investing time, energy, information and imagination — rather than money — in their marketing. Read More

We're visual people and we often make purchasing decisions based on an image alone. Our vision is our primary sense and we rely on it to make quick assumptions about people and products. This means image can play a strong role in both the branding of your business as well as your profitability. Here are a few ideas on how to use great visuals to m Read More

There are a lot of practical ideas to help any start-up market their new business on a limited budget. To get you started, OnStartups.com has put together 21 Tactical Tips From The Trenches. Read More

Today at Searchology, Google has launched a search results enhancement called “rich snippets” that uses meta data from web pages (from microformats such as hCard, hCalendar, and RDF) to display additional details (both content and meaning) about pages in the results. This initial launch supports reviews (with sites such as Yelp) and people (with s Read More

Jonathan Ive, designer of the iPod and iPhone, has lost a claim for domain names carrying his name because his name is not a trade mark and because he shuns publicity. His name is not used enough in commerce to be protected, an arbitrator has ruled. Read More