How Do You Stop a Sales Person from Talking?
Sales people love to talk. They want to talk about their company, their products, how their products and services help solve a customer problems. Turn them on, and they won’t stop, questions don’t deter them.
Read More How Technology is Affecting Small Business Lending
Small business lending is a chameleon. Constantly changing, the small business lending landscape has gone through a lot of twists and turns since the dawn of the Recession, doing more 180s than Shaun White on a snowboard.
Read More Large Corporations Fail to Innovate Like Startups
The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services.
Read More A Tale of Two Airlines
Traveling can sometimes be a bit of a nightmare. Can I hear a rousing ‘AMEN’ to that?! As in every service situation, the experience can be made better or worse by the customer service personnel you encounter.
Read More Is Your Leadership Style Alienating Your Team?
Your toughness, single-mindedness and take-no-prisoners attitude helped you become a successful entrepreneur. But now, just as it should all be coming together, something is not right.
Read More A Beginner’s Guide to YouTube Advertising
YouTube has over 1 billion unique users every month, reaching more US adults than any cable network. With those kinds of stats, are you ready to get your YouTube ad campaign streaming across the world?
Read More Make Your Home Office a Launch Pad to Success
The boom in freelancers, virtual assistants, micro-and-mom-preneurs, fully online businesses and other new strategies for working and being a small business owner has cause an equally large boom in home offices.
Read More Why Just About Every Single Head of Innovation (Including Me) Should Be Fired
Most innovation officers are brought in to shake things up, and just about all of them are not aggressive enough. Your job is to run in the face of convention.
Read More Local Sponsorships Drive Your Business
This week’s blog is going to delve a little deeper into the franchise journey, as we explore using local sponsorships to drive business opportunities. The aim, of course, is to provide some key advice and angles for getting your franchise noticed and utilized by new customers.
Read More When First Becomes Last
Lately we’ve looked at placing other peoples’ interests first and how, far from being self-sacrificial, it’s actually the key to building successful business and personal relationships.
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