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A simple question about whether your client is happy may not give you the feedback you would need to hear from your international clients. It is important to remember the cross-cultural communication challenges that stop you from learning more about your cross-cultural clients' expectations. Read More

One of the biggest challenges in cross-cultural communication is that different cultures simply do things differently, and when you do not adapt appropriately this effects your international business. Read More

Email marketing is the most cost-effective way to keep in touch with potential customers, so email collection should be your #1 priority. How can you convince visitors to your web site to give you their email addresses? Here are Scott Fox's top strategy answers to one of his Click Millionaires success coaching community members. Read More

Price, the eternal boogieman for sales people is and always will be an issue in sales. It is up to the sales professional to manage and deal with it, in B2B sales it can be overcome. Read More

Probably the most boring and tedious part of running a business is keeping track of earnings, expenses and maintaining "the books". For me personally, I hate tallying up the numbers and documenting all of my expenditures, mileage etc... Hell, I have enough problems making sure that my checking account is balanced every month! But over the past f Read More

People use social media for a lot of things. Personally, I use it to be as loud as I possibly can. I know that probably sounds bad, but think about it: I want to use all the tools available to me so that I can be ME as loud as I can, everywhere I can. Doing so helps me filter out unqualified leads and attracts the people who are most likely to be Read More

This list of small business tips for dealing with tough times is something every entrepreneur during the current tough economy (or any economy) might want to keep handy. Remember above all, that in addition to following some of these suggestions, you'll want to find things that work for you too. So create your own survival guide for these tough e Read More

Entrepreneur and blogger Tim Berry has this great post on small business and job security. Tim, in turn, is referring to a series of posts at the Small Business Labs blog one of which we linked to earlier here at bizSugar. In the end, Tim concludes that small business owners do have more job security than their employed counterparts...if they make Read More

After a brief hiatus, the Motivation 101 Blog is back! Find out what Jerry Kennedy has been up to and why he has a new passion for getting you moving. You might even find the inspiration you've been looking for! Read More

The leader's language is revealing. I recently came across this video on leadership. It reminded me of a conversation I had several years ago with a manager I'd been mentoring. The manger came to me with a BIG problem. He was having a difficult time getting his team to buy-in to “his” goals and objectives... Read More